The Imo State House of Assembly yesterday passed a motion suspending the chairman, South East Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Cletus Ilomuanya, for alleged criminal activities, after an executive session. The State Assembly prior to the suspen...
Today, the term ‘revolution’ is being bandied about by many Nigerians. But significantly, it has also become something of a mantra being sung by politically important voices. Samplers of recent allusions or bare-knuckle calls for revolution...
Legendary defender Paolo Maldini believes Milan are still searching for a worthy successor to Maldini and the man himself does not believe that Taye Taiwo is the heir to his throne. The Rossoneri allegedly beat off competition from Real Madrid to...
In well over 100 years, there have been only 25 men who have tasted the Olympian heights and laid claim to the title “Fastest Man on Earth”. It is elite and also an eclectic club. The stories of these fast men are an extraordinary blend of ...
Youth Sports Federation of Nigeria (YSFON) last weekend showed that the moribund state of the nation’s sports sector can be revived, if every stakeholder in the sector can pull together and function as a team. The body spared no effort in its com...
The board of Nigeria Premier League (NPL) side, Enugu Rangers has been sent packing. A letter emanating from the office of the Enugu State sports commissioner, Chijioke Agu, revealed that the tenure of the Rangers’ board had expired since August ...
Fresh facts emerged last night to explain why members of the Justice Muhammadu Uwais- led Stakeholders Committee for the Reform of the Judiciary failed to agree on the position of the leadership of the Nigerian Bar Association that serving judicial off...
The minister of State for Finance, Dr. Yerima Ngama, said yesterday that oil revenue has dropped by N65 billion as a result of the maintenance work currently going on at the Forcados oil and Qua Iboe terminals. This is even as the Federation Accounts A...
As the law on the ban of same sex marriage is yet to take effect, lesbianism is rising in urban areas in Nigeria. A trend that was once done in secret, ladies are coming out boldly to declare their love for one another without shame, Ruth Choji writes....
Bandits went on rampage at Kwa town, near Kano, killing three officers of the Nigerian Air Force after a gun battle. Officials of the Air Force and the police in Kano could however, not confirm whether the attack was carried out on the officers by the&...
Seared by the heat of insecurity, socio-economic uncertainty and mysterious dithering by the nation’s political leadership, allusions to Arab Spring-type rebellion and outright calls for a revolution to incept a new order have become something of...
Lady Margery Chuba-Okadigbo, wife of former Senate President, the late Dr. Chuba Okadigbo, was yesterday declared as the authentic candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and winner of the Anambra North Senatorial district in the April 16 Natio...
The Supreme Court yesterday sacked two senators and eight House of Representatives who are members of the Senator Yakubu Garba Lado faction of the Katsina state chapter of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), thereby affirming the decision of the...
The Lokoja-Abuja highway was again blocked yesterday by women,protesting the outcome of the recently held governorship election in Kogi State. The placard carrying women who came from local government areas across the state said they were saddene...
A Group, Nigerian Collective for Social Reforms and Best Practices (RBP), has vowed to stop the PDP chairmanship aspiration of the former National Assembly Liaison Officer to the former President Umaru Yar’addua. In a press statement signed...