Golden Eaglets forward Taiwo Awoniyi on Friday in Ilorin expressed delight at the invitation extended to him by Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi for the African Nations Championship (CHAN) preparations.

In Nelson Mandela’s childhood village of Qunu residents are solemnly preparing for the final return of their beloved son, who will be laid to rest among them a week from now.

Elderly men in the picturesque village dotted with traditional round huts bow their heads and lower their voices when they speak of the anti-apartheid hero who has “returned to his ancestors”.

The Federal Government under former President Olusegun Obasanjo had in 2006 approved the award of contracts for the dualization of Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja road to four contractors.

By Sola Ogundipe IN January 2013, when Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and Surgeon General Vejaynand Ramlakan addressed a media briefing on the state of health of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former South African President, Nelson Mandela, the entire world held its breath – and for good reason. For the third time in four months, […]

Musa Amadu, the Secretary-General of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), has tipped Nigeria and Argentina for the second round from the first round Group F of the 2014 World Cup.

The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has called for stiff penalties, backed by effective laws for perpetrators of sexual violence against women.

Veteran rapper Jay-Z topped nominees for the 2014 Grammys announced Friday with nine nods, while Taylor Swift and Daft Punk were also among those in the running in major categories.

But Jay-Z other major stars including Justin Timberlake failed to score any nominations in the major categories, which saw a mixture of rap and pop in the running for the top honors at music’s equivalent of the Oscars next month.

The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Culture and Ijaw National Affairs, Dr. Felix Tuodolo has called on members of the Arewa Students Progressive Association (ASPA) and the National Union of Izon-Ebe Students (NUIS) not to relent in their support for the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan.

Nelson Mandela’s funeral cortege will travel through the streets of the capital Pretoria on three consecutive days, South Africa’s government said Saturday, encouraging people to line the route.

Barely fifteen days after her abduction,relief yesterday finally came the way of relatives of an Osun based industrialist, Mrs. Yinka Obaleye known as Yinka Oba as her abductors finally released her .

Senate President, David Mark on Friday told the Minister of Aviation Princess Stella Oduah to be professional in handling matters in the sector so as to meet up with the international standard

IF your forefathers were the owners of the land and today your people, who are treated as the lowest race are squatters banished to marginal lands which constitute less than 30 per cent of your territory and you need a pass to leave your enclave and visit other areas what would you do?

IGBO leaders held a crucial meeting on the proposed National dialogue in Enugu yesterday where they emphasized the need for the South East to harmonize their position on various national issues and present same to the confab.

ONE of the few surviving nationalists and former Minister of Aviation in the first republic, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi has revealed how he hid the foremost South African nationalist and former president of South Africa, Chief Nelson Mandela for six months in Nigeria to evade his arrest by officials of the apartheid regime in that country.

GENERAL Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye will from today play host to millions of worshippers from different parts of the world at this year’s edition of the church’s Holy Ghost Congress.