Month: May 2014

Premier League’s £63m losers’ prize

Manchester City stand to rake in £95 million from TV money this

Doro-Couple? Freda Edewor and Don Jazzy get Ghost in a Phantom (Look)

Freda Edewor and Don Jazzy may just be the latest couple in

Get Familiar: Diamond Bank releases Battle of the Sexes survey (Look)

Diamond Woman website poll reveals that 72% of Nigerian women do not

Barclays Bank sacks 19,000 including 7000 investment bankers

Antony Jenkins, the chief executive of Barclays who is engaged in a

The Invisible President by Okechukwu Ofili

The problem with Goodluck Jonathan’s administration is communication. From the top down,

‘Chibok is a scam; no girls kidnapped’ – Asari Dokubo

Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Voluntary Force, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari

Madueke Probe: Reps query PPMC over N10 billion Chartered Jet payments

The House of Representatives Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, Honourable Solomon Adeola

Vehicle Tariff Hike: 1000 Clearing agents withdraw services from Port

Over 1,000 clearing agents have threatened to withdraw their services from the Port

Can Hashtag Activism Save Kidnapped Nigerian Girls?

As my colleague Adam Nossiter reports from Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan’s government is under

Extend State of Emergency in Northeast – Southern Assembly

A group, the Southern Nigerian Peoples Assembly has called on President Goodluck

Ciroma, Northern Elders express concern over missing girls, State of Emergency and, First Lady

A group of elder statesmen from the North Eastern region have called

How a simple bridge made Paris the world’s first modern tourist destination

Excerpted from How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City by Joan

Boko Haram’s Shekau Not That Worried After Talking To Kony (Parody)

Joseph Kony, leader of the LRA and star of 2012 internet trend

Dbanj reveals how personal family tragedy drove him towards music

The Entertainer, Dapo Oyebanjo aka Dbanj has had Nigerians moving their feet,

Just Before We Bring Back Our Girls by Mike Irene

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfil it or betray it. Interestingly,

Omawunmi looks amazeballs on the cover of PRIDE magazine (Look)

Omawunmi is really upping the ante for the thick diva club in

Is Chris Brown being set up on these assault charges?

Everyone knows Chris Brown has anger management issues but here is the

This is what America’s Intelligence apparatus really thinks about Nigeria

Paul Omoruyi blogs at www.diasporascope.com. In his latest piece published on Sahara Reporters,

N60 million Tithes: EFCC arrests Abuja socialite civil servant on money laundering charges (Photo)

A top official of the Nigerian Prisons Service Dr (Mrs) Imaobong Akon Esu-Nte,

Isha Sesay interviews senior Presidential Aide, Doyin Okupe LIVE on CNN (Watch)

CNN's Isha Sesay speaks to a senior Nigerian official about the government's

Investors in Nigeria Unfazed as Kidnappings Highlight Risk

Investors in Nigeria are so far unfazed by the wave of killings

Guinness MD says Northeastern violence may slow down foreign investments

Guinness Nigeria, said a recent wave of deadly bomb attacks and kidnappings

The New York Times Editorial: Nigeria’s Stolen Girls

Three weeks after their horrifying abduction in Nigeria, 276 of the more than

Arms Proliferation: Police recover rifles from trash cans in Kano

Kano State Police Command has recovered two rifles from a dustbin in

US President Obama talks about American team headed to Nigeria (Watch)

United States President Barack Obama, in this video, states that Nigeria has

“We Would Marry Them Out at the Age of Nine”

For years, we've been pointing out what the Qur'an says about Muslims taking

Keshi released list for World Cup squad, Odemwingie makes the cut

Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi has released the list of players headed

300 killed, 11 girls kidnapped as Boko Haram goes on rampage in Borno

Boko Haram gunmen stormed Gamborou Ngala town in Borno state in a convoy

Watch Wole Soyinka discuss Boko Haram with CNN’s Amanpour (Video)

Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka discussed the Boko Haram insurgency on the CNN

Dangote Cement to Expand in Three African Nations in 2014,

Nigeria’s largest company and Africa’s biggest producer of cement, said it plans