Nigerian football fans yesterday felt scandalised by statements credited to the Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung, calling for Nigeria to end her participation in the FIFA World Cup.

The day was Wednesday, October 19, 2016. The venue was the Democracy Park at Akure, Ondo State. The occasion was the much anticipated flag-off of the Eyitayo Jegede SAN governorship campaign for Ondo State.

Ishaku represents a new and fresh face of Northern leadership, which includes people like Governor Dankwabo of Gombe State, next door

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.