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Who Grasps The Nettle For Jonathan Now?

By Dimeji Daniel I remember that it was exactly 73 days after President Goodluck Jonathan took the reins of power…

Soyinka Gets Awolowo Prize For Leadership

Nobel Leaureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, is the winner of the maiden edition of the Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership which…

Combating Rooftop Riders

Train terminals at peak periods are like apparitions or paintings realised on canvas. In Lagos, the faces are usually of…

Dubious Hopes, Lies Are No Strategy —ACN Tells PDP

Lagos ACN has told Lagos PDP that dubious hopes and pathological lies are no strategy if they want to make…

Disgraced IMF chief seeks ban on tell-all-book

Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn appeared in a Paris court Tuesday to try to ban a graphic new book…

Ladipo Market: Arrested Bakassi Boys To Face Trial

Twelve suspected members of the Bakassi Boys arrested on Monday at Ladipo Market, Mushin in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria will soon…

Fashola Lights Up Ikorodu Road

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has lit up Ikorodu Road for safe driving at night. This is coming as…

Rev. King’s Devotees Lavish Praises On His Birthday

Today is the birthday of Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, a.k.a. Rev. King, the General Overseer of Christian Prayer Assembly (CPA), and his…

Afolabi, boss of Ogo Oluwa Kitan Records Dies

FUNSHO AROGUNDADE Music mogul, Chief Joseph Olayiwola Afolabi, the boss of Ogo-Oluwa Kitan Records, is dead. He died on Monday…

Egypt: 19 tourists die in hot air balloon explosion

A hot air balloon exploded and plunged to earth at Egypt’s ancient temple city of Luxor during a sunrise flight…

Daring Northern Governors

Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu stirs the hornet’s nest as intrigues over the 2015 Peoples Democratic Party ticket thicken As he…

Nigeria’s New Face Of Terror

Ansaru, Nigeria’s new terrorist group in Nigeria specialises in hostage taking  With its hands full and security resources overstretched battling…

Axing Obasanjo’s Men

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party reaches a frenetic level with the axing of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s loyalists Despite…

At Last, Naron Gets What He Deserves

National Judicial Council, NJC wields the big axe on some crooked judges  and recommends disciplinary action for a lawyer For…

Abiara: Why I Won’t Mind A Private Jet Gift

Pastor Samuel Kayode Abiara spoke to FUNSHO AROGUNDADE on the crisis within the Christian Association of Nigeria, corruption and why…

Secession Was Anger Taken Too Far

Colonel Paul Ogbebor (retd.), a battalion commander during the Nigerian Civil War, gives JETHRO IBILEKE his recollection of the war…

Obasanjo On Benjamin Adekunle

Olusegun Obasanjo, the man to whom Biafra surrendered, was of the view that Benjamin Adekunle was mentally and physically jaded…

Post-Midwest Liberation

A narrative of the events after Biafra was evicted from the Midwest A month after the Midwest was liberated, Lt…

America’s Secret Files On Ojukwu (2)

Confidential US dispatches on the Nigerian Civil War yield a wounding portrait of Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who was painted by…

Study: Too much of TV watching leads to criminality

A new research has drawn a link between anti-social and criminal behaviour by children and adolescents with the amount of…

Anenih, the Fix-It-Man emerges PDP BOT chair

Ayorinde Oluokun/ Abuja After three previous failed attempts, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party on Monday succeeded in choosing a Chairman…

Cuba puts succession plan on course

Cuba has begun its transition to rule by someone whose last name isn’t Castro and is young enough not to…

Boko Haram posts video of kidnapped French family

A video appeared on YouTube Monday of seven kidnapped members of a French family with their abductors, who claimed to…

Nollywood veteran Esiri for burial in April

BAYO ADETU The remains of Nigeria’s veteran actor, Justus Esiri, who died on 19 February following complications from diabetes, will…

Akingbola re-arrested, to be charged afresh

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC said on Monday it has re-arrested Erastus Akingbola, the former managing…

Goldie, Afro pop singer buried

FUNSHO AROGUNDADE Family, friends and colleagues of Nigeria’s Afro pop singer, Oluwabimpe Susan Harvey, popularly known as Goldie Harvey, today…

Jonathan retires Justice Archibong

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan has endorsed the recommendation of the National Judicial Council, by ordering the compulsory…

Former Lagos NBA Chairman Passes On

Former chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Lagos branch, Mr Anthony Akintola Akinbote, has passed on at his residence in…

Nigeria: 15 Russian Sailors Get Bail

A Federal High Court in Lagos this morning, admitted to bail, 15 Russians alleged to have imported arms into Nigeria…

Docked Babalakin denied comfort chair as trial stalled

Henry Ojelu/Judiciary Correspondent A Nigerian High Court sitting in Ikeja, has adjourned proceedings till 27 March in the ongoing trial…