A former board member of the Nigeria Football Association (now Nigeria Football Federation), Mallam Suleiman David is dead.    David, who was also the Chairman of the Nigerian professional football clubside, Niger Tornadoes, died o...

File photo used to illustrate story. Modestus Ugwuoha, aka Modukpe, leader of a terror group, has been killed by the police in Imo State.  It was learnt that the suspected gang leader was shot dead during a shoot-out between his gang and...

SOC Okenwa There is something absolutely 'special' about Guinea, a poor Francophone country in West Africa. Guineans are proud of their ancestral and cultural heritage. Their first President, nay founding father of the nation, the late Ahmed ...

Isa Ali Pantami The Nigerian Government has said its security agencies have access to information on Nigerians through their mobile phones. Pantami, however, noted that as a minister, he could not grant requests for such personal information ...

Ndidi Uwechue Ndi Igbo, Allow me to say how as a child I was most proud to be born into the Igbo Race. My Dad, late Ambassador Raph Uwechue told us such inspiring stories about the achievements of Ndi Igbo, and I was really impressed by what ...

A senior lecturer in the Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Adebayo Mosobalaje, has been dismissed for ‘sexual misconduct’ by the school authorities. This was announced in a statement by the Public Relation...

Felix Olajide Sowore The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has condemned the gruesome killing of Olajide Sowore, the younger brother of human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore last weekend. The group also commiserated with the family of the de...

Governor of Katsina State, Bello Masari has described open grazing as un-Islamic.  He noted that it is wrong for herders to graze their cattle on other people's land.  The governor stated this while speaking in an ...

Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund has been annouced as the leader of their new government in Afghanistan by the Talibans. The Chief spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid on Tuesday also told a press conference that Taliban co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar ...

Tonto Dikeh, a Nigerian actress, says she would have killed her former husband, Olakunle Churchill with ‘rat poison’ if they were not divorced. Dikeh has been in a protracted feud with Churchill since they ended their short-lived marriag...