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Monday Oluwafemi John, Nigerian Juju musician is dead!
MONDAY Oluwafemi John, one of the pioneer members of Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey’s band, Inter-reformers band is dead. He died at the General ... Full story
James Iroha aka Gringory Akabogu of New Masquerade, dead at 69
Long standing Nigerian actor and cast in the now rested soap opera New Masquerade, James Iroha aka Gringory Akabogu has died at 69. The ... Full story
Alhaji Abdulkadir Dantata Dies In Germany
The heir of the famous Dantata family of Kano, and chairman of Dantata & Sawoe company, Alhaji Abdulkadir Dantata is dead. He died on Tuesday ... Full story
Ambassador Matthew Taiwo Mbu dies in a London hospital at the age of 82
ELDER STATESMAN, Dr. Matthew Tawo Mbu, CFR, is dead. He died, yesterday, in a London hospital at the age of 82. The family in a ... Full story
Nigeria’s Foremost economist, Prof Sam Aluko is dead at 83
Nigeria’s foremost economist, Prof. Sam Aluko is dead. He died ,Tuesday, at the age of 83 in a London hospital, in the United Kingdom. His ... Full story
Yoruba Leaders Unhappy
Eminent Yoruba leaders meet President Goodluck Jonathan with a list of their people grievances which include poor representation in the federal administration President Goodluck Jonathan, last ...
Victims of Nature’s Anger
Many people die and many houses fall as windstorm ravages Lagos during an early morning rain, February 13 There was nothing ominous about it in the ...
On the Horns of a Dilemma
The Lagos State government is in a dilemma as to what to do with the report and recommendations of a 32-member committee it set up ...
Our Prayers are Being Answered
Frank Odita, retired commissioner of police and principal consultant, Frankcom Limited, a security company, speaks with Haruna Salami, senior staff writer, and Elaigwu Sule, reporter/researcher, ...
Azazi’s Winning Strategy Against Boko Haram
Recent arrests of Boko Haram kingpins and their confessional statements seem to have taken security agencies closer to victory against the sect For quite sometime now, ...
Calabar’s Troubled Stool
The controversial re-selection of Ekpo Okon Otu v, as Obong of Calabar, after his sacking by the High Court is generating a lot of dust ...
A Pastor’s Divine Mandate Against Witches
Helen Ukpabio, founder of Liberty Gospel Foundation Ministry, frees over 300 witches from the witchcraft world and tells them not to return there anymore ...
Boko Vs Haram
Boko Haram, the Islamic sect that has killed hundreds of people through bomb and gun attacks, is now a house divided against itself ...
Ondo Money is Being Recklessly Stolen
Olaiya Oni, former chairman of the Labour Party, LP, in Ondo State, speaks to Demola Abimboye, principal associate editor, on the Report of the Auditor-General ...
The Looting Spree In Ondo
An audit report just released on the finances of the Governor Olusegun Mimiko administration indicts virtually all ministries, parastatals and agencies as well as the ...
Breaking CBN’s Forex Market Monopoly
Finance experts insist that the monopolistic control of the foreign exchange market by the Central Bank of Nigeria creates many problems for the national economy ...
Helping Nigerian Airlines Grow
Olisa Agbakoba, senior advocate of Nigeria and former president, Nigerian Bar Association, initiates a bill which, if passed by the National Assembly, will make it ...
When Will It End? How Will It End?
A veto by two permanent members of the UN Security Council blocks foreign intervention to end the Syrian crisis, thus raising questions on the direction ...
Subsidy Removal: Matters Arising (2)
Contrary to federal government’s claim, the massive daily crowds at the various rally centres across the country were not rented. It was a spontaneous expression ...
Our Roads Are Victims of Corruption
Ebenezer Meshida, a lecturer in the Department of Geology of the University of Lagos, came to limelight four years ago when he was pronounced winner ...
Will al-Mustapha Eventually Be Hanged?
A Lagos High Court sentences Hamza al-Mustapha to death by hanging but his lawyers have appealed the judgement The verdict of ...
Subsidy Removal: Matters Arising (1)
I strongly believe the six-day nationwide strike and mass protests came at God’s fullness of time because they threw up some lessons and issues which ...
Bloodletting In Ebonyi
Multiple crises over land ownership in Ebonyi State leave nearly 200 people dead It is now calm in FOUR communities in Ebonyi ...
Fraud Unlimited
Contract splitting, inflation of contract sums and other forms of financial irregularities uncovered in many federal ministries, departments and parastatals For more ...
Editorial Suite
Federal ministries, departments and parastatals are, indeed, citadels of corruption and financial irregularities. That is what the latest audit report released by the Office of ...
The Kano Massacre
Boko Haram, the terrorist Islamic sect, takes its killing machine to Kano and kills more than 200 in two days Joshua ...
Why the Anti-Drug War Is Slow
Femi Ajayi is the director-general of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. He speaks to a Newswatch team of Maureen Chigbo, general editor; Anthony Akaeze, ...
All Igbo to Go Home
Tobias Michael Idika, president, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Kano State Chapter, has spent more than 35 years in Kano. He speaks to Anza Phillips, assistant editor, on ...
We’re in Difficult Times
Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, governor of Kano State, speaks to Anza Phillips, assistant editor, on the recent Boko Haram attack in Kano city. Excerpts: ...
Nigeria’s Threatened Federation
Boko Haram’s bomb and gun attacks and its order that Christians leave predominantly muslim states in the north, creates tension capable of undermining the existence ...