An Ijaw socio-political group, under the aegis of Egbema Progressives Assembly, has passed a vote of confidence on President Goodluck Jonathan, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan and the Commissioner representing Itsekiri nation in the board of Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Mr Michael Diden.

Former Super Falcons star, Maureen Mmadu said the calibre of players selected by coach Edet Okon for the African Women Championship billed for October 11-25 in Namibia was good enough to regain the title.

Muslims in Nigeria’s northeast marked a fearful, low key Eid-El-Kabir festival Saturday, as the military detained alleged Boko Haram Islamist militants and the authorities ordered roads closed.

Faculty, staff and students of the American University of Nigeria distributed emergency relief aid to internally displaced persons at the St. Teresa’s Catholic Church, Jimeta, at the weekend.

The first person diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus on US soil is faring worse and now in critical condition, health officials said Saturday, having previously described him as seriously ill.

AS part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSP), oil giant, Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), distributed drugs and insecticide treated mosquito nets to over 2,000 pregnant and nursing mothers in the oil rich communities in Ondo State

A former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, Professor Emeritus Andrew Onokerhoraye, has described the reasons given by the institution stripping him of his appointment as professor emeritus as unfounded.

Towards creating awareness on the sanctity of human life even in the womb, and stop increasing incidences of abortion, the Family and Human Life Unit of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos and Knights of Saint Mulumba, Lagos Metropolitan Council held a pro-life vigil under the theme: ‘The Family: Fountain of Life,’ at the Archdiocesan Marian Shrine, Maryland, Lagos. This is the fourth year the vigil will hold.

Governor Ibrahim Kwankwaso of Kano State is among the contenders for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2015 general elections. Kwankwaso, in this piece, unfolds his agenda for Nigeria.

The renowned business magazine, The Economist, in one of its editions in 2000, described the African continent as a hopeless continent. In 2011, eleven years after, the same magazine reversed itself. The cover of its December edition of that year features an illustration of a boy flying a rainbow-coloured kite the shape of the continent, with the title, “Africa rising”