By Ayo Onikoyi As part of celebrations around the continent to mark the 15th year of its debut in Africa, premium entertainment channel, MTV Base in collaboration with Capital Block Party hosted thousands of fans to a star-studded concert at the BMT Gardens in Abuja. The concert had performances by some of Nigeria’s hottest acts […]

By Ayo Onikoyi Multiple award-winning Nigerian singer, Mary Ikyor popularly known as Mima says she is returning to the music scene after six years hiatus. Before her relocation to the United States of America, the Benue born songstress was already building a burgeoning music career evidenced with her growing fan base, airplays and awards. The […]

Former British and Commonwealth light-heavyweight boxing champion, Peter Oboh has not stopped celebrating the victory of the new WBC Heavyweight champion of the world Tyson Fury over Deontay Wilder, early hours of Sunday morning. Reacting to the victory, Oboh who had, long before the fight tipped Fury to defeat the loquacious Wilder said, more than […]

South Korea reported on Saturday its biggest surge in new coronavirus cases and concerns grew of a possible epidemic in the United States as the World Health Organization raised its risk alert to its highest level. The virus has rapidly spread across the world over the past week, causing stock markets to sink to their […]

Imagine two students in the same secondary school in Kaduna. They are 18. They are filled with youthful patriotism. They sit for admission exams into the NDA. They both want to read Mechanical Engineering. Efosa scores 280.  Musa scores 180. Efosa’s celebrations are cut short. He is not invited for an interview. Musa who scored 180  is hopping around. He has been invited for an interview. Musa is admitted. Efosa and Musa are  Nigerians but from different states. Efosa with his 280 repeats the NDA exams the following year. He takes another 2 years to achieve a score of  300 and is finally admitted.  Musa and Efosa become military officers. Musa who scored 180  when Efosa scored 280 is  Efosa’s boss. Musa remains Efosa’s boss for the entire military career.

US health officials reported Friday a fourth case of novel coronavirus of unknown origin, indicating the disease was spreading in the country. The latest case is a boy under 18 in Washington State who tested “presumptive positive,” local authorities said without releasing further details about the patient. He is currently in home isolation in Snohomish […]

When the reelection campaign train of President Muhammadu Buhari berthed in Lokoja, capital of Kogi, the confluence state, the President made a silent, but a striking promise. He told the very jubilant Kogites that if the ambition of a second mandate to lead Nigeria scales through the electoral hurdle, the abandoned and lifeless Ajaokuta Steel Rolling Mill in the state will bounce back to full animation. God Himself sealed President Buhari’s reelection in 2019 unquestionably.

Desta Garuma, a 27-year-old rickshaw driver, never showed much interest in politics, so his family has no idea how soldiers concluded he was involved in a rebel movement active in Ethiopia’s Oromia region. But one day in January, five truckloads of soldiers followed him home, shouting that they had identified a shifta, or bandit — […]

Washington and the Taliban are set to sign a long-sought deal in Doha on Saturday that would see the two foes agree to the withdrawal of thousands of US troops from Afghanistan in return for insurgent guarantees. President Donald Trump urged the Afghan people to embrace the chance for a new future, saying the deal […]

By BENJAMIN NJOKU ‘I will be storming Switzerland on Monday, for a preaching engagement. And when I return to the country after one week, I will move to Calabar, where I’m expected to minister in five different churches.” This is the intriguing new life of Zack Orji  since  he found Christ. And this has indeed […]