LAST minute female shoppers at the busy Balogun Market in Lagos have resorted to hiding their purses in their underwear as the scourge of theft and pick-pocketing has become rife in the area in the run-up to Christmas.
NEW Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has promoted Nigerian teenage duo Tolaji Bola and James Olayinka into the Gunner's first team with them now being in contention for selection ahead of the next league match against Bournemouth on Boxing Day.
FORMER Super Eagles skipper Nwankwo Kanu has pledged to step up the work of his Kanu Heart Foundation (KHF) during the course of 2020 pointing out that there are 200 children on the waiting list for transplants.
SENATE chief whip and former Abia State governor Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has had his request for post-conviction bail turned down by the federal high court in Lagos when a judge ruled that he must remain in custody until his appeal is heard.
HOODLUMS suspected to be miscreants hired by state security officials attacked and disrupted a peaceful protest organised by a coalition of civil society groups over the continued detention of former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore today.
(1) Today is December 22. On this day in 1956, American newspapers were full of pictures of Dr Martin Luther King riding on a mixed bus with white folks after the Alabama Bus Boycott has been called off a day earlier. Dr King was the first person to ride on non-segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama on December 21 1956 to make the point that victory had been won
LEICESTER City fans have taken to social media to ridicule plans by new Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta to snap up Wilfred Ndidi for a combination of a fee of £40m and Granit Xhaka in exchange saying the only red their star midfielder will ever wear is underwear.
(1) As 2020 looms and Nigeria is poised to hit 60, I for one am getting exasperated with the immaturity of our political, economic and intellectual debate. We want to live like a G7 nation with a GDP of $2trn but our thinking remains at the level of an agrarian and subsistence level country with a gross domestic product (GDP) of $10m. As a people, we have to elevate our level of thinking or we will perish like fools
NIGERIAN sex workers have won a landmark legal judgement after an Abuja high court ruled that they are involved in legitimate work as no Nigerian law forbids them from engaging in their trade.
LAST minute female shoppers at the busy Balogun Market in Lagos have resorted to hiding their purses in their underwear as the scourge of theft and pick-pocketing has become rife in the area in the run-up to Christmas.
NEW Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has promoted Nigerian teenage duo Tolaji Bola and James Olayinka into the Gunner's first team with them now being in contention for selection ahead of the next league match against Bournemouth on Boxing Day.
FORMER Super Eagles skipper Nwankwo Kanu has pledged to step up the work of his Kanu Heart Foundation (KHF) during the course of 2020 pointing out that there are 200 children on the waiting list for transplants.
SENATE chief whip and former Abia State governor Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has had his request for post-conviction bail turned down by the federal high court in Lagos when a judge ruled that he must remain in custody until his appeal is heard.
HOODLUMS suspected to be miscreants hired by state security officials attacked and disrupted a peaceful protest organised by a coalition of civil society groups over the continued detention of former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore today.
LEICESTER City fans have taken to social media to ridicule plans by new Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta to snap up Wilfred Ndidi for a combination of a fee of £40m and Granit Xhaka in exchange saying the only red their star midfielder will ever wear is underwear.
NIGERIAN sex workers have won a landmark legal judgement after an Abuja high court ruled that they are involved in legitimate work as no Nigerian law forbids them from engaging in their trade.
