Doctors resuscitate man in coma for 15 years
(NAN) – A 35-year-old man who had been in coma and vegetative state for 15 years after a car accident has shown signs of consciousness, This happened after a vagus nerve stimulator was implanted...
Author: Frank Ofili
6 member-family commit suicide over debt
(NAN) – Six members of a family were found dead at their home in the southern Indian city of Madurai in an apparent suicide pact over debt, officials said on Monday. Two more family...
Black Stars thrash Super Eagles, win WAFU Cup
(NAN0 – Hosts Black Stars of Ghana on Sunday emerged champions of the 2017 West African Football Union (WAFU) Cup of Nations after thrashing the Super Eagles 4-1 in the final at the Cape...
FACT CHECK: Do Sukuk bonds lead to Islamisation?
(TheCable) – Last week, the federal government issued a seven-year N100 billion Sukuk bond. Patience Oniha, director general of the Debt Management Office (DMO), said proceeds from the bonds would be used to finance the...
Why African players don’t get international recognition, by Okocha
(The Guardian) – Off the pitch worries ranging from how to overcome poverty, pressure to prove self and other challenges have been identified as reasons why African players seldom get international recognition, reports soccernet.com....
NADECO returns
There are indications that some members of the defunct National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), a group of pro-democracy activists who fought for the return of Nigeria to democratic rule during the dark days of military...
Dan China, Nigeria’s El’chapo
(TheCable) – That Nigeria has been badly managed before now is no longer news. Every institution of state designed to protect the country looked the other way while non-state actors and gangs run riot....
North Korea set to test hydrogen bomb over Pacific Ocean
(CNN) – North Korea could test a powerful nuclear weapon over the Pacific Ocean in response to US President Donald Trump’s threats of military action, the country’s foreign minister has warned. Ri Yong Ho...
Nwodo, in Sokoto, says NO to another civil war
(TheCable) – John Nwodo, president-general of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, says the country should not be allowed to get to the stage of another civil war. Nwodo said this on Thursday when he paid a...
No knowledge of IPOB’s presence in our country, says French embassy
(TheCable) – France has denied the allegation that the financial headquarters of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is in its country. On Wednesday, Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, alleged that the...
