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I was third on Dimka’s death list – TY Danjuma

Posted by admin Latest Politics Saturday, February 13th, 2016

Lt. Gen Theophilus Danjuma on Saturday said he was the third person on the list of those marked for assassination during the failed 13 February, 1976 coup d’état that claimed the life of the then Head-of-State, Gen. Murtala Muhammed, and many others. He said this at the Murtala Muhammed 40th Memorial Lecture held at the […]

2016 budget: Errors galore

Posted by admin Budget, Latest Politics Saturday, February 13th, 2016

By Omoniyi Salaudeen THE much awaited 2016 appropriation bill before the National Assembly may take a little longer than expected to be passed into law in view of the latest development arising from the debate of the document by the lawmakers. This time around, the issue is about the discrepancies in the figures contained in […]

6 beheaded as 15 die in Rivers cult war

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Saturday, February 13th, 2016

SUSPECTED cultists have killed 15 people and beheaded six of them in Omoku, the headquarters of Ogba/ Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area (ONELGA) of Rivers State. The killings came barely 24 hours after gunmen, lastThursday, assassinated a former member of the State House of Assembly, who represented Ogba/Egbema Ndoni Constituency, Monday Eleanya. Sunday Sun gathered that […]

FG disengages 13 universities’ VCs

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Saturday, February 13th, 2016

MINISTRY of Education has announced disengagement of 12 Vice Chancellors (VCs) of Federal owned universities hitherto established by former president Goodluck Jonathan and their immediate replacement. According to a release signed by the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, the decision to replace the VCs was part of the measures by the present administration to […]

AFCON 2017 qualifier: Eagles, Pharaohs get new date

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Saturday, February 13th, 2016

By George Aluo The first leg of the all-important Nigeria versus Egypt AFCON 2017 qualifier billed for next month has been moved forward by three days by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) courtesy of a request made by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). Daily Sunsports gathered exclusively yesterday that the NFF early this week […]

Murtala Muhammed: How Dimka was arrested

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Murtala Ramat Muhammed (1975-76), Presidency Friday, February 12th, 2016

By Peter Okutu 40 years ago, after the calamitous coup failed, Lt. Colonel Buka Dimka who played a leading role in the events of February 13, 1976 sought refuge in the arms of an old girlfriend in Afikpo in the then Anambra State. An indigene of the town, Chief Jasper Okoro, a native of Afikpo […]

Enyimba lose CAF Championship first leg

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Soccer, Sports Friday, February 12th, 2016

By John Egbokhan Enyimba yesterday started their 2016 CAF Champions League campaign on a bad note, losing 1-0 to Ugandan champions, Vipers SC in a preliminary round first leg match at the Nakivubo stadium. The clash had far wider-reaching ramifications than just the matter of playing for the first time in this prestigious continental competition […]

Murtala Muhammed: 40 years after

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Murtala Ramat Muhammed (1975-76), Presidency Friday, February 12th, 2016

Tomorrow would make it 40 years since Lt. Col. Buka Dimka and his gang of military adventurers instigated an aborted rebellion against a popular military administration that had quaked political powers not only in Nigeria but globally By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor Those who had the booming sound of the gun shot that early Friday […]

Oliseh: NFF wins round 1, stops salary of his aide

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Friday, February 12th, 2016

By Tony Ubani AS Nigerians come to terms with the sensational Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh’s rant on You-tube, his employers, the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, are gradually fighting back by first stopping the salary of his aide. Ex-international and former team-mate of Oliseh, Tijani Babangida was appointed by the Eagles coach as Special Assistant […]

$2.1bn ARMS PROBE: NAF fires indicted officers, appoints new AOCs, PSOs

Posted by admin Air Force, Armed Forces, Latest Politics Friday, February 12th, 2016

By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North & Kingsley Omonobi ABUJA—The Nigerian Airforce High Command stepped up its anti-corruption war, yesterday, with the removal of officers, including Air Officers Commanding, AOCs, fingered in the $2.1billion arms scandal and appointed new officers to replace them. As a result, Vanguard gathered that about four senior officers, Air Vice […]