Former Super Eagles defender, Yisa Shofoluwe, says more tournaments like the Obama Cup as well as other international friendly matches will help coach Samson Siasia build a formidable Super Eagles team before the Africa Cup of Nations next year.

Jos is a sickening metaphor of a potential conflagration that seriously bothers my subconscious. We live in fears of possible present-dangers, but worse than that are the horrible imaginings of what the Jos of today may rub off the Nigeria of tomorrow.

There is no doubt that Father Ralph loves his God more than he loves the woman of focus as he claims in the movie. His problem started the day, when as a young priest, he sets his eyes on Meggie, who became his protégé, till when he died as a Cardinal. Though a fiction, this story represents the sexual struggles that many Christians are dealing with.

The outbreak of fresh violence in Jos, the Plateau State capital, yesterday, and the Friday’s killing of the ANPP gubernatorial candidate in Borno State, Engr Fannami Modu Gubio, along with six others by suspected terrorists, at the weekend, heightened security concerns in the country.

By Debbie Ogunjobi My favourite space is painted in cool shades of green (my favourite colour); the furniture is huge and more built for comfort than decoration. The curtains are the exact shades of green as the walls and it is also my sacred space. The focal point is my Altar on which stands a […]

The meeting had discussed the contentious issue of power shift after which the ACF said it rejected the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan as the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate. But, in this interview, a former Secretary of the ACF Politics Committee, Alhaji Mohammed Abdulrahman, says the ACF has no power to regulate the conduct and decisions of political parties.

THE 82-year old historical masterpiece known as Mapo Hall perched on top of Oke Mapo, in Ibadan, Oyo State last week rekindled the legacy of the colonial masters when it played host to stakeholders in religious matters who had gathered in the ancient city to proffer solutions to the perennial crises in parts of the North.

I doubt there is someone like Rev. Chukwuma Nwabara in Kubwa, Abuja. If he exists, he is trying to call attention to himself. He is probably using the same tricks like the little-known American priest who called attention to himself that he would burn the Qur’an.
Of course, he did not burn the Qur’an and America and the world listened. He came to the notice of the American President.

The Nigerian Football Federation, NFF is a public organisation. It is a Nigerian organisation running football on behalf of Nigeria and her people. It is thus an organisation in which all Nigerians have a stake. It is also an organisation operating professionally in adherence to the practical and theoretical principles of its activities. In this regards, therefore, the NFF, a sport governing body must have in its fold, persons with both cognate practical and theoretical knowledge of the sport.

Having received the Nigerian Football Association, NFA’s ultimatum to conduct its FA elections on or before tomorrow, the Imo State FA has ordered its electoral congress to reconvene for its elections on a date yet to be decided as it blamed the imbroglio on some top Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) politicians.

Chief Ojo Maduekwe, the bicycle-riding Minister of Transport, is a true Nigerian. Born on May 6,1945, Ojo, as he is fondly called, is the Deputy Zonal Coordinator of the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organisation. In this interview, however, Ojo takes on the opposition and insists that they are not long-suffering.

No matter how much of an extrovert I want to believe I am, I always cherish the ‘me’ time I spend in a bedroom that looks more of a bombsite than the haven it is supposed to be! So, when Florence, an old school-mate, who had been a good host to me on the few times I ventured on the soil of America, decided to visit the country after years of being away, I was obligated to reciprocate her hospitality.

Morayo had never heard of the resistant bacteria infection called “staph” as it is commonly known, until her three-year-old daughter, Enitan who had been sick much more often than any of her siblings was diagnosed of the infection.

Following the reported killings of some 43 Igbo traders in Jos, Plateau State , the Federal Government has been called upon to take decisive actions to help the state government stem the crisis from escalating into a tribal conflict.

When the Senate summoned the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, to appear before it to explain reasons for the frustration being encountered by Nigerians trying to register as voters in the forthcoming elections, it was thought that the lawmakers would give him such a dressing down that when he leaves the chambers, he would bow his head in shame. But, after spending more than four answers answering questions from the senators, Jega emerged largely unscathed with a reinforced confidence that his oft repeated assurance that the elections would be credible may be true after all.