Fresh crisis rocks Rivers Assembly
T he last is yet to be heard of political crisis in Rivers State as the state House of Assembly was yesterday hit by another wave of brouhaha. This is as the Rivers Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has...
View ArticleJTF arrests, repatriates 226 donkeys to Niger
The Joint Task Force, JTF has arrested and repatriated 226 donkeys to Niger Republic. 1 Base Ammunition Depot of the Nigerian Army, Gusau who facilitated the exercise said it had repatriated 226...
View ArticleWe can’t keep on moving on
F or a while, weeks even, the child marriage commotion was a raging inferno. Like many who write, I wrote a commentary on that issue in a national newspaper, propelled by deep feelings about child...
View ArticleAs Nelson Mandela goes home
News about the death of the former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013, Thursday last week shook the world like earth quake. It signaled the end of the endless guessing game about his...
View ArticleAkpabio and lessons in leadership
B irthdays are not only milestones, but also great opportunities to let people know the impact of their lives on society and how they have run their races in the journey of life. Interestingly,...
View ArticleThis politics of opportunism
That majority of Nigerian politicians are deficit in character, honour and integrity is no longer contestable. What is, however, a matter of debate is whether they are prepared to turn over a new leaf...
View ArticleTeam Ogun rakes in medals
Team Ogun showed supremacy in the game of Squash when the duo of Kehinde Samuel and Seyi Oke defeated their Kwara counterparts to win gold in mixed doubles. In Basketball,Team Ogun won Silver in a...
View ArticleParliamentary Games: Officials send a SOS to Gov Amaechi
Officials of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, PASAN, have sent a special Save Our Soul message to River state governor, Rotimi Amaechi to help facilitate the release of funds he had...
View ArticleCHAN: Erico hails Keshi for U-17 players’ inclusion
Former Supper Eagles Assistant Coach, Joe Erico, has commended Stephen Keshi’s idea of including some of players of World Cup winning Golden Eaglets into the senior national team, the Super Eagles Team...
View ArticleChelsea set for fresh Rooney bid
C helsea are preparing to make a fresh bid to capture Wayne Rooney; the Blues are set for a fight with Arsenal over Kurt Zouma; and a rare heart-warming story involving a Premier League footballer –...
View ArticleLadipo recounts horror in Sudan
President of the Nigeria Football Supporters’ Club, Rafiu Ladipo has revealed that he was almost killed in Omdurman when Nigeria beat Sudan 4-0 in a Fifa World Cup qualifying game in 2001. Ladipo was...
View ArticleFootball Academy fights Lagos over Eaglets’ keeper
T he Football Academy, Abuja and the Lagos State Government are presently locked in a bitter dispute over the ownership of Golden Eaglets’ number one, Dele Alampasu. An online news portal,...
View ArticleAdesina urges formation of cooperatives to access agric facilities
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Adewumi Adesina has appealed to farmers in the country to form cooperative societies in order to enable them benefit from federal government inputs...
View ArticleMandela goes home in grand style
NELSON Mandela yesterday was buried in the remote village where the anti-apartheid icon grew up after his four-hour state funeral. South Africa’s first black President died in his Johannesburg home on...
View ArticleHelpline Foundation awards scholarship to orphans
I n line with its education programmes, a non-governmental organisation, Helpline Foundation for the Needy based in the nation’s capital, has awarded scholarship to three vulnerable children from...
View ArticleThousands decamp to PDP in Benue
Thousands of opposition members in Benue State have decamped to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, among them were 60 senior citizens who just retired from the civil service. Receiving the...
View ArticleHouse commences investigation into N100bn SWV
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts said it has commenced investigation to unravel how over N100. 561billion disbursed to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the...
View ArticleEnough of the shenanigans; let Nyako go!
N ot many people realise these days the manner in which the governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, was railroaded as the gubernatorial candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in his...
View ArticleWhat FEC members say of Africa’s Icon, Mandela
L ast week, members of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, led by Vice President Namadi Sambo, devoted 45 minutes at the beginning of their weekly meeting to pay special tribute to anti apartheid...
View ArticleNDE trains 1,300 in A’Ibom
At least 1,300 indigenes of Akwa Ibom State have received training in various areas from the National Directorate of Employment, NDE, since the beginning of 2013. This was disclosed by the state...
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