Society

Pandemonium broke out, yesterday, in the Ojuelegba area of Lagos State after a tanker carrying 33,000 liters of Premium |Motor Spirit, PMS (petrol) fell off the Ojuelegba bridge, spilling its contents and bursting into flames. One […]

Dr Oladapo Olanipekun, scion of Chief Wole Olanipekun the erudite legal practitioner, was recently named among the latest Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN). At under 35, he became, according to accounts, the youngest SAN. I […]

The clamour for a State of Biafra seems, to say the least, rather pathetic. It is an effort cast in the classic mode of a modern-day quixotic daydream or the desire of genuine patriots in […]

It is understandable why a desperate childless couple might do anything to have a baby, but those who exploit their unhappiness for profit are not so easy to forgive. In this deeply disturbing episode of […]

Security forces have shot dead a lion that escaped from a wildlife park this morning in the Nigerian city of Jos. It was killed in the vicinity of the park after attempts at recapturing it failed.

Supporters of Alhaji Yahaya Bello, who was chosen to replace the late Prince Abubakar Audu in this weekend’s supplementary election in Kogi State and those of James Abiodun Falake clashed yesterday at the APC National […]

Five decades after the death of former Minister of Finance, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, executor of his will, Mrs. Jadesimi Alero (nee Okotie-Eboh), has claimed that one of his property does not belong to him (minister) […]

OSOGBO—President Muhammadu Buhari, the representative of the Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth II and Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, are some of the dignitaries expected on December 7, at the installation and presentation of staff […]

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, through his Dangote Foundation, is building a N7bn state-of-the-art operating theatre and diagnostic centre at the Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital in Kano. The Chief Executive, Dangote Foundation, Ms Halima Dangote, […]

The trustees of ‎Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) will on Monday (November 30, 2015) be arraigned before a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja over the collapse of a six-story building in the church […]

Just as it crossed my mind to write this week about the still-missing Chibok schoolgirls, Prof. Wole Soyinka (our own WS), yet again reminded us all, a couple of days ago, of that terrible blot […]

Madam Beauty Siasia, the kidnapped 72-year-old mother of Nigeria’s Under 23 Coach, Samson Siasia, regained freedom yesterday after 12 days in captivity. She was abducted on November 16, 2015. The abductors reportedly abandoned her at […]

Mad men and specialists An Igbo saying notes that no matter how much you treat a sick mind, you can never cure it of murmuring. In other words, you can never tell with a psychiatric […]

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has distanced himself from a tribute he purportedly wrote in honour of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. In a tribute which has gone viral […]

Akure—THE Council of Obas in Ondo State has said that the title of Eze Ndigbo in the South-West is a calculated attempt to embarrass the Yoruba traditional rulers and desecrate their traditional institution. It said […]

FIFTY Nigerian deportees alleged to have committed offences in the United Kingdom (UK) arrived in Lagos yesterday. The 44 men and six women were flown into Nigeria about 6.30am in a chartered B767 aircraft belonging […]

The federal government has ​​​assured that it would commence payment of N5,000 promised unemployed Nigerian youth during the electioneering campaign, from 2016 . ​The minister of youth and sports, Solomon Dalong, made the commitment on […]

The appointment in Yola was made about three weeks ago. It was scheduled for Monday, November 9. But for one reason or the other, the delegation could not make it and so it was delayed. […]

The “banality of evil” is a concept created by Hannah Arendt, a Jewish political theorist who escaped Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. The idea refers to the ease with which ordinary people can be culpable […]

A group of Muslim youths under the aegis of Muslim Youths in Da’wah on Tuesday at the headquarters of the National Youth Service Corps in Abuja protested against the ban on the use of hijab […]