ABEOKUTA—Victims of the November 2010 flood in Ogun yesterday, dragged the former governor of the state, Gbenga Daniel, and his successor, Ibikunle Amosun, before the state’s truth commission sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta. The petitioners, who approached the commission through the African for Human Right International (AfriRight), accused Daniel of short-changing them in the payment of […]

COAST is finally clear as the highly anticipated second edition of the Nigerian Broadcasters Awards, NBA, holds tomorrow at the Lagoon Restaurant, Ozumba Mbadiwe Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The Nigerian Red Cross yesterday confirmed that the explosion which killed seven people and injured several others last Wednesday on Ogbomoso road, Ori Apata area of Kaduna was a bomb contrary to the claim by the police that it was sparked by compressed chemical inside cylinders.

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism will today present anti-corruption defender award and the lifetime award for journalistic excellence respectively to retired Supreme Court justice, Kayode Eso and media veteran, Mr. Lanre Idowu at the sixth award presentation ceremony of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting.

Two-time African champions Enyimba of Aba are set to lose several of their top stars for the coming season after they failed to win a major trophy this past term.

Rain maker and controversial Nigeria’s internationally acclaimed reggae star is in town.

The National Council on Sports in Nigeria yesterday overwhelmingly endorsed the establishment of the Nigerian Court of Arbitration for Sports, NCAS, by the Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC.

May God never give us an Obasanjo again,” I once prayed on this column. President Obasanjo was then on his last days in office and the review of sports under his tenure was a sad commentary.

Airtel Networks Limited, said it has invested over $600m in the past one year to expand the capacity and enhance the robustness of its network in pursuit of world class Quality of Service (QoS).

This is certainly not the best of time for the Police in Rivers State. Between June to date no fewer than 25 of them had been gunned down in the state while on duty. The most recent was the incident of Tuesday where a robbery gang reportedly led by a lady shot dead a Sergeant and two civilians on Rumuola road in Port Harcourt.

A RAILROAD linking Uyo with Port Harcourt is one of the plans of the Akwa Ibom State Government to unlock the maritime potentials of Akwa Ibom State for the accelerated the economic development of the country.

THE people of Uzere in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State have demanded compensation for the families of the three persons that were shot dead by security agents, as well as other victims of last week’s clash between the community and Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, over Global Memorandum of Understanding, GMOU.

Akwa Ibom State governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, Thursday, inaugurated 12 projects in Ikono Local Government Area of the state.

A suspected drug trafficker apprehended by officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), vomited wraps of drugs shortly after arrest at the departure hall Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. The suspect was among two Malaysia-bound passengers who tested positive for drug ingestion at the airport.

LAST weekend, Lagosians were serenade by Jazz Music from renowned classical acts across the globe including South Africa’s Hugh Masekela, Uganda/Rwanda’s Somi, Germany’s Vladyslav Sendecki, Ghana’s Efya and a host of Nigerian Soul/Jazz artistes such as Tiwa Savage, Omawumi, Keziah Jones, Bez, Cobhams Asuquo, Sesu, Dipo and Diana Bada.