Professor Titus Okereke has written an excellent book even if at times it is an unhappy book. His own irrepressible personality shines through the book – he is a friendly man, a thoughtful person who is willing at times to follow the consequences of his thinking. Most people think but allow circumstances to dictate their action. Not so Titus. The book is delightful as it takes us through his first thoughts – not of Ajalli but of a two days water trip to Sapele where he grew up.

Terror attacks in Paris topped the global ranking of Google searches in 2015 — alongside the transgender icon Caitlyn Jenner and the downfall of ex-NBA star Lamar Odom.

Nigeria is a country known to be plagued by extreme poverty, illiteracy and disease despite the overwhelming abundance of natural resources and wealth God has endowed her with. It has defied logic, no matter how adjusted, that despite her wealth that should evoke envy from even great nations like the United States of America, Britain, France etc, her people still wallow in abject poverty, dwell in squalor, left uneducated, oppressed by the rich and powerful who often use state powers and connections to pass and entrench laws that further dispossess the people of their dignity and humanity in order to promote their own selfish agenda, and sometimes have the people embalmed alive as a result of the absence of basic health facilities and other infrastructure necessary for the ennoblement of man and his environment.

Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Wednesday sacked the head of the country’s anti-corruption bureau Edward Hoseah for “poor performance and irresponsibility”, the government said.

In line with the commitment of his administration to ensure law and order in the state, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Wednesday apprehended motorists, tricyclist and motorcyclists driving against traffic in Ijora Olopa area of the state in breach of the State Road Traffic Law.

U S President Barack Obama has appointed a Nigerian, Adewale ‘Wally’ Adeyemo who served in top roles at the Treasury Department to succeed Caroline Atkinson as his deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs.

The US State Department informed Congress Wednesday of a proposed sale of two warships to Taiwan as part of a $1.8 billion arms deal already angrily denounced by China.

One vigilante and four female suicide bombers were killed Wednesday at a checkpoint in Nigeria’s northeast Borno state after one bomber detonated her explosives, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

Nigeria’s premiere tier three data centre provider, Rack Centre, has won the Data Centre Impact award at the 2015 Data Centre Dynamics Award for Europe, Middle East and Africa, EMEA, becoming the first African company to do so.

As the Federal Government on Wednesday struck out the case against a pro-Biafra activist after the prosecutors withdrew criminal charges against him. His lawyer, Vincent Egechukwu has said that the implication of the ruling showed that Nnamdi Kanu has no criminal charge hanging on his neck