Wounded Warrior Project will help vets hurt by shutdown
A non-profit group that helps those wounded in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars says that if the government shutdown results in cutting off VA compensation benefits, it will send out...
Nigeria: Jonathan’s national confab is a scam – Sen Ojudu
Senator Babafemi Ojudu (APC, Ekiti Central), in this interview with Vanguard Politics takes a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision to set up an advisory committee for a national conference...
Unemployed Nigerian Man Caught Having Sex With a 13yr Old In Ghana
Nigeria on the news again for the wrong reason. A Full grown man defiling a 13 years old girl in a foreign land. Nawa oooo. This is how Ghana...
Nigeria Market women protest ASUU strike at N-Assembly
ABUJA— PROTESTING traders, under the aegis of National Market Women Association, Monday, stormed the National Assembly, demanding that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, call off its more than...
White House rejects House GOP plan
As expected, President Obama is rejecting a new House Republican plan to raise the debt ceiling and end the government shutdown. Obama and the White House are more supportive...
Keshi: Ethiopia will fall again
After steering the Super Eagles to a moral-boosting 2-1 win over the Walya Antelopes in Addis Ababa on October 13, Coach Stephen Keshi has predicted that the Ethiopians will be...
Ex-San Diego mayor Bob Filner faces criminal charges
Former San Diego mayor Bob Filner was charged Tuesday with three crimes, less than two months after resigning from office amid sexual harassment allegations. The Associated Press reports Filner...
39-yr-old man nabbed with N82m cocaine
LAGOS — The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says it has arrested a 39-year-old man, who imported 7.45kg of cocaine valued at N82 million. Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, the agency’s...
Taiwo Ogunjobi has dismissed the ban slapped on him by the NFF.
Embattled former Secretary General of the Nigeria Football Federation, Taiwo Ogunjobi has dismissed the ban slapped on him by the NFF. Ogunjobi has been embroiled in a controversy involving a...
Yoruba, Igbo mistrust cause of underdevelopment – Adebanjo
ELDER STATESMAN and stalwart of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has urged the Igbo and Yoruba ethnic nationalities to join forces and develop the country, arguing that...