Owoeye, is giving the smart watch technology a new dimension for Nigerian phone users, with a new brand of wearable phone called stoms.

Stephen Keshi, the Super Eagles Head Coach, on Thursday invited 30 players to camp in preparation for the Championship of African Nations (CHAN).

– No fewer than 150 athletes from Anambra will feature in the maiden National Youth Games (NYG) scheduled to begin on Dec. 6 in Abuja

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This week, the focus is more on films still to make the cinemas. Movie like ‘Silence’ is probably in Day 8 of its production but indications have shown it may be released by the end of the year.

A once celebrated boxer, Jerry Okorodudu, has resumed duty as a national coach after reinstatement by the National Sports Commission (NSC).

OPPOSITION politics can be alluring if played without bitterness. One thing that cannot be easily taken away from EdoState is that she has a large stock of refined opposition politicians.

A NEW debate has broken out as to whether the Boko Haram insurgency has assumed the status of a civil war. Way back in April 2012, the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu Gambari, had described it as “more dreadful than a civil war”.

WHEN the military in the 1970s created Abuja, they wanted a city that will represent the new Nigeria, which they hoped to nurture; a city devoid of the congestion of Lagos, the then capital of Nigeria; a city with good roads network, good and well planned housing schemes and settlements; a city that will be the seat of the Federal Government, while others remain the seat of other governments; a secured and protected and fortified city. Abuja was to be the paradise.

A loud explosion from the Conoil Filling Station directly opposite the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Headquarters, Abuja, triggered a fire outbreak that flared on for hours in the capital city today.

The striking resident doctors in the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan have resumed work after their two months’ strike.

A Gusau-based consultant pathologist, Dr. Murtala Abubakar, today urged the Federal Government to establish a national pathology centre, to facilitate quick dispensation of crimes that require medical interpretation. Abubakar, made this known at the annual health Week of the Zamfara chapter of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) in Gusau, Zamfara State. According to him, […]

By VICTOR AHIUMA-YOUNG Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has expressed disappointment over what it termed the deliberate act by National Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB,  to exclude the union and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association, PENGASSAN, from its just concluded stakeholders conference. NUPENG, in a statement by its […]

A civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has described Nigeria’s sliding in the Transparency International’s global Corruption Perception Index (CPI) as “a reality check, confirming that the country’s fight against corruption has lost track, and showing why it is now critical for the government of President Goodluck Jonathan to fight corruption more by its action than words.”

THERE is the Owerri spirit in the socio-political life of ImoState. It moves sparingly, in fact, only when provoked, but as a virile and potent force when it moves it teaches the target hard lessons. It is a force that has cut short the career of many a vibrant politician in the State.