At last it appears that Newcastle United’s Nigerian born forward Shola Ameobi has finally decided to play for his fatherland after his name was included in the list of players invited for next month’s international friendly against Guatemala. For years the player, who was born in Nigeria but moved to England with his parents at […]
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has jumped at the offer to play Guatemala on the next world international free day on February 9 after the South American football lightweights tabled a juicy, all-expense paid package before the national team of Nigeria. The match to be played in Miami, Florida has already been approved by Super Eagles […]
Hire-wire politics and last minute intensive lobbying of the delegates by governors of the Peoples Democratic Party was what eventually gave victory to President Goodluck Jonathan at the presidential primary of the party on Thursday, investigation has revealed. According to sources, part of the strategy used by the governors to ensure that their delegates did […]
Adewale T. Akande, Barcelona, Spain – Jan. 15, 2011 – The recent political imbroglio in Oyo State that caused the gruesome murder of the dismissed Chairman of the state National Union of Road Transport Workers, Alhaji Lateef Salako (aka Elewe-omo) and two other party men in a local government congress of the People Democratic Party calls […]
Stakeholders on the platform of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) had secret meetings yesterday, with a view to arriving at a consensus candidate for the presidential elections in 2011. Kano state governor, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, Chief Harry Akande, Alhaji Bashir Tofa and Alhaji Dauda Birmah are in the race to fly the party’s presidential […]
The former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has congratulated President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on what he described as a landslide victory at the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), held at the Eagles Square, Abuja. According to General Babangida, who was equally a presidential aspirant on the party’s platform but had to […]
Thousands of millionaires may have emerged from the Peoples Democratic Party presidential primaries where the president emerged winner and flag-bearer of the party for the 2011 elections. LEADERSHIP WEEKEND gathered exclusively that supporters of President Jonathan gave each of the delegates $5,000 on arrival after a very large percentage of them had received $3,000 from […]
President Goodluck Jonathan would in the next few days hold a series of meetings with elder statesman, Adamu Ciroma and his group, the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF) as well as his closed rival in the just concluded presidential primaries of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. The move, Sun Sunday gathered, is to resolve the […]
I am very concerned about the influence that the US Senate Report titled “KEEPING FOREIGN CORRUPTION OUT OF THE UNITED STATES: FOUR CASE HISTORIES” is having on the pending PDP primaries in Nigeria scheduled for January 13, 2011. I will assume that the reader is familiar with the report as it relates to former Nigerian […]
Residents of Ogida quarters, Benin woke up Friday to find 10 corpses in the area believed to be victims of the latest round of clashes between members of the Eiye Confraternity and the Black Axe. A similar clash on Eweka Street, Thursday afternoon, had claimed two lives. Saturday Vanguard gathered that one of the cult […]
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