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Well, after four months and a record-setting 132 million votes, it is official: Phillip Phillips is the 11th American Idol. Phillip Phillips couldn’t hold back his emotions on Wednesday night when he was named the winner of American Idol. Followi...
In the spotlight of the world stage, president Barack Obama has unapologetically defended his campaign’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s record at the private equity firm Bain Capital and vowed to keep up the onslaught all the way to November. &ld...
Can it really be true that Mitt Romney leads Barack Obama among women? This is what The New York Times (and CBS) said in their latest poll –Romney 46, Obama 44. The Obama team and liberal blogs immediately went to work crapping on the poll. The m...
NEW YORK — More Americans will hit the road this holiday weekend than a year ago. And they'll have a bit more money to spend, thanks to lower gas prices. Associated Press reported that Memorial Day kicks off the summer travel season, an...
The Super Falcons arrived Harare on Friday for the African Women’s Championship qualifying game against The Mighty Warriors of Zimbabwe, and received unrivalled hospitality from the Nigerian High Commission in Zimbabwe. The High Commission offici...
Roman Abramovich is ready to offer Roberto Di Matteo the Chelsea manager’s job on a full-time basis as reward for guiding the club to Champions League glory, ESPN understands. Di Matteo, 41, replaced Andre Villas-Boas in March and led the Blues t...
Vice-President Namadi Sambo on Saturday said that the death of Sheikh Mudi Salga was a great loss to the country, in view of his enormous contribution to the propagation of Islam. Sambo said this in Kano on Saturday when he paid a condolence ...
As efforts to resolve the crisis rocking the All Progressive GrandAlliance (APGA} continue to meet brick walls, Ambassador Bianca, wifeof Ex-Biafran Warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu has warned thatif the National Chairman of the party, Ch...
As Nigeria celebrated the Safe Motherhood Week, gaps were observed across all the hospitals in the Federal Capital Territory, where findings revealed that pregnant women still find it difficult to access ante natal services. Yet, ante natal care ...
In Ebonyi state, first wives demonstrate their anger against their husbands for taking second wives by setting the ‘intruders’ ablaze, and making sure they are burnt to death, writes ONYEKAOZULU OFOMA in Abakaliki. Women ...
Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Uyi Igbe, says the lawmakers are more interested in giving legislative backingto the executive in order to fast-track development rather than engage in acrimony with the governor. In this...
On Tuesday in Lagos, retired General Olusegun Obasanjo, former president and immediate past chairman, Board of Trustees of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) delivered a damning indictment of the national and state parliaments by alleging they a...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday made a solemn promise to media practitioners and members of the Nigerian Union of Journalists that he would stop at nothing to ensure the freedom of the press as enshrined in the country’s constitution was no...
The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has described the statement credited to the leader of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retired), on the likely consequences of flawed elections in 2015 as a call to make democracy wo...
The Sultan of Sokoto and President General of the Jama’atuNasril Islam (JNI), Muhammad Sa’adAbubakar III yesterday said lack of accommodation, welfare and understanding among the people were the main problems facing Nigeria today and said t...