Recently, the National Bureau of Statistics gave out a report on the nation’s poverty index, where Katsina State ranked among the top five states with highest rate of poverty. Although states have reacted to the reports, analysts believe that it ...
Lionel Messi has broken Barcelona's 60-year-old goal-scoring record with a hat-trick in a 5-3 win over Granada at the Nou Camp in La Liga on Tuesday. Messi equalled the record with a volley off a post in the 17th minute and broke the r...
A Federal High Court in Gombe yesterday held that former Gombe State Governor Danjuma Goje and other four accused persons had a case to answer over their alleged involvement in N24.18 billion money laundering. Justice Quadri Babatunde, who ...
The bribery scandal-rocked investigation into the collapse of the Nigerian Capital Market by the House of Representatives Committee on Capital Market and other institutions yesterday took another dimension as the chairman of the committee, Hon. Herman ...
In 2011, President Goodluck broke a covenant of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP with the Nigerian people, and secured the party’s ticket contrary to the gentleman zoning arrangement that power will reside in the North till 2015. The viol...
Arc. Ibrahim Bunu was a Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and is a frontline aspirant for the office of the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In this interview with auwal s. mu'azu, he expresses his determination to re...
“Abba Aji’s attraction lies in the fact that he is a bridge builder among politicians of all religious and ethnic persuasion in the country, and thus will serve as a unifying force in the party, and a huge asset to President Jonathan. Peopl...
The advent of cutting edge technology in media broadcasting has enhanced the processes of news gathering, processing and presentation and for any media organization to remain competitive, it must redefine it’s operational dynamics to align to thi...
What do you do when you are no longer in love with what you fell in love with? This is the question one walks away asking after watching Tyrone E. Terrence’s A Husband’s Wife. The play, which was staged in Abuja on Saturday, March 18 at the...
Over the years, police checkpoints have become a nightmare for motorists and travelers as policemen turn checkpoints into money making venture and point of human rights abuse. The recent order by the Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, f...
Motor Park, in Nigeria parlance, is a place where passengers board vehicles to their various destinations. But a situation where such a place turns into an arena with so many goings-on, one may be forced to find another name for such a set up, just lik...
On his assumption of office in October 16 2010, the Ekiti State governor Dr. Kayode Fayemi, unveiled an eight-point agenda with education and human capital development entrenched in the policy thrust as fourth leg of the transformational agenda to rein...
Ogun State in recent weeks has been in the news for wrong reasons. Almost on a daily basis, attack on the citizens of the state by men of the underworld has become a recurring decimal. In a bid to find a lasting solution to the crisis, the Ogun State g...
Japan has given a grant of Japanese Yen 600 million (approximately US $7.85 million or N1.24 billion) to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for child survival programmes in Nigeria. The grant is for polio- eradication, strengthenin...
As count down to the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME begins, the registrar of JAMB, Prof Dibu Ojerinde, has announced that a total of 1,503,931 candidates registered for the 2012 examination, thereby making it the highest number of reg...