DEMOCRACY is the best form of government. Consequently, the most successful countries of the world are mostly democracies. These are countries that allow independence of thought and freedom of expression.

A Sudanese daily newspaper that was allowed to resume publishing in March after a ban of nearly two years has been seized, its chief editor said on Sunday.

The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) on Sunday called on FIFA to rescind a yellow card ban set to keep skipper Thiago Silva out of Tuesday’s World Cup semi-final against Germany.

As Malawi marked 50 years of freedom from colonial rule on Sunday, President Peter Mutharika said the country’s biggest enemy today was poverty.

Thousands gathered to celebrate independence from Britain in the capital Lilongwe, but many Malawians said chronic underdevelopment and heavy reliance on foreign aid had locked them into a new form of economic bondage.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has decried the delay in distributing the permanent voters cards to registered voters in the state ahead of the Aug. 9th 2014 governorship election in Osun state, warning that it might be a ploy to disenfranchise voters.

In just four weeks, between May and June, 2014, 562 persons were systematically killed by Boko Haram sect – mind you, there were many more unrecorded deaths. The killings are outlined in the statement of some concerned leaders of ethnic nationalities of Borno South Senatorial District, made up of Dr. Pogu Bitrus (of Chibok), Rev. Ibrahim Dauwa (of Gwoza) and Rev. James Yaga, JP (of Gwoza)

Chief Femi Fani-Kayode says he did not libel All Progressives Party (APC) which he recently quit to return to his former party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). A letter by his lawyers, Ahmed Raji and Co, addressed to the APC, through their lawyers, M.A. Banire & Associates, dated July 5, 2014, and entitled, ‘Libelous statements against […]

Louis van Gaal’s unprecedented decision to replace his goalkeeper for the penalty shoot-out in the Netherlands’ World Cup quarter-final victory

MaiduguriChibok Local Government Area of Borno State, which is south and about 160 kilometres drive from Maiduguri, the capital city, has been in the news globally, especially on April 14, when some armed terrorists, suspected to be Boko Haram members, stormed Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok and abducted over 200 female students, after destroying classrooms and public structures.

Below is the academic proposition by some scholars in the US to the Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton.  The letter was copied to Ambassador Johnnie Carson, then Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.  Their argument, put forward in strong terms, is that the Jamaatu Ahlil Sunna Lidawati wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko […]

It is a season of anomie for the Nigerian health sector. Perpetually steeped in crisis, things have fallen apart irrevocably in the public domain where the centre no longer holds for healthcare delivery.

The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has been named in an alleged directorship registration and forgery scandal involving a multi-billion Naira firm.

Suspected internet fraudsters have reportedly hacked into Ogun State-owned mortgage bank, Gateway Savings and Loans Limited, and stole millions of Naira.

About 12 soldiers including a colonel, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, three policemen and four civilians were feared killed at the weekend when about 200 terrorists operating in many Toyota Hilux vehicles attacked Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State.

The structure housing the Divisional Police Headquarters in the area, markets, houses and vehicles were also destroyed during the encounter between the terrorists and the armed forces.

KANO State Government has charged the 14-year-old bride, suspected to have killed her husband and three others in April, with culpable homicide punishable by death.