THE candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in the last governorship election in Kogi State, Alhaji Murtala Yakubu Ajaka has mourned the death of a former Chief of Defence Staff, CDS Admiral Ibrahim Ogohi who died on Sunday This was contained in a statement he personally signed and made …

THE candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the September 21 governorship election in Edo State, Dr Asue Ighodalo, on Saturday in Nuremberg, explained why he is running to be the governor of state. It was at the last lap of week long blitz in which he engaged the …

  Veteran Nollywood actor Olu Jacobs’ family has released a video confirming his well-being, dispelling earlier false reports of his death. The video shared widely on social media, showed Jacobs in good health, reassuring fans and dispelling the rumors that had caused widespread concern. It was earlier reported that the …

Zenith Bank has dismissed the alleged arrest of its Group Managing Director, Ebenezer Onyeagwu, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The Zenith Bank Company Secretary/General Counsel, Michael Otu, made this known in a statement issued on Wednesday, January 10, 2024. A report was circulated in some quarters of …

IN the month since 23 May 2024, when – during hours reserved by nature entirely for meetings of witches and wizards – he began sitting as Kingmaker for the Emirate of Kano, Abdullahi Liman, a senior judge of Nigeria’s Federal High Court, has handed down at least five rulings. Defying …

●Established two universities ●Free education from primary to secondary schools Kogi state, in North Central Nigeria under the immediate past governor Alhaji Yahaya Bello, arguably was neither the bride nor did she profit from the goodwill of many Nigerians on account of largely unpalatable reports. The incessant unpalatable reports of …

SOCIO-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has called on Olayemi Cardoso, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to account for, and explain the whereabouts of the over N100 billion “dirty and bad notes” and “other large sum of cash awaiting examination” which are kept in various branches of …

● The 2004 champion later met 17-year-old Russian contender Mirra Andreeva. @Alexander Gilkes Twenty years after her stunning Wimbledon triumph, Maria Sharapova has returned to the All England Club to make more lasting memories. The five-time major winner walked through the historic venue with a pair of special guests: fiancé …

THE Nigeria of the 1950s and early 1960s had very many interesting personalities. Western Region had its fair share of such. One of them was a man named Suara Sobo Akande (Sobo is pronounced as Sorbor). He was a prominent transporter who held the transportation industry of the time by …

THIS was first published on September 23, 2019. Considering the recent moves to return Nigeria to regionalism, I see the need to repeat it. Since man became aware of himself and realised that whether by mutual arrangement or contrived by nature, there are always leaders and followers, communities fashioned out …