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Jonathan picks PDP presidential form (What a surprise)

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Thursday, October 30th, 2014

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday picked his presidential nomination form at the national headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja. The party has also postponed the sales of forms, which ought to end today, by one week. While picking the forms, the President said he would still have bought them even if he was […]

Adamawa on fire: Boko Haram sacks police station, prison

Posted by admin Adamawa, Boko Haram, Headlines, State News Thursday, October 30th, 2014

Fighting between Nigerian troops and Boko Haram insurgents escalated in Mubi, Mararaba Mubi and Uba in Adamawa State on Wednesday. Casualty figures could not be obtained as of 8pm but the development forced the state government to impose 24-hour curfew on the affected communities. Our correspondents gathered that Mubi, the second largest town in the […]

Nigeria attempt to avoid lengthy Fifa suspension

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Thursday, October 30th, 2014

By Oluwashina Okeleji BBC Sport, Lagos Nigeria hope to have avoided a lengthy ban from Fifa after a regional high court overturned its recent decision to void last month’s football elections. Fifa had given Nigeria until Friday to reverse last week’s ruling by the Jos High Court that annulled the 30 September election of Amaju […]

Rivers 2015: Bonny people insist it’s their turn

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Wednesday, October 29th, 2014

•Say we’re not political underdogs By Clifford Ndujihe THE BONNY people of Rivers State are making strong claims to the governorship of the state after Governor Rotimi Amaechi in 2015 because they are the most politically marginalized part of the state. Noting that the people had never produced governor, deputy governor, speaker, deputy speaker, chief […]

Residents flee Mubi as insurgents take over

Posted by admin Adamawa, Latest Politics, State News Wednesday, October 29th, 2014

By Umar Yusuf Yola— Defying the purported ceasefire agreement between the Federal Government and Boko Haram Islamic sect, the terrorists, yesterday, overran Mubi, the commercial nerve centre and second biggest town in Adamawa State as well as other neighbouring towns and villages, killing many residents who were unable to escape. Many of the soldiers and […]

Nigerians in diaspora caution Jega over 30,000 polling units

Posted by admin General Politics, INEC Politics, Latest Politics Wednesday, October 29th, 2014

By Charles Kumolu NIGERIANS resident in the United States of America, have called on the Chairman of Independent Electoral Commission,INEC, Prof Atahiru Jega to accept professional recommendations and legislative disapproval on the use of the newly created 30. 000 polling units during the 2015 general elections. This was contained in a statement by Messrs. Dechi. […]

National Assembly and national minimum wage

Posted by admin House, Legislature, Senate Wednesday, October 29th, 2014

By Is’haq Modibbo Kawu LAST week, the Senate removed wages from the Exclusive Legislative List and placed it in the Concurrent List, as part of the Constitution amendment process. Stripped of legislative language, it means there will no longer be a National Minimum Wage in Nigeria and each state can pay whatever it deemed fit. […]

Court decides on NFF case today

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Wednesday, October 29th, 2014

ustice Ambrose Allagoa of the Federal High Court sitting in Jos yesterday adjourned to today, to rule in the case of preliminary objection filed by the counsel to the Nigeria Football Federation, Damon Dashen. The court had ruled on the 23 October nullifying the Warri General Assembly and the subsequent elective congress that brought in […]

Ogun, Bayelsa, three others to get airports ( Have you maintained the ones you have now?)

Posted by admin Aviation, Bayelsa, Headlines, Ogun, State News Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

Five domestic airports will be constructed in the capital cities of Bayelsa, Kebbi, Kogi, Nasarawa and Ogun states, the Federal Government has said. The government said the plan to construct airports in Yenegoa, Brini Kebbi, Lokoja, Lafia and Abeokuta was to ensure easy movement of passengers and cargoes across the states. The Minister of Aviation, […]

Pornography finds home at motor parks

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

There is no dull moment at Obalende Motor Park. Almost every time of the day, there is a beehive of activities at the park. Voices from rickety loud speakers mounted on commercial buses alternate between lewd music and frenetic calls for passengers. But the first gains go to roving petty traders who hawk chilled soft […]