FROM the old, cranky bridge overlooking the Aba waterside, the crowd of bystanders stood to watch the new cinema. There used to be the old REX and EMI Cinema in this town where the senior boys of old stole out of bed and scale over the barbed wire fences of their dormitories at night to watch the escapades of the Chinese macho man, Bruce Lee, the American version of Rambo. That was the Aba of old, the paradise lost.

The man was stopped at Sydney airport on his arrival from New Delhi on July 8th when customs officers became suspicious of the contents of his luggage, officials said.

Tech geeks in China looking to understand Google’s newly unveiled corporate structure are out of luck: the website of the new parent company, dubbed Alphabet, was blocked less than 24 hours after going live.

President Jonathan on Nov. 7, 2010 during the 30th anniversary of Silverbird Organisation, gave a grant of 200 million dollars to the nation’s entertainment industry. The then president said that his administration was determined to pursue a policy that would assist and grow the nation’s entertainment sector from continental to global brand. He charged entertainment practitioners to use the loan to produce quality music and movies that would create more jobs for people and make the country proud.

The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 2, Joseph Mbu has said that the constitutional responsibilities of the polic have been hijacked as he lamented that indiscipline, corruption, low self esteem among officers of the Police force have tarnished the image of Police in the country.

Her initiative has seen her partner with the former first lady of Ghana and president of the 31st December women’s movement schools which consist of over 1200 schools ranging from early learning centres to secondary school. In her role as West Africa Correspondent, she will be responsible for profiling the amazing entrepreneurs of the west African continent and telling Africa’s stories.

OPEC on Tuesday revised upward its growth forecast for global oil demand in 2015 and maintained projected record levels of world consumption next year, despite turbulent market conditions spurred by financial instability in Greece and China.

House of Representatives is contemplating a legislation that would guarantee financial autonomy to federal government owned media organizations to ensure prompt payment of Journalists’ salaries.

MY dear Governor, Am often amazed why most aides to Nigerian leaders are allowed in the campaign trails. The definition of aides in this type of political arrangement, is somebody has won his way into an office and the resultant search for capable hands to assist him to deliver. But no Nigerian leader has ever treaded this path.

Police detained around 70 people, some apparently being “held as prisoners” by an Islamic holy man, during a raid on a Islamic school in northern Cameroon, sources said Monday.

When I first got to the ministry of petroleum, oil was two dollars per barrel. It rose to three dollars. What happened from 2000 to now when oil rose from over 100 dollars before slumping to 50dollars, is very unusual.

Top members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, including the former Governor of Kaduna State, Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi and immediate past Minister of Environment, Mrs. Laurentia Mallam, a founding member, Chief Osita Nwaneri , amongst others, met, Monday in Abuja, in order to proffer solutions to the protracted crisis rocking the party

About 12,000 Nigerians expelled from Cameroon, after fleeing terrorist, have begun returning home, authorities in Abuja said on Wednesday.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has congratulated the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) over the successful conduct of its election at the recent 5th National Triennial Delegates Conference in Abuja.

A coalition of over sixty Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, working on good governance and election issues in Nigeria, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to expeditiously send to the Senate, a nominee for the substantive position of Chairman for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.