By Dapo Akinrefon Otunba Gbenga Daniel governed Ogun State between 2003 and 2011. In this interview in Lagos,OGD, as he’s fondly called,  bared his mind on his new political platform, Labour Party, his relationships with former President Olusegun Obasanjo and erstwhile Governor Segun Osoba, and why he is throwing his weight behind the alleged re-election […]

By Yeena Sanga The recent impeachment of Admiral Murtala Nyako (rtd) as governor of Adamawa State obviously settles the crisis that has bedeviled the North-East state for some time now to a large extent. But as an indigene of the state, I am convinced by the facts on ground that we are yet to get […]

Since Nollywood actress and singer, Anita Joseph and acclaimed porn star, Judith Mazagwu known as Afrocandy got together recently, tongues have been wagging that Afrocandy is all set to offer Anita Joseph a role in a supposed soft-porn movie.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was, last night, shoving aside a stiff challenge from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s Senator Iyiola Omisore as early results from yesterday’s gubernatorial election in Osun State trickled in.

On Wednesday May 28, 2014, I went to visit an elder statesman, from the Niger Delta, in Nigeria. On the same day, several newspapers carried the story about Mrs Patience Jonathan asking (begging? ordering?) people to stop insulting her husband – the President. My senior friend/Oga took out his iPad and showed me an audio/visual recording titled Na You One Waka Come. That spoof mercilessly and viciously lampooned Jonathan and his wife. At first, I found the stuff amusing; then it became annoying and finally alarming.

My 11 year old daughter is a budding diplomat. Like all children they see everything in clear terms, it is either one thing or the other. She said some years back, about the Israel and Palestine situation: that “mum, it’s simple; can’t they just divide the area and stop the fighting”

Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, speaks on the gains of his state’s recent investment and economic forum, the state airport project, dwindling financial returns from FAAC, SME development and many more.

Ordinarily and in our daily transactions, truth is not a difficult concept to understand, because most people operate implicitly and explicitly with the correspondence theory of truth, according to which truth is the correspondence of beliefs and propositions with reality

Why can’t we research into the herbs which kept our forefathers healthy and strong without western endorsement? Of course it is time for us to rise up to the trend where it is only African diseases that have no cure. We can’t make it if while others are positively using their brains to keep their people alive, we tune ours to convoluted impeachments and electioneering during the period for governance. Let those who have a mandate to take charge of our health overcome the current Ebola disaster NOW.

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die”. A window sticker bearing these last two verses of John Donne’s holy sonnet, “Death be not proud”, caught this reporter’s attention