I don’t know what the voters in Osun State were expecting, but last Saturday’s election was one of intrigue and anticipation. I will say this, it was followed avidly beyond Osun State and Nigeria. There was drama which runs up to the election. I was forwarded an email last week, with pictures attached of security agents with balaclavas, armed to the teeth. They poured on to the streets and also dispatched some to block the Freedom Square where workers supporting the governor were holding a rally.

From the day after the Ekiti Election until two weeks ago, I received several text messages from PDP supporters, as well as those who just wanted to taunt me for declaring my support for Governor Fayemi who lost the election. I was unperturbed because I know that a democracy means that there must be at least two candidates contesting and one person must win – irrespective of whether the election is free and fair. And the fact that the majority had selected the winner does not always mean that they have chosen wisely.

Maybe he doesn’t have a profile as long and rich as Jim Iyke, or the fame and fortune of Richard Mofe Damijo but Anambra State-born actor, Frederick Leonard has the looks and passion most good-looking actors would wish they have. He hasn’t been around for long but he is already picking roles and having to […]

I was on my way to Kigali in 1994, to report the brewing troubles in Rwanda, when the Ebola fever epidemic broke out in Zaire. Travelers were quarantined in the Kinshasha International Airport. All connecting flights to Kigali were cancelled. I contemplated the possibility of an Air Afrique flight to Arusha, in Tanzania, and from thence by car to Kigali.

Given the choice between a book and a movie I always make the choice of books! While watching movies is invariably easier and less mentally tasking than digesting a book, it gives a lot less satisfaction than the vivid imagery that the mind can conjure. The human imagination has more colours than have been named and its vivid descriptions of characters and plots are hardly ever matched by what is possible to create by actors and directors! The genius of it is that a million readers can have different perceptions from reading the exact same book! The human imagination is the greatest tool of the mind and its use positively or negatively decides the reality we live; it is the life blood of strongholds.

New digital television platform that will provide access to a greater number of stations to households in Nigeria and across west Africa at a relatively low cost has been launched in Nigeria

A medical doctor who was one of the primary contacts of the late American-Liberian ‎Patrick Sawyer at First Consultant Hospital has recovered and has since been discharged from the Isolation centre in Lagos.

A member of defunct presidential advisory committee on national dialogue, Mr Tony Ipriye Uranta, has added his voice to the outcome of just concluded national conference, just as he called on National Assembly to expedite actions in ratifying the conference resolutions

A female patient , who was infected with the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) by the Liberian- American carrier, Patrick Sawyer, has made a miracle recovery and has been discharged from the Isolation centre in Lagos.

Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, is 73 years old today. In this interview to mark the occasion, Babangida, fondly called IBB, speaks on some critical issues in the country, including the continuous detention of the Chibok girls by the Islamist group, Boko Haram, the power situation in the country, the 2015 general elections, among others.

English Premier League results on Saturday, the opening day of the new top-flight season:

Nigeria has trained 800 volunteers to help fight the deadly Ebola epidemic that has already claimed four lives in Africa’s most populous country, a regional governor spokesman said Saturday.

Louis van Gaal accepted responsibility after Manchester United crashed to a 2-1 loss at home to Swansea City on Saturday in his first Premier League game as manager.

URHOBO nation was Saturday, thrown into mourning as the cold hands of death snatched the President General of the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, General Patrick Aziza (rtd) away. He died at the age of 67.

The last may not been heard about the protracted strike embarked by the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, as the striking doctors Saturday vowed not to resume talks with the government until the government unconditionally reverse the sack of 16, 000 resident doctors nationwide.