Nollywood actress Stephanie Okereke last  Friday made another history when she featured in a stage play titled ‘SEVEN’ during a three day summit on ‘Women in the World: Stories and Solutions’ held in far away New York city. She was joined on stage by other actresses including Marcia Gay Harden, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Archie Panjabi, Julyana […]

Saturday 6th march 2010 will for a long remain a day to remember in the mind of several members of the fourth estate of realm when Ikenga entertainment Inc held the first Society, entertainment and Style editors nite of honor at the White House, Toyin Ikeja. The occasion which had the trappings of a five […]

A host of musicians and entertainers have gone on social networking site Twitter to condemn in strong terms the security crisis rocking Jos, Plateau state.

The Nigerian gospel music scene recently swelled by one as Onos Bikawei, a gospel artiste debuted with her album entitled Keep Moving , at Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Its been about four months since ethnic singer 9ice dropped his third album ‘Tradition’; just a month before he separated from wife, Toni Payne for unresolved disputes. A recent publication on the cause of the break-up is stirring exchange of e-mails and phone calls in the media and music circuit.

Indications emerged yesterday that the Presidency may have set machineries in motion towards probing alleged mismanagement of about N550 million released out of the multi-billion naira Seven- Cities Project which seeks to ensure that states with high crime rates are provided more equipment to ensure that criminality is reduced to the barest minimum in the country.

TWO good friends from the South East of the Niger who came to Lagos some years back in search of greener pastures are currently in a hot soup at the dreaded State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba, Lagos for abandoning their earlier credible means of livelihood and allegedly turning to criminality.

The Senate yesterday resolved to send a six-man delegation to Kano State to commiserate with the state government and the traders whose goods were destroyed in the recent Kanti-Kwari Textile market fire.

Umuahia—Abia State Government has concluded plans to produce a masterplan for the state. The Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Urban Development, Mr Emeka Nwachukwu, told newsmen, yesterday in Umuaihia that the masterplan would include digital mapping of Umuahia, the state capital. Nwachukwu said that the digital mapping would signal the implementation of the long expected […]

By Uduma Kalu LAGOS—An Igbo socio-cultural group, Otu Ide Ndigbo, has blamed the extinction facing Igbo language in the country on governments at various levels. The group made the disclosure  in Lagos yesterday,  at the media presentation of the book, Functional Igbo: Beginners’ Guide to Igbo Language, which will be presented to the general public […]

By Chinyere Amalu ABUJA —  National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has inaugurated federal taskforce to combat fake and counterfeit drugs in the country Fake and counterfeit drugs have been blamed for treatment failure and development of drug resistance. It has also created unfavourable business environment for manufacturing, importers and health […]

THE journey from the Kirikiri Canal offices of Vanguard Newspapers to my residence ought not to be more than a 20-minute drive on normal smooth and free road. But in Nigeria, there is hardly anything normal in our day-to-day activities as a people, anymore; and so, leaving Vanguard premises at 5.35pm, I had hoped that at the very worst I would make it home in an hour. But as it turned out, by 10.00 pm I was still locked up in the middle of a no-moving traffic.

By Gabriel Enogholase BENIN—GROUP Managing Director- designate of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Mr. Philips Oduaza, yesterday in Benin declared the preparedness of the bank to provide funds to Edo State government to enable it realize its developmental programmes. Mr. Oduaza, who disclosed this when he led the bank’s management team on a courtesy […]

By Peter Duru MAKURDI — THE Benue State government has threatened to sack striking secondary school teachers in the state whom it accused of embarking on an illegal industrial action to press home demands for 27.5 per cent increment in salaries. Addressing newsmen at the end of the state executive council meeting  in Makurdi, Special […]

By Dennis Agbo ABAKALIKI—THE Catholic Bishop of Abakaliki Dioceses, Right Rev. Michael Okoro, has called on Acting President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Assembly to evolve ways to end the spate of kidnappings in the country. Bishop Okoro made the call during a thanksgiving mass at St Patrick’s Catholic Church, Ezza-ofu in Izzi Local Government […]