ABUJA—CHAIRMAN, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega has said that despite the security challenges in the north-eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe and the declaration of emergency in the affected states, elections will still be conducted in the troubled states in 2015.

LAGOS State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has tasked Lagosians to challenge the Peoples Democratic Party to show why its government has become one marked for mind boggling corruption which continues to impoverish and destroy Nigeria for the past sixteen years.

THE Federal Ministry of Finance has released the sum of N200 billion as capital for the third quarter of 2014.

The death of Brigadier General Benjamin Adekunle provides a stark contrast between the great potentials of the past and the bleak future of the present.

The Federal Government has summoned the Egyptian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Ashraf Salama, over the ill-treatment meted out on a Nigerian teenager, Master Joshua Kunle Abdulazeez, by Egypt Air

A leading Ekiti traditional musician, Chief Peter Ogunyemi, popularly known as Elemure, is dead, aged 70.
Ogunyemi died in the early hours of yesterday, though details of cause of his death was sketchy at time of this reports.

Tony Benson, son of late music legend Bobby Benson, is pushing 67, at least that may in part explain why he isn’t so much known in this generation of hip-hop music.

Busola Oke a.k.a Eleyele, a gospel singer, who has been absent from the music scene for a while has returned with a release of a new album titled ‘Emimimo’ which translates to ‘Holy Spirit’ in English language.

EVangelist Elliot Uko, founder of the Igbo Youth Movement and Deputy Secretary, Igbo Leaders of Thought, is not happy with the way the Federal Government is combating the Boko Haram insurgents, who are bent on carving out an Islamic Caliphate in Northern. Nigeria. Apart from taking decisive and proactive action, he says in this interview among others that without tackling the root cause of the insurgency Nigeria would have a group that is worse than Boko Haram in future.

Enyimba manager Kadiri Ikhana says his team will get better and keep fighting for the league crown, despite succumbing to a 1-0 defeat to Akwa United in a week 26 fixture of the Nigeria professional football league on Wednesday.

CONTROVERSIAL and down-to-earth Nollywood actor, Benson Okonkwo has bagged another sexiest man award after winning the first runner-up prize of the Vanguard’s Sexiest in Nollywood 2013. The One Dollar star who is fondly called Mr Packaging by fans, took the Karis Award crown after beating fellow actors; Ken Erics, Muna Obiekwe and Walter Anga. The […]

Ahead of the January 2015 for the implementation of the new auto policy, the Nigeria Customs Service has begun the collection of additional 70 percent on new vehicles and thirty five percent on fairly used ones.

A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abia State, Mr. Ugochukwu Uwaeke, has called on PDP members in the state to respect its zoning of the governorship ticket to Abia South senatorial zone in 2015 elections.

THE 2014 Nigerian Sports Award has entered the voting phase as the top three nominees for each of the different categories of the award have emerged.