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Sele Eradiri Dies, Nigeria Television Authority Broadcaster Dead At 57

Sele Eradiri, the Nigeria Television Authority broadcaster who featured on a weekly popular program "Newsline" is dead. Ms. Eradiri died at the Lagos University Teaching ... Full story

Alleluya Akporobome

He is a stand-up comedian extraordinary. His admirers know him as Ali Baba, the humour merchant. But his real name is Alleluya Atunyota Akporobome.Since the ... Full story

Sheddi Baba

Sheddi Baba, as he is popularly called is a star comedian. He has thrilled lots of people on stage, on radio and television ... Full story

Nigerian Weddings Getting Too Extravagant

Weddings in Nigeria are colorful, creative and extravagant productions, with guest lists of up to 2,000 people considered standard. "In England, if ... Full story

Parable of old witch’s cry

IN African folklore, countless myths are surely evoked at the mention of an old witch. The wailing of this dark creature is, for instance, ... Full story

Proposed Electricity Tariff Through The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission

For some time now, the move by the Federal Government to increase electricity tariff from June 1, 2012, through the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory ... Full story

Only The Elite Can Afford Nigerian Christian Universities

Our religious leaders have certainly established the fact that education is a solid building block for a stable and successful future in a ... Full story

Madonna University

Madonna University is the first private University in Nigeria and the first Catholic University in Nigeria. Enjoying both Stately and Ecclesiastical approval, it strives to ... Full story

Ajayi Crowther University

VisionThe Vision of Ajayi Crowther University is to be a top-class institution in the pursuit of knowledge and scholarship through teaching, learning, research and exemplary ... Full story

Redeemer's University

Redeemer's University is a private university in Redemption City, Ogun State, Nigeria. Established in 2005, the university is owned by the Redeemed Christian Church of ... Full story

Babcock University

Babcock University was named after an American missionary by the name of David C. Babcock, who pioneered the work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in ... Full story

Benson Idahosa University

The Benson Idahosa University is a private, non-profit, Christian university in Benin City, Nigeria.Benson Idahosa University is named after Archbishop Benson Idahosa, a Charismatic Pentecostal ... Full story

Covenant University

Oyedepo's socio-economic endeavours include founding over 100 educational institutions based on Christian principles for primary, secondary and tertiary stages of formal Education to empower the ... Full story

Bowen University

Bowen University is a private Nigerian university owned and operated by the Nigerian Baptist Convention. Bowen University is located at Iwo in Osun State and ... Full story

Synagogue Church of All Nation (SCOAN)

In 1989, T. B. Joshua allegedly fasted and prayed for 40 days and 40 nights. He wrote that in a heavenly vision, he had received ... Full story

Christ Embassy aka Believer’s Love World Ministry

The Christian Embassy is an evangelical organization affiliated with Campus Crusade for Christ. Like its parent organization, Christian Embassy describes itself as non-political and interdenominational.ContentsMission ... Full story

Living Faith World Outreach aka Winners Chapel

Winners' Chapel (also known as Living Faith Church) is a megachurch founded by Bishop David Oyedepo in 1981.On May 1 and 2 1981, in a ... Full story

US Based Nigerian Gets 2013 Car On The Ellen Degeners' Show Video

Busola Ayeni, a first time mom to be didn’t know that something was in store for her as she attended Ellens Degeners’ show. She ... Full story

Boko Haram's terrorizing of Nigeria

Boko Haram's terrorizing of Nigeria ... Full story

Nigerian Education Malaise

"John Bull my son, I sent you to school, you don’t know how to spell your name...” Old nursery rhyme. Over the week, I could not ... Full story

The rising rate of poverty in Nigeria

The recent report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) that a staggering 112.519 million Nigerians live in relative poverty conditions is alarming. ... Full story

Infiltration of illegal weapons into Nigeria

The recent news report that some weapons looted in Libya have infiltrated Nigeria is distressing. It portends great danger and should worry those ... Full story

Rape of 41 teenage schoolgirls

It is quite unfortunate that some young schoolgirls travelling from Enugu to Lagos for the Easter holiday were attacked, robbed and subsequently raped ... Full story

Deportation of Nigerians by United Kingdom Government

Recently, media reports were awash with the story of the deportation of about 120 Nigerians by the United Kingdom (UK). The affected Nigerians ... Full story

The President’s Misadvisers

In the face of such mind-boggling revelations of fraud in the oil and gas sector, it is very disheartening to learn that Jonathan is busy ...

CAN’s Divided House

A dispute arising from election of officers pits the Kaduna State branch of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, against national and Northern officers of ...

Maina Has Refused to Defend Allegations of Embezzlement Against Him

Aloysius Etok, chairman, Joint Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service, States and Local Government Affairs, speaks to Anza Phillips, assistant editor, and Haruna Salami, ...

I Have Done No Wrong

Abdulrasheed Maina, acting director of the Customs, Immigration and Prisons Pension Office and leader, Pension Reform Task Team, PRTT, speaks  to Anza Phillips, assistant editor, ...

Stealing Without Conscience

Abdurasheed Maina, head, Pension Reform Task Team, directors and other officers saddled with the responsibilities of managing pension funds in Nigeria are a personification of ...

I Can’t Believe My Husband is Dead

Bola Ayodele, widow of the late Professor Jerome Taula Ayodele who was killed in the BUK, speaks to Newswatch on the last moment of the ...

The Kano Massacre

Survivors of the April 29, 2012, attack on Christian worshippers at the Bayero University, Kano, by suspected Boko Haram sect members narrate their experiences When Jerome ...

I Have No Secession Agenda

Last month, Osun State was rocked by a security report which alleged that Governor Rauf Aregbesola was planning to islamise the state and had discarded ...

It’s All Over

Tension generated by the altercations between Rauf Aregbesola, governor of Osun State, and Iyiola Omisore, former senator, is now over For the people of the State ...

The Big Fuel Subsidy Rip-Off

A full report of the ad-hoc committee of the House of Representatives opens a can of worms in the administration of the fuel subsidy regime ...