The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has commended the constitution of a special fund for victims of insurgency in parts of the north.

THE acting Governor of Adamawa State, Alhaji Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, stormed the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, asking the people of the state to pray for him in his new assignment of taking the people out of the ‘ wilderness.’

Representative of Akwa Ibom, Miss. Iheoma Nnadi has emerged winner of the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 2014 has emerged winner Friday 18th July 2014, in a spectacular finale which took place in Bayelsa State, yesterday. The judges of the night included actress Osas Ighodaro, ex MBGN Sylvia Nduka, and former Mr Nigeria Bryan Okwara. […]

A police surveillance team attached to Fegge Police Station, Onitsha, Anambra state has arrested two of a six-man syndicate who specialize in breaking peoples shops and looting their goods in Anambra and Ebonyi states.

UNSPECIFIED number of people in Damboa Local Council of Borno State were feared dead when some gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram launched another attack on the area, yesterday.

The Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory Command, Joseph Mbu gave a bizarre order last week: henceforth, any resident of Abuja who wishes to refill his gas cylinder would have to obtain a permit from the police as movement of gas cylinders from one place to another in the Federal Capital Territory has been banned!

The Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) rose from its meeting yesterday saying that it has put its House in order in the interest of the country’s football.

Kenny St Brown needs no introduction as one of Nigeria’s most celebrated contemporary gospel artistes. With a career spanning over a decade, she brought glamour and reckoning for gospel music in Nigeria at the time of her emergence on the scene.

Providence brought me within a few miles of the American seat of power in Washington around the Fourth of July, the day all Americans celebrate their independence.

Ahead of the 2015 general elections, the Forum of Local Government Chairmen in Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned aspirants and their backers against name-dropping.

The forum of Deputy Chairmen from Anambra Central Senatorial Zone of Anambra State has thrown its weight behind Chief Victor Umeh, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, to contest the senatorial seat of the zone in 2015 which is presently occupied by Senator Chris Ngige, a one-time Governor of the state.

By BENJAMIN NJOKU Lisa Henry Omorodion is one of Nollywood’s starlets who debuted in the industry last year with her first movie, “First Cut,” directed by Chico Ejiro and which starred the likes of Monalisa Chinda, Joseph Benjamin, and Bobby Obodo. The feisty actress was one of the actresses that graced this year’s editon of […]

THOSE who expect the August 9 governorship election in Osun State to be violent and rigged are in for a shocker, if the promises of the 20 candidates, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and other stakeholders are anything to go by.

There were three men sitting at the carpenter’s workshop near the central mosque opposite Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Ijanikin, Lagos. Which one among these men could be Mr. Odu Samuel, popularly known as Alagbede, the father of Odu Timothy, one of the school children crushed to death last week by a reckless commercial bus driver as they were crossing the express road to their school?

Nigeria was placed in the 110th position out of the 143 countries polled in the Global Innovation Index report released in Sydney, Australia yesterday.