Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani child education activist and Kailash Satyarthi, Indian child rights activist have won the Nobel Peace Prize. The duo was announced on Friday as winners of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with 17-year-old Malala emerging the youngest Nobel prize winner so far. The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the prize saying that peaceful global…
Ezekwesili Calls On US to help rescue Chibok Girls
Oby Ezekwesili, former Nigerian minister of Education has called on the United States government and the world at large to try their possible best to assist Nigeria to rescue the abducted Chibok girls. Speaking today at an event organized by the Public Affairs Section of the United States Consulate General in Lagos to commemorate this…
Flood Sacks Benue Communities
Just like it happened in 2012, the River Benue has once again overflown it banks submerging over 300 houses. Areas affected by the flood so far include, Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Gwado Villa, Kabiz and Gaadi, located along Makurdi-Gboko road. Residents started experiencing the overflow last week Thursday but this was taken for granted…
AFRIMA Honours 2014 Award Nominees
The International Committee of All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, and AFRIMA Nigeria presented the AFRIMA 2014 Certificate of Nomination to Nigeria-based nominees for the 2014 edition on Wednesday October 8, at Quilox Club, Victoria Island, Lagos. Representing the International Committee of AFRIMA at the event wereKingsley James, Co-Producer/Country Director, Nigeria; Steve Ayorinde, Chairman, International Media…
French Writer Wins 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature
Patrick Modiano, a French writer has won the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature on October 9. Modiano whose novels centers on issues like memory, identity and guilt was described by the Swedish Academy as someone who has the ability to evoke the most ungraspable human destinies in his work. Recent past winners of the Nobel…
Armed Men Attack TELL Journalists
Mark Itsibor, a reporter and Paul Kuyoro, a photojournalist with TELL magazine were today brutalised by thugs and armed policemen attached to a Chinese construction company handling the Alagbole-Yakoyo bridge construction work in Ogun State. The TELL journalists were attacked while going about their lawful duties, interviewing residents and others about the state of…
Richest President Rating: Jonathan Demands Retraction, Apology
President Goodluck Jonathan has described the rating by RichestLifestyle.com, an online rating media that places him as the sixth richest African President, as baseless and libelous. In a publication titled, “Africa’s Richest Presidents 2014,” the organization said Jonathan ranks sixth with an estimated net worth of $100 Million after other presidents including Jose Eduardo dos…
Court stops Adamawa bye-election, orders reinstatement of Ngilari
A Federal High Court in Abuja, has ordered the immediate swearing-in of Bala Ngilari, former deputy governor of Adamawa State as the state governor. Delivering judgment in a suit filed by Ngilari challenging his purported resignation as deputy governor shortly before Murtala Nyako, former governor of Adamawa was impeached from office, the court declared the…
Wole Soyinka Centre Calls For Award Entries
Entries for the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting has opened for the 2014 edition just as winners of the 2013 edition return from a one-week study tour to the United Kingdom. The award is open to any Nigerian professional reporter or team of reporters (full time or freelancers), who have produced a published story…
Abubakar To Commission Projects in Ekiti
As part of activities marking the fourth anniversary of the administration of Kayode Fayemi, outgoing Ekiti State Governor, Abdusalami Abubakar, former Head of State, is to inaugurate five major projects in Ado-Ekiti onWednesday, October 8. According to a statement issued by Olayinka Oyebode, Fayemi’s Chief Press Secretary, Abubakar would inaugurate the Erinjiyan Water Treatment Plant…
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