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Pastor Adeboye speaks on handing over to Bishop Oyedepo as RCCG General Overseer

Posted by admin Headlines, Religion Monday, August 6th, 2018

Pastor Adeboye speaks on handing over to Bishop Oyedepo as RCCG General Overseer By Fikayo Olowolagba The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has addressed reports of him planning to hand over leadership of the church to the General Overseer of Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo. Pastor Adeboye, […]

Emmanuel Amunike hired as head of Tanzania senior side

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, August 6th, 2018

By Emmanuel Okogba Ex-Nigeria international Emmanuel Amunike has been appointed as the head coach of the senior Tanzanian football team. Amuike who was in charge when Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets conquered the world in 2015 signed a contract that will run till 2020. The Tanzania Football Federation confirmed the appointment on their official Twitter handle, with […]

Alleged abduction: Melaye resurfaces, releases evidence of Police awareness

Posted by admin Headlines, Kogi, Legislature, Senate, State News Sunday, July 29th, 2018

Melaye has also provided evidenceof police statement to prove that his kidnap was duly reported to the Nigerian Police. The senator was allegedly kidnapped by gunmen on Thursday morning while on his way to Lokoja, the Kogi state capital, but the Police said they were not aware of the development. Melaye, who pasted a snapshot […]

9 knife-wielding Nigerian drug sellers arrested in India

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, July 29th, 2018

Nine knife-wielding Nigerians allegedly peddling drugs in Mumbai have been arrested by India’s Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC). During the arrest on Friday night, police recovered 104 grams of cocaine and nine grams of mephedrone, all worth Rs 5.38 lakh, from the accused who attacked the cops with knives while resisting search. According to MumbaiMirror the accused […]

Gunman shoots 42-year-old Nigerian dead in South Africa

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, July 29th, 2018

The Nigerian community in South Africa has confirmed the killing of Mr Chibuzo Nwankwo, a 42-year-old member from Enugu State. The community said that Nwankwo’s death brings to 121 the number of Nigerians killed in South Africa since January 2016. Mr Habib Miller, the Publicity Secretary of the Nigerian Union in South Africa, confirmed the […]

U.S. jails Nigerian 14 years for scams • Sir Gabriel Igbinedion’s son-in-law on trial

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Sunday, July 29th, 2018

A day after a Nigerian-American Osmond Eweka, son-in-law of Bright Igbinedion, was charged with fraud in New York, another Nigerian, Ochuko Sylvester Eruotor has been sentenced to 14 years in a U.S. prison. The latter’s offence was that he led a fraud ring that prosecutors in Texas said laundered $3.5 million from hundreds of victims. […]

Samuel Ortom: Executive flip-flopping when the centre no longer holds

Posted by admin Benue, Governors, Headlines, State News Monday, July 23rd, 2018

2nd July 2018 Samuel Ortom was born on April 23, 1961. He holds a Masters of Public Administration from the Benue University and a Ph.D from the Commonwealth University, Belize, which he earned through distance learning. Tope Adeboboye His face hardly feigns defiance; neither does his demeanour depict the rebellious persona. Add that to his […]

Imo demolishes hotel, houses belonging to kidnap kingpins

Posted by admin Headlines, Imo, State News Monday, July 23rd, 2018

hidiebube Okeoma, Owerri The Imo State Government in collaboration with the state Police Command have jointly demolished one hotel and five buildings belonging to three suspected kidnappers and armed robbers who kidnapped and murdered a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Amos Akano. The suspects, who have reportedly confessed to the murder and other criminal […]

I was assaulted by a Nigerian policeman for filming Lebanese assaulting a Nigerian, a Nigerian man, Ajibola Akinsete, claims in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Monday, July 23rd, 2018

A Nigerian man,Ajibola Akinsete on Sunday claimed that a policeman assaultedhim at a shopping mall on Lagos Island over a video he recorded at a restaurant in the mall. On his Twitter handle, Akinsete @madejibo revealed that the incident happened on Friday when he went to the mall to watch a movie and stumbled on […]

DSS storms NFF secretariat, reinstates Pinnick-led board

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, July 23rd, 2018

The Amaju Pinnick-led Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has returned to the federation’s secretariat, NFF General Secretary Mohammed Sanusi said on Monday. The board had vacated the secretariat earlier this month after the Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, asked the NFF to comply with a Supreme Court order on […]