I’m honoured to play for Nigeria – Balogun
Super Eagles debutante Leon Balogun whose debut against Mexico lasted all but 20 minutes due to an injury sustained in a collision with the advertising boarding is still very upbeat. “I am actually...
View ArticleCAF Champions League: Enyimba face uphill task against Real Bamako
Enyimba FC of Aba are in Mali for their second leg crunch CAF Champions League tie against AS Real of Bamako. The Peoples’ Elephants would be seeking to upturn the shocking 1-2 home defeat they...
View ArticleWorld Cup: We’ ll work out plan for Eagles to excel – Danagogo
Sports Minister, Dr Tamuno Danagogo has said that the National Sports Commission, NSC and the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF will jointly workout a plan that would enable the Super Eagles do well...
View ArticleNyanko sets up c’tte on Shuwa attacks, others
Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State has constituted a 10-man committee to assess the extent of destruction recorded when Boko Haram insurgents launched attacks on Shuwa, Kirchinga and Michika...
View ArticleGSM subscribers hits 64.2
Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, on Friday said it had recorded 64, 229, 097 subscribers on its various Global System for Mobile Communications, GSM networks. This was contained in the internet...
View ArticleOgun threatens banks over delay in workers’ salaries
Ogun State Government has threatened to review its relationship with any bank which henceforth delays payment of monthly salaries to civil and public servants in the state, after the government had...
View ArticleCourt reserves judgement on Rivers CJ seat
Federal High court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, has fixed March 18, to pronounce judgment on the appointment of Chief Judge of the state. Justice Lambo Akanmbi, having taken the...
View ArticleINEC distributes PVC in Ekiti
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has commenced the distribution of the permanent voter card, PVC, in Ekiti State for the residents. During the monitoring exercises conducted by Nigerian...
View ArticleNigeria can solve current challenges, says Sultan
Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Saad Abubakar II, said the country could solve its current challenges, “if its citizens come together as one”. The Sultan made the remark in Jos yesterday, when he paid a...
View ArticleN17bn required to conduct 2016 national census –NPC boss
National Population Commission, NPC will require N17 billion to successfully conduct the 2016 national census, its chairman Mr Eze Duru-Iheoma, has said. Duru-Iheoma said this on Thursday in Abuja when...
View ArticleCosta Rica 2014: Bala charges Flamingoes on goals scoring
Head coach of the Nigeria U17 women national team, Bala Nikyu has urged his players to improve on their goal scoring abilities ahead of the FIFA 2014 women World Cup in Costa Rica. Nikyu in an...
View ArticleDownpour destroys multimillion naira property in Owerri
A downpour in Owerri have damaged property worth millions of Naira in Nekede autonomous community in Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State. The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN reports that the...
View ArticlePolice arrest 9 suspected cultists in Abakaliki
Ebonyi Police Command has arrested nine suspected cultists, including a school teacher, at the Ishieke campus of the Ebonyi State University. Briefing journalists in Abakaliki, the Public Relations...
View ArticleScore card: Jonathan transformation of housing sector
“The heights that great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but while their companions slept, they were toiling at night” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow President Goodluck Jonathan...
View ArticleReport on Ombatse crisis and matters arising
Last week, Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State received the report of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up to investigate and identify the remote and immediate causes of the crisis of...
View ArticlePrivate coy commits $5m to Nigeria’s gold mining
A privately-owned company, Messrs Northern Numero Resources Limited, NNR, has expressed commitment to invest $5million in gold mining in Kebbi State to boost the transformation agenda of the present...
View ArticleTaraba abandons Afolahan Square project
Rodents and reptiles have taken over the once bubbly Afolahan Square in Jalingo, Taraba State capital, as the state government has abandoned the project. Rear Admiral Ambrose Afolahan was the first...
View ArticleAbia poly campus to be named after Patience Jonathan
Proposed second campus of Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, would be named after the First Lady, Patience Jonathan. Chairman of the governing council of the institution, Hon. Christopher Enweremadu,...
View ArticleEjigbo market torture: Police name 3 wanted suspects
Police have named the three suspects earlier declared wanted in connection with the torture of three women at a market at Ejigbo in Lagos. In a statement issued in Abuja Friday by the Force Public...
View ArticleIjaw youths seeks representation in National Conference
The Ijaw Youths Council, IYC yesterday expressed its displeasure at the non-inclusion of its delegate in the National Conference scheduled to begin soon. In a statement issued in Yenegoa by Mr Eric...
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