Contrary to the earlier speculation that late Nollywood actor, Sam Loco, may be buried in Lagos, his family yesterday said that late actor would be buried in Benin City, Edo State, on October 21, 2011, in accordance with tradition. The first son of the...
Beyoncé may enjoy a reputation as music's classiest broad, but she's also the canniest. Madame Z knows exactly how to play the media - not with the old-school Jolie-style thuggery, but in a more modern way, one that employs stealth and ...
Decades after drought devastated parts of North Africa claiming the lives of millions of Ethiopians, the horn of Africa finds itself yet again helpless in the face of two consecutive poor raining seasons which have resulted in the worst drought we have...
NFF technical committee chairman, Barrister Chris Green has revealed that the absence of Super Eagles and West Bromwich Albion star, Osaze Odemwingie will be felt in the crucial game to be decided this Sunday in far away Madagascar. He, however, said t...
Roger Federer has started his US Open with a quick victory over Arthur Ashe Stadium. Third seed Federer, who turned 30 earlier this month, completed a clockwork 6-4 6-3 6-2 win over 56th-ranked Colombian Santiago Giraldo to the delight of the Flushing ...
All Africa Games defending champion, Damola Osayomi is not bothered about her inability to get into the final of the women sprint event at the 13th IAAF World Championships taking place in Daegu, South Korea. She placed 8th in the first semi final race...
Super Eagles skipper, Joseph Yobo will join other members of the team in Madagascar in order to finalise his future with his present club since the transfer window closes today. Ike Uche also caught in club transfer decision will alongside Yobo join th...
Following the incessant bomb blasts and the recent kidnapping of the father of one of Super Eagles players Mikel Obi, security operatives are not taking chances with the safety of the players in the wake of the recent United Nations building bomb blast...
The acclaimed traditional durbar procession staged during the biennial sallah celebrations in Kano will not hold this year due to the uncertain health condition of the Emir, Alhaji Ado Bayero. Kano State government announced yesterday that the revered ...
An advocacy group, Access to Justice (AJ) has called on the acting in Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher to review the decision taken to suspend Justice Ayo Salami as President, Court of Appeal (PCA). In a letter dated August 29, ...
As calm returns to Jos after Monday’s violence that claimed 10 lives, security has been beefed up in and around the city as Muslims celebrate Eid-el Fitr. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondents who went round some parts of the city yeste...
Plateau State Council of the Nigerian Union of journalists, NUJ, said that its attention has been drawn to the maltreatment of one of its members, Mallam Bayo Alabira of the People’s Daily Newspapers by men of the Special Task Force (STF) deploye...
The National headquarters of the Jama’atul Izalatul Bid’ah Wa Ikamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS) yesterday said that it was still compiling list of casualties of the attack on its members who went to Rukuba Road Eid ground to observe the Eid –e...
The United Nations under-secretary for security, Gregory Starr, has laid the blame of Friday’s attack on the UN House on the lapses in the nation’s security, saying that the security of UN agencies and organisations around the world reposes...
Muslims in the country yesterday marked this year’s Eid-el-Fitr amidst tight security. Fierce-looking soldiers were stationed at strategic areas while mobile vans conveying armed mobile policemen patrolled major cities of the country, particularl...