The Africa Nations Cup kicked off last weekend in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon with a lot of promise and hope. Big guns like defending champions Egypt, Nigeria, Cameroon, South Africa and Algeria did not qualify for the continental showpiece prompting a...
Saidu Dauda, a 24 year-old national of Niger Republic had come to Nigeria in search of greener pastures. The precarious economic situation and the long drought that devastated farms and livestock had forced a lot of young people to leave the country. D...
Enugu State is richly endowed with both human and natural resources. CHIKA OKEKE who undertook a tour of the mysterious Nnya lake recently, reports. Enugu state is a haven for tourists. The Polo fields, Nike Lake among others are tourist’s sites ...
Monetary Policy Rate (MPR), otherwise known as benchmark interest rates will not be raised when the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meets for the first time this year as a result of the first round of inflationary effects from the removal of fuel subsi...
At last, the highly respected Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has broken his silence over the incessant attack on Christians, their homes and places of worship by the Boko Haram, an Islamic sect in the North Eastern part of the country. Several homes and ...
NASA has announced its new heavy-lift launch vehicle that is to provide an entirely new capability for human exploration beyond Earth’s orbit. The Space Launch System (SLS), NASA says, will provide the Earth with a safe, affordable and sustainabl...
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has stated that the bombings in the city of Kano, Kano state was not targeted at the Igbo, Yoruba or the Hausa ethnic groups but a brutal terrorist action perpetrated by a faceless and wicked group. The governor st...
Against the backdrop of the unfolding political scenario in Kogi and four other states, the former governor and Action Congress of Nigeria ( AC N) candidate for the December gubernatorial elections in the state...
The effort to attract firms in major sectors of the economy to list on the stock exchange over the years has not yielded the desired result. The stock market downturn and the absence of an alternative platform may be a major impediment. In this write-u...
Journalists in Nigeria as in other climes work round the clock to inform and educate the society. But contrary to how journalists in other environments are treated, Nigerian journalists could hardly be well catered for. PAUL DADA examines the need for ...
Mysteries are usually inexplicable and irresolvable. Some become clearer to discerning minds after efforts are made at unravelling them; others are never unravelled. Most mysteries are natural, while others are man-made. Natural or God-made mysteries a...
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have long maintained that marriage is probably not in the cards for them – at least until gay marriage is legalized. Now, it seems, the couple may be playing with a new deck. “We’d actually like to, and it...
Despite the very real “problems” behind the separation from his wife of almost seven years, Heidi Klum, Seal still doesn’t rule out chances they’ll get back together. “It may happen, I can’t speak for her,” Sea...
Regardless of the outcome of the presidential primaries, Ice-T already has his mind made up about the forthcoming election. The rapper and actor, who is making his directorial debut at the Sundance Film Festival with the documentary “Something Fr...
As the dust over the recent fuel subsidy removal bloody protest in Kwara State was settling, the approval granted the executive by the State House of Assembly to obtain a loan of N10 billion from the Guaranty Trust Bank has stirred another controversy ...