If you are a visitor driving along Abaranje in Ikotun, Alimosho Local government of Lagos state and you got to Aso Rock bus-stop, something catches your attention. If you’re not familiar with life in Lagos , you would mistake an auditorium filled with white plastic chairs as a church or christian fellowship centre. You may even be tempted to stop. And this has perhaps led many who stopped out of curiosity to become adherents of a different kind of ‘religion’ where all they need is ‘point’ and something gets killed for them.

The judgement of the Supreme Court which upheld the outcome of the April 11, 2015 governorship election that brought Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to power, was greeted with wild jubilation.

They emerged from a closed door session last Tuesday, the first day of resumption without saying a word. Even several efforts made by journalists covering the National Assembly to get them to speak on what transpired during the one-hour long session could not convince the senators. They maintained sealed lips as if they had taken oath in a shrine and were afraid of violating the oath so as not to incure the wrath of violation.

IN his 2001 best seller, entitled: Spiritual Leadership, where he encouraged leaders to follow God’s design for success, Henry Blackaby pointed out: “Society longs for statesmen but it gets politicians.”

Nnewi is unarguably the industrial capital of Anambra State. Apart from having many industries and companies, which marked out the town as the Japan of Africa, it also has a very big market which has several sub sections. The market is the second largest in the state after Onitsha main market. Nnewi people are noted for natural intelligence, industry and enterprise, a situation which has led to indigenes of the town blazing the trail in many fields.

By Michael Orodare A walk into the female ward of the Ondo Trauma Centre on a Monday afternoon, you would not but notice the calm and beautiful 51-years-old Omotola Adeyemi as she sat pensively on the remote controlled orthopaedic bed at the female ward. She must be thinking about the night of February 16th 2014 […]

According to the Global Terrorism Index, a report released by the New York-based Institute for Economics and Peace, Boko Haram “has become the most deadly terrorist group in the world”.

ANYTIME the story of the Nigerian army is told, the name of General TY Danjuma will always feature prominently. Similarly, the political history of Nigeria is not complete without mentioning the role he played in the political development of the Nigerian nation. And talking about one man who has a heart of gold and looks out for the less privileged, General Danjuma is that man.

OUR African Business Man of the Year, Dr. Mike Adeniyi Ishola Adenuga Jr. (GCON), Chairman, Mike Adenuga Group, can be conveniently described as the triumph of African enterprise. He symbolizes the African enterprising spirit of passion, unalloyed commitment, resilience and hard work.

SINCE his birth in the agrarian community of Jega on January 11, 1957, in the defunct Northern region Prof Atahiru Jega has certainly been a big story.