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Gabriel Nkanang has set up a final tussle for the men's tennis singles with Joseph Odobeatu at the Quadrangular Games holding at Apapa Club, Lagos. The men's final will hold on Friday.
Film making technology across the world in its early stage was difficult, especially in the area of setting up the equipment. In some places it was virtually non-existent, until change started when the government of Nigeria begun to pressure local television and radio stations to broadcast more local content and less foreign productions.
An award that seeks to appreciate and celebrate Nigerians in the Diaspora who have posted outstanding performances in their various professions and fields is in the making. The award, anchored by a young Nigerian, seeks to encourage honest and hard-working Nigerians while promoting the country's image internationally.
Frontline comedian, Julius Agwu is set to host his long awaited comedy club, which he calls Comedy Train at Terra Kulture. According to Julius who has become an icon of the comedy industry in Nigeria, the event, which is taking place today, Friday November 27, is being hosted for the upwardly mobile that work or reside around the island.
For the uninitiated, any talk about the scary Vesico Vaginal Fistula and its sibling, Recto-Vaginal Fistula in Nigeria, is easily linked to the northern parts of the country.
At a time when there was nothing like Nollywood, Okechukwu Ogunjiofor, came out with a home movie - Living in Bondage which instantly became a hit. He later churned out more other nine movies thereby pioneering what is today the Nigerian movie industry. This week, he relieved his experience with CHINYERE OKOYE
Filmmakers must be very intelligent and broad-minded, with strong skills. Liberal arts study is so important. It makes you a fairly well rounded person. It exposes you to the languages, ethics, philosophy, history, and social sciences. Films are all about research and continual learning.
HARVARD University President Prof Drew Faust and University of Johannesburg (UJ) vice-chancellor Prof Ihron Rensburg yesterday announced their universities were collaborating in establishing an institute that would train South African school principals.
THE election of the current EU trade commissioner, Baroness Catherine Ashton, to EU head of foreign policy last Thursday will not change talks and the eventual signing of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with developing countries, including Namibia, a local diplomat has said.
THE United States Agency for International Development (USAID) last week gave Namibia's Church Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) a huge budgetary boost with a N$9,1 million donation.
A news report on Thursday quoted Welshman Ncube saying that the talks which began on Monday focused on "western sanctions against Zimbabwe, pirate radio stations and government appointments including those of the attorney general and reserve bank governor". While another report said ZANU PF wants 'the MDC to rein in its supporters in western capitals running "pirate" radio stations'.
ZANU PF Youth Minister Saviour Kasukuwere and his MDC Deputy, Thamsanqa Mahlangu, left Harare for Rwanda on Thursday. Mahlangu, who was a guest on our Behind the Headlines programme, told us they were going to the Rwandan capital Kigali on a 'study trip" to learn from that country's experiences and how they dealt with the 1994 genocide and subsequent national healing and reconciliation efforts.
Negotiators of the three main political parties in the inclusive government have been meeting to try to break the stalemate that is threatening to completely collapse the already shaky Global Political Agreement.
Four farms in Chegutu are under siege this week by land invaders, as the campaign against the country's remaining commercial farmers keeps escalating.
The Government may terminate the Sh30 billion project to modernise Songwe Airport in Mbeya should the contractor fail to show progress in six weeks, the minister for Infrastructural Development Dr Shukuru Kawambwa has said.
Livestock keepers in Monduli District have appealed to the Government to investigate a mysterious cattle disease which has killed more than 3,000 cows.
Panic has gripped Mwanza as 142 primary school pupils, teachers and villagers have tested positive to swine flu infection at Ilula village in Kwimba District in the region.
Tanesco has gone to High Court to challenge an administrative tribunal's decision ordering it to cancel and restart a Sh3.6billion medical insurance tender.
A non-governmental organization, Youths Organised For Transparency and Good Governance has accused the Code of Conduct Tribunal of shielding Mr Emmanuel Obot, the former aide to ex-Governor Victor Attah against probe over allegations of fraud involving millions of naira while he was in public service.
Are we practicing federalism? This was the question participants at a five-day retreat on 'Foundation of Fiscal Federalism', recently in Abuja tried to address. Though it was accepted that from the provisions of the 1999 constitution, there is no doubt that Nigeria is suppose to be a federal state, but in practice, are we?
NIGERIANS have been told to brace up for the unexpected as the much orchestrated generation of 6,000MW of electricity by the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) at the end of the year is no longer realisable.
As the question on the possibility of second term for Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State continues to generate controversy, the governor yesterday said seeking for a second term would be predetermined by the party structure through due process.
At a time when the United Nations Office on Drugs and Corruption is expressing deep concern about illicit drug trafficking in West Africa, a United States government and a Chicago Court have linked and traced an alleged drug smuggling king pin to Nigeria and declared him a fugitive offender, although he is believed to be a citizen of neighboring Benin Republic.
It is 10 years since the United Nations recognised November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. On this date a decade ago, the Mirabal sisters were violently assassinated in 1960, by the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic.
The Director of Automobiles Peugeot France (APF), in Africa, Asia and the Pacific Mr. Jean-Yves Dossal, says that the company has sold over 270,000 Peugeot Sedan cars throughout Asia and South America since the brand started rolling out of the factory.
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