Two Brides and A Baby: The Mercy Johnson story?

Sep. 22 | Big Sam Media - Much awaited movie, Two Brides and a Baby will be premiered amidst pomp and pageantry. In anticipation of the movie which has already  gotten 12 nominations in its kitty from the Best of Nollywood Awards (BON), the grapevine has...

Nigeria’s President Jonathan address at the 66th UN General Assembly

Sep. 21 | Sep 21, 2011, 16:59 STATEMENT BY DR GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCON, GCFR President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria AT THE 66TH UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER 2011 Mr. President, On...

Pius Adesami: The Hallucinating Mind of a Columnist

Sep. 21 | Pius Adesanmi, Online Columnist By Prince Babajide Babalola I would like to respond to the recent inaccurate and irresponsible article, filled with disgust and mental deficiency, published on saharareporters, nigeriavillagesquare and other online magazines...

Money and Success: The power-punch in professional football

Sep. 19 | UEFA Team of the Year 2010. Photo Credit: uefa.com By Augustine E. Akhilomen Since the inception of the round leather game in the early ninth century, there has been massive participation and interest from people from all over the world. This has brought...

AFP shows video of U.N.’s Abuja office bomber

Sep. 18 | AFP - Videos have emerged purporting to show members of a Nigerian Islamist sect preparing for suicide attacks, including a young man said to be responsible for last month’s bombing of the UN headquarters. Duration: 00:45.

Wikileaks Revelation: What does it mean for Nigeria?

Sep. 18 | By Yemi Ifegbuyi CALL it gossip, “Beer parlour talk” or outright fabrications, as politicians indicted in the leaked U.S. Diplomatic Cables would like Nigerians to believe, the Wikileaks Revelations, if nothing else, is an open book into governance...

Relative of Boko Haram founder killed days after meeting with Obasanjo

Sep. 17 | Associated Press - A relative of the slain leader of a radical Muslim sect in Nigeria was shot dead Saturday, only two days after taking part in peace talks led by a former president, police said. Babakura Fugu’s killing comes as Nigeria’s...

Nigeria’s April elections set new records in use of social media

Sep. 16 | By André-Michel Essoungou In 2008, then US presidential candidate Barack Obama broke new ground by using social media in ways never seen before. Yet it was Goodluck Jonathan, the recently elected president of Nigeria, who took the extraordinary step...

Tackling the evil of famine in the Horn of Africa

Sep. 16 | A mother looks at her malnourished child in Banadir Hospital in the Somali capital, Mogadishu: With 12.4 million people in the Horn of Africa in desperate need of food, former Ghanaian president Jerry Rawlings is begging the world for a “miracle of...

Rogue trader, Ghanaian Kweku Adoboli arrested over UBS $2bn loss

Sep. 15 | Accused rogue trader, Ghanaian Kweku Adoboli. Photo Credit: Facebook By NAL Staff writer The City of London Police earlier today (Thursday, September 15) announces the arrest of Kweku Adoboli as a prime suspect in an illegal insider trading that is now...