Naomi Osaka suffered a shock second-round exit to Carolina Muchova at the Madrid Open, but there was no such trouble for Simona Halep as she held off Zheng Saisai. Second seed Osaka was playing just her second match on clay since the 2019 French Open due to injury issues. She became the latest big name […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari and the Vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, have been very vocal in their calls for Nigeria to avoid “another civil war”. At the 2021 Bola Tinubu Colloquium, Buhari reminded Nigerians how he fought in the 1967-1970 civil war and witnessed its horrors. He said Nigerians are better together than apart. Just last week, […]

  By Essien Udofia MODERN theologians are quick to claim that Simon Peter almost destroyed the gospel when he took over the leadership of the Church after the ascension of Jesus Christ but were unanimous on Paul (Saul) as the one who salvaged the Church and laid the solid foundation Christianity and the Church was built […]

By Owei Lakemfa THOSE who think the war against banditry is a joke, need to take a look at the statistics coming out of Kaduna State. The long suffering state continues to bleed. In the first 90 days of 2021, an average of four lives were lost daily to banditry while in every 24 hours, 11 […]

The Department of State Services, DSS, has warned those it described as misguided elements threatening Nigeria’s unity and peaceful co-existence to desist from doing so. Peter Afunanya, DSS spokesman, said that henceforth, the agency would no longer tolerate those whose aim was to “throw the country into anarchy.” In a statement, the DSS said: “While […]

By Obadiah Mailafia HAVING succeeded in strangling our country almost to death by its wanton profligacy, gross ineptitude and catastrophic incompetence, the APC-led administration of General Muhammadu Buhari now seems hell-bent on selling us to United States. The whole of progressive Africa was shell-shocked last week when, in the course of a zoom conference that […]

By Prince Okafor THE Board of Directors, Niger Delta Power Holding Company, NDPHC, and the National Council on Privatisation have approved the sale of five generating companies in the country through a competitive bidding process. This is coming even as the Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, has called on prospective investors to express interest in […]

Nigerian-eligible Spanish striker, Kevin Carlos Omoruyi, weekend, stole the show, as he scored the decisive goal as Huesca B defeated Utebo 1-0 in a Spanish Terreara Division Group A fixture. Kevin Omoruyi, 20, born in Spain by Edo parents, has Spanish citizenship and started playing professionally last season when he signed his first pro contract […]

By Gabriel Olawale THE Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, weekend, expressed displeasure over the dimension insecurity has taken in Nigeria, even as he insisted that bandits and kidnappers now have the monopoly of violence. Adeyemi, who spoke in Lagos during the 51st birthday celebration of the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, said […]

•As IPoB orders sit-at-home, bans church services on May 30 •Seek advice from experts —Iroegbu •I never said IPoB was responsible for killings in S-East —Nwodo By Anayo Okoli, Chidi Nkwopara & Ikechukwu Odu AS Ohanaeze Ndigbo embarks on its peace and reconciliation assignment as recently directed by the South East Governors and Igbo leaders, […]