Eto’o and Mourinho reunited
CHELSEA h a v e confirmed the signing of Samuel Eto’o on a one-year deal. The 32-year-old Cameroon forward is understood to have signed a stunning £7million one-year deal, although he had to take a...
View ArticleYoruba Unity Forum to intervene in Yoruba/Hausa Ibadan crisis
A Yoruba socio-cultural group, Yoruba Unity Forum (YUF) has assured Nigerians that it will intervene in the crises between Hausa and Yoruba communities in Ibadan area of Oyo state with a view to...
View ArticleRivers PDP warns lawmaker over comments
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Rivers state has warned a suspended lawmaker, Dr. Innocent Barikor, representing Gokana constituency in the state House of Assembly over comments he recently made in...
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Insecurity: Okiro calls for collaboration among security agencies
Chairman of the Police Service Commission, PSC, Sir Mike Okiro, has advocated for more effective co-operation amongst the various security agencies in the country. Okiro made the appeal when the...
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Crisis looms in Abia community over autonomy
Umudike community, Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia state over the quest of a part of the community to become autonomous Saturday Pilot gathered that the new community, which bears the name...
View ArticleNursing mother, husband, 10 others arrested for kidnapping
Kidnapping has been a booming business in recent times especially in the southern part of the country. No day passes-by without the news of one or two persons kidnapped and demands for ransom made....
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10-year-old boy beheaded for ritual
The Niger State Police Command arrested three persons for allegedly beheading a ten year old boy in Amale Village of Kaffi-koro District in Paiko Local Government Area of the State for ritual. It was...
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Tukur, aspirants on war path:.. Nwoye accused of certificate forgery …...
The dinner on Thursday night at the residence of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Bamanga Tukur was meant to serve as melting point for all the aggrieved parties in the...
View ArticleBayelsa: A gift to Nigeria has become a clear metaphor. What a shame!
In shame we have forged on as a people, carrying with us the deep scars of injustice, neglect and deprivation even as we take solace in the divine intervention that miraculously brought about the...
View ArticleStill on IBB’s two party solution
Chido Onumah, an award winning writer/ journalist, and brilliant writer, wrote a piece with the above title; published on Sahara reporters and various other online pages; dated March 21, 2013. The...
View ArticlePDP and the drive for power consolidation
The political atmosphere in the country lately has become abuzz with high pitch activities following the ongoing Special National Convention of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abuja, the...
View ArticleNigeria today: Revisiting what our founding fathers`
Alhaji Tafawa Balewa – 1948: “Since 1914, the British Government have been trying to make Nigeria into one Country but the Nigerian people are historically different in their background, in their...
View ArticleNational Population Commission and the avoidable controversy
Last week, one of the trending national news headlines was a query purportedly issued the chairman of the National Population Commission, Chief Festus Odimegwu by the Presidency over his reported...
View ArticleExposing Nyako’s politics of bitterness in Adamawa
Governor Murtala Nyako has a penchant for picking fights. At the last count, the Adamawa State helmsman had engaged President Goodluck Jonathan in a big fight, the root cause of which has nothing...
View ArticleCITN wants taxes imposed on MSMEs reduced
Taxation of Nigeria, CITN has appealed to the federal government to reduce taxes being paid by Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, MSMEs. President of the institute, Mr Mark-Anthony Dike, told the...
View ArticleFG advised on revival of manufacturing sector
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI has advised the federal government to hold a stakeholders meeting on ways to transform the manufacturing sector. Director-General of LCCI, Mr Muda...
View ArticleAgricultural investment research low in Africa – FARA boss
Mr. Yemi Akinbamijo assumed office as the Executive Director of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, FARA, which has its Secretariat in Accra, Ghana about three weeks ago, though his...
View ArticleDon’t give in to Saintfiet’s Antics, Bewarang Warns Keshi
Super Eagles, Bitrus Bewarang has advised Eagles Head Coach Stephen Keshi to ignore all the utterances of Malawi Coach Tom Saintfiet which he said are aimed at destabilizing the Super Eagles who...
View ArticleMalawi name squad for Eagles
The Football Association of Malawi (FAM) has released a list of 23-players and seven officials that will make the trip to Calabar. The Flames will take on the Super Eagles in a crucial World Cup...
View ArticleNigeria vs Malawi: No automatic shirts for home-based Eagles
Super Eagles head Coach has declared that there will be no automatic shirts foe home based Super Eagles in the 2014 World Cup qualifier match against the Flames of Malawi on September 7 in Calabar....
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