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South Africa is presently having serious legal battles with the government of Zimbabwe over the recent ruling by a North Gauteng high court that Pretoria should investigate Zimbabwean officials for alleged human rights abuses. Only recently, South Afri...
On May 15, a little over a month before DMX delivers his seventh studio album, Undisputed, the rapper will release a 10-track EP titled The Weigh In. The Weigh In EP has features from artists such as Snoop Dogg and Tyrese and also includes...
Kano State government is working towards ensuring that the construction of the first set of ‘flyover’ bridges to be built in the state, meant for decongesting heavy traffic flow in the metropolis would soon take off. Governor Rabi’u M...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday accused former Gombe State governor, Danjuma Goje and four others standing trial on an 18-count charge of alleged conspiracy and N25bn money laundering of deliberately stalling their trial a...
Strong indications have emerged that the federal lawmakers may have reached an advanced stage towards scrapping the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the Federal Fire Service (FFS) and merging them with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defe...
The civil service has been described as the engine room of governance and the custodian of government business, yet it is believed to be undermining development through endemic corruption and sloth. The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOS)...
The sacked director general of the Nigeria Securities and Exchange Commission (NSE), Mrs. Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, yesterday said that despite contrary statements, she remains the director general of the NSE, having been declared so by a High Court ruling ...
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has reiterated its commitment to the general welfare and retraining of the national team coaches. NFF president, Aminu Maigari, who stated this while declaring open the first ever Win-In-Africa-With-Africa (WIAWA) Coac...
Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi and his Flying Eagles counterpart, John Sam Obuh, have set up a mouth watering friendly between both sides on Friday at the Practice Pitch of the National Stadium in Abuja. Keshi, who made the announcement to the ...
A former Nigerian teammate, Victor Ikpeba has laid to rest the speculation that some members of the USA 94 World Cup squad ganged up against Rashidi Yekini. Yekini passed away last Friday in his hometown, Ira in Iyun local government, Kwara State and w...
Mummy I am afraid, let us go and see daddy. Mummy let us go and see grandma,” Faridath Awodele a five-year-old cried as she watched the house she had known as home for her few years of existence on earth being pulled down. While Faridath, who had...
Some call them kongis, others called them baban bola, (not Bola as in Yoruba), they are also known as obu ngwogwo in Igbo language while they call them scavengers in English. But these guys have not been considered for anything even though they risk th...
Indigenous youths of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), under the auspices of Joint Youth Indigenous Communities of Apo Resettlement Site have given the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) a 14-day ultimatum to revoke all commercial plots in...
If there is any road in the country that has portrayed successive governments in the country in bad light as failed governments in the last two decades, it is the Lagos-Sagamu –Ore –Benin road. The controversial road, best described as a de...
Just like other communities in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Kpeyegyi community cannot be exempted from those communities yearning for basic amenities. A walk through the community shows pictures that tell ...