The Cross River and Lagos budgets are reminiscent of what the first civilian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, did in the Second Republic when he proposed about one billion naira budget , a move that raised dust in the polity then with some stakeholders wondering how he was going to fund it

Forget FIFA rankings, forget the poor following the domestic game enjoys at home or the sometimes, the man-made frailties on the part of administering the game in Nigeria, football definitely brought joy to the greatest number of Nigerians in 2017 than any other aspect of our the polity.

With the January transfer window opening on New Year’s Day, the Premier League’s superpowers are ready to flex their financial muscles in a frenzy of spending.

January 1 is Samad Alawi’s birthday. It’s also the birthday of his wife, his two sons, 32 of his friends and thousands of other Afghans — a date chosen for convenience by a generation who do not know when they were born. In the absence of birth certificates or official records, many Afghans have long […]

IN the spirit of the Feast of Tabernacle, Chairman/CEO, O-SECUL Nig. Ltd., Engr. Michael Orugbo, has donated an auditorium to the Ogbe-Udu branch of God’s Kingdom Mission, GKM, with a promise to do more for the mission.

The Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), in conjunction with the Nigerian Council of Physicians of Natural Medicine (NCPNM), held a three- day training workshop on steps to commercialize Nigeria’s herbal medicinal products.

BISHOP of Catholic Diocese of Ondo, Rev. Jude Arogundade, has decried the rate of robbery among youths in the country.

The Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has urged football stakeholders to remain calm over some appointments into the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) board by the Federal Government.

The Treasury House stands out today in Abuja as one of the most magnificent edifices.

I never set out to break any record. I was just preoccupied with doing what I felt was expected of me & every other thing fell in line

Mr. Charles Fakrogha, Chief Relationship Officer at Foresight Securities Limited, said that looking at the figures, especially the allocation to capital expenditure at all levels,   it was doubtful if the government would achieve the objective of stimulating the economy using the 2018 budget.

The suffering in the land is too much; the division in the land is alarming; there is high level of insecurity, unprecedented kidnapping and so on

Nigeria ranks high in medical tourism with a percentage of 42.4 due to the country’s poor medical healthcare. According to the Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, Nigeria spends over $1 billion on medical tourism abroad

Nigeria Football Federation President, Amaju Pinnick has revealed that the country’s national female team, the Super Falcons will be busy in 2018.

On December 16, 2017, there was a rare convergence on No. 4, Clerks’ Quarters Road, Ijebu Quarter in Owo, Ondo State, the “Diasporic” family home of the late Pa Isa Ojeifo, whose genealogy is traced to Ujagbe in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State, but whose father, Pa Isu Ojeifo, due to the exigency of migration as a direct corollary of a bitter and failed chieftaincy tussle to assume the throne of his late father, Okoror Ojeifo of Ujagbe, had to settle in Ewu in Esan Central Local Government Area of Edo State, where the family now has an aboriginal family home.