ECONOMIC and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been asked to investigate an alleged incident of fraud against a Rivers State cleric, Apostle Eugene Ogu, with a view to bringing the culprit to book.

The Director General,Nigeria Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, has decried the negative image Nigeria is getting from the Boko Haram issue and the kidnapping in some parts of the country.

The Federal Government, yesterday, condemned the polio status in the country, noting that Nigeria, in August 2011, recorded 26 cases of polio in six states in contrast to six during the corresponding period in 2010.

Barely two months after the induction of Barrister Fred Agbeyegbe as the first grand Living Legend of the Nigerian theatre by the National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners (NANTAP), another Nigerian theatre icon and filmmaker , Moses Olaoluwa Olusanya Adejumo popularly known as Baba Sala was last week, honoured with the title of Grand Living Legend of Nigerian Theatre.

Two of Africa’s most accomplished and prominent writers, Chinua Achebe and Gabriel Okara, will share the stage for the very first time, joined by the award-winning poet Brenda Marie Osbey in a conversation about Voice and Memory in the Poetic Imagination.

The Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, Chief Edem Duke has presented a new tourism and culture transformation agenda to the heads of parastatal under the ministry, just as he admonishes them to eschew rancour and work in synergy to move the sector forward

Ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations against Guinea on October 8, Kelechi Emeteole has tasked the Nigeria Football Federation to step up preparations for the crunch game billed to hold on October 8 at the Abuja National Stadium.

Group Managing Director of NICON Group, Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim (OFR) in this interview with select editors in Abuja, speaks on the Senate inquiry into the privatisation of public corporations and says that the sale of NICON to Global Fleet Group was a success story as confirmed with the conferment of National Productivity Award on the company. He also reveals how BPE created problems for some of the companies privatised

The Palestinian quest for definitive step at the weekend when Mahmoud Abbas Chairman of the Palestinian authority presented to the 66th General Assembly in New York the request for the actualisation of UN resolution 181 but Nigeria pushed for a pragmatic diplomacy to secure its economic interest at the expense of the complex Middle East politics.

Obesity is becoming an increasing health problem globally. It is rising in not just the urban but rural areas. Not just the adults are overweight or obese, these days, obesity is seen much more in children. This trend does not come as a surprise. Globally, the obesity epidemic is growing.

The dreams and aspirations of many theatre lovers, actors/actress, producers and others will soon matrialise as NANTAP has concluded all necessary arrangements to reactivate one of the county’s annual theatre ritual called Festival of Nigerian Plays (FESTINA).

To many Nigerians, leaving the country to foreign land is the solution to the myriads of problems debilitating the country. But unknown to many it has been a harrowing tales of anguish. This is what Emeka Mark Edeson, a German based Nigerian of Igbo extraction captures in his new novel titled Echo of Silent Wishes.

Gus was exhibiting a sense of injured pride. He felt like a man who had accomplished his mission well and acquitted himself diligently and elegantly, and then, just in the last step and moment, was now being forced to experience an embarrassment that was totally avoidable.

Two Sundays ago was the anniversary of the devastation that the world would rather forget. It was 10 years ago and the world has not allowed itself to forget.

Have you been working night and day by your own power, without any positive result? Have you been depending on your university degree thinking that it is what will give you all you need? Hear this: Just one encounter with God is much more than a lifetime of struggles and efforts. Every day is God’s day; the day you believe is your day. God has more than enough resources to meet all the desires of every living being (Psalm 145:15-16).