When the former 20 local government areas in Lagos State were broken into development areas under the tenure of former Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, many Lagosians sighed with relief thinking this would aid or encourage rapid development.

By Lamidi Bamidele Recently, there was a lot of outcry over the deplorable state of the Apapa-Oshodi expressway that leads to  the major seaports in Apapa and Tin-Can Island. The outcry heightened  especially during the peak of the current rainy season when several sections of the road collapsed on account of flooding, consequently creating traffic […]

By Adekunle Adekoya VERY few Nigerians, except those who were planning it, contemplated that the nation would have to grapple with another orgy of violence, so soon after the mayhem that rocked Plateau and Bauchi States as year 2008 ended. Indeed, the commissions of enquiry unravelling the circumstances behind the Jos mayhem is yet to […]

*Says Atiku Abubakar financed Obasanjo’s campaign in 1999 *How I almost fought Abubakar Rimi For Okwesilieze Nwodo, the founding national secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, his first love is medical practice.  And although he wanted to go back to Enugu to practise after his tenure as secretary of PDP, he explains that “the […]

By Evelyn Usman A total of ten buildings have been razed by fire in different parts of Lagos in one week rendering several families homeless and causing wanton destruction on property. In one of the incidents which occurred at the early hours of Tuesday morning , along Isolo Egbe road,  a man and his 14-year-old […]

By Emma Nnadozie, Crime Editor, Tony Edike, Enugu & Dennis Agbo, Abakiliki IN the 1980s, Lawrence Nomanyagbo popularly called Anini held sway in Benin City by terrorising both the people and law enforcement agents. His reign of terror in the area was so frightening that then Head of State, General Ibrahim Babaginda interrupted a crucial […]

Whatever stance one has taken on the credibility of TB Joshua, the famous (or infamous?) pastor of The Synagogue Church of All Nation’s in Lagos, Nige ria – one fact remains indisputable, his is an incredible journey surrounded in mystery and being written in history.

The place of praise is the place for supernatural encounters for God is fearful in praises. Exo. 15:11, says “who is like unto thee, o Lord, amongst the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?” There is no god like Jehovah.

“After these things Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth.
And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla (because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome); and he came to them. So, because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked; for by

In the past, the health sector in Cross River State frequently features in the news for the wrong reasons due to the alarmingly high maternal and infant mortality rates recorded every year.But the good news presently is that the State government has decided to take  the bull by the horns in stemming  the unfortunate trend. […]