In an act of defiance against the Taliban's oppressive regime, Afghan women have taken to the streets to protest the recent order to shut down beauty parlors across the nation.…
Read MoreAcross the African continent, these are the 5 stories you shouldn’t miss: Nigeria signs military cooperation agreement with Russia Nigeria and Russia have signed a military cooperation deal providing a…
Read MoreAcross the African continent, these are the 5 stories you shouldn’t miss: Taliban takeover: Uganda to take in 2,000 Afghan refugees Uganda is to take in 2,000 refugees who have…
Read MoreNever do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.- Albert Einstein 8:27pm. Thursday, 22nd April 2021. The evening turned out to be one of the lowest moments in Nigeria's…
Read MoreI once heard a famous preacher say: "Yesterday is in the tomb, tomorrow is in the womb, today is in your hands." For anyone this counsel is given, it definitely…
Read MoreThese are the Nigerian stories that drove conversation today. Taraba, Rivers, Benue governments and Civil Rights Groups Friday, attacked the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, over his statement on the…
Read MoreFrom the papers this morning - a tracklist. Edwin Clark refuses to go away. Punch Lagos loses a former governor. Vanguard Omisore wants N500million from EFCC for defamation, and he is…
Read Moreby Nneamaka Opara The US has said that the tactics adopted by the Taliban are akin to terrorism but those terror tactics have principally been focused on Afghanistan unlike al-Qaeda or ISIS which have…
Read Moreby Adedayo Ademuwagun Taliban gunmen shot dead 141 people at a school in Pakistan last week, and most of the people killed were children. Just hours before that, an…
Read Moreby Damilola Jagun According to a Forbes Israel report, "to finance their operations, terrorist groups often end up operating as criminal organisations, by taking up activities such as drug trafficking,…
Read Moreby Kolapo Olapoju Malala Yousafzai, the 17-year-old Pakistani education campaigner has been announced as the joint winner of the 2014 Nobel peace prize. Malala became a global personality after…
Read Moreby Olusegun Adeniyi However, at the end of the day, the ultimate lesson of this tragedy is that we should not have gotten to Chibok in the first place. But we…
Read Moreby Ijeoma Nwogwugwu As long as Nigeria continues to produce half-baked students from our primary and secondary schools, the quality of its workforce will be substandard, irrespective of the number…
Read MoreMalala Yousafzai may not have won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, but she enjoyed a private Oval Office audience with President Obama and the first family. Yousafzai, the 16-year-old…
Read Moreby Simon Kolawole How can we contain this religious hate in Nigeria in the face of the Boko Haram insurgency? How can we make sure it doesn’t spread to more…
Read MoreA boy of ten and another aged 16 have been beheaded by the Taliban for ‘spying’. The pair were seized while scavenging among rubbish bins near the police headquarters in…
Read MoreAn Afghan woman whose nose and ears were hacked off after she fled a forced marriage is urging abused women to “never give up and don’t lose hope”. Aesha Mohammadzai…
Read Moreby Rachel Ogbu Prince Harry has been on a media tour lately, in which he made a remark about his job as a co-pilot in an Apache attack helicopter required…
Read MoreChris Brown can’t seem to escape controversy at the moment. First he is caught in the centre of a love triangle with model Kerrueche Chan and superstar singer Rihanna and…
Read MoreA Pakistani teen activist who was shot in the head by the Taliban because she had argued that girls deserved an education is able to stand up and communicate, her…
Read MoreA security barrier marks the scene of a car bomb explosion at St. Theresa Catholic Church at Madalla The Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram has killed at least 935 people…
Read MoreBy Seyi Lawal A very disgraceful video showing American soldiers urinating on the corpses of some three Afghan men was recently released on the Internet by an anonymous person. The video…
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