Oyenike Laoye-Oturu, professionally known as Nikki Laoye, has announced her plans for 2016 and what should be expected of her. The recording artiste, singer, songwriter, on-air-personality and dancer, renowned for her eclectic musical expressions and captivating stage performances, recently disclosed that she has got a lot up her sleeves for 2016 and plans to wow her fans beyond expectation.

Oladunni Ogunnubi, a final year student of Transport Management Technology of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, has been selected by Boeing Company International, manufacturers of the Boeing range of aircrafts, to participate in its 2016 internship programme in the United States of America.

While Nigeria is still reeling from the early ouster from the CAF Africa Nations Championship, Egypt have put their squad in frame for the crucial Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in March.

In different countries throughout the world, people are so preoccupied with the quest for primitive accumulation and acquisitiveness that they tend to forget those behavioural responses and social etiquette which make life so humane and fascinating.

Russian club CSKA Moscow have rejected an improved offer from Premier League leaders Leicester City for Nigeria’s Ahmed Musa, BBC Sport understands.

Up and rising Yoruba actress, Feyi Hassan has just wrapped up production of a new film, writen and produced by her. The film ‘Aisan’, meaning ‘Sickness’ features a host of prominent Yoruba actors, such as Jide Kosoko, Sunkanmi Omobolanle, Allwell Ademola, Kunle Afod, Feyi herelf and many others.

DR David Onuoha-Bourdex, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, candidate for Abia North senatorial election, in this interview, recounts how the choice of the electorate was truncated in the March 28, 2015 election and how their choice will prevail in the re-run ordered by the Court of Appeal.

It is never an easy task traveling with children; I remember the days I used to travel with my three children all under the age of five; what an ordeal it was. I quickly had to master my motherly travelling skills to keep them calm.

A cyber-attack hit the main website of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and its iPlayer Streaming service on New Year’s Eve. The BBC’s websites were unavailable for several hours as a result of the attack.

For three days, the Federal Ministry of Education and the Federal Government Girls College (FGGC), Oyo, Oyo State, took out time to celebrate one of their own, Mrs. Olabisi Ladele, Director/Principal of the FGGC, Oyo, who just retired. Her retirement was not celebrated simply as a phase in her life, it was also done to mark the end of an eventful career.

The good news is, Nigeria is not on the top countries with the most dangerous cities to live in, but, the bad news is; that Lassa fever has entered Nigeria and not for the first time too.

Edo State has put measures in place to check the spread of Lassa fever.

FEAR enveloped royal fathers in Delta State following the kidnapping, weekend, of the Odio-ologbo of Olomoro Kingdom in Isoko South Local Government Area, HRM Josiah Aghaza I, 24 days after the king of Ubulu-Uku Kingdom in Aniocha South, Edward Ofulue III, was abducted and killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

The atmosphere was electrifying. The dominant colours in and around Ikorodu Town Hall were red and blue, depicting the colours of Ikorodu United Football Club, the newest addition to the Globacom Premier League, Nigeria’s topflight. Not wanting to be outdone, sponsors of the club, cable television network, Gotv draped its banners in every conceivable angle of the hall and its surroundings.

In Disgrace (1999), Coetzee, the South African writer, painted a rather frightening retirement picture of Professor David Lurie. I am different from the fictional professor in so many ways. Unlike Professor Lurie, this is not the kind of retirement I see for myself at all. While the announcement calling for the retirement of the seventeen permanent secretaries was shocking to me, it was not at all unexpected. Whoever managed to reach a fulfilling career point in the civil service must have gotten there with a sense of history. If Nigeria could waste the incredible talents retired summarily especially in 1975, why should we be exception to what has literarily become a rule of a sort in our governance trajectory. I have had no doubt whatsoever what my retirement plans would be. I have nurtured it for over ten years, reflecting and adjusting and planning. This preparation originated from the foreknowledge that I would not always be in the service, but that the business of reform cannot dare stop.