The Executive Secretary of Nigerian National Summit Group, Mr Tony Ipriye Uranta, has commended the military on its onslaught that led to the reclaiming of some communities in the North-east region from Boko Haram.

The Electricity Meter Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (EMMAN) has commended the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) for enacting a law that would encourage local players in the power sector. The commendation is contained in a statement in Lagos by the Executive Secretary of the association, Mr Muyideen Ibrahim.

Chief Solomon Ogbonna is a Lagos-based art collector and Chairman, Board of Trustees, Aguene Art Foundation. His love for art is so great that apart from the art works he inherited from his late father, he also bought that of his siblings, no wander his house in the Ajah area of Lagos, is home to hundreds of art works across various media. But, despite all his exploits, Ogbonna is not happy with the government and the way they are handling art business in Nigeria.

The Golden Eaglets are set to redeem their image as they play Guinea for bronze at the CAF African Under-17 Championship this afternoon in Niamey, Niger Republic.

The biblical injunction in Jeremiah 17 vs 9 that says “ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked who can know it” is apt in the case of a 30-year-old commercial motorcycle operator, popularly known as Okada rider, Tumi Ayileka, who was alleged to have, despite the plea by a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member (names withheld), that she was three months pregnant, still forcefully had carnal knowledge of her.

The APC Candidate has been on a tour of the UK, chaperoned by his political campaign advisers Dr. Kayode Fayemi and Mr. Chibuike Amaechi. Two things are rather immediately clear from Buhari’s UK tours: one, the APC presidential candidate has been forced to sup on bitter gravy over lingering animosities with Britain following the Umaru Dikko affair. This trip it seems is in part, made on bended knees. Is this Buhari’s attempt to bury the ghost of the past and any other hatchets with Great Britain?

THE leadership of the Urhobo National Youth Council, UNYC, has described the call for the sack of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahirhu Jega, by members of the Asari-Dokubo-led Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force as unwarranted and undemocratic.

We have had so much rumblings about the Buhari’s visit to the UK. It has whipped the rumour mill to a frenzy. Depending on what was written by the conspiracy theorists; the London visit, did not really happen, he came for medical checks and anyway, the campaign is running out of funds and so on. The tittle-tattle has been going on for so long that, it would be wrong for me not to mention how this behaviour and how it comes across to rational human beings. Sadly, the reality of the situation is lost on those who cannot see sense.

By Femi Aribisala Death was Jesus’ secret weapon.  Jesus triumphed over life by laying down his life. In Isaiah 40 in the bible, there is a voice crying in the wilderness, proclaiming the coming of the kingdom of God.  The voice declares that every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill brought low.  […]

Nigeria’s quest to play Ghana next month in London in an international friendly has been scuttled due to a FIFA directive.