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× Getty Images Egypt striker Mohamed Salah was voted as the African Footballer of the Year for the second successive year at the Confederation of African Football’s 2018 awards ceremony in Dakar on…

The Nigeria Union of Journalists condemns in the strongest terms the attack by gun men on some journalists who were covering the Lagos State rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos on Tuesday, January 8, 2019. It was…

A member of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Afeez Ismail was on Tuesday shot dead when violence broke out at the Lagos All Progressives Congress (APC) rally in Ikeja. Three journalists – The Nation Group…

By Hope Eghagha It was this ‘Brexit or no Brexit’ matter that made me start thinking about yeye politics and yeye politicians in recent times. I have looked on as the very Great Britain, home and empire of Her Royal…

Nigerian students may have cause to smile in the coming days as the Federal government has reached an agreement with striking university lecturers, raising the possibility of ending the teachers’ prolonged industrial action. The…

The take over of government by junior military officers in Gabon was been foiled. This is as the officers involved in the botched coup have all been arrested except one who government has assured will be arrested soonest. The…

¶ By Emmanuel Iriogbe. The name Chief Emma Ogosi needs little or no introduction before taking his place of pride in Africa's showbiz and societal hall of fame His life story at 76 years of age is a text book classics tale …

2019: Federal High Court restrains INEC from accepting any candidates from Rivers APC ▪Federal High Court nullifies direct and indirect primaries of Rivers State APC ▪declares that Rivers State APC cannot present any…

By EMMANUEL IRIOGBE. Armed soldiers have invaded the Daily Trust Headquarters in Abuja. In what many see as a renewed siege on the media, the soldiers were said to have come in their numbers. Earlier reports have it that an…

The U.S. military will withdraw hundreds of troops focused on counterterrorism operations in Africa over the next several years to support the Pentagon’s increased focus on countering threats from China and Russia, officials said on…