May 2018

Officials of Real Madrid Football Club and Confederation of African Football (CAF) yesterday, performed the historic foundation laying ceremony for the Real Madrid Football Academy in Port Harcourt, initiated by Rivers State Governor,…

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has stated that the state government will continue to invest in sports development to empower Rivers youths. Speaking during a courtesy Visit by the President of Inter- national Sports Press…

By Kingsley Maduforo The foremost African writer and prolific novelist, Professor Chinua Achebe once said: 'The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing wrong with the Nigerian land or…

The police confirmed yesterday that four people were killed and seven injured in the latest Boko Haram attack on the town of Konduga in Borno State. The commissioner of police in the state, Mr. Damian Chukwu, told reporters in Maiduguri…

Barely a week after priests and parishioners that were killed by Fulani herdsmen were buried in the Catholic Diocese of Makurdi, Benue State, Rev. Fr. Cornelius Koba, Sunday night, narrowly escaped death with gunshot wounds, as Fulani…

Meanwhile, no fewer than 120 suspected Boko Haram members have surrendered to military troops on counter-insurgency operation, the military disclosed. Theatre Commander ‘Operation Lafiya Dole’, Maj. Gen Rogers Nicholas, said yesterday at a…

Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, met with the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) bloc in the All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday, and the group’s spokesman, Kawu Baraje said it is still too early to say whether they will…

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has urged the Federal Government to step up efforts to end killings across the country. Atiku said killing of innocent people, especially in Taraba, Benue and Zamfara, has reached a terrifying height…

A former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Attahiru Jega, yesterday, knocked the National Assembly, claiming that its members indulged in unbridled corruption. Particularly, he slammed committee chairmen in the…

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu PhD, was on the media glare once again as the Christian Youth Leadership Assembly, last week honoured him as the Nehemiah of our time. Such description by the group on our "silent achiever", if I am to employ the…