Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow More than one hundred Nigerians were on Thursday December 11, deported from an asylum camp in Finland and several other European countries. The deported asylum seekers included women, children and some with their immediate family. They all arrived at the cargo terminal of […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused the Department of State Security Services, DSS of using torture to obtain forced confessions from the workers who were arrested during a raid on the party’s Data Centre in Ikeja, Lagos. The party said the action […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow …Thank God I have only one wife and I have abundant energy for other jobs. Babangida Aliyu, governor, Niger State, talking about why he has energy for other duties. If a team fails, sacking the coach won’t solve the problem. Stephen Keshi, […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Lasun Yusuff, represents Osogbo/Olorunda /Irepodun /Orolu Federal Constituency of Osun State at the National Assembly since 2011. He is a member of the Appropriation Committee in the House. In this interview with Olusegun Adeosun, reporter and Paul Kuyoro, photojournalist Yusuff, who is also […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The organizers of the Nollywood Health Convention have revealed that all is set for the third edition of the annual Nollywood Health Convention and Awards. The convention, scheduled to hold at the National Arts Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos on Sunday, December 7, is sponsored […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the purchase of N9.2billion worth of clean cooking stoves and wonder bags for rural women under the National Clean Cooking Scheme. Nurudeen Muhammed, Supervising Minister of Information briefed the press at the end of the meeting […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow I signed on this week (in a letter to Congress) seeking support for President Barack Obama’s effort to reform a flawed Immigration system, because it is the right thing to do. I also indicated my support for Obama’s immigration reform in a separate […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow By Ben Edokpayi I remember the permutations that enveloped the room as some relatives and I sat down in Lagos last summer to watch Nigeria’s last group F game against Argentina in the 2014 World Cup. After Lionel Messi scored early in the […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow It is one event that most Nigerians have waited for with bated breath. While some eagerly looked forward to it, some others probably wished it never happened. But of course it happened on Tuesday, November 11 as President Goodluck Jonathan finally declared his […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Research and Allied Institutions’ workers have threatened to embark on a strike action if the Federal Government fails to implement the agreement it reached with the unions in January 2011. The leaders of the organized unions of research workers’ addressed a joint press […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow By AKIN BANJOKO As a writer of Nigerian descent living in the United States, US, whenever I attend writers’ conferences, workshops or book festivals, my American colleagues always ask me if I have read certain books about Nigeria. There are few I have […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow By Amina Salihu I got the title of this article from the back view of a long-distance travel Toyota Hiace bus just recently as I was returning to Abuja from the farm in Zaria. We were held up in the usually snaky traffic […] More
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