Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff inaugurated the sixth and final stadium to be used for June's Confederations Cup on Monday (May 20) in the northeastern city of Recife. The Arena Pernambuco has a capacity of 46,000 fans and was built at the cost of $530 million reais ($260 million dollars). The new stadium will host three Confederations Cup games: Spain-Uruguay on June 16, Italy-Japan on June 19, Uruguay- ...

A legal practitioner, Jiti Ogunye, has said that the State of Emergency declared by President Goodluck Jonathan is unconstitutional, stating that due process was not adhered to. “The President has not declared a state of emergency… and cannot declare a state of emergency.” He said. Recently, President Jonathan declared a State of Emergency in three northern states of the federation: Adamawa, Yobe and Borno; ...

Captain Umar "Blade" Aliyu (Rtd) has urged security operatives in the country to use feedback from previous insurgencies to solve the challenges presently faced in the country. Captain Umar, who described the Nasarawa attack as gruesome also said the situation in the country is "awesome and daunting". He said "I get excited when these things happen because despite the gruesome nature of these developments h ...

Have you ever wonder why it is difficult for Nigerian singers to perform their songs live before an audience? R&B vocalist, Capital FEMI said the cost of hiring instrumentalists that would play live band is the major factor why Nigerian singers mime on stage. The singer, who has lived in the USA since the age of 10, however said he loves performing live on stage. “There is something about live band. You ...

Maternal deaths in Nigeria have been described in many quarters as unacceptably high. As Nigerians join the rest of the world in marking the state of women in 2013, Channels Television’s weekend programme, Sunrise examines the relationship between access to reproductive health in Nigeria and healthy population. According to the International Conference on Population and Development Programme, reproduction h ...

The Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, said on Wednesday that the aviation industry is anticipating a passenger volume of 15 to 20 million by the year 2020. The Minister said Nigeria, after China and Japan, ranked in terms of passenger volume and is expected to keep growing at a rate of nine to 10 per cent annually. Ms. Oduah said that aviation policies must be tailored to address the contemporary socio-ec ...

Over the past 10 days, there has been series of violent attacks in different parts of Nigeria. Starting with the clash between security operatives and suspected members of the Boko Haram sect in Baga, Borno State where over 187 people were killed to the killing of over 20 police officers by cult members in Nasarawa state. President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday had to cut short his trip abroad and rushed ba ...

The author of Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has advised Nigerians to read more stating that what people read affect the way people think. Chimamanda as the guest of the week on Sunrise enjoined Nigerian parents to endeavour to let their kids start reading from early ages. She admonished parents and elders to “buy a book instead of recharge cards for the young ones”, "you don't have to make ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was the guest of the week on Channels TV’s Sunrise and she never shied away from discussing issues of the African hair, her hair. Her latest book; Americanah, which is being launched in Nigeria today has caused some hullaballoo over her remark about her preference for the African kinky hair. “There is a mainstream idea of what is beautiful and it is not this kind of hair (pointing t ...

A telecoms expert; Otunba Abiodun Ajiboye has decried the recently launched mobile phone portability by the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) for all GSM providers in the country, saying Nigeria lacks the infrastructure to effectively conduct such migration seamlessly. Otunba Ajiboye made this known on Channels TV weekend breakfast programme; Sunrise where he noted that poor power supply in the countr ...