By Victoria Ojeme Top security officials of eight countries, including India, Iran and Russia, have called for closer coordination and collective efforts to tackle terrorism threats in Afghanistan and to address a looming humanitarian crisis. In his opening remarks at the Delhi Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan being hosted by India, National Security Adviser (NSA) […]

By James Agberebi On the morning of October 20, 2020, Ayobami Salaudeen set out to work in Ikoyi, an affluent part of the bustling Lagos Island. He had just resumed at Arise Television a couple of weeks before. As a journalist, he was well aware of the #EndSARS protests that had been gaining momentum across […]

By Victoria Ojeme The United States Embassy in Nigeria has announced November 24 as date for the opening of international student visa applications with an expected heavy surge following the lifting of travel curbs for vaccinated travellers. The US travel restrictions were first imposed in early 2020 to check the spread of COVID-19. With the […]

By Dayo Johnson Akure Within three years, a 60-year-old mother, Mrs Yemisi Ajayi and her 20-year-old daughter, Fionna Oluwaseun Ajila, were gruesomely murdered in cold blood at their Akure residence, the Ondo state capital. The daughter, a model was first to be raped and stabbed to death even while on her menstrual flow by her […]

Countries all over the  world are still smarting from the impact of the Corona Virus Disease  which ravaged the entire globe two years ago.

By Victor Ahiuma-Young Leaders of National Union of Railway Workers NUR and its Senior Staff Association, SSA, Railway Branch, have directed the workers of the Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, to embark a three-day nationwide strike effective Thursday, November 18, 2021, over poor welfare.The leaders of the two in-house unions, in a circular issued late Friday, […]

By Prisca Sam-Duru When the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, unveiled ‘Next Level’ as its slogan during the 2019 presidential elections, Nigerians didn’t expect to experience a devastating next level characterised by bloodshed, violence and diverse societal ills.  Truth is, before ‘Next Level’ was fully activated on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, Nigerians have been experiencing […]

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the leading philanthropy empowering African entrepreneurs from all 54 African countries, has selected 4,949 entrepreneurs from across Africa for its 2021 Entrepreneurship Programme.

By Evelyn Usman September 18,2021 was like every other day for 64-year-old Godfrey Zwalmark, a retired Army Captain, who worked as Chief Security Officer of a multinational company in Eleme, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. He had gone to inspect the company’s pipeline at Agbonchaia area of Eleme, without an inkling that it would be his […]

By Sylvester Kwentua Screen goddess, Tonto Dike, has categorically come out to declare that she has developed trust issues after some harrowing experiences in recent times. She says she is done gifting cars and money to men who date her. In a blunt but funny response to an admirer who sounded her out on her […]