Chelsea clinched the Barclays Premier League title in style as Didier Drogba struck a second-half hat-trick in their 8-0 thrashing of 10-man Wigan. The Blues went ahead in the sixth minute when Nicolas Anelka finished after Florent Malouda showed good strength in the area, and they were all but home and hosed after 32 minutes when Gary Caldwell hauled down Frank Lampard in the area.

Football talent hunt is not a new programme in Nigeria. The modus operandi has always been similar and winners have always been rewarded handsomely. Some have gone home with either car or monetary rewards which had served as great motivation for contestants.

The Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Sani Lulu, has extended congratulatory greetings to newly elected Chairman of the Nigeria Premier League (NPL), Davidson Owumi.

Abia State government on Thursday assured that it would give its total support to the successful hosting of the World Wrestling Professional (WWP) Commonwealth Championship which will be staged in Nigeria in October.

A House of Representatives’ investigation has revealed that the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has not audited its account since 1983.

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA— Former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Akinlolu Olujinmi (SAN) yesterday, said the lawsuit instituted by the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, challenging the decision of former President Umaru Yar’Adua to travel out of the country for medical attention without handing over powers to his Vice would continue in […]

By Yemi Ogunbiyi I FIRST met Stanley Macebuh in 1966. He had just graduated from Ibadan, and had come back to King’s College, his alma mater, to teach. He taught sixth form English and I had the privilege and in retrospect, the exceeding luck of being one of his students. My memory of that period […]

Makurdi-The National Auditor of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Dr. Samuel Ortom has declared that the party’s hammer will soon fall on more members of the party who contravened party rules. Addressing newsmen in Makurdi, Dr. Ortom said the era of flouting party regulations with impunity in the PDP was over. “In a long […]

Following the successful launch of the Etisalat CSR Centre at the Lagos Business School (LBS), the Pan-Africa University  established NGOs have commended the initiative and indicated interest in partnering with the innovative telecoms company for the purpose of expanding the frontier of corporate social responsibility in the country. Delighted at the formal launch of the […]

A non-governmental organization, Unveilers of Good Leaders Foundation (UGLF), has described President Umaru Yar’Adua’s death as most unfortunate, but takes solace in the fact that he left behind an indelible legacy. The group in statement signed by its national president, Evangelist David Ohwobeya, and made available to newsmen in Warri, noted that Yar Adua would […]

By Jide Ajani,  Deputy Editor Fresh political calculations are beginning to emerge in the country in the aftermath of Wednesday’s death of President Umaru Yar’Adua, and ahead of next year’s election. Neck-deep in the political calculations are the ruling PDP which is under severe pressure to take another look at its zoning formula, and the […]

Last week was indeed, a very bad week for the tribe of Nigerian writers. The week came with the death of three significant writers and scholars. First, was the announcement of the death of Ossie Onuora Enekwe, a retired professor of Dramatic Literature from the University of Nigeria.

 By Mcphilip Nwachukwu  & Benjamin Njoku Segun Fayose is the HOD, Corporate Communication, Multichoice Nigeria, the owners of M-net Africa. In this interview, he spoke about activities of Multichoice; and especially, about  M-net Channel, its programmes and the controversial creation of Hausa and Yoruba Channels to the exclusion of other language viewers. He spoke to Sunday Arts. […]

It was a gathering of great minds, literary icons, captains of industry, diplomats and notable Nigerians at the second floor of the prestigious Civic Centre located at Ozumba Mbadiwe way in Victoria Island last weekend courtesy of the 3rd edition of the biennial Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.

By Jide Ajani, Deputy Editor Perhaps, God Almighty, in his infinite mercy decided that a breed of Nigerians would be made to serve destiny in a manner that they would merely fill blank spaces. For, how else would you describe a leader whose main calling is just to fill out the remainder of another’s tenure […]