Month: October 2015

Before and after “The Fight of the Century”, fans have been digging into the boxers’ past. People are praising Pacquaio after turning over a new leaf and dedicating himself in...

BACKGROUND: It seems it is axiomatic that the man of colour is destined to be perpetually “the fetcher of water and hewer of wood.” It also seems axiomatic that the...

LAGOS—The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has denied allegations that the country is closing its airspace to flight operations with effect from Sunday midnight. Denying the allegation, the Acting General...

LAGOS—Alleged plan by a female kidnap syndicate to abduct some students  on their way to school last Friday, in Aguda area of Surulere, Lagos, was botched, following the the arrest...

Barely three months after the death of  Oba Okunade Sijuwade, Prince Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi of the Giesi ruling house has emerged the 51st Ooni of Ile-Ife, Osun State governor Rauf...

ABUJA—The General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, (retd), led Presidential Committee on the North East Interventions, PCNI, has developed a Marshal Plan  to address humanitarian issues of Boko Haram victims and rapid...

MAKURDI—troops of 5 Brigade Nigerian Army, weekend, destroyed all Boko Haram camps and enclaves at the border towns of Kerenowa and Chikun Gudu as well as their contiguous villages in...

NORMAL activities will today return to the nation’s ports as Maritime Workers’ Union of Nigeria, MWUN, weekend, suspended its strike after two days. The union had last Thursday  embarked on...

Jos—The Chief of  Army Staff, COAS, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, has said that the December deadline given by Federal Government to end activities of insurgents in the North-East region of...

A CHIEFTIAN of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State, Mr. Segun Idris, has urged the people of the state to see Governor Akinwumi Ambode’s victory at the Supreme Court...