BRASÍLIA (AFP) – Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi said Tuesday that he was “shocked” by reports that he has resigned after his side’s World Cup defeat. Keshi, whose side lost to France in the last 16, insisted that nothing has been decided. “What I said to my players was that this was maybe my last match […]
Nigeria is suffering greater carnage at the hands of Islamist group Boko Haram than it did during a secessionist civil war, yet this has ironically made the country’s break-up less likely, Nigerian Nobel Literature Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said. Speaking at his home surrounded by rainforest in Abeokuta, Soyinka said the horrors inflicted by […]
hough Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, is yet to make public his intension to seek a second term, many see his administration’s decision to rebury the late Ijaw nationalist, Major Isaac Boro, in Yenagoa, as a precursor to a declaration, writes SIMON UTEBOR The reburial of the exhumed remains of Niger Delta icon, Isaac Adaka […]
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode A Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, on Tuesday, said he stood by his comments about the All Progressives Congress and some of its leaders, noting that he looked forward to meeting the party in court. Fani-Kayode, who recently defected from the APC to the Peoples Democratic […]
A Delta State High Court in Asaba on Tuesday sentenced a student of the Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, and a businessman to 14 years for kidnapping. The student, Ndudi Ogwu, and Chukwudi Ifemeni were sent to prison with hard labour for kidnapping a nurse. Ogwu, an ND II mechanical engineering undergraduate and the businessman were […]
As I sat to write the concluding part of this essay, I couldn’t help but think about events in the Middle East. For instance, the Palestinians are no closer to independence today than they were a decade-and-half ago. With the passing of every month – and with Benjamin Netanyahu as the Prime Minister of […]
Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh | credits: http://www.nigeriancurrent.com/ THE bloodbath in the North-Central states has continued for so long, inuring the public and media to an unfolding human tragedy. While national and global attention is riveted on the atrocities of Boko Haram terrorists, bloodletting, arson, brigandage, rape and impunity are on the […]
Nigeria and Chelsea midfielder Mikel Obi Nigeria midfielder Mikel Obi insists that the Super Eagles should be proud of their efforts at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, africanfootball.com. The African champions were knocked out of the tournament after losing 2-0 to France in a last 16 clash in Brasilia on Monday. After holding […]
The Chairman, Northern Governors Forum and Governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, has warned Nigerians against politicisation of the census saying that previous head counts failed to achieve the desired results because of the way it was handled. Nigerians preferred to see census as a means of getting higher returns from the national purse instead of […]
People taking their patients home following the strike by resident doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos… on Tuesday. | credits: Sodiq Adelakun As members of the Nigerian Medical Association commence another round of strike, patients across the nation have no compliments but condemnation for what they describe as doctors’ insensitivity. Folashade Adebayo, […]
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