March 25, 2013 / Featured News
Writer Chinua Achebe, who passed away, shared his thoughts last year about what's wrong with his home country of Nigeria and what hope there is of fixing it. In January 2012 celebrated Ni
March 22, 2013 / Breaking News!!!, Obituary
NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton reports from Lagos, Nigeria, on the death of one of Africa's greatest contemporary writers. Quoting his publisher, AP, CNN, and the BBC are reporting Chinua Achebe has died.
March 14, 2013 / Featured News
The memorial wake for Nwawunze John Igbokwe will take place on Saturday March 23, 2013 at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston. Please see attached flyer for details. If you have any question, pleas
February 23, 2013 / Breaking News!!!
The passing of Chief Nwawunze John Igbokwe on Friday, February 8 2013 hit the Nigerian community in Boston like a ton of bricks. Chief Igbokwe, a cultural icon, succumbed to the cold hands of death at
August 13, 2012 / Featured News
By Ikenna Okoli, FCIArb. Richard Ihetu, a boxer, who fought under the nom de guerre Dick Tiger, was reputed to possess fists of iron. In a charity bout, in February, 1967 against the then Nig
August 13, 2012 / Featured News
By Onochie Anibeze in London LAGOS—The story of Nigeria at the 2012 London Olympics is “No gold, no silver, no bronze, N2.3 billion down the drain.” And now a top Nigerian sports official wh
August 13, 2012 / Featured News
Ajoke Odumosu is the African 400m hurdles champion but she was hardly seen as a major factor in Team Nigeria until she scaled into the Olympic final. The rule says she finished 8th but the quarter mil
August 13, 2012 / Featured News
The London 2012 Olympic Games ended on Sunday with Team Nigeria returning home with no medal, raising questions over the N1.9bn budgeted for the Nigeria’s participation at the Games. It was an un
August 13, 2012 / Featured News
Leadership Newspaper has petitioned the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umaru Manko, over the beating of its photojournalist, Benedict Uwalaka, by some mortuary attendants at the state’s Uni
July 4, 2012 / Featured News
One of Nigeria’s finest footballers in the 70s and 80s, Sam Ojebode, has died in Ibadan, Oyo State of cancer of the lungs. Ojebode died on Wednesday morning at the University College Hospital, Iba