SIX days after returning from Saudi-Arabia in a futile search for ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua, the five-man delegation of the House of Representatives failed to submit a report of their visit to the House last Thursday.

Every day, since Jonathan was circumstantially made to stand in as “Acting President”, new developments have been popping up that make the current calm a very uneasy one. The latest is the issue raised by the President of the West African Bar Association, Mr Femi Falana, that constitutionally, Jonathan can only “act” for three months after which the law stipulates that an election should be called.

An army of fans more than 500,000 of them went out to support Sade’s latest CD, “Soldier of Love,” giving the group their first No. 1 disc in 20 years.

The President-General of the Yoruba Community in Plateau State, Chief Toye Ogunsuyi on Thursday night escaped death with his family as his house was bombed by unknown persons. The incident happened at about 8.30 pm. when the curfew period was already on, raising questions as to how the attackers moved into the place. A neighbor […]

By Umar Yusuf, Yola THE Nigerian Bar Association, NBA rose from it National Executive council meeting in Yola Friday and declared that the invocation of the “doctrine of necessity “ in resolving the political logjam by the National Assembly clothing Vice President Goodluck Jonathan as Acting president was technically wrong. In a communiqué issued after […]

Our Golden Boy has returned. But for how long? we really can’t tell. Tony Tetuila; third member of the now defunct popular Hip Hop group of the late 90s called Remedies is now in the country after many months of sabbatical in the UK.

The Nigerian Copyright Commission has declared wanted three suspected broadcast piracy barons, namely the Chief Executive Officer of a broadcasting company, Communications Trends Limited (CTL), Mr. Uzo Udemba and his top Management executives, Mr. Chike Okwunakwe and Mr. Wilson Kalada.

She didn’t have to say much. Well, maybe she didn’t have much to say. The five minute or less that erstwhile wife of pop singer 9ice, Toni Payne Akande, spent on The Future Awards stage last Sunday would have passed without strings until she ended her talk by introducing herself without her marital suffix- Akande.

KOKO — POLITICAL leaders in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Delta State, have been urged to ensure the re-election of the state governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan in the forthcoming 2011 elections. Making the call in Koko town recently, the Chairman of Abigborodo Community Trust, Mr. Francis Eyituoyor-Maku stated that party loyalists and leaders should […]

By Innocent ANABA The Federal Government has challenged the application by a Lagos-based lawyer, Emmanuel Achukwu. to quash the charge preferred against him. Achukwu is standing trial for defrauding foreigners of about N314 million. Government  had asked the court to dismiss the application for the quashing of the charge on the ground that the accused […]

But for prayers and the love of God last Sunday, Season 5 of The Future Awards would have been marred by an angry demonstration led by an aggrieved fellow.

The power of information and the relevance of entertainment is definitely inestimable and this explains the introduction of more entertainment oriented columns in newspapers, and programmes on television and radio to increase the supply of soft information to the insatiable crowd of entertainment lovers.

On the 27th of February, a special Valentine edition of Stand Up Nigeria (SUN) will hold at the Muson Centre, Lagos. It will be hosted by Lepacious Bose.

When you see one of Nigeria’s few fine exports give a standing ovation to a colleague in the same field, you know that even the finest have bosses.

Soldiers who have seized power in Niger say they want the country to be “an example of democracy and good governance” amid international criticism of their actions. Reports said the nation’s ousted president, Mamadou Tandja, was “doing well” following Thursday’s coup, but his whereabouts were still unknown. Armed military men stormed the presidential palace in […]