Until Saturday, December 12, 2015, barely six months after President Muhammadu Buhari took over the helm of affairs of Nigeria from his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan,   not many in Nigeria outside the north knew about the activities of Shiites otherwise known as   the Islamic Movement of Nigeria.

President Muhammadu Buhari is to use his proposed ministers to foist a political legacy that will enable a smooth transfer of power to his adopted successor in 2023, associates of the president and chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC have said.

According to Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th President of the United States of America), “Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him”.

At  an 18-year-old birthday party recently, Gabriel, a 54-year-old father of five told me he got a mild shock. A friend had taken his daughter because he was due to attend a very urgent meeting.

Edo State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Barrister Anselm Ojezua, in this interview faults the recommendations of the House of Representatives committee on the Edo legislative crisis, saying the federal lawmakers’ Intervention has worsened the problem in the   state.

Operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, have arrested a fake Indian Spiritualist, Raphael Ekechi, alias Raghdra Anandra, who operates a fake Hindu Ancient Monk Temple in Alagbado area of Lagos State, where he has been defrauding unsuspecting members of the public of their hard earned money.

Rivers people  have  praised Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike for investing massively in the  development of a new security architecture, which they said will improve the security of lives and property across the state.

The President of the National Association of Nigeria Professional Footballers, NANPF, Tijani Babaginda, MON, has unveiled the union’s plans to set up the “Footballers Welfare Trust Fund”.

When the Federal Government last month announced plans to implement the Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) settlement programme, it certainly never envisaged the tumultuous reactions the proposal generated from Nigerians across all works of life.

The 2019 National Athletics Championships comes to a climax on Saturday, July 27th, having commenced on Thursday, the 25th. However, even a blind person can see (pardon the contradiction) that the buzz usually associated with a competition of this calibre, has been missing for some years now.

There are several matters that have arisen from the debris of my columns of the past two weeks. have received more responses to them in one week than I did since the start of the year. They seem to have touched some very raw nerves.

Yeni was in her late twenties when she finally decided on whom to marry. The past two years had seen her jumping from the extreme social hub as a party animal to a religious freak. It was quite a transformation, said her mum, Florence.

Captain Simisola Ajibola who operated the Air Peace flight on July 23, which had nose wheel collapse on landing at Muritala Muhammed Airport , Lagos yesterday debunked reports saying the aircraft landed without tyres.

The organising committee of the first JAC Motors 10km road race billed for the Ogun State capital, Abeokuta  is  in a dilemma over the swelling number of athletes that have registered for the event holding on  3rd November, 2019.

In a tournament graced by Mohammed Salah, Sadio Mané and Riyad Mahrez, Nigeria’s Odion Ighalo won the Africa Cup of nations golden boot award. Egypt, Senegal and Algeria were all pre-tournament favourites, with the expectation that one of the trio of Premier League superstars would go home with the golden boot as well as the winner’s medal. Riyad Mahrez and Algeria did go home with the trophy, but our tactical analysis and scout report finds out how a former premier league star displayed the mastery of his art in Africa.