Visafone has hit the one million subscriber mark six months after it launched commercial operations on
A statement by the company on Tuesday described the record as unprecedented in the annals of Nigeria’s vibrant and competitive telecommunications industry.
The company, which was recently named ‘Best Telecom Brand of the Year’ at the Nigeria Telecom Awards, began [...]

United States Government has certified Nigeria a drug free country, in the campaign against illicit drug trafficking and abuse for the US fiscal year 2009.
This is the eighth consecutive times that the country is receiving a clean bill of health by the US government in the anti-narcotic crusade.
In a statement issued by the Agency’s Head [...]

Nigerian ace broadcaster ‘Yinka Craig is dead following complications from Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a form of blood cancer. Mr . Craig died on Tuesday at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America. He was aged 60.
A statement by his son, Dr. Olayinka Babasanya Craig, on behalf of the family, said Yinka died [...]

The 35W Minnesota bridge experience ought to serve as a benchmark for Nigerian authorities in bridge construction and traffic management. At the end of the repairs on the Lagos Third Mainland bridge (above), would one be able to justify the price-tag and hassles to Lagos commuters?

Since assuming power over a year ago, the government of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has promoted its seven-point agenda as the instrument to make Nigeria one of the 20 advanced economies in the world by the year 2020. Not much has been done in practical terms to demonstrate any serious commitment to this objective, except [...]

The recent Vanguard Nigeria article titled “Abortion to cover up illicit pregnancy goes fatal!” was a story about a women who died while undergoing an abortion carried out by a plank seller cum abortion doctor:
To Mr. Taiwo Ogunbowale (the doctor who carried out the procedure), a plank seller with secondary school certificate, it is no [...]

As at Saturday August 30, 2008 the rumor in Nigeria was that President Yar’Adua had died while undergoing a complicated kidney surgery in Saudi Arabia. A telephone call by Mr. Nduka Obaigbena, Chair-man/Editor-in-Chief of THISDAY to the President revealed otherwise. During that call the President reassured people of Nigeria that he was well.
President [...]

Nigeria has seen it all - ‘Democrazy’, ‘Militocrazy’ and ‘Mobocrazy’ (the tyranny of man, parasitic politicians or Area Boys, take your pick) all to no avail. Is ours a problem of corruption as many will have us believe? I think not.

FARE THEE WELL – ELEHINMI OF OJA VILLAGE

“Oba ti waja” is the popular saying in Yoruba land when a King Passes On. For in Yoruba tradition, a king cannot die, but climbs up higher. This could account for the Sunday Tribune report on 24th August 2008 when it categorically reported that:

“CONTRARY to news [...]

Here is a video highlight of the Nigeria 0-1 Argentina soccer final match at the Beijing Olympics.