The perplexing corruption in Nigeria's oil sector will again come under scrutiny as a topic for discussion at an event organised by a Washington based international non-governmental organisation, Open Society Institute. The discussion of the oil corruption under the Jonathan administration will come during the screening of a documentary film Fuelling Poverty . The documentary produced against the backdrop o ...

After about a week of battling old age sickness in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States of America, 82 year old Africa’s foremost novelist and author, Prof Chinua Achebe succumbed to the cold hands of death yesternight. His health had deteriorated over a week ago after which he was rushed to the hospital but just as there was hope that the literary icon may survive it, things fell apart ...

Alhaji Ganiyu Ajiboye, the deposed Baale of Ago Oja and son of late Ashipa of Oyo, Alhaji Amuda Olorunosebi has vowed that no amount of intimidation by the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, will stop him from ascending the throne vacated by his late father. The late Ashipa was killed in a controversial circumstance in 1992 during a long power tussle with the incumbent Alaafin and was not buried until ...

                                                                                                      By  TEGA OGHENEDORO When Governor Emmanuel Ewetan Uduaghan unfolded his three point agenda, top on the list was ‘peace and security’. But if the recent development going on in Oghara Kingdom, Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State is anything to go by, then he may just be paying mere lip service ...

Few days after pop star-turned pastor, Chris Okotie announced that his four year old marriage to Stephanie Henshaw has packed up without giving any reason, the lady at the center of the failed marriage appears to have come out to state her own side of the story. Okotie who is the founder and presiding pastor of the Household of God Church in Lagos had shocked his congregation about a fortnight ago towards t ...

By Dave Emma MKPAT ENIN: There has been a renewed and vigorous hunt for alleged witches and wizards in Akwa Ibom State, the Niger Delta region of Nigeria where hundreds of victims are systematically put through a string of torture and killed by irate youths with tacit support of some elders. Mkpat Enin, is a Local Government in Akwa Ibom State; a community besieged by a virus called extreme poverty; the ver ...

She is 9 years old and terrifically intelligent. Her father works at the National Headquarters in INEC while her mum stays in Akwa Ibom, both having separated way back. In effect, she is from Akwa Ibom. However, she currently lives in a motherless babies home at Karu in the outskirts of Abuja. I came upon her story in the course of offering free legal services to a public interest radio program called BEREK ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48. Publicist Kristen Foster said Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unknown. At her peak, Houston the golden girl of the music industry. Fr ...

Party-freak son of Nigeria’s Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, Ugonna , has described the appearance of his personal pictures on some online news outlets as smear campaign orchestrated to deceive and mislead Nigerians. In a statement, Ugonna Madueke, who is rendering an apology for the distress that the published photographs have caused Nigerians and the Madueke family, said that t ...

In the pictures are SNG convener Pastor Bakare, Yinka Odumakin, Prof Pat Utomi, Femi Kuti, Richard Akinnola, Joe Odumakin, Biodun Sowunmi, Femi Falana, and Debo Adeniran ...