Truth be told, being the next governor of Ekiti State after a rough rider like Fayose is herculean and largely unrewarding. Such a person will be spending quality time clearing filthy stalls.

Democracy is the best form of government since it allows everybody to participate in the election that will produce the leaders. Democracy also assures the people of the protection of their fundamental human rights. The advantages of democracy are so many that almost all the countries of the world try to imbibe the democratic norm.

We are delighted to be visiting Nigeria this week, especially during the UK’s Presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has declared three-day prayers for the quick recovery and early return to Nigeria of President Muhammadu Buhari.

25-year-old Vicentia Tadagbe Tchranvoukinni, a female preacher, in Benin Republic, has declared that she is God and her mission on earth is to defeat the devil.

AS the Presidency makes efforts to douse controversy over the president’s extended vacation in the UK to complete and receive results of series of tests recommended by his doctors, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has asked Christians in the country to continue praying for President Muhamma-du Buhari until he returns to the country hale and hearty.

Women and children making the dangerous journey to Europe to flee poverty and conflicts in Africa are being beaten, raped and starved in “living hellholes” in Libya, the United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.

Thousands of people began to arrive at the Nigerian megachurch just after dawn on a cool morning, looking for love and hot tips on how to avoid “dating devils”.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Acting President Professor Yemi Osinbajo to “urgently propose a bill that would specifically regulate and bring transparency to any future presidential library fundraising process, and make public disclosure of major donations towards the establishment of any such library mandatory.”

It was an embarrassment among the Muslim Umma in Kano State last week as reports emerged that one of the brides in the state-sponsored mass-wedding, Habiba Inusa, put to bed, a baby boy, a day after the wedding.

A 31-year old trader, Tochukwu Emelahi, is being hospitalised following multiple injuries he sustained when some policemen attached to Awada Police Division, Obosi, Anambra State, allegedly brutalised him for daring to interfere while they maltreated a bus driver.

As the crisis in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party deepens, the Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, has asked party leaders to bury their self interest and work for the overall effort to salvage the party from disintegration.

One of the major criticisms about Ohaneze over the years is what its many critics have observed as its distance from the people whom it purports to represent

My question is, why did the school authorities give my daughter and other students who had complained of being sick malaria drugs, even after the PTA Chairman, Mr Ofor Dike, called to commiserate with my family, admitting that the school water was contaminated? 

Many believer come to church not because they love God but because they want to use God and discard their maker.