Former President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, said the electronic identity card being processed by the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, would help in checking the increasing security challenges in the country.

There is never a dull moment with Peter Enahoro. I started working with Peter in 1978, some thirty-seven years ago, when he asked me to join him in London to serve as political editor on a magazinehe was about to rebrand and edit. I was not a stranger to the Enahoro family name. We had an expression in the student community in Ghana: to ‘Enahoro’ someone arose from a story involving Tony Enahoro and S. G. Ikoku, his fellow refugee in Accra but that is another story. Also, in those days the Nigerian Sunday and Daily Times newspapers in which Peter’s name cropped up and which we were encouraged to read under Kwame Nkrumah’s fervent pan-Africanism were circulated in Accra.

Islamic State jihadists have lost only a tiny fraction of captured territory in Iraq after five months of US-led air strikes, the Pentagon said Friday.

Afro Hip Hop artist, Echezona Chukwudi, aka ManPikin, is sure starting 2015 on a good note as he is set to take the entertainment industry by storm with the release of his hit single ‘Miracle Time’ which has already started enjoying massive airplays barely few weeks after its release.

Award winning vocalist ,Wande Coal and Dancehall act Burna Boy have been unveiled as artistes to headline the Industry Nite concert set to take place in Dubai.

“Everyone knows by now that I am not the typical Nigerian gospel artiste and this is well within the scope of my music. I am an urban contemporary artiste,

Following the release of two banging singles Shake Body and Give it to me last year, Skales starts the new year on a high note with the release of two hot singles- Je kan mo and I am for real which have been professed as his new year gifts to his fans.

Have you ever stayed in a hotel where what was supposed to be a pleasant experience turned nightmarish?

The Anikulapo-Kuti family has frowned at a recent advertisement published in some national dailies where the picture of Afro beat King, Fela Anikulapo Kuti was used to score a political point.

Bauchi-Youths suspected to be supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday set ablaze the campaign office of All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate, Barrister Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar in retaliation of the attack on President Goodluck Jonathan and vandalization of PDP billboards and posters.

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah died early Friday and his brother Salman became king, the royal court in the world’s top oil exporter and birthplace of Islam said in a statement carried by state television.

This captures the experience for Seyi Shay when she had the privilege of doing a remix of Orlando Julius’ mega hit Ololufe with the music icon.

Sometimes, I try to look haggard so I won’t get any female attention”

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday told an audience in Davos that he would visit Nigeria “in a couple of days” as part of a Washington push to counter extremist groups, including Boko Haram.

Russians are ready to ride out the current economic crisis, even by eating less food, and to stand by President Vladimir Putin’s side regardless, the deputy prime minister said Friday.