A former Nigerian junior International, Ike Udeh has joined the league of ex footballers with an autobiography to their credit. Ike popularly called ’Ayaya Potentional’ during his playing career that spanned through ASESA Warriors, NITEL Vasco Dagama, and Udoji United Football Clubs all in Enugu as well as Julius Berger FC of Lagos told our […]

The great Cassandra, the legendary columnist of the British Daily Mirror and one of the best journalists of his time, once said it was no use being a columnist if you could not use it to fight your battles.

Mr. Gerald Ilukwe, is the Special Adviser to Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Kaduna State.

Operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, yesterday, released Channels Television anchors, Chamberlain Usoh and Kayode Okikiolu after quizzing them over an interview they had with Benue State Governor, Dr. Samuel Ortom on Thursday.

By Evelyn Usman Her name is Favour. The last time she set her eyes on her mother was in December 2019, when she was barely five years old. With tears in her eyes, her mother hugged her, promising to come back for her.  Little Favour apparently thought her mother was just stepping out of their […]

It was all joy yesterday in Owhe-Logbo Ward 5 People’s Democratic Party,PDP, in Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State, absorbed new members into its fold. Among those harvested are a former Social Democratic Party, SDP, House of Assembly Aspirant in the state, Hon. Ugagaoghene Ogheneyole, Mr. Truth Ilaya, Trust Ilaya, Okah Bright among […]

By Esther Onyegbula & Mary Benson Eighteen-year-old Segun Bakare, an auto mechanic apprentice, left his Showunmi, Mushin, Lagos abode about 9 am, on August 19, 2021, for his master’s workshop located in the heart of the densely populated Mushin area,  bidding his mother goodbye. This has been his practice for three years. But an incident that changed the entire […]

Despite public outcry across the country against open grazing of cattle by herdsmen, President Muhammadu Buhari last week directed a committee to review the data on all the Grazing Reserves in the country and assess among others the extent of encroachment. The president’s insistence to go ahead with his plan in the face of stiff opposition to it provoked angry reactions from Nigerians who argued that it would only benefit the herdsmen to the detriment of the generality of other residents.

The Advisory Board for the Nigeria LNG-sponsored The Nigeria Prize for Literature, has announced “The Girl With The Louding Voice” by Abi Dare; “The Son Of The House” by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia and “Colours of Hatred” by Obinna Udenwe as finalists for the 2021 competition.

In 1975 my family relocated from Ibadan, Western Nigeria, to the East – or what was then the East Central State.