Nigerians who still lament the non qualification of the country’s male and female football teams for the forthcoming summer London Olympic Games need not to cry any more. This is because the supervising minister of sports and Chairman National Sp...
Rafael Nadal yesterday snatched the Rome Masters crown from Novak Djokovic with a 7-5 6-3 victory. The title - a record sixth in Rome for Nadal - also returned the Spaniard to No.2 in the world rankings after Roger Federer displaced him a week ago. It ...
Ajax head coach Frank de Boer has said he is “honoured” to be approached by Liverpool over the managerial vacancy at Anfield, but insists he will be staying at the Dutch club. De Boer, who has guided the Amsterdam giants to back-to-back Ere...
Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck has revealed that the club’s owner Roman Abramovich is targeting another three Champions League wins following Saturday’s triumph. The Blues won Europe’s premier cup competition for the first time with vict...
The Abia State governor, Chief Theodore Orji, was last week, conferred with the award of National Peace Ambassador in recognition of his achievements in the area of security, which has made state a model in peaceful coexistence and security in the coun...
In Nigeria, many development projects currently being undertaken in the rural communities, often adopt the bottom-top approach in design and execution. This is perhaps in line with the recommendations of some scholars and development experts. And under...
It is no longer news that the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE), has commenced the sale of properties belonging to the Nigerian Coal Corporation(NCC). But what is news is the nature of properties that are being sold, and whether due process was followe...
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday fixed June 11 and 12 for continuation of trial in the case filed against former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole. Bankole was charged on 16 counts of contract fraud leveled against him by t...
A member of the House of Representatives, Hon Charles Odedo who represents Idemili North/South Federal Constituency has stated that the much agitated rights for Nigerians living abroad to vote from the diaspora may not be possible in 2015 as proposed b...
The head of environmental department in Bwari area council, Haruna Ahmed has appealed to the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) to provide equipment to the council to aid it in its sanitation exercise. Speaking during an interview with new...
The ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Niger State has chided the only senator elected on the platform of the Congress for Progress Change (CPC) from the state, Senator Ibrahim Musa over his comments about the state government. The party w...
SEFIU AYANBIMPE in this report recounts some memorable eulogies from well-meaning Nigerians during last Thursday burial of Oshiomhole’s aide, Olaitan Oyerinde, in Ede,Osun State. Sounds of people weeping and heartfelt eulogies could be heard whil...
For Nigerians on death row in several prisons around the world for drug related offences, particularly the 16 in Indonesia, it is ‘farewell’ to the land of the dead. But for the many already jailed, especially the 300 in Indonesia, they mus...
Professor Sola Adeyeye is one of the progressive lawmakers of the current political dispensation in the upper chamber of National Assembly representing Osun Central Senatorial District of Osun State on the platform of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). ...
2011 has been a particularly rough year for the Church in Nigeria. To the best of my knowledge the Church has never felt so insecure and threatened than she has been in the last one year. It’s not as if she has never faced similar persecutions, a...