FC Ifeanyiubah head coach, Uche Okagbue, has blamed the team’s sinusoidal form this season on the inexperience of most players in the squad. Headed goals by Jide Fatokun and Omaka Anthony in the 25th and 30th minute respectively, handed the Anambra Warriors a 2-0 defeat at Sunshine Stars in Nigeria Professional Football League Matchday 19 […]

In the past months, there has been leadership tussle among Itsekiri indigenes of Koko, Delta State.

   Femi Aribisala When I was a Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos, I had a Director who was boastful.  He liked to drop names.  He would tell you he spent the weekend playing golf with this General, or that he had just finished talking on the phone to that Managing […]

Multiple rockets hit near the US embassy in Iraq’s capital early Sunday, an American military source said, the latest in a flurry of attacks against US assets in the country. The assault sent warning sirens blaring across the diplomatic compound but it was unclear exactly what was hit and how many rockets made impact, the […]

We want to make it easier to answer your questions and share information about Aston University, so we are opening an office in Lagos led by Babs Ogundeji, Regional Manager for Africa at Aston University.

The number of new cases from China’s coronavirus epidemic dropped for a third consecutive day on Sunday, as the World Health Organisation chief warned it was “impossible” to predict how the outbreak would develop. Global concern remains high about the spread of the virus, which first emerged in China’s central Hubei province in December, with […]

Rima settles in a chair at an upscale Riyadh cafe, looks around carefully, and seeing no one she recognises, drags on her electronic cigarette and exhales a cloud of smoke. “I feel that smoking in public is a part of exercising my newly won freedoms. I am happy that now that I can choose,” the […]

NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced that the All-Star Game MVP award will now be called the Kobe Bryant Award as players lined up to pay tribute to the late NBA icon on Saturday. “Kobe Bryant is synonymous with NBA all-star and embodies the spirit of this global celebration of our game,” Silver said. “He always […]

  The Coalition for Democracy and Development (CDD) has charged Nigerians to support the country’s Service Chiefs in the fight against terrorism amidst conspiracy by disgruntled politicians. The Coalition made this known at a press conference on Sunday in Abuja, raising an alarm plot by these individuals and groups to disintegrate Nigeria through the sponsoring […]

Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga (retd) is a former military governor of Akwa Ibom State. He is the National Chairman of Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF. In this interview, he speaks on the state of the nation, especially plans to have a security outfit for the South-South geopolitical zone.

Several calls and messages were received since the Supreme Court of Nigeria, SCN, delivered a judgment which even the winners are reluctant to rejoice about. The losers and non-partisan observers are livid with rage about it. Not since the SCN,

By Douglas Anele For millennia, the concept of love has been a controversial topic among philosophers, psychologists, theologians and other interested parties. The problem is that, like every other word or expression that designates a complex human emotion, ‘love’ does not admit of an adequate definition or characterisation in one or two propositions. Besides, it […]

How time flies! It’s been nine months already since the Ogun State government headed by Prince Dapo Abiodun came into being. In that period, a whole lot has been done to place the State at a vantage position for positive growth and development, whether you are looking at security, infrastructure development or agricultural revolution.

By Tonnie Iredia With the nullification three days ago of a previously announced victory of Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the last governorship election in Bayelsa state, it is time for the party to take another look at her political misfortunes. Earlier, the party had squandered all its successes in the […]

First reading passed; a bill seeking to establish a model and modern Federal Technical College of Education (FCE) in Michika Local Government of Adamawa State.