Also, speaking in the same vein, Mr Emeka Rollas, National President of Actors Guild of Nigeria, said it’s high time the government put proper  structure in place for Nollywood to thrive in addition to backing it up with financial support. “We cannot leave it for only foreign investors or individuals. You can imagine over 20 years of Nollywood yet practitioners keep disturbing individuas houses for films locations instead of having  befitting film sets for productions. Government should take us more seriously as an industry that is contributing to the national GDP. They should stop commending Nollywood on the pages of newspapers and massaging our ego and as objects of image laundry and invest more in the industry as it’s doing  in other sectors of the economy,” AGN president stated. 

After years of consistent snub by the political powers that direct Edo State, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun was penultimate Thursday, formally honoured at home at a reception in Benin.

Someone should please ask the first family to keep Yusuf Buhari away from the Presidential Villa in this period of recuperation. It is clear to me now more than ever before that there is something uncanny about that part of the country.

Nollywood’s latest movie on same-sex marriage, ‘Busted’ which was screened to selected guests at  Oriental Hotel, Lagos,last May, is due to hit the cinemas across the country on the 19th of January, 2018. 

An eight-year-old girl and her brother 11,  were on Thursday evening burnt to death in their  mother’s kitchen at the Jesse Area of Delta State.

There is speculation that your party, APC will soon suspend you for daring to declare for the presidency or challenging President Buhari, how true is it?

THE much awaited Delta State Local Government election will hold today as scheduled by the State Independent Electoral Commission, DSIEC.

I will start the New Year with a couple of narratives. My favourite haunt is the place I play squash twice, three times a week. It is also a place I savour indulgences far beyond the exertions of squash. A few years back, two young women with similar, yet distinct circumstances frequented the club. They both at the time, had two children. Both were married but in name only as they carried the financial burdens of their homes. The husband of one had lost his job and was finding a ‘befitting job’ hard to get. The husband of the other had relocated abroad but ‘forgot’ to send back some dollars to feed his family.

Liverpool say they will cooperate with any probe arising out of an incident between forward Roberto Firmino and Everton’s Mason Holgate during the Reds’ 2-1 FA Cup win at Anfield on Friday.

The Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Board Chairman, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, has reeled out options being weighed to guarantee seamless supply and distribution of petroleum products across the Country within an 18-month corridor, ahead of the eventual attainment of local refining capacity.

She sat. Then I sat. She looked around. I could guess her thoughts. We were in church. My church. She was once of the Roman Catholic. Then marriage took her to the Anglican church. The Pentecostal churches dwell on money a little too much she says.

NDORO, a coastal settlement in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has been deserted following the alleged killing of a security operative.

P ROFESSOR Banji Akintoye is a renowned historian and a member of the Southern Leaders Forum. In this interview, Akintoye maintains that Nigeria may eventually break up if it is not properly structured. He also gives an insight to the controversy over who were the original settlers of Lagos and the forthcoming Handshake Across the Niger which seeks to promote unity and collaboration between Yoruba and Igbo. 

Jose Mourinho intensified his war of words with Chelsea manager Antonio Conte in bizarre fashion after his team’s FA Cup victory over Derby on Friday, apparently referencing a match-fixing scandal in Italy.

Opportunity is synonymous with Nigeria. From its lively start-up ecosystem and plans to create the first Smart City in Africa, to its large and determined youth population and abundant natural resources, the country is buzzing with a spirit of ambition and vision.