By Christopher Ekpenyong The untold hardship being experienced by Nigerians today due to the high cost of food items, goods and services and high rate of unemployment is an issue of serious concern. A recent World Bank report said the rising prices of food items pushed an estimated seven million Nigerians below the poverty line […]

By Dele Sobowale “The rate of change in our time is so swift; that an individual of ordinary length of life will be called on to face novel situations which have no parallel in the past.  The fixed person for the fixed duties, who in the old society was such a God-send, will, in the […]

Nigerian Afrobeat queen, Tiwa Savage has revealed why she left the international music scene to come back to Nigeria to continue her music career.

Nollywood actress and producer, Festina Peters is single and searching. It is almost unbelievable that a woman as beautiful as she is could be single and worse, not in any romantic relationship.

Amid the rising food scarcity and acute hunger ravaging the nation, a non-governmental organisation, Syngenta Foundation For Sustainable Agriculture, Nigeria, SFSA-N, in collaboration with other AVISA partners, have organised a seed fair for over 1000 smallholder farmers to help them access quality seeds for enhanced productivity. The Partners are International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), […]

Prophet Samuel Kayode Abiara, General Evangelist, Worldwide of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), speaks on the general state of insecurity, urging the Federal Government to embrace state/community policing as solution.

Former BBNaija Housemate and music artist, Uriel Oputa has called on people not to judge her by the kinds of dresses she wears, saying what she wears doesn’t define her or her personality.

By Nnamdi Ojiego A TV presenter, Sulaiman Aledeh, has berated a Nigerian writer, Akwaeke Emezi, for alleged unfriendly comments against renowned author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.  Emezi had consistently attacked Chimamanda on social media for years  over comments she made in an interview with Channels 4 in 2017. READ ALSOWhy I had my mother & father […]

There was a man I knew who helped a former Head of State’s wife gain access to her husband whilst the latter was in detention and when his life was in danger, even though he had never met him.

“My house was burnt down and I lost everything I had worked for. I am like a fugitive in my homestead. My children are scattered everywhere because we don’t anywhere to stay as a family.”

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Alhaji Usman Baba of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of the bye-election for Sabon Gari Constituency in the Kaduna State House of Assembly. The Returning Officer, Dr Mohammed-Nuruddin Musa, who declared the result on Saturday in Zaria, said Baba won the election with 9,113 […]

STAKEHOLDERS of the Niger Delta are enthusiastically awaiting the end of this month (June) or latest July 5, which the Minister of Niger-Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, under pressure, promised ethnic nationalities of the region and ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, that the long-expected Board of the Niger-Delta Development Commission, NDDC,

ECOWAS has pledged to continue to sustain democracy and democratic tenets among member-countries via the conduct of free, fair and acceptable elections

There is no end in sight to high food prices as long as the conflict between crop growers and northern cattle herders seeking grazing pasture in the South continues, economic experts have said.

The two-week 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), which took off nationwide yesterday, was marred by technical hitches and tight security checks, thus delaying the examination from taking off in many Computer Based Centres (CBT).