President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed new members for the governing councils of the University of Abuja, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), and Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka (NAU). In February ...

Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, Kaduna-based Islamic scholar,has been barred from the 2025 hajj. Worse still, Saudi Arabia deported him and his entourage. The cleric confirmed the development in a post shared on ...

It was widely reported in the media last week that Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan had been charged with criminal libel by the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation for allegedly defaming ...

Lagos has been named the fastest-growing tech ecosystem in the world for Y2025 by Netherlands-based research firm Dealroom.co, ahead of Istanbul, Turkey and Pune, India. The organisation, a foremost ...

Sierra Leone’s Director General, National Petroleum Regulatory Agency NPRA, Brima Baliwa Koroma, has been nominated, in a stiff competition, for the prestigious “ Africa Petroleum Regulator of the ...

Jumoke George, Nigerian actress whose video went viral recently over her poor condition, can now heave a sigh of relief. Her daughter, Adeola, is back from Mali. As earlier reported by The Eagle ...

For some time now, I have been meaning to get a few words across to you about the moment we live in. But I did not quite feel the urgency to do so until a few nights ago when, as I reread the great ...

No fewer than 357 notorious thugs and drug peddlers, addicts have been arrested in Kano state in the last two months. A greater percentage of those arrested are youths who were wasting their time and ...

The recent denial of a Canadian visitor visa to Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa, has sparked significant reactions from the Nigerian government. While such decisions ...

I have taken liberties to somewhat adapt the title of the prophetic poem, Come Thunder, written by Christopher Okigbo, one of Nigeria’s most talented first generation poets, as title of this piece.

In recent times, both social media commentators, historians and pseudo-historians have engaged different interpretive outlooks and perspectives upon the historical relationship between Yoruba and ...