The foreign technical assistant the Nigeria Football Federation is planning to engage for the Super Eagles will not sit on the bench with the Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, it has been learnt. The NFF and Keshi have been at loggerheads over the the football house’s plans to hire the services of a foreign coach for […]
Nigeria has received grants totalling $23million in four years from the Global Environmental Facility, under its “Big Full Size” project funding, a desk officer, has said. The GEF’s Desk Officer in the Federal Ministry of Environment, Mrs Halima Mohammed, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Wednesday. Mohammed […]
Crashed Algerian military plane… on Tuesday. | credits: European Pressphoto Agency An Algerian military transport plane has crashed in mountains in the north-east of the country with 103 passengers and crew on board, BBC reports. The Hercules C-130 crashed in a mountainous area of Oum al-Bouaghi province, en route to Constantine. One survivor has […]
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday alleged that corrupt Nigerians are the ones who openly accuse him of not fighting corruption. Making a veiled reference to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, who recently claimed that his body language encourages corruption, Jonathan said his critics make such statements to claim credibility. The […]
By Sabella Abidde For more than a decade, the Niger Delta was home to formal and informal groups like the Outlaws; the Tombia Youth Organisation; the Movement for the Survival of the Ijaw Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta; the Ijaw Youth Council; the Niger Delta Strike Force; the Niger Delta Coastal Guerillas; South-South Liberation […]
South Africa’s heated election campaign turned violent on Wednesday, forcing police in Johannesburg to fire rubber bullets and stun grenades to separate armed supporters of the ruling ANC from an opposition rally. African National Congress militants brandished sticks and hurled petrol bombs and bricks at members of the Democratic Alliance holding a march near the ANC’s […]
The Cross River Government said on Wednesday that none of its villages were illegally annexed by Cameroon on the orders of the Nigeria-Cameroon boundary demarcation officials. The Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Liyel Imoke, Mr Christian Ita, told newsmen in Calabar that the speculation was untrue. He, however, said that a pillar on the boundary between […]
International peacekeepers have failed to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the Central African Republic, a human rights group says. Militia attacks have led to a “Muslim exodus of historic proportions”, according to a report by Amnesty International. Aid groups have warned of a food crisis, as many of the shops and wholesalers were […]
Uche Igwe | credits: File copy The All Progressives Congress has started with a momentum as a radical opposition party in Nigeria. Relatively, it seems to have achieved some visibility nationwide, especially in the media. It has also succeeded in antagonising the ruling Peoples Democratic Party on many issues and has attracted many prominent politicians […]
President Goodluck Jonathan | credits: File copy President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday inaugurated the Nigeria Industrial Revolution Plan and the National Enterprise Development Programme. He also said the various policies so far put in place by his administration were clear indications that he would leave the country better and stronger than he met it. […]
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