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Ex-Botswanan president to deliver Ake’s memorial lecture

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, February 7th, 2011

FORMER President of Botswana, Mr. Festus Gontebanye Mogae, will on February 18, 2011 deliver a lecture at the first Professor Claude Ake Memorial Lecture to be organised by the Rivers State Government. The Chairman, Planning Committee of the memorial lecture, Mr. Charles Gogo, disclosed on Monday in Port Harcourt, the state capital, that the […]

Boko Haram gives conditions to stop killings

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, February 7th, 2011

The Muslim fundamentalist group, Boko Haram, has given conditions to enable its members stop slaughtering innocent Nigerians in some parts of the North. The group said it would stop inflicting pains on the people if the Borno State Governor, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, steps down from office with immediate effect and also allow members to […]

Masaba wants a voting unit for his 5,000 family members

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, February 7th, 2011

Resident Electoral Commissioner in Niger State, Dr. Emmanuel Onucheyo, has revealed that Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Bello Masaba, the octogenarian with about 5,000 familiy members had officially written to Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, earlier before the commencement of the registration exercise of the need to create a new voting unit for him. However, the REC […]

Yobo,Mikel,Osaze boost Eagles

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, February 7th, 2011

Certainly, it is going to be a full house as Super Eagles’ skipper, Joseph Yobo, West Ham’s striker, Obinna Nsofor and a Chelsea’s player, John Mikel Obi, are expected to arrive Monday to boost the number of players already in camp for the friendly international against Sierra Leone in Lagos on Wednesday. Yobo was already […]

Suspension: Adamu seeks relief at CAS

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, February 7th, 2011

Suspended FIFA official, Amos Adamu, says he’s asking the Court of Arbitration for Sport to overturn his ban for allegedly seeking bribes during the World Cup bidding contests. The Nigerian says he’s taking legal advice to challenge his three-year expulsion from football which was upheld by FIFA’s appeals committee last Friday. Adamu’s three-year ban for […]

Man with 86 wives to sue INEC

Posted by admin Headlines, INEC Politics Sunday, February 6th, 2011

The celebrated polygamist, Pa Abubakar Masaba, is heading for a showdown with the Independent National Electoral Commission and the police following allegations that members of his family, numbering over 5,000 were denied registration by suspected thugs in the just concluded voter registration exercise. Our correspondent gathered that suspected thugs allegedly thwarted efforts by members […]

SPDC spends N5.53bn on empowerment in N-Delta

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Sunday, February 6th, 2011

THE Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, says it spent about N5.53 billion between 2005 and 2010 on various economic empowerment programmes, that had improved lives and raised the standard of living in the Niger Delta. According to Shell, they include 241 micro-credit schemes, 35 agro and fisheries and 120 land and marine transport projects, while […]

Pray against civil unrest, Adeboye tasks Nigerians

Posted by admin Headlines, Uncategorized Sunday, February 6th, 2011

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, on Friday, urged Nigerians to pray against civil unrest which is already happening in some countries. Adeboye, who gave the charge before embarking on a sermon, entitled, “Hope Rising”,at the February Holy Ghost service of the RCCG at the Redemption […]

FG evacuates 1,069 Nigerians from Egypt

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, February 6th, 2011

A total of 1,069 Nigerians have been evacuated from crisis-ridden Cairo, the Egyptian capital, to Nigeria after a successful 48 hours operation jointly coordinated by the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Security Adviser, NSA. Director General of NEMA, Muhammad Sani-Sidi, while receiving the last batch of the returnees […]

324 Nigerian pilgrims arrive Israel

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, February 6th, 2011

About 324 Nigerian Christian Pilgrims on Sunday arrived in Israel for the Holy pilgrimage with high expectations for spiritual rebirth. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the pilgrims for the 2010 pilgrimage were made up of contingents from Kaduna, Plateau, Zamfara, Kogi, Benue and Abuja. Addressing the pilgrims, Mr Simeon Gana, Director of […]