CAF U17 qualifier: Eaglets set for showdown against Gabon
Golden Eaglets will today take on their Gabonese counterpart in the second leg CAF U17 qualifier at the UJ Essuene Stadium, Calabar. Head coach of the team, Emmanuel Amuneke said yesterday that the...
View ArticleExperts make case for playwrights
Literary experts have said playwrights should learn to make plays relevant to contemporary society. Following the first confab of Nigerian playwrights which took place at the Obafemi Owolowo...
View ArticleSenate 2015: End of road for Mark – Onoja
There is a fierce battle between the political camps of a retired Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Defence, Chief Mike Okibe Onoja and Senator David Mark over who would represent the Idoma people...
View ArticleLand Swap: Another milestone
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Senator Bala Mohammed has continued in his trend of developing Abuja through private initiatives with the recent signing of land swap agreement between...
View ArticleFresh hope for new Ebola vaccine -NIPRD
Even as the federal government battles extensively to wipe out the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, there is fresh hope by the way of a vaccine being processed at the National Institute for Pharmaceutical...
View ArticleSenate now retirement centre for former Govs – Sen Ibrahim
Senate Deputy Minority Whip, Senator Abu Ibrahim in this interview with OKECHUKWU JOMBO, in Abuja appraised the upper legislative chambers having been there since 1999 and summed up that they are...
View ArticleN50bn debt: AMCON to take over MMA 2, old Fed Secretariat
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has appointed Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, receiver manager of the assets of Bi-Courtney Limited, owned by Mr. Wale Babalakin, SAN, over an...
View Article2015: APC has missed the point – Agbakoba
Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, and a delegate to the just concluded National Conference spoke with media men recently. PAUL SANUSI of our Lagos bureau was there for Nigerian...
View ArticleSanga carnage: 2 pastors’ families, 4 pregnant women burnt alive
The killings in Sanga, a community in southern Kaduna seems endless with a recent occurrence claiming over 50 lives leaving residents wondering what government can do to put an end to the unprovoked...
View ArticleManaging political party defection
One of the greatest and most challenging tasks before the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP is how to manage, expertly, the mental health of defectors who have returned to its fold after several months or...
View ArticleAll set for AFRIFF 2014
As part of its developmental agenda for the film sector in Nigeria, the Africa International Film Festival, AFRIFF, has concluded plans to take 10 Nigerian students to the United States for practical...
View ArticleCBN bars banks from handling int’l money transfer
CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has prohibited Deposit Money Banks from acting as International Money Transfer Service operators. This was contained in new guidelines of CBN on international Money...
View ArticleImo 2015: APGA dumps Agbaso for Iheanacho
…As Umeh, Ezeobi get confidence vote The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA in Imo state appears to have thrown the exit door wide open to its self-imposed leader, Chief Martin Agbaso, who...
View ArticleAPC Ekiti holds Congress, elects officers
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State held its State Congress yesterday, September 28, 2014, where 31 officers were elected to steer its affairs for the next four years. Four of the new...
View ArticleRoad to a highly developed Nigeria
There have been series of efforts made by the government in making Nigeria one of the most developed nations in the world but all have proved abortive. Nigeria being the giant of Africa is behind in...
View ArticleEbonyi: Jonathan support group takes campaign to hinterland
A group drumming support for President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid, Mass Movement for Goodluck 2015, MMG, has taken its campaign to Ebonyi state hinterlands. Speaking at the campaign rally at...
View ArticleAddressing ghost worker syndrome in Nigeria
While thousands of Nigerians are looking for jobs on a daily basis, some top government officials criminally enrich themselves by employing ghost workers and collecting ‘their’ monthly salaries and...
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JONATHAN TO FORM NEW CABINET
Maku, Wogu, Wike, others set to resign Ahead of the forthcoming electioneering campaigns and the general elections in February 2015, there are strong indications that President Goodluck Jonathan has...
View ArticleFaroukgate: Non-submission of report worries Rep
The non-submission of the oil subsidy report of the Ethics and Privileges Committee of the House of Representatives on the alleged $620, 000 bribery scandal involving Hon. Farouk Lawan and Mr. Femi...
View ArticleJega and the conundrum of new polling units
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, has landed himself in hot water. Coming off the remarkable successes of the Ekiti and Osun gubernatorial elections,...
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