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 […]
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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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
He soon began to threaten me with a knife to have sex with him and when I refused, he brought out his gun, warning that he would kill me if I shouted. “Then he began to rape me every night … I had never had sex before; it was very painful and I cried bitterly […]
Ben Agande, Abuja. The first Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan has said that she is neither an elected official of government nor a member of the leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party as such could not have directed that a former governor of Oyo state, Rasheed Ladoja be accomodated by the party in the state. […]
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