Emeka Ojukwu – A man of Vision and Mission.

The neighbouring ports of Apapa and Tin Can Island and the more south easterly Port Harcourt have not been happy places of late what with pressure

Former governor of Kano State, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, will yesterday took his former aide Dr. Gaji Fatima Dantata as his fourth wife. Gaji was commissioner for women affairs during Shekarau’s first term as governor. The wedding fatiha will take place at the residence of Kano business tycoon, Alhaji Aminu Alhassan Dantata, in Kano city. The bride is Aminu Dantata’s niece having been daughter of Dantata’s elder sister Hajiya Bara

A Lancashire man who has been on the run from police for three years has been arrested in Nigeria. Dion Lee, 34, who is originally from the Lancaster, was arrested in the capital Lagos having been hunted for his alleged part in importing drugs and firearms into the United Kingdom from Amsterdam. He was arrested on Tuesday following an operation led by officers from the Serious and Organised Crime Unit at Lancashire Police working with Interpol to

BANGALORE: A Nigerian facing charges of violation of visa rules and overstaying in the country died at the Parappana Agrahara Central Jail on Tuesday morning. Okaye Immanuel Chika, 22, reportedly collapsed in his cell No. 44 and was rushed to the jail hospital, where doctors declared he had had a cardiac arrest. The doctors advised the jail staff to rush him to Jayadeva Institute of Cardio Vascular Sciences and Research. Doctors at Jayadeva

Today we look at the Names we Bear/answer and see how it influence or impede our lives.Most times we answer names or bear surname that has to do with doom,evil and backwardness and or yoke us with the devil. To some of us it does not matter but Biblical it mattered a lot,read your Bible well enough ,you will discover that God changes name of some people when he wants to bless them and therefore if your name is not Godly or

The issue of homosexuality as it is mentioned by the Apostle Paul in the Holy Bible is of great importance. God used Paul in the Book of Romans  in a very unique way. God is always angry with men who reject His revelation, sink into rationalization, religion and ultimately reprobation. In defining the sinfulness of man and the utter fallenness of man, Paul gives an illustration of the depth of man's sin by pointing out what is the worst earthly

A foreign criminal who was jailed for his role in a £1 million benefits fraud has used human rights laws to avoid being deported from the United Kingdom. Philip Olawale Omotunde took part in a elaborate scam which involved claiming social security pay-outs for fictional disabled babies. The Home Office tried to deport the Nigerian but he won the right to stay in Britain after arguing it would breach his "right to private and family life" to

I know it ,you know it and everybody detest to say it ,but can we just continue mumbling and our family value and life goes to the dog? Marriage is a sacred institution ,bed undefilled and adultery is a taboo. Infact it is unheard of for a married woman to be having sex outside her matrimonial home and expect the man to do nothing or say nothing in reaction. CORRECT, but we are not about to discuss correctness ,we are to discuss -MARRIAGE

A Nigerian man did not know name of his sham bride and could only tell police she was "big, black, liked smoking and chicken burgers", a court heard. Mojeed Bello, an illegal immigrant, had arranged to marry Dutch national Carina Merselina at a parish church in Gloucester so that he could continue living in Britain. But the lack of romance between the couple rang alarm bells with Rev Robert Simpson, vicar of St James, Gloucester, when they

Chris Okotie preaching at his church in Lagos, Nigeria

An increasing number of Nigeria's 70 million Christians are followers of the prosperity teachings - the belief that prosperity is a sign of spiritual blessing. Services are held in megachurches that hold thousands, with millionaire pastors preaching the word.

A Ghanaian family won the Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery in Ghana . Like most deprived and under-privileged Africans, they raised enough money to buy flight tickets. The father in his late 50’s, the mother 42, and a son who was 22 were ready for the life-dream journey to the land of opportunity where milk and honey flowed and dollar bills littered the sidewalks for any interested walker to pickup – the United States of America. This was

(AFP) A Dutch court on Tuesday sentenced a Nigerian-born man accused of leading an international prostitution ring which used voodoo to threaten victims to seven years in jail. Three accomplices were also sentenced to between six months and four years by the court in the northeastern city of Zwolle for their part in luring at least 14 young Nigerian girls to the Netherlands and forcing them into the sex trade. “The court sentenced the four

(Forbes) While a vast majority of Nigeria’s wealthiest businessmen spurn the capital markets, preferring to build their fortunes through privately-held companies, the Nigerian Stock Exchange still accounts for a substantial portion of the wealth of a number of the country’s richest individuals. Based on figures derived from investment agencies, the latest annual reports and confirmations from capital market registrars, these are the five richest

Authorities have appointed a taskforce to investigate allegations Nigerian scammers have sold a family's Ballajura home without their knowledge, over a year after criminals sold a WA man's house without his knowledge. The couple had been working in Nigeria but when they recently returned to Perth, they discovered their home had been sold. According to a statement released this morning, the real estate agent involved has told

One in five relationships starts online, according to advertisements for Match.com, an international boy-meets-girl Internet service. Count former Goochland County Treasurer Brenda S. Grubbs' relationship with a shadowy Nigerian among them. On Valentine's Day last year, Grubbs, 53, went to Match.com and found Bobby Johnson, purportedly from Falls Church and Nigeria, and she fell for his story of Internet love and tragedy hook, line and pocketbook.

Yesterday, Daniel Elombah wrote on elombah.com: "Now that Major Mustapha has given us the chance to atone for our sins of omission, let’s grab it with both hands. For all that could be written about Abiola, the following begs for urgent answers: who killed the late Bashorun MKO Abiola and why? We must unravel the mystery behind the murders of Late General Sani Abacha and MKO Abiola. Furthermore, Al Mustapha’s claims that 

From the archives: (Friday, 20th July, 2001) THE last moments of the late Chief M.K.O. Abiola were relived publicly for the first time yesterday by the man who should know: Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Theodore Bethnel Zadok, who for the two years preceding the chief’s death was in charge of his security and welfare in government custody. He was testifying at the Oputa panel sitting in Abuja

My Boss, General Sani Muhammad Abacha, died at the early hours of Monday, 8th June, 1998. I had prepared him for a workshop organized by the Federal Ministry of Information for that day as he was expected to deliver an address as the Special Guest of Honour. His speech was drafted and fine tuned by the Chief Press Secretary, Chief David Attah who had submitted it to the Aide-De Camp for vetting and necessary amendments by the Commander-in-Chief.

A 50-year-old South African man thought to be dead woke up in a chilly morgue on Sunday and shouted to be let out, scaring off two attendants who thought he was a ghost, local media reported. "His family thought he had died," health spokesman Sizwe Kupelo told the Sapa news agency. "The family called a private undertaker who took what they thought was a dead body to the morgue, but the man woke up inside the morgue on Sunday at