Ekiti Elders Council has congratulated the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on his ascension to the throne.

Access to healthcare in low-income households remains a formidable challenge in Nigeria. For instance, for every 100,000 pregnant women in Nigeria, 576 die due to birth complications, including lack of skilled attendants and poor health facilities. A woman’s chance of dying from pregnancy and childbirth in Nigeria is one in 13 compared to one in 1750 for developed countries; one in 870 in East Asia, one in 90 in Latin America and one in 24 (Africa).

CHAIRMAN of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Lagos Chapter, Apostle Alexander Bamgbola has commended the Federal Government for its war against corruption, urging the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to go after all treasury looters and “put them where they belong, so that we may have peace in the country.”

Following the raging war be tween Fulani herdsmen and farmers in Agatu local government area of Benue State which has claimed over 300 lives, farmers, under the aegis of Association of Small Scale Agro Producers in Nigeria, ASSAPIN, have sent a Save Our Souls, SOS, to the Federal Government.

The Toothpick part of the tools of dining for many, that is hardly visible on a well decorated table. A utensil that some just cannot do without.

Three-year-old Darasimi Ogunwumi, who allegedly drank acid, seems to have been abandoned by the authorities of the school where Darasinmi was said to have taken the deadly substance, according to the mother.

A United Kingdom (UK)-based organisation, Book-2-Africa Project, has donated 5,000 books and educational materials support of the Rural Child Must Read (RCMR) project of the Onuesoke Foundation.

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo claimed the Spanish giants would be top of La Liga rather than nine points behind Barcelona if his team-mates matched his standards.

Second Republic governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, says the economy has been going from bad to worse since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office almost nine months ago. “You must have the political will and sincerity to do justice to everybody”, the veteran politician tells the President in this interview, saying he (Buhari) requires more than integrity or credibility to administer Nigeria.

The story of Mr Terna Hembah Nezam, the Chief Executive Officer of a Haulage company that goes by his name, exemplifies the fact that those who refuse to give in to a temporary failure are bound to go places. From a Danfo driver in Lagos in the 90s, Hembah has risen to own one of the leading haulage and logistics company in the country, NEZAM Transport and Logistics Company. His is a story that many of the thousands of jobless youths in the country can find inspirational, and, rather that wait for the non-existent jobs, learn a thing or two from.

At what point in your relationship do you come up with the idea that an affair could give your love life a boost? Simisola’s been married for 14 years to a man she described as her best friend. “And I still love him,” she assured me. “Mentally, we’re in the same _place, but there is a problem – our love life is virtually non-existent. He works away from home a lot and in the last few years his interest in the physical side of our relationship has dropped off, making me feel desperately unhappy and unattractive.

Nollywood has been justly described as a haven of damsels; damsels of different cuts, shapes, styles and attitudes. All come brandishing what they call their ‘selling points’. This phrase may seem out of place to some, but in Nollywood, it aptly describes what mother nature has blessed you with to rub in the faces of the opposite sex, to get their hormones in quandary.

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose Governor Nyesom on Saturday accused President Muhammadu Buhari of mapping ways towards making Nigeria an Islamic nation.

Branislav Ivanovic’s late header capped a stirring Chelsea fightback as the visitors scored twice in the last 15 minutes to win 2-1 at Southampton on Saturday.

Zinedine Zidane suffered his first defeat since taking charge of Real Madrid as Antoine Griezmann’s solitary goal kept Atletico Madrid’s faint La Liga title hopes alive with a 1-0 win at the Santiago Bernabeu.