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Nigeria’s government has denied reports that “plastic rice” was being sold in the country, days after the customs service said 2.5 tonnes of the contraband had been confiscated. Health Minister Isaac Adewole tweeted that tests by...

If you want to hang a dog, you give it a bad name. We have a way of rubbishing our heroes in Africa. Some of you may be too young to remember why Kwame Nkrumah was...

WRITTEN BY AZU ISHIEKWENE With the country descending into chaos, President Goodluck Jonathan is running out of excuses and places to hide. Regardless of what President Goodluck Jonathan’s government would have us believe, Nigeria is losing...

The term Nigeria Police Force (NPF) is very misleading. NPF is a term used by some men and women in uniform who extort money from the citizenry for the benefit of the uniform wearer’s family. Nobody...

One of the most pressing issues affecting the world currently is the high rate of unemployment and under-employment. This social economic problem needs a radical and immediate solution before it consumes the peace of the country....

A London-born Nigerian Hollywood star, Chinwetel Ejiofor, on Friday said he was proud to be identified as a Nigerian. Ejiofor said this in Lagos at the premiere of a movie “Half of a Yellow Sun’’ based...

Angry unemployed youths, numbering about 40, yesterday afternoon stormed the Ministry of Interior at the Area 1, Old Federal Secretariat, with tins of red paint, to register their anger over the failed immigration recruitment, which claimed...

A 63-year-old Nigerian was charged with murder after he confessed to the shooting death of his wife around 3 a.m. Saturday in west Harris County. Martin Ebegbodi went to a neighbor’s house and asked him to...

Nigerian man, Isaac Anya Ojiabo Jr , 20 years old, kills his Mother, Joy Ojiabo, 51, in Maryland, USA A 20-year-old Forest Hill man was arrested by Harford County Sheriff’s Office deputies early Thursday morning, hours...