Joan.Osa Oviawe represents a growing cadre of young Nigerians in the Diaspora who are determined to use the internet for social change. In her case, Ms. Oviawe is using the worldwide Web as a platform to launch what she calls Voices of Edo Women (ViEW). She has been nicknamed “The People’s sister.

Any skilled migrant who wants to stay in Britain must earn a minimum salary of 35,000 Pounds annually, a new British government report said on Friday in London.

FOR choosing to pay N20,000 minimum wage to civil servants, Imo indigenes have commended the state governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha and urged civil servants in the state to put in their best and take the state to the next level. The national minimum wage is N18,000.

The big tree opposite the Nigerian Air Force Base gate along the Murtala Muhammed Airport access road Lagos, on Friday, fell across the road, causing a gridlock.

The Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Delta State has dismissed the petition filed by the National Conscience Party, NCP, candidate, Mr Collins Eselemo challenging the election of Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan of the PDP.

The Minister of Police Affairs, retired Navy Capt. Caleb Olubolade, has urged Nigerians to work toward religious tolerance, social harmony and internal security for the achievement of national transformation

A 30 year-old-man, Lanre Aremu, has been arrested by the Police in Kogi for allegedly raping a 96-year-old grandmother, Ige Samuel in Iyara, Ijumu Local Government Area of the state.

Since the local government elections we reconducted in Lagos State, there have been mixed reactions as to what would be the outcome.

Crumbling jet fighters and rusted tanks, commanded by yes-men rather than competent officers: this is the picture of a grandiose but decrepit war machine emerging after Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi’s downfall.

The glitz and glamour of Miss World returns to its British home to celebrate the global beauty contest’s 60th birthday on Sunday, with a billion viewers expected across the planet.

Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN president, Solomon Ogba is laid low in Abuja as funds needed to run a comprehensive programme for the London 2012 Olympics are slow in coming from government coffers.

More than two million Muslims began massing Saturday on Saudi Arabia’s Mount Arafat and its surrounding plain, marking the peak day of the largest annual pilgrimage.

Bomb and gun attacks in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Damaturu — targetting police stations and churches — left dozens of people dead and at least 100 injured, witnesses said Saturday

For the second time in a week, attempt by the South-South governors to lobby for the clearance of the embattled Governor Timipire Sylva of Bayelsa State by the People Democratic Party, PDP, failed again, as their meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday ended in deadlock.

The Plateau Security Council on Thursday held an emergency session to review the security situation in Jos and other hot spots ahead of the forthcoming Eid-el-Kabir celebration.