FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday said that he was tricked to attend a reception organised for former chairman of the Nigeria Port Authority (NPA), Chief Olabode George, who was recently released from prison. Obasanjo, who is the chairman, Board of Trustees, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), added that his attendance at the reception was in […]
T emerged in Abuja on Thursday that the campaign organisation of President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may shun the planned presidential debate as a result of the failure of opposition parties to join the presidential campaign train. Sources told the Nigerian Tribune that the president’s men believed that […]
The Minister of Petroleum Resources Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke has called for greater indigenous private sector participation in the downstream activities of the oil and gas industry so as to accelerate the attainment of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s aspiration for the sector. Speaking during a facility tour of some vital downstream sites in Lagos, Mrs. Madueke […]
Yinka Odumakin spokesman for Major General Muhammadu Buhari “The reception is shameful and condemnable. It shows that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its leadership are immune to shame, that is why they will roll out drums for an ex_convict like Bode George. If we don’t stop PDP at the polls, our children will not […]
It was a gory and bizarre scene, just like in a fiction or acting in Okota, Isolo Lagos yesterday as a middle-aged man was caught by the police with the lifeless body of his friend in a drum. The body was chopped in small pieces to make it fit into the blue plastic drum that […]
“HAVE you gone to visit the Mandela of our land?” “Who? The Madiba is around?” “Who is talking about Nelson Mandela? I mean, Oga Bode, the atona oodua, PDP chieftain, former Chairman of the Nigeria Ports Authority, La-go-s Bo-y?” “Ex-convict plenipotentiary and extraordinary, graduate of Kirikiri maximum” “Be careful. Don’t talk like that. You say […]
ON Wednesday, last week, a Federal High Court sitting in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, ruled that five state governors, namely, Ibrahim Idris of Kogi, Aliyu Wamako of Sokoto, Murtala Nyako of Adamawa, Liyel Imoke of Cross River, and Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa who won re-run elections in 2008 would remain in office till 2012 […]
THE Super Eagles will reconvene in Abuja on March 14 to begin preparations for the Africa Nations Cup qualifier against Ethiopia, which Nigeria must win to retain hope of qualifying for the Gabon/Equatorial Guinea championship. According to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), coach Samson Siasia will begin preparations with the home-based players, who recently returned […]
EUROPE’S mega carrier, British Airways, has appointed Kola Olayinka as the airline’s first indigenous country manager, in its over 70 years of operation in Nigeria. According to the carrier, the appointment followed an extensive search spanning several months to find the best person for the job. A graduate of the University of Lagos and the […]
NO fewer than 92 Nigerians were yesterday deported from the United Kingdom (UK), Spain, The Netherlands, Hungary, France and Austria. They arrived aboard a chartered airplane about 9:00a.m. at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. An Immigration source at the MMIA said the deportees included 77 males and 15 females. The source, who pleaded […]
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