General

The on-going genocide in Southern Kaduna, continues to claim more victims with the ambush and murder of a travelling company of students training in the local teachers’ college on Sunday, January 22, 2017. Audu Maikori, a lawyer and music industry mogul, has taken to micro-blogging website, Twitter to announce the murder of six students of the […]

The hacker and activist collective Anonymous, which wasn’t a heavy-hitter during the presidential campaign, has now warned Donald Trump that he is going to “regret” the next four years. The group made the threat in response to Trump’s tweet earlier this week suggesting that outgoing CIA Director John Brennan may have been the leaker of what […]Read More

The police command of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has urged the management of the Premium Times and the Nigerian Army to resolve and settle their dispute peacefully. The FCT police commissioner, Mohammed Mustafa, on Friday, January 20, 2017 admonished the military and the media on the need to sustain mutual relationship towards protecting national […]

The era when African event and celebrity photographers, as well as photojournalists, do not get monetary rewards for their works is gone, as Snaphubr Investment Limited has launched a stock photography website, Snaphubr.com. Snaphubr.com, is an image stock platform similar to Shutterstock, but exclusively dedicated to African-related content. The platform offers professional photographers the opportunity […]

S President Donald Trump brands himself as a dealmaker but arguably, the most significant American deal struck in the past 40 years since Camp David, was the Iran Nuclear Agreement by former President Barack Obama. Achieving with a sweep of the pen what years of “debilitating” sanctions never accomplished, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, […]

he Nigerian Humanist Movement (NHM) was founded in 1996 and the main goal was to provide an alternative to religion and a sense of community to non-religious and non-theistic persons. This was a period when the country was under military dictatorship and human rights abuses were rampant. Fear and uncertainty reigned during General Abacha’s military […]

Many people would be shocked to know that at least five U.S. Presidents were members of the Ku Klux Klan.  According to the Southern Poverty Law Center,”the KKK started in the summer of 1866 when six ex-Confederate officers decided to organize a social club.  They decided to use the term “kuklos,” which means circle.  After […]Read More

group of journalists, writers and public figures – all of whom campaigned for the All Progressives Congress, APC and the former military dictator during the 2015 elections – has penned an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over the harassment of journalists by security services. “They cited the two recent examples involving Omoyele Sowore, the […]

The Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has  bemoaned the  failure of security agencies to rescue missing  Rev. Fr. Gabriel Oyaka  from his abductors after more than one year, according to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) report. Onaiyekan expressed the view at a press briefing following a mass  in honour of  the missing priest in […]Read More

he Sultan of Sokoto is the father of the Fulani people, the foremost traditional ruler in northern Nigeria and the spiritual leader of all northern Muslims. He is not just a traditional ruler but an all-powerful potentate who represents a strange and mystical power and who heads an ancient and dark empire. Not only is […]

A group of journalists, writers and public figures – all of whom campaigned for the All Progressives Congress, APC and the former military dictator during the 2015 elections – has penned an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over the harassment of journalists by security services. They cited the two recent examples involving Omoyele Sowore, the […]

niform Resource Locator, URL, makes surfing the internet less difficult. It is what your social media followers click to visit your website. You should never underestimate the influence of URL in attracting traffic. This is why URL shorteners like bit.ly and TinyURL came on board. However, some people don’t use because they are probably not […]