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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 ...