Society

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 […]

A death occurred at the weekend that left Nigerians in shock. It was the demise of Prince Abubakar Audu, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the inconclusive election that took place in […]

The Lagos State Government says the Vehicle Inspection Services and the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority will work with the Federal Road Safety Corps to rid the state of gridlock. It added that the three […]

The new Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, on Monday received the ‘Ade Are’ (Oduduwa’s crown) and made his first public appearance after spending 21 days in seclusion. Ogunwusi, who was dressed in a […]

Mohammed Dahiru  Abubakar probably wrote his name in gold as Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, IGP, when he ordered the dismantling of police checkpoints nationwide. This order was carried out on January 30, 2012, leading […]

…before we hang Mark Zuckerberg on the next pole or accuse the international community of being biased and unfair on this issue, I think we ought to ask ourselves if we are really our brother’s […]

The Ooni of Ife-elect, Prince Adeyeye Ogunwusi, is expected to leave Ilofi, where he has been undergoing installation rites in the past 21 days later on Sunday (yesterday) Ogunwusi, who was appointed as the 51st […]

THE interment of the late matriarch of the Awolowo family, Chief HID Awolowo, has sparked off a wave of celebrations at Ikenne and area for the final burial rites of the woman considered to be the most influential […]

We are at the mercy of the politicians who rule us as masters rule slaves. They do not have any consideration for our needs and desires. They do not care to honour even their word […]

The apex Igbo socio–cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the on Friday disowned the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and his cohorts in their struggle for Biafra agitation. Addressing reporters in Awka, the Chairman, Forum of […]

LINGUISTS in Nigeria have called on the Federal Government to undertake language survey, documentation and analysis of oral legislature and lexicon to have a correct statistics of languages in the country and to prevent them […]

LEADER of the Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, Otunba Gani Adams, has announced the launch of an Oodua Radio/Magazine, in honour of the matriarch of the Awolowo dynasty, late Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo. He said that […]

Last week, Prof. Pat Utomi, the Founder, Centre for Values in Leadership, returned the subject of educational decay to the front burner of national conversation. Utomi, who spoke at an educational conference organised by FlipLearnCon, […]

Friday, November 13, 2015: French Prime Minister Francois Hollande and perhaps some friends, family members and aides are seated enjoying a game of football between Germany and France, in a stadium in Paris. First explosion went […]

Young loud phone talkers aren’t the only irritants today, even older people have joined the stream of youths using their phones at public functions, taking selfies, browsing or texting, sometimes laugh loud when they read […]

Had ISIS not shocked the world by sponsoring a spree of deadly attacks at six locations in Paris last Friday, killing at least 128 people, the Nigerian social media space would have been dominated—no question—by […]

As a former student of the Sorbonne University in Paris, who also lived not too far from the location which was savagely attacked a few days ago by extremists hiding behind the false cover of […]

Panel unveils how Nigeria was duped facts & figures N643.8b •$2.1b Extra budgetry interventions

U-23 coach Samson Siasia has begged those who kidnapped his mother to free her to allow him focus on winning a ticket to next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Madam Ogere Siasia, 72, was, […]

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) yesterday put the Nigerian death toll in the Saudi stampede at 274. Forty four others are still missing while two are receiving treatment  in Saudi hospitals, the agency’s […]