… As Osaze Makes List, Uche Is Out Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi on Tuesday released a 30 man provisional list for the the World Cup in Brazil. Keshi has included Stoke City striker, Osaze Peter Odemwingie in his provisional list. It would be recalled that the former West Brom forward ignited a long-standing row […]
Mona Ogbeidi The United States intelligence official has resolved to help Nigeria with the search for the 276 schoolgirls abducted last month in Chibok, Borno state, northeast Nigeria. US Secretary of State John Kerry who announced this development on Tuesday while discussing the coordinated approach with President Goodluck Jonathan through a telephone conversation, said that […]
…Felicitates With Gov. Amaechi on Security Award The All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter, has raised the alarm over plans by the Presidency to transfer the State Commissioner of Police, CP Tunde Ogunsakin, just at a time he is beginning to settle down in the State. “We are reliably informed that arrangements have been […]
Ayo Balogun The Committee on Devolution of Power after an extensive debate on Tuesday could not reach an agreement on the twin issues of derivation principle and resource control, at the on-going National Conference in Abuja. The Committee which sat in a closed session for four hours during the morning session resumed deliberations after lunch […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The All Progressives Congress (APC) has decried the melodramatic intervention of First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan in the abduction of over 200 school girls as distracting, counter-productive and calibrated to scapegoat others with the sole intention of exculpating her husband rather than finding the girls. ”Make no mistake about it, there is […]
Promises Strict Penalties For Operators Who Fail To Settle Claims Kayode Adelowokan National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has refuted claims by the Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers (NCRIB) that the regulators had waived the submission of 2013 account for council members in order to be trained on the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) requirement, International […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu A High Court sitting in on Tuesday ordered the State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC) to refund forthwith deposits made to it by opposition party candidates that enabled them contest the November 2013 council elections. The court presided over by Justice R.N Onuorah held that the deposits made to the ENSIEC which the […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Scores of women in South-East under the umbrella of Women For Peace and Justice Tuesday held a peaceful protest over the abduction of over 200 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State. The protesters, drawn from various churches and women organization in the South East geo-political zone, marched from […]
The National Conference sitting in Abuja was on Monday hit by another sad news of the death of a delegate, Dr Mohammed Abubakar Jumare, from Kaduna State. A statement from Mr James Akpandem, the Assistant Secretary, Media and Communications said Dr Jumare who came to the Conference as an Elder Statesman died in the early […]
Ignatius Okpara , Benin Scores of aggrieved pregnant women on Monday took to the streets of Benin city, the Edo state capital, to protest the lack of ante-natal facilities at the State Government-owned Central Hospital in the city. The 200 expectant mothers alleged that it had become extremely difficult for them to access ante-natal facilities […]
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Kayode Adelowokan The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) has dissociated itself from the proposed two days warning strike as alleged by the three aviation unions over the recent merger plan of some agencies in the ministry by the government. The Deputy General Secretary of NUATE, Comrade Abioye Olayinka, disclosed during an interview with […]
Several people have been killed in Gamboru Ngala town in Borno state following Boko Haram militant attack on the border town between Nigeria and Republic of Cameroon. Aside those killed and injured, properties worth millions of naira including dozens of vehicles were burnt at the weekly market which usually hold on Mondays. The sect militants […]
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has declared seven days of mourning for former Governor of the State, Sir Michael Otedola who died at the early hours of Monday in Lagos, Nigeria. The governor also directed that flags in government’s institutions should fly at half mast during the period of mourning, while describing the late governor […]
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola on Monday says the United States (US) erred in making public its warning on impeding terrorists attack on Sheraton Hotels and Towers in Lagos, Nigeria. The governor, who spoke when he donated security vans and others to the police in Lagos said it was improper for the US to […]
Fears for the fate of more than 200 abducted girls turned even more nightmarish Monday when the leader of the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, that kidnapped them announced plans to sell them. “I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah”. The group leader said in a video first obtained […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Thousands of women protested vehemently in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria this morning over the abduction of 234 Secondary School girls at Chibok girls in Borno State. The protesters with placards marched from Allen Roundabout, Awolowo Way down to the State House, Ikeja to express their grievance. There was traffic gridlock on Awolowo Way […]
A former Governor of Lagos State, Sir Michael Agbolade Otedola, is dead. The former governor’s widow, Lady Doja Otedola, in a statement said Otedola died on Monday morning at the age of 87 years, . The statement reads, “Sir Michael Agbolade Otedola passed away this morning at 87. Funeral arrangements to be announced later by […]
Kayode Adelowokan, Lagos Reactions continued to trail the latest Yanya bombing, the Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Abdul Jelili Adesiyan, described the act as unfortunate, callous and ungodly. The minister, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Wale Akinola, vowed that the Federal Government would not rest on its oars until the issue of […]
By Constance Okechukwu Watching Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso address the matriculating students of Northwest University, Kano, on national television, one thing was clear: the man whom students at the ceremony ought to have looked up to as a role model is the opposite of what a governor should be behaviour-wise. Instead of the governor to […]
