From the Table Bay Hotel, we took off for Stellenbosch home to many of the wineries. On the outskirt of this town, lies the famous Die Bergkelder- Fleur du Cap founded in 1967.

San Francisco – A United Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Boise, Idaho after its pilot suffered a mid-air heart attack from which he later died, an Airline spokesperson said on Friday. United flight 1603 was en-route from Houston, Texas to Seattle, Washington when the incident occurred. The Boeing 737 landed safely in Boise […]

IT was a sad day Friday in Nyanya, a satellite town and a suburb in the nation’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja when a storey building in one of the FCT owned Government Secondary School, GSS collapsed with eight students critically injured.

The Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, on Friday in Ilorin charged Nigerian youths to fully utilise sports’ advantages to develop themselves physically and economically.

Hull City’s Sone Aluko is aiming to establish himself in the Premier League and earn a Nigeria recall. The former England youth international switched allegiances four years ago and made his Super Eagles debut in 2009.

Pastor Itua Ighodalo is the Senior Pastor of Lagos-based Trinity House, and an accomplished chartered accountant working as a managing partner in SIAO, an accounting, auditing, and financial advisory firm. In this chat with Ebele Orakpo, he speaks on the Church’s annual Honour Nigeria Awards programme scheduled for October 6, 2013. Alluding to the Bible passage that says that three-fold cord is not easily broken, he says the Church must unite for more impact on society, adding that Trinity House has various programmes aimed at putting Church at the forefront of society. Excerpts:

Nigerian Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka and other writers on Friday paid tribute to renowned Ghanaian poet and statesman Kofi Awoonor, among the 67 killed in last weekend’s Kenyan mall attack.

Nigerian Islamist group Ansaru on Friday released a video of a French national kidnapped in December, issuing threats to the governments of Nigeria and France, the SITE jihadi tracking website said.

The Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, on Friday said the Federal Government was making efforts to ensure that Nigeria remained a united and progressive nation.

God is your shield, glory and the lifter up of your head. Stop walking with your head bowed. The vision is still accomplishable. Yes you may have suffered major losses but you can still rise again. The righteous falleth seven times and seven times they rise again. Don’t give up on yourself when God has not given up on you. The challenges of life are real but more real are the plan that God has for you.