By Emeka Obasi Hogan ‘Kid’ Bassey made history at the Palaisde Sport, Paris on June 22, 1957, when he beat homeboy, Cherif Hermia, to wear the World Featherweight boxing belt. That was three years before Nigeria gained freedom from Britain. The future looked so bright. Independence achieved, Richard ‘Dick Tiger’ Ihetu, kept the flag […]

Information technology power house, Digital Fortress Nigeria Limited, in conjunction with the Lagos mainland local government has donated palliative food items to support indigents in the local council area, who have been affected by the novel COVID-19 pandemic. The Local government chairman, Hon. Mrs Omolola Rashidat Essien, who was on hand to personally hand over […]

Former Military President of Nigeria, Gen Ibrahim Babangida(retd), IBB, has said it was silly to say the military created the country’s problems, as civilians were the ones running the institutions.

A former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retired), on Friday said he was petrified when he emerged Nigeria’s Head of State at age 31.

Sunny Nwafor The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to look inward into Nigeria’s problem and find a lasting solution to it. This is just as he called on the President to reset the clock before it is too late, adding that “Nigeria is literally a pool of […]

An 11-year old girl, Favour Okechukwu, was gang-raped to death in Ejigbo area of Lagos with the perpetrators on the run.

Susan Waya, mother of Big Brother Naija lockdown ex-housemate, Kiddwaya, set social media agog on Friday night when she stormed Erica’s meet-and-greet with her fans. The fans who gathered to meet and greet Erica were surprised to see the billionaire’s wife. Erica, one of the 20 housemates that were admitted into the lockdown house was […]

More than 19,000 Amazon employees have caught the coronavirus since March, the company said as it revealed the first comprehensive count of infections among its workers. The e-commerce titan identified 19,816 Amazon and Whole Foods staffers who tested positive for COVID-19 or were presumed to have the bug from March 1 to Sept. 19, Amazon […]

By Evelyn Usman When he assumed office as the 22nd Chief of the Naval Staff in 2015, with a charge to team up with his contemporaries in the Nigerian Army and the  Nigerian Airforce, as well as other stakeholders in the security corridor,  to address the worrisome dimension insecurity had assumed in the country, the […]

The Rector of Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi in Edo, Dr. Momodu Sanusi Jimah is dead. He passed on Friday night at exactly 7.00pm.