Nigeria and Chelsea winger Victor Moses has said that he is devastated that he will be missing several matches with the Super Eagles in the coming weeks. Injury sustained in a Premier League game has ruled him out of upcoming matches for Nigeria starting with Friday’s friendly clash against Mexico in the United States. Moses […]
Major Hamza al-Mustapha said his conviction for the murder of the late Alhaja Kudirat Abiola was because he served in “a hated administration”. Al-Mustapha, a former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, also said other allegations of murder and attempted murder levelled against the administration were “spurious conjectures.” Al-Mustapha […]
Four foreign nationals, suspected to have hailed from Middle East, were arrested in Kano by the Joint Task Force over a large cache of arms and ammunition uncovered in their mini-warehouse located in the Bompai area of Kano on Wednesday. Following the shock discovery, owner of the complex, where the dangerous weapons were impounded, simply […]
PRESIDENTIAL campaign posters featuring Jigawa State governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, and his Rivers State counterpart, Rotimi Amaechi, surfaced in the Federal Capital Territory on Wednesday thus signalling an interesting twist to the 2015 elections. The coloured posters, versions of which had been reportedly sighted earlier in Kaduna and Niger states, bear portraits of Lamido and […]
CLANDESTINE moves to impeach Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, heightened on Wednesday as eight members of the House of Assembly were said to have shifted loyalty to the camp of the Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike. Though the names of the lawmakers were not mentioned, the number of anti-Amaechi state legislators […]
KEY predecessors of President Goodluck Jonathan in office, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo; and ex-dictators, retired Generals Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida, and Abdusalami Abubakar (retd.), as well as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, on Wednesday shunned the Democracy Day event of the Federal Government. While all former heads of government were reportedly invited […]
As Nigerians celebrate Democracy Day, there is a need to look at the scorecard for the fight against corruption, writes CHUX OHAI Sometime in July, 2012, the Chairman, Governing Council of the University of Ibadan, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), spoke the minds of millions of Nigerians when he said the military should tender an apology […]
With the short and medium-term programmes mapped out for the power sector in the country, President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said Nigerian children soon would no longer depend on generators for electricity supply. Speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony of the N162.9bn Zungeru Hydro Power Dam in Niger State, the President said many of the programmes […]
The Senate on Tuesday began the reform of the Contributory Pensions Scheme by reading for the second time a bill to repeal the Pensions Reform Act, 2004 and enact the Pension Reform Act, 2013. The President of the Senate, David Mark, while presiding over the debate on the bill, noted that the administration of pension […]
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday opposed former Bayelsa State Governor, Timipreye Sylva’s bid to accompany his wife to the United Kingdom, where she is scheduled to undergo surgery on May 31, 2013. In an application argued by his counsel, Mr. O. I. Olorundare, Sylva asked an Abuja Federal High Court to release his […]
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