By Pius Adesanmi You must excuse the obscenity, “iyalaya anybody”, in my title. When you invite a well-known scholar of African popular cultures to address such a distinguished assembly of actors and professionals in Nigeria’s corporate and entrepreneurial world, you must be prepared to be illuminated by the philosophical nuggets …

The Minister of State for Education, Prof. Anthony Anwukah, has constituted a panel to investigate alleged sexual assault on a female student of Queens College, Lagos by a male teacher. Mr Ben Bem Goong, the Director of Press, Federal Ministry of Education, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said …

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu in an exclusive  interview granted to IVOTES’ Editorial Board Chairman ,Edmund Obilo , has declared that he is not the president’s man. He spoke on a range of issues like the recent inconclusive elections in Kogi and Bayelsa …

The Trade Union Congress, Rivers State Chapter has called for total transparency in the re-run legislative elections coming up tomorrow in the state. TUC in a release signed by the Chairman, Comrade  Hyginus Chika Onuegbu, eligible voters were urged to come out with their voters’ card and vote for candidates …

Controversial boss of the Lagos state chapter of the Nigerian Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Musiliu Akinsanya, a.k.a. MC Oluomo,recently celebrated his birthday with a lavish party.According to reports, the birthday party which took place on Monday, March 14, at The Place club on Isaac John street, Ikeja. was …

President Mohammadu Buhari has said he is angry over the news of latest cruel attacks on a mosque in Maiduguri, Borno State, describing Boko Haram, perpetrators of the dastardly act, as a group of mindless and godless people. He was reacting to the early morning attacks which claimed over 20 …

National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, has expressed confidence that the party would regain its lost glory. Sheriff  said the strength of the party would be restored after members would have resolved their differences. Sheriff said this on Wednesday in Akure, Ondo state, when he …

THE Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, Wednesday admitted before an investigative panel of the House of Representatives that its current liabilities stand at N6.6 trillion following purchase of bad loans worth N3.3 trillion at the sum of N1.7 trillion. This was disclosed by the Managing Director of AMCON, Ahmed …

CONTRARY to its earlier promise to pass the 2016 budget today, the Senate, has given Tuesday, next week,as the day it would pass the budget. The Red Chamber, which had also,earlier assured that its Committee on Appropriation would lay the various reports of committees collated, before it during yesterday’s plenary, …

Dangote Group, owned by Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote, opened a tomato-processing factory near Nigeria’s northern city of Kano aimed at vying for the local market with imports from China. “We have fully started operations today and the target is 1,200 metric tons per day,” Abdulkareem Kaita, managing director of …