The Presidency on Tuesday said President Goodluck Jonathan did not need the support of the spokesman for the Northern Elders’ Forum, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, or “his North” to win the 2015 presidential election if he decides to contest. Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Dr. Ahmed Gulak, said this in an interview with […]
The Nigeria Football Federation has placed indefinite suspensions on four clubs after two scandalous results of 79-0 and 67-0 in a promotion play-off. In promotion play-offs into the Nigeria Nationwide League, the lowest tier of Nigeria’s domestic league, on Monday, Plateau United Feeders beat Akurba FC 79-0, while Police Machine FC demolished Babayaro FC 67-0. […]
The House of Representatives on Tuesday blamed the deteriorating power supply in the country on the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, for allegedly failing to release power sector funds. The House Committee on Power also criticised the Coordinating Minister of the Economy for the Federal Government’s refusal to provide funds for the running of […]
The jury did its job and has since gone to sleep on the Peoples Democratic Party. The question now is not whether the party is guilty as charged; the question is about the length of its punishment. The crux of the matter was how much the PDP had failed Nigeria. The defendant, the PDP, claimed […]
The Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, in an interview with journalists in Abuja, explains the crisis in the Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, NIYI ODEBODE was there. Excerpts: What happened at the Port Harcourt Airport on Saturday, June 29, when President Goodluck Jonathan was returning to Abuja after his […]
A 35-year-old woman, identified as Ejobosele Okoruwa. has committed suicide in Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government, Edo State, few hours after dedicating her three months old baby in a church. Ejobosele dedicated her baby on Sunday, while she killed herself in the early hours of Monday. Her lifeless body was found dangling from the ceiling […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday declared that he made “successful” mistakes as Military Head of State and civilian president. Obasanjo, who ruled the country between 1976 and 1979 as a military head and between 1999 and 2007 as a civilian President, however, took responsibility for all his actions. He spoke in Ibadan, Oyo State […]
The political crisis in Rivers State degenerated on Tuesday as an attempt to impeach the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Mr. Otelemaba Amachree, sparked a free-for-all. Five members of the House opposed to Governor Rotimi Amaechi had engaged about 13 of their colleagues in a fight shortly after the pro-governor lawmakers resisted the move […]
The Nigerian Ambassador to China, Aminu Wali, on Monday said Nigerians were responsible for about 80 per cent of the offences committed by Africans in China. Over 400 Nigerians, he added, were serving various jail terms in China for drug-related offences. Wali stated this in Beijing ahead of President Goodluck Jonathan’s state visit to China. […]
Last week, the National Teachers’ Institute announced that about 80 per cent of teachers in Northern Nigeria were not qualified to teach. Just before that, the Federal Ministry of Education had announced the cut-off marks for admission into the Federal Government Colleges, known as Unity Schools, with the shocking piece of information that while the […]
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