BY FORTUNE ABANG The French Embassy in Nigeria on Tuesday March 19, 2019 said the country was set to host the biggest French dinner in Nigeria. Ms Damilola Ayodeji, the Press Officer/ Attaché of the French Embassy in Nigeria, said in a statement that the dinner, scheduled to hold on Thursday, was part …

The Federal High Court in Asaba has overruled the Jones Erue-led executive committee of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Delta State and nullified candidates fielded by the faction of the party for 2019 elections. In its judgment, the court, presided over by Justice Toyin Adegoke, upheld the Cyril Ogodo-led …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday March 13, 2019 re-arraigned a  former Managing Director of the defunct Intercontinental Bank PLC, Erastus Akingbola in a Federal High Court in Lagos, for alleged Money Laundering. He is facing an amended 22 count charge bordering on money laundering and he had …

Cyclone Idai caused more havoc than initially reported as Mozambique said over a thousand people may have been killed as the cyclone smashed into the central part of the country. In neighbouring Zimbabwe, Idai left 89 dead and at least 150 more missing. The city of Beira in central Mozambique …

Alan Krueger, a prominent Princeton University Economics Professor who advised U.S. former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, took his own life over the weekend, his family said in a statement on Monday March 18, 2019. He was 58. The statement did not elaborate about the circumstances of Krueger’s death, …

Contrary to the story making rounds about the contrived sale of a customer’s goods worth N2.5billion by foremost financial services provider, Access Bank Plc, the bank has come out in defense of the purported sale by vehemently denying any wrongdoing whatsoever in the alleged sale of the said customer’s goods. …

Ghanaian actress, Nadia Buari has analysed on behalf of women that the task of keeping a man will only yield a positive outcome if he wants to be in a relationship. She does not think the availability of intimacy or a baby for that matter can motivate him to be …

Talented Nigerian singer, Adekunle Gold, has asked his wife, Simisola Ogunleye, who is simply known and addressed as ”Simi” not to spoil his ”Market”. Hilarious isn’t it??? Well, his comment was a response to Simi’s tweet which she tweeted at him Tuesday March 12, 2019. Simi had taken to her …

As many as 100 children and many others were feared trapped on Wednesday March 13, 2019 after a building containing a primary school collapsed in Ita-Faaji, Lagos Island. At the scene a boy of 10 was being pulled from the rubble covered in dust, but with no visible injuries, a …

Gunmen have attacked the divisional police command at Afuze, headquarters of the Owan-East local government area of Edo, killing the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) and three other officers on duty. The hoodlums also attacked the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the town, and destroyed electoral materials …