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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION About two decades in the making, this is a new volume of poetry on Niyi Osundare’s journeys in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Running through the poems is the poet’s exploration of the ways places make people and people make places, and the primordial role of the road as agent of separation and connection. […]

A 39-year-old housewife, Mrs. Omotayo Salawudeen, has confessed that she covered the mouth of her husband, Alhaji Hakeem Salawudeen, while the 24-year-old man she hired to kill him stabbed him to death. Omotayo, who was paraded by the police in Osogbo on Monday for alleged murder, made the confession while being interviewed by journalists. Omotayo said […]

Janet Jackson has reportedly moved back home to Los Angeles, United States, from London after splitting from her husband. The Control singer confirmed she had ended her five-year marriage to Qatari billionaire Wissam Al Mana in April (17), just months after the former couple welcomed its first child, son Eissa, in January 1). Janet relocated to […]

“The MC of goofs, gaffs and a lotta mumbo-jumbo Alhaji Lai Mohammed in one of his numerous jokes, probably scripted this time by Tony Okoroji, announced that the federal government is set to stop production of Nigerian movies and music videos abroad. This revelation was made recently on Saturday,  July 15, 2017, at the headquarters […]

The crisis rocking the telecommunication network provider, Etisalat Nigeria (now 9mobile, effective today), took another dimension on Tuesday as one of its key strategic partners, HUAWEI Technology, relieved over 100 Nigerian engineers working with them, of their jobs. The workers, who said they had worked with the company for over eight years, protested over the […]

Women’s rights activist and Nobel Laureate, Pakistani, Malala Yousafzai, on Tuesday bemoaned Nigeria’s status as the country with the largest number of children out of school in the world. She spoke during her visit to Nigeria, during which she met with girls displaced by the Boko Haram crisis. While in Maiduguri, the epicenter of the crisis in […]

Hundreds of pensioners in Osun on Wednesday barricaded the entrance of Government Secretariat, located at Abeere, to demand for their pensions and other benefits. The pensioners, under the auspices of Forum of 2011/12 Retired Public Servants of Osun flayed the Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola for what they termed” lackadaisical approach,” towards their plights, which has […]

The marriage between Mr Sunday Okafor and his wife, Adetola, was dissolved by an Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Wednesday. Adetola, 40, had approached the court to end her 13-year-old union over the husband’s unfaithfulness. She said: “My husband has been travelling to his village in the name of visiting his elder brother, not […]

A Federal High Court Sitting in Lagos has ordered the interim forfeiture of an estate in Banana Island, Lagos belonging to former Minister of Petroleum Resources under President Goodkuck Jonathan, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. The court also ordered the forfeiture of $37.5m alleged to have been fraudulently siphoned by the former Minister. Details later……

According to reports, it’s happening again just like the flood of homosexuality in our society today. The trend of ‘s*x Robot’ is invariably going to storm the world like the zombies, ready to destroy many marriages and relationships. Our vulnerable children in the schools will subsequently see it as the best way to keep body […]

Many directors will from today begin a three-day examination to replace 20 Federal Permanent Secretaries that retired from the service recently. This was announced in a circular dated Monday and signed by the Permanent Secretary, Career Management Office (CMO), Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, in the Office of Head of Service of the Federation. In line with […]

Tragedy struck again in Kaduna State on Tuesday as 37 people were reported to have been killed in Kajuru Local Government Area. The incident came barely three days after four herdsmen were said to have been killed by gunmen in the same place. The fresh round of violence is said to have erupted between farmers and herders, […]

The Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday announced the death of one of its members, Mr Kazeem Alimi (APC-Eti Osa I). The Chairman, House Committee on Information and Strategy, Mr Tunde Braimoh, made the announcement in a statement in Lagos. Alimi, a second term member of the assembly, died at the Lagos State Teaching […]

A 17-year old girl who was a victim of s*xual abuse has made a shocking confession, saying that she cannot do without having s*x with men daily. She narrated how an old man, who was their neighbour at Mile 12, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, lured her into s*x at seven and since then she cannot […]

Powerful multiple explosions rocked Maiduguri on Tuesday night barely 24 hours after suicide attacks in the city killed 12 persons, including the bombers. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that at least six explosions occurred between 10:45 pm and 11:00 pm on Tuesday. About four heavy sounds were heard simultaneously while two other powerful […]

Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara said it was unacceptable that Nigerians spent US$5 billion on electricity generators annually. He said the House would support the Executive to find a permanent solution to the power problem in the country. Dogara stated this on Tuesday in Abuja at the public hearing organised by the House […]

“The Police will testify to the fact that all the members of the Action Group supporting Alhaji Adegbenro remained calm under the gravest possible provocations. They too could hit back – there were 66 of them against 40 odd of the other side and they could have hit back but they did not hit back. […]

The Vice Chancellor of University of Abuja (UNIABUJA), Professor Michael Adikwu, has appealed to the Federal Government to urgently relocate the herdsmen and their cattle from the university campus. He made the appeal while speaking with newsman on Monday at the main campus of the university as part of activities marking his three years in […]

The Supreme Court did not raise a dead PDP, they only brought out the rotten corpse of a dead PDP for all to smell the bad odour”- Alhaji Lai Muhammed, Minister of Information, Daily Post, 15th July 2017. I am trying my best to remain magnanimous in victory and to remain restrained but this diaper-wearing, […]

The Lagos State House of Assembly has disclosed of its plan to reduce pension of former governors in the state. Speaker Mudashiru Obasa said this at the weekend at a meeting with civil society organisations. He said, “This House is amending the Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension) Law. The amendment is titled, Public Office […]