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Fifteen out of the country’s 36 states may go bankrupt as their Internally Generated Revenues (IGR) in 2015 was far below 10% of their Federation Account Allocations (FAA) in one year from June 2015 to May 2016, an investigation by Economic Confidential has shown. The report further indicates that the IGR of Lagos State of […]

The Federal Government on Saturday said it will unveil plans to make housing affordable for Nigerians as promised during the campaigns. The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, will make the plan public at the Affordable Housing Summit 2016, by the ministry in partnership with German Development Cooperation. Briefing reporters on the […]

With fast declining revenue, the Federal Government said it is now faced with the prospect of borrowing to meet the monthly civil service wage bill of N165 billion. Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, who had met with protesting workers of her ministry on Wednesday, said in a statement in Abuja on Thursday that she does […]

For the records, I am not against the personality of Mr. President, I am not by any means opposed to his emergence as president of the federal republic of Nigeria. This re- affirmation becomes pertinent owing to the influx of threats to my inbox with reckless abandon. I cannot be intimidated into mediocrity or silenced to […]

See these beautiful, radiating and titillating black girls including the bride-to-be. They can make people to commit ‘lookery’. God is so wonderful. (Image: Lailas)

This is amazing, being the good side of social media. Ify Yvonne, aka naijagoddess on Instagram, back in March 2015 shared this picture of Nigerian NFL player, Chris Madu and announced to her followers that she has a crush on him and needs to find him fast. Fast forward to June 2016, Chris Madu has […]

The lady was spotted on the Golden Movie Awards 2016 red carpet. It was her right to wear the outfit she wore and it was also the rights of the public to look at her. More reactions continue below: Credit: Lailas

The Alaafin’s official Facebook page shared these photos of Mrs Buhari trying to shake the hands of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi, during an event at University of Maiduguri last week. As you can see, the Alaafin refused to stretch his hands and accept her handshake. Many suggested it was disrespectful for the wife […]

Nyanza regional head of police, Willy Lugusa, disclosed that 9 musicians lost their lives yesterday, June 25, when their boat capsized on the Kenyan side of Lake Victoria while 17 other passengers in the vessel were rescued. “The bodies of the other nine are yet to be recovered. We believe they are dead for now,” […]

British-Nigerian heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua, won the first defence of his International Boxing Federation title in a fight against American boxer, Dominic Breazeale at the 02 Arena last night. LIB

All powers belong to Olodumare, the Almighty Adiitu, and the Supreme Essence known by several million names and certainly with more than a billion aliases. But at the lower level of existence, the human level, the politicians are a special breed of people who have been specially endowed to create laws and regulations to direct […]

Banky W shared this photo with AMVCA 2016 Best Actress, Adesua Etomi on his IG page yesterday and you can see he will make a handsome groom one day. Not sure why the two stars took the photos…and they didn’t say.

Strong GDP growth in Africa has masked disappointing productivity, according to ICAEW’s latest Economic Insight: Africa Q2 report. Over the last 15 years trade and investment have buffered the continent against the global financial crisis. However, according to the accountancy and finance body, this has hidden low productivity figures – despite much greater potential for […]

Reports say there have been persistent rumours that Jamie Foxx and Katie Holmes are an item but the actor and singer looked very much single as he put on a raunchy performance with a fan during a charity concert in Miami. Foxx looked completely in the zone, as a fan hopped onstage and proceeded to […]

Militant group Niger Delta Avengers on Saturday afternoon demanded a referendum in a series of tweets from their official handle ‏@NDAvengers. In one of the tweets, the group said: “President Buhari borrow a leaf from PM David Cameron, call for a referendum and let Nigerians decides like they did to vote you into Power.” In […]

A preliminary report on the earth tremor that had been occurring in Saki town, Saki West Local Government, in Oyo State is an impending signal to a damaging earthquake in South West region of the country, in the next four years, precisely before 2020. This was disclosed in a report by Dr Adepelumi Adekunle Abraham […]

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, says the anti-graft agency will eventually go after bank MDs found culpable…whose banks are involved in money laundering, especially through the use of private banking “We had a discussion with the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and I insisted that this so-called […]

Before last year’s presidential election, no one thought it necessary to ask president Muhammadu Buhari, who was then candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), how he hoped to work the magic of achieving his promised exchange rate parity between the naira and dollar. It was, however, apparently sufficient for him and many hopeful others […]

The Super Eagles of Nigeria are in for a battle of its life to reach the finals of the Russia 2018 World Cup following the draws for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qual­ifiers for African countries held in Cairo, Egypt on Friday evening. Nigeria has been grouped alongside Al­geria in Group B of the African […]

A guy, @AimenDean, shared this photo on Twitter and claims this gentleman married these 4 wives in a single wedding in Kuwait to prove his ex wrong. The ex had dared him that he will not find any woman to marry him again. See the tweet below: