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According to the official website of the University of Abuja, 'the Center for Corruption Studies' is established to help address one of the critical gaps and weakest link on corruption by solely devoting itself to rigorous intellectual and practical study...

The shoes above cost a staggering $15.1 million and are known to be the "world’s most expensive shoes". The shoes are encrusted with large and extremely rare pink and blue diamonds, plus flawless white diamonds and another 1000 pointer diamonds. According...

Inhabitants of the tiny city state of Singapore have the most powerful passports in the world, it has been revealed. But the usefulness of a US passport has fallen slightly since President Donald Trump took office, with Turkey and the Central African...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said on Wednesday that it has carried out two aircraft attacks and bombardments of Boko Haram hideouts in Borno state to signal the commencement of Operation Ruwan Wuta II, to further decimate the ability of the terrorists....

Xi Jinping has kicked off his second term as leader of the world’s second largest economy, vowing to spearhead the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation” and signalling his intent to tower over Chinese politics for decades to come. At just before...

The Federal Special Anti-robbery Squad, (FSARS), Adeniji-Adele, Lagos, has charged a driver, Garuba Lawal, with the theft of Chivita products and a truck, all valued at N25,000,000. Garuba, 36, of Olorunsogo Area in Kwara State, was arraigned before Mrs...

Two notes written by Albert Einstein describing his theory for happy living have sold at an auction house in Jerusalem for $1.56m (£1.19m). Einstein gave the notes to a courier in Tokyo in 1922 instead of a tip. He had just heard that he had won the coveted...

It is all the more worrisome that legislators appointed to effect good administration and appropriate check has become the bane of accommodation of iniquities across the globe. The case of Ugandan lawmakers is worthy of note. It is an incontrovertible...

Lim Ba, who is a spiritual guru has reportedly boiled himself alive in a steamer to prove "Physical endurance". According to a metro news report, Lim Ba, a 65-year-old Taoist guru, climbed inside the large steel capsule heated onboiling water on Monday...

The Arsenal wonder kid Eddie Nketiah was the hero for Arsenal carabao cup quarter final qualifier. Eddie was once Chelsea player but was laid off from the club because he was reportedly said to be short and lightweight. However, since Nketiah has joined...

Things seems not to be working out well with the Manchester United player left back. Luke Shaw who was only given a three minutes time play in carabao match 2-0 win over Swansea yesterday, is glaringly not in the favour list of the Jose Mourinho. Luke...

An animal welfare officer, Anthony Rubin has called for the prosecution of a shopkeeper who strapped a small rodent with a jar and whipped it. The shopkeeper, Melahalli Ramanna, reportedly accused the rodent of raiding the shop in Mysore, Southern India,...

Animal activists have gotten angered with a woman who tattooed her cat. A bodybuilder, Elena Ivanickaya, from Chernihiv in northwest Ukraine, is being investigated after posting the picture of her tattooed dog on social media. Also, after posting the...

The PDP Chieftain and outspoken Former Minister of Aviation, took to his facebook page to react to claims by former Head of State Gen Yakubu Gowon that Late WarLord, Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu lied about what transpired in Aburi, Ghana that's why the civil...

Former Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd) has disclosed how lies by late warlord, Odumegu Ojukwu after the Aburi accord led to Biafra civil war, between 1967 and 1970. Gowon made the claim while giving insight into what happened at the...

bdullahi O Haruna, on behalf of Concerned Buharists, writes an open letter to the president, urging him to sack all those involved within his government. Read the letter below: Dear Mr. President, I am one of your unapologetic admirers. I went all the...

Emir Sanusi expressed worries over the manner in which the current administration manages the nation's economy and said it is unfortunate that the Federal Government seem to have taken over the CBN, instead of allowing it to function independently. He...

The war-affected police officers from the Old Eastern Region who were pardoned and retired from the Nigeria Police Force through a Presidential Amnesty granted on May 29, 2000 by the administration of the then President Olusegun Obasanjo and were graciously...

Yesterday, organisers of The New Man Writing Contest, reviewed to be the largest, free entry writing contest for students of secondary schools in Nigeria revealed via her website ( www.thenewman.org.ng ) that the 2018 edition of the contest would be in...

Mr Ahmed Idris, Accountant-General of the Federation, said the Federal Government, States and Local Governments shared N558.082billion in October compared to N637.704 shared in the previous month. Idris made this known at the end of the monthly Federal...

A former school aide and coach in Maryland has been arrested for sexually assaulting 42 boys. 30-year-old Carlos Bell, who is HIV positive, worked as an instructional assistant at Benjamin Stoddert Middle School and track coach at La Plata High School....

Abraham Abiriga, a Ugandan Member of Parliament has been fined by a court in the capital, Kampala, for causing a public nuisance by urinating in public after pictures of the incident were widely shared on social media. He was given a fine of 40,000 Ugandan...

It has been revealed that the Catholic church Priest, Carevealedriest Rev. Fr. Gospel Inalegwu who resigned from priesthood last week had married before joining the seminary. Recall that Rev. Fr. Inalegwu tendered his resignation letter to the Bishop...

The bodyguard and driver of Kenya’s deputy chief justice was shot and seriously injured on Tuesday – just two days before a divisive re-run of the country’s presidential election. Philomena Mwilu was part of a majority of Supreme Court judges who voted...

This is the nature of administrative character expected of a true change agent. I commend President Muhammadu Buhari's action on Maina. For once, the slowness nature that is as snail-like was scorned. Pronto, he orders his disengagement. It should be...