By Owei Lakemfa Rasheed Abiodun Gbadamosi (R.A.G) the industrialist, administrator, former  Minister, writer, dramatist and humanist who left on Wednesday November 16, 2016, was a patriot and universalist. He departed twenty one days short of his 73rd  birthday. Gbadamosi had traversed the world  since he was a teenager. He was a citizen of the universe […]

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State is demonstrating a leadership that is slightly different from his predecessor’s, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, going by his first five days in office. Obaseki, who, after his inauguration, penultimate Saturday, went for thanksgiving at St Peter’s Anglican Church, Benin-City with his deputy, Philip Shaibu, had expressed gratitude to God for giving him the responsibility to lead the people of the state. The thanksgiving service was attended by politicians, captains of industry, state and National Assembly members, among others.

When Tiwa Savage granted that famous interview after her estranged husband accused her of infidelity, it was as if nothing in the world would make her live with the man again.

Ghanaian screen goddess, Ella Mensah is as Nigerian as they come. Though, she doesn’t have any Nigerian blood in her veins, the actress has said it more times than necessary that she loves Nigeria and she spends as much time in the country as in her own country. A drop dead gorgeous, she is, but on the inside you can feel the strength in her and know this is a girl who knows what she wants and how to go about getting it.

The Enugu State government has concluded plans to construct an additional 500 housing units for low income residents of the state.

There was pandemonium at the bureau de change section of Onitsha Main Market when about 20 operators were arrested by a team of soldiers and operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, for alleged illegal operation in the market. Traders in and around the area ran for their lives when they saw gun wielding men in mufti and soldiers invading the area and picking the operators who did not notice their presence on time.

The battle for Alagbaka Government House, Akure, intensified yesterday, after President Muhammadu Buhari stormed the Ondo State capital to campaign for the candidate of his party, All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Rotimi Akeredolu, in Saturday’s governorship election in the state.

A former External Affairs Minister, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, says Nigeria must address the issue of structural instability. Akinyemi spoke, last Thursday, while delivering the 2016 Convocation Lecture of the University of Ibadan. Extracts from the lecture:

About 1000 top business executives are expected in Port Harcourt tomorrow for this year’s quaterly council meeting of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, NACCIMA.

A crowd gathered to see the brutal lynching of a seven-year-old and the look on the faces of the crowd should give concern as to why they stood by and watch while a child no matter what he may have done, could be seen as a spectator sport. What kind of people just stand by and watch and do nothing?

A former Ag Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Pastor Power Ziakede Aginighan, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for approving the take-off of the Nigeria Maritime University, Okerenkoko with a temporary site at   Kurutie in Warri South-west LGA of Delta State. In a statement in Port Harcourt, Saturday, Aginighan described Mr President’s […]

Football’s world governing body FIFA has joined the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in threatening to seek damages against Kuwait authorities as a sporting and Governmental dispute in the country continues to intensify.

The Oyo/Osun Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has seized a bullion van belonging to a commercial bank in Nigeria, but used in smuggling rice into the country through the land border. The bullion van meant for conveyance of bank currency was intercepted by operatives of Oyo/Osun Customs loaded with smuggled rice through a tip off.

Victor Anichebe was Sunderland’s hero as they completed back-to-back Premier League victories despite the Stadium of Light briefly failing to live up to its name.

The factional Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff has been accused of conspiring with the All Progressive Congress, the Federal Government and some selected media organisation to scuttle and frustrate the efforts of the judiciary in resolving the leadership crises within the Peoples Democratic Party.