News From Nigeria

Stakeholders in the education sector recently lent their voices to Lagos state government’s recent move to perpetuate the Yoruba language. Ambrose Nnaji reports. Yoruba parents have been advised to speak the indigenous Yoruba language to their children more, to enable ...

To the somnolent rural paradise of Ogbogbo Ijebu last Saturday for the seventieth birthday celebration of Otunba Olumuyiwa Runsewe, entrepreneur, writer, Apala music enthusiast, custodian of Yoruba cultural politics and scion of the illustrious Runsewe family of Ogbogbo. It has ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court. In what is perhaps the ...

As the terrorists’ defense collapses in the Syrian region of Eastern Ghouta, Washington has increased its diplomatic acivity blaiming and shaming the Syrian-Iranian-Russian alliance for combating terrorist groups [Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra), Ahrar al-Sham and others] in the ...

Last weekend, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), the Tiger Forces, the 4th Armorued Division and other pro-government units delivered a devastating blow to the defense of militant groups in the eastern part of the Eastern Ghouta region, near Damascus. Government forces ...

I was waiting for a ride at the airport in Lagos when a cab pulled up. The first thing I noticed was that the taxi was polished to a bright shine. The cab driver jumped out and rounded the car ...

How do I vilify a man who is guided by the doctrine of social justice? Ayo Fayose who literally wish Buhari death was recently paid a whopping sum of N11 billion as refund of money spent by Fayose to rehabilitate ...

[please press “cc” to see the English language subtitles] Thanks for Eugenia for translating and subtitling this video over the week-end!!#

by Ghassan Kadi Inspired by the Saker’s article regarding how far can the Russians be pushed, (http://thesaker.is/escalation-in-syria-how-far-can-the-russians-be-pushed/), I ask, how far can the Americans be pushed, not specifically only in Syria, but in general? In his article, the Saker articulated in ...