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The Nigeria football family has again been thrown into mourning following the death of former IICC Shooting Stars of Ibadan striker, Moses Otolorin who passed on yesterday morning. He reportedly died of renal failure in Ilorin where he had been living since his active playing days. His demise came less than a month after the […]

The screen diva isn’t shy about the fact that she is well heeled in the rear and sees it as the weapon God bestowed on her. The ‘Chocolat’ sensation reveals in this chat what drives her. Lets go: How did you start music? “I started music very young, at the age of six to be […]

How to treat a naked woman: Another rejoinder By Bunmi Aroyewun On Tuesday, December 2, 2014, Jibril Sado wrote a rejoinder to an article published in The PUNCH, titled, How to treat a naked woman. The write-up was a response to an earlier one written on November 27, 2014 by Abimbola Adelakun. Adelakun who took […]

2015 polls: My appeal to Jonathan, Buhari By Bolaji Akinyemi SHORTLY after his appointment as National Security Adviser, General Andrew Owoye Azazi, at his own request, met with me in my office in Lagos, to discuss the State of the Nation. It was on the eve of the 2011 elections. I told the General that […]

According to Punch newspaper, at least 29 people were killed and more than 65 others wounded on Monday   in two separate attacks by suspected Boko Haram insurgents on the capitals of Gombe and Bauchi states. The Gombe State attack was by a female bomber who struck at the Dukku Motor Park in Gombe. She killed 19 and […]

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has said that its presidential candidate in the forthcoming election, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, will be contesting against a semi-literate candidate. Ostensibly referring to the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), the party also said the election would be between Jonathan and   “a […]

Nigerians have expressed outrage over the N21.27 billion fund raised by President Goodluck Jonathan from friends at the weekend to prosecute his re-election bid  in 2015. In the midst of collapsed economy, high state of insecurity, poor power supply, rising unemployment and pervasive poverty, the president raised N21.27 billion at the weekend from cronies believed […]

According to PM news, the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) on Monday said that the World Bank would support the Nigeria’s power sector with 1.75b dollars (about N294billion) over the next four years. This was contained in a statement by the Head, Public Communication of the enterprise, Mr Chigbo Anichebe, in Abuja. According to the […]

According to LIB, at least 15 people have been confirmed dead after a bomb went off at the Dukku motor park in Gombe state this morning December 22. The blast occurred around 11am when passengers traveling for the Christmas holiday were in the park. (LIB)

This handsome young soldier, Ayo Oloruntoba, a native of Ilorin, Kwara State is gone. He is gone to keep Nigeria safe. He was among the last troops killed in Adamawa state a few weeks ago. We need to keep celebrating these soldiers and unite to see the end of Boko Haram so that their deaths are […]

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Beji Caid Essebsi, an 88-year-old Cabinet minister from previous regimes, won Sunday’s presidential runoff, according to exit polls, cementing his dominance over a country where his party already controls Parliament. Sigma Conseil company’s exit polls, which have consistently matched official results in Tunisia, gave Essebsi 55.5 percent of the vote and his opponent Moncef Marzouki, […]

The Plateau State Governor, Mr. Jonah Jang, has named his son, Yakubu, as the state Commissioner for Lands and Urban Planning. Before this new development, Yakubu was his father’s Special Adviser on Special Duties. Yakubu, according to the Commissioner for Information. Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, will take over from Mr. Yilji Gomwalk, who has been picked […]

According to Punch Metro, thousands of Lagos residents converged on the Idowu Taylor Street, Victoria Island, on Saturday to receive Christmas gifts from the Bola Tinubu Foundation, a non-profit organisation owned by a former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The gifts comprised bags of rice, salt, vegetable oil, T-shirts and cash. The event […]

According to Punch newspaper, the militant Islamist group, Boko Haram, has vowed that “from now on, killing, slaughtering, destruction and bombing’’ would   be its religious duty anywhere it invades. The group, in a new video released to journalists on Saturday, showed its armed members   mowing down civilians lying face down in a dormitory. The setting […]

According to AP, President Barack Obama is “recklessly” spreading rumors of a Pyongyang-orchestrated cyberattack of Sony Pictures, North Korea says, as it warns of strikes against the White House, Pentagon and “the whole U.S. mainland, that cesspool of terrorism.” Such rhetoric is routine from North Korea’s massive propaganda machine during times of high tension with […]

According to The Guardian, officials of the United States government have for the first time in months presented an explanation on the sudden termination of oil imports from Nigeria since July, an action which spurred concerns whether there were any possible political connotation especially because of the current strain in Nigeria-US diplomatic relations. Answering a question on […]

According to The Nation newspaper, the immediate past Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, yesterday fired back at the former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, asking  him to seek rehabilitation  for  post-traumatic stress arising from his stint in jail. The former minister was responding to George’s […]

According to Punch newspaper, a Niger Delta activist and spokesperson for the Ijaw Republican Assembly, Ms. Annkio Briggs, has downplayed the decision of the All Progressives Congress not to pick a South-South running mate for its presidential candidate, Maj.-Gen. Muhammed Buhari (retd.). The APC, on Wednesday, named a former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in […]