Author and TV host, Reno Omokri, has condemned the Paris attacks while urging Africans and Asians to set themselves free from mental slavery.

Arrangements have been concluded for the take-off of the 2015 edition of Ake Arts and Book Festival, a yearly literary feast, billed to hold at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto-Abeokuta, the Ogun State Capital. Expected at the festival which begins from Tuesday November 17th through Thursday 21st, are some of world’s renowned writers, filmmakers, artists, scholars and thinkers for the 5-day event.

French police have carried out “more than 150” raids on suspected Islamists since the attacks on Paris, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Monday, as a source in the southeastern city of Lyon said an arsenal of weapons had been seized there. Police sources in Paris said “several dozen” pre-dawn raids were carried out in French cities on Monday, including in Bobigny, an eastern suburb of the capital.

RECENTLY two Ijaws citizens have come under the light of the agents charged with corruption-Mrs. Deziani Allison – Madukwe, and Chief D. S. P Alamieyesiegha. One was arrested in London plushest address at no1 Park lane, another one was being sought out by the British police to answer charges of money laundering.

The Speaker,House of Representatives,Hon. Yakubu Dogara, yesterday, lamented that he joined the All Progressives Congress, APC,without dragging Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State along with him.

AS the National Assembly waits endlessly to receive the Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF, for the preparation of the 2016 budget proposal from the presidency, a member of the House of Representatives Rep. Chike Okafor has said that the delay would affect the next year’s fiscal policy.

Collated African 2018 World Cup second round, second leg qualifying results Sunday (aet denotes after extra time

France prepared to fall silent at noon Monday to mourn victims of the Paris attacks after its warplanes pounded the Syrian stronghold of Islamic State, the jihadist group that has claimed responsibility for the slaughter.

There are over 3,000 miles between Onitsha in Nigeria and Birmingham in England, the journey made by Carl Ikeme’s father in order to receive the university education he wanted. A little more than 30 years later, Ikeme Jnr is making this long trip in reverse in order to keep goal for the Super Eagles.

South African telecoms giant MTN has won a respite on the payment of a massive $5.2 billion fine imposed on the company in Nigeria to allow for negotiations, the mobile phone operator said Monday.