Blessing Okagbare breaks 100m record to win gold at 2014 Commonwealth Games

by Mark Bassey Blessing Okagbare won gold for Nigeria on Monday evening in the women’s 100m final. The sprinter finished first, ahead of Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell-Brown and Kerron Stewart in a time of 10.85 seconds – a new Commonwealth Games record. The 25-year-old told BBC: “I am so excited right now! A new season’s best... Read More

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July 29, 2014

Demola Rewaju: If Buhari had died, there will have been a coup (Y! Superblogger)

by Demola Rewaju If Buhari had died last week, a coup would be inevitable in the next one month and perhaps ‘a raba’ would be the cry of the northern secessionists once more, as in the first republic. News report last week had it that General Muhammadu Buhari was the target of a suicide bomb and gunfire... Read More

July 29, 2014

Femi Aribisala: Why Jonathan will win the 2015 elections by a landslide

by Femi Aribisala However, in the case of Nigeria, my contention is that the re-election of Jonathan in 2015 is going to be easy. Jonathan will defeat his APC challenger convincingly. He is also likely to obtain the requisite one third of the votes in virtually every state of the federation. Goodluck Jonathan is... Read More

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July 29, 2014

Elnathan John: The gospel according to Tony Rapu

by Elnathan John That male member between your legs is not there for decoration. Think of it like the mace in a parliament. Unless the Speaker has the mace he cannot carry out his functions and assert his authority as leader of parliament. As your president come 2015, I am also interested in the... Read More

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July 29, 2014

Opinion: Politics, National security and the Buhari attack

by Kennedy Emetulu More depressingly, Buhari has made himself the most high profile defender of the Boko Haram organization, even if indirectly. He has called for the government to stop arresting the Boko Haram suspects, to stop killing them and to get into negotiations with them as they did with the Niger-Delta militants. “I am... Read More

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July 29, 2014

Rudolf Okonkwo: The secret diary Of President Jonathan, aged 56 and 2/3 years

by Rudolf Okonkwo During dinner, Bomboy, my son, said he liked Malala. My eyes shone as he said it. Now, that’s my boy. I don’t want him to make the same mistake I made. I want him to marry up. Sunday, July 13, 2014: When my Aso Rock job is done, historians will be falling... Read More

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July 29, 2014

Eddie Emah: My faded Tee- Episode 2 (Y! Fiction)

by Eddie Emah The camp was only for women and children. The day I came, or better said, the day I was brought here, some men who were wounded and homeless came here to seek refuge. They were turned back. The camp only held women and children, and more women and children were coming by... Read More

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July 29, 2014

In a bid to test his weapon, policeman shoots self dead in Aba

by S’ola Filani After arresting a man for attempting to commit suicide, a police inspector attached to the Patrol and Guard (P&G) Unit at the Aba Central Police Station (CPS) in Abia State, allegedly shot himself dead accidentally on Sunday. The incident occurred on Sunday at about 10 pm after the police officer identified as Inspector... Read More

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July 29, 2014

Gunmen abduct former Bayelsa governor, Sylva’s uncle

by S’ola Filani Some unknown gunmen have abducted former Bayelsa State governor, Chief Timipre Sylva’s uncle, Chief Benson Ayerite Adigio-Eseni ,at his Okpoama resident in Brass Local Government Area of the state, at 2 am on Sunday night. The gunmen, allegedly moved into the community, armed with AK-47 rifles shot into the air to scare... Read More

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July 29, 2014

Tunde Fagbenle: Why Aregbesola will win the Osun elections

by Tunde Fagbenle Just as Omisore is not a Fayose, so is Ogbeni not a Fayemi. And so it will be silly for anyone to interchange the Ekiti result with Osun. On the 9th of August the State of Osun governorship election would hold. It is an election I have more than a passing interest... Read More

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July 29, 2014

You want a quality education? Well, you have to pay for it

by Adedayo Ademuwagun Ifenwa Ogba is a student in a federal university in Nigeria, and she pays N15,000 ($92) for tuition per year. By international standards, the tuition in our federal universities is dirt cheap. For instance, depending on the course of study, most students at Howard University in Washington D.C., USA, pay fees... Read More

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