They faced the sunrise to the rhythm of drums and waves on a windswept beach, dozens wearing white, near the spot where the first enslaved Africans arrived at the English colony of Virginia in 1619. On Saturday morning, they would release those spirits. The cleansing and naming ritual presided over by visiting chiefs from Cameroon, […]

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has inducted into service another EC-135 Helicopter, NAF 549, which was reactivated in-country by NAF personnel in collaboration with some technical partners from within and outside Nigeria.  The induction of NAF 549 on Saturday, 24 August 2019, at the NAF 115 Special Operations Group (115 SOG) in Port Harcourt signifies […]

BY Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri  A local government official in Borno State has been abducted with his wife and a child. Sources said the official, Bukar Hassan, a cashier with Hawul Local Government was kidnapped along  Buni Gari-Biu road. He was returning from Maiduguri after a visit on Wednesday afternoon when his abductors swooped on his […]

ABUJA: The National Chairman of Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, Chief Peter Ameh has cried out over alleged plot by some persons to stop his re-election bid by using the Police to arrest and detain him during the conduct of the election slated for Tuesday in Abuja.

Since the emergence of Afro-pop music in Nigeria and what is today known as ‘a new school generation of musicians’, the popularity of rap music has declined in no small measure.