It’s early Saturday and the weather is just pleasant. Out from the shopping plaza’s steps, he emerges with a T-shirt and earphones, firmly plugged in his ears. The smile on Adekunle Alonge’s lips when he recognises you is heart-warmin...
After two postponements, the House of Representatives will today begin debates on the general principles of the touchy 223-page Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), House Speaker, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal announced at yesterday’s plenary. Also, efforts by...
The Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola yesterday raised an alarm over activities of certain individuals operating with the identity of his wife, Dame Emmanuella Abimbola Fashola, on facebook and other social networks, disowning the existence of any...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commenced plans to facilitate free, fair, credible and transparent elections in 2012. This was revealed by the chairman of the commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, when the President of Interna...
The Senate Committee on Environment yesterday said Nigeria had the highest number of oil spill incidences among oil producing countries with no penalty regime attached for such oil spills. Speaking during a one-day public hearing on a Bill for an Act t...
The Honourable Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi has commiserated with the Omagbemis over the death of the patriarch of the family, Jimmy Omagbemi who passed on recently. The Honourable Minister ...
Atletico Madrid sensation, Falcao, has told the European champions he wants to join them in the forthcoming window and is already believed to have agreed personal terms. Club chiefs, acting on the instruction of owner Roman Abramovich, have made it cle...
Gangling Israeli based goalkeeper, Austin Ejide, will step out of the shadows of his national teammate, Vincent Enyeama, tonight in Miami, United States, when he leads the team out as skipper in the international friendly against Venezuela at the Marli...
Following a successful outing in the first leg of the Glo Golf tour in Asaba, Delta State, about 100 professional golfers drawn across West Africa, will file out on today for a more gruelling week on the greens as the competition moves to Sagamu, Ogun ...
Kano State government has approved N30m for its contingent at the forthcoming National Sports Festival in Lagos. The state council has concluded plans to storm Lagos with a contingent of 200. The sports council has concluded all strategies aimed at ens...
Fidelity Bank looks to retain their title as the overall winner of the Nigeria Bankers Games as they perch on top of the overall medals’ log with two gold, one silver and four bronze medals. This is even as the bank is still contending for at lea...
The life chargers could be the dancers and with that life could be changed. Anthony Ada Abraham writes about the KRUPM dance studio’s effort in enhancing youth development and making ways in engaging youths by organizing a four day workshop for y...
The movement of people from villages to cities has led to congestion, especially the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), even though it has been attributed to lack of basic amenities in the villages. Patience IvieObhafuoso writes For 20 year-old,Oluwatoyi...
Hon. Tajudeen Yusuf is the Vice Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Information Communication and Technology, ICT representing Kabba/Bunnu/Ijumu federal constituency of Kogi State under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In this interview,...
Has the report of the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force headed by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, which was submitted to President Goodluck Jonathan two weeks ago been dumped? Well, the associated controversy trailing recent pronouncement by some government spi...