Olympics: Bolt eyes world record in 200m
Usain Bolt vowed to go for a world record in Thursday’s Rio Olympics 200m final after Jamaican compatriot Elaine Thompson completed a stunning women’s sprint double. Brazil’s football team set up a...
View ArticleIs Buhari’s search for oil in North needful?
Eshiobo Shola (Immediate past president, Institute of Chartered Economists of Nigeria) I think the northern governors and the Presidency are motivated to resume oil exploration in the North because of...
View ArticleChibok girls: Army stops Wakil, Bolori from hajj
Fidelis Soriwei, Abuja The Nigerian Military has released the two persons, Aisha Wakil and Ahmed Bolori, who were declared wanted by the Army on Monday for allegedly hoarding information about the...
View ArticleNaira devaluation causing drug shortage – Pharmacists
Ramon Oladimeji Nigerian pharmacists, under the aegis of the Association of Hospital and Administrative Pharmacists of Nigeria, have lamented the declining value of naira, saying it poses a threat to...
View ArticleBREAKING: Former Delta Chief Judge Justice Omo-Agege is dead
Ovie Okpare, Warri A former Delta State Chief Judge and father to Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, representing Delta Central at the National Assembly, Hon. Justice James Omo-Agege, is dead. James Omo-Agege,...
View ArticleUS swimmers quit Brazil after admitting to inventing mugging
US Olympic authorities apologized to Brazil on Thursday as two US swimmers were allowed to go home having retracted a fabricated story about being mugged in Rio. A third American swimmer who is still...
View ArticleLeave Kaduna or face the law, police warn criminals
The Kaduna State Police Command have warned rapists and other criminals to leave the state or face the wrath of the law. The Police Public Relations Officer of the Command, ASP Aliyu Usman, who gave...
View ArticleChinese govt grants scholarships to 24 Nigerians
The Chinese Government has offered scholarships to 24 Nigerians to study in various universities in China, being part of efforts to strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries. Chargé d’...
View Article“Pay teachers ‘special’ salary to revive public schools”
A lawyer, Jimoh Abdulrasaq, has called on the federal government to place teachers in public schools on a special salary structure to improve the quality of their service. Abdulrasaq said in Ilorin...
View ArticleTwo girls die after circumcision
A teenage girl died after undergoing a botched female circumcision in Sierra Leone, police said Thursday, just days after the death of a 10-year-old girl in Guinea. Female genital mutilation is...
View ArticleDevaluation: Did President Buhari get it (1)
Last week, my gate keeper suddenly packed his luggage with the intention of quitting his job. The reason he decided to withdraw his services and return to his country is the weakening exchange rate...
View ArticleInvestment rules every entrepreneur should know
MAUREEN IHUA-MADUENYI writes on how entrepreneurs can boost business growth by increasing profit and lowering risks. The aim of investing in any kind of business is to make profit and anything contrary...
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I knelt and begged him, yet he slaughtered my daughter in my presence –...
Kunle Falayi The inch-long scar on the neck of 53-year-old Mrs. Christiana Ashinwo, is one of the physical reminders of the horror of Sunday, April 24, 2016. She sat on a chair quietly in the sitting...
View ArticleEFCC probes N’Assembly’s N300bn allocation in 2014, 2015 budgets
Niyi Odebode, John Ameh, Eniola Akinkuotu and Leke Baiyewu The Federal Government has started investigating how the 2014 and 2015 budgetary allocations of the National Assembly were expended. Saturday...
View ArticleINEC can’t guarantee conclusive elections in 2019 –Chairman
Gbenro Adeoye and Tunde Ajaja The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, says given the challenges and malpractices that have marred elections both in the past...
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Forex crisis: Summer holidaymakers shun US, UK, opt for villages
The drop in the value of the naira forces many summer travellers to explore other alternatives, leaving local tourist resorts smiling all the way to the bank and airline operators suffocating writes...
View ArticleBailouts: Dogara, minister, others report Bauchi gov to APC
Leke Baiyewu, Abuja Members of the National Assembly and leaders of the All Progressives Congress in Bauchi State met with the National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odie-Oyegun, on Friday to report...
View ArticleRecruitment: Police shortlist 110,469 applicants for exams
Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The Police Service Commission said it had shortlisted 110,469 applicants for the aptitude tests commencing on Monday in all the states of the federation and the Federal Capital...
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Infertility wreaks silent havoc in marriages, wives resort to infidelity
Kunle Falayi Five years was lost. Five years 41-year-old Efosa Ehiosu would never get back in his life. The discussion about that dark phase of Ehiosu’s life that nearly drove him over the rocks, took...
View ArticleMy father warned the Prime Minister they would all be killed–Awosika, Festus...
The January 15, 1966 coup wiped out some of Nigeria’s finest military officers. But not only military officers were killed during the coup, masterminded by Major Kaduna Nzeogwu, Major Timothy...
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