The Yoruba  Council  of  Elders (YCE) has  explained  that the rationale behind  the construction of a Yoruba village in London was  part of the  efforts to ensure that, the language does no go into extinction for those in diaspora.

Lagos chamber urges CBN to ease monetary policy rate.

Nigeria on Saturday ruled out a ransom payment to the kidnappers holding seven members of a French family as France’s foreign minister held talks with President Goodluck Jonathan on the abductions.

Pope Francis celebrated mass in a small Vatican church Sunday ahead of his first Angelus prayer before an expected 200,000 faithful, focusing a brief homily on a message of mercy.

FORMER Senate Leader, Senator Teslim Folarin, says the visit of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, to the South West zone would help the party unseat the opposition party in the 2015 elections.

Tukur was in the zone on Friday to resolve the crises among various factions of the party. According to Folarin, the visit had served as a morale booster to the PDP since it lost to the opposition party.

WHY did the Nigeria Prison Service, NPS, Okere, Warri in Delta State not notify the Nigeria Police about the planned movement of high profile kidnap/armed robbery suspects from the prisons to High Court, Warri, on Wednesday, March 13, and ask for escort as customary?

It was a joyful occasion for the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State as Soji Oni, a Provincial Pastor, dedicated a set of triplets after twenty five years of childlessness with his wife.

A Nigerian, Tinuade Okoro, has emerged the best graduating medical student in Ghana and scooping, in the process, 16 prizes at the University of Ghana, Legon.

Some of the prizes won by Okoro include the Ghana Medical Association prize for the best overall student in the MB ch.B final part 11 examination; prize for all round best student, sponsored by Ghana Health Service and the Society of Obstetrics and Gynecologists of Ghana prize for the best student in gynacology as well as the R.K Obeng prize for the best student in clinical pharmacology.

Northern Christian Elders Forum has cautioned leaders in the region to tread softly to avoid an imminent civil revolution.

The message of the birth of Christ was first brought to mere shepherds, sleeping out of doors. “Then the angel said to them, Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.’” (Luke 2:10-11)

Probe! Probe deeper!Investigate! Investigate thoroughly!These are words Nigeria’s intelligence and security agencies are very familiar with.

Deacon Markson Fefegha is the Bayelsa Information and Orientation Commissioner. In this interview, Fefegha declares that the Governor Seriake Dickson administration focus is on transforming education, infrastructural development and security of lives. Excerpts:

The Flying Eagles of Nigeria will begin the defence of their African Youth Championships title in Oran, Algeria today against the Eaglets of Mali. Coming so soon after the 2013 Afcon where Nigeria humiliated Mali 4-1 on their way to the trophy, the young Malians have vowed to make things difficult for their Nigerian counterparts in this opening encounter.

IMO State Deputy Governor, Mr. Jude Agbaso, has dragged the state House of Assembly and Chief Judge, Justice A B Njemanze, before the state High Court in Owerri, asking the court to stop the impeachment panel from taking further steps towards removing him from office.

Indications have emerged that President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered Service Chiefs and the Inspector General of Police to put a stop to illegal oil bunkering, pipeline vandalization and other maritime incidents that have drastically affected the nation’s revenue base.