At first glance, ‘Niyi, seems like your regular taxi driver in the Federal Capital Territory. By chance he opened up to BLESSING UKEMENA and ONUKOGU KANAYO JUBAL. His story can best be described as bizarre. Our destination was Area one, an arm of...
Honourable Albert Tanimu Sam-Tsokwa is the chairman, ad hoc committee on Business and Rules. Sam-Tsokwa represents the Donga\Takum\Ussa and Special Areas Federal Constituency of Taraba State in the National Assembly. In this interview with EDEGBE ODEMW...
National chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh spoke with reporters in Enugu recently, where he expressed his position on several topical issues.NNAMDI MBAWIKE was there for LEADERSHIP SUNDAY. President Goodluck Jona...
In this piece, ACHOR ABIMAJE takes a look at last Monday carnage in Jos, the Plateau state capital, where dozens of people were killed and property worth millions of Naira destroyed and concludes that the ugly development would have been prevented if s...
Nigeria’s Super Eagles are set to play Madagascar in Antananarivo today, in a CAF Nations Cuo qualifier, and it is a game the Eagles must win. The Super Eagles currently trail the Syli Stars of Guinea by three points and anything less than t...
Thrice, Nigeria has conquered the world at U-17 level, but the Golden Eaglets have failed to qualify for the last two African Junior Championships. Newly appointed U-17 coach, Manu Garba, told MTNFootball.com that he was the man to turn aro...
The draw of the 2011-2012 Champions League was held on Thursday and it threw up some interesting groupings. All 32 teams will be looking to finish in the top two and advance to the knockout stages, but while the draw has been kind to some, it has been ...
It had the hottest ticket in New York City on Wednesday night, but there was no need for all that, becauseJustin Timberlake put on a free, impromptu concert at the Southern Hospitality barbecue joint in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborho...
There’s a new boss in Alyssa Milano’s house - her baby boy! The 38-year-old actress and husband David Bugliari welcomed little Milo Thomas Bugliari last Wednesday at 9:27 a.m. He weighed 7 lbs., and was 19 inches tal...
It’s not all about the D’Banjs, the Banky Ws and the 2Faces. No, Gospel music has become a major part of Nigerian music, and it has its own heroes, home and abroad. They have soul-lifting songs in their albums, many of which are a delight t...
Katsina State government has ordered the arrest of one Aminu Lawal, an accountant with the Kurfi Local Government Council of the state, over alleged diversion of the council workers’ salaries . The order was contained in a statement issued...
A middle aged woman, Mrs. Rashidat Odusanya,last Monday at about 3pm fainted and died along Alli-Balogun T-Junction via Nnamdi Azikwe street,Lagos Island after she discovered that her wallet containing N7000 was stolen by hoodlums suspected to be pick ...
The Nigeria Police, the Army, the State Security Service and other security agencies will come under legislative scrutiny over their individual efforts or negligence in averting recent cases of terror in the country when the House of Representatives re...
Nigeria has witnessed a steady decline in the fortune of the education sector, going from the era of military rule to the present democratic dispensation which took off in 1999. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY investigation can reveal that the budget pattern steadil...
Aissatou Aisha Pindar, the 10- year- old daughter of Nigeria’s former ambassador to Sao Tome and Principe, Ambassador Saidu Pindar, who died in an auto crash along the Kaduna- Zaria road last week Wednesday, expects life to be tough for her witho...