The Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, announced over the weekend that it will resume collation of results in Rivers and Bauchi states after elections were declared inconclusive. This decision has been faulted in the two states by the African Action Congress, AAC in Rivers State; and the APC in Bauchi State. RIVERS Rivers AAC is reportedly backed by the APC which…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced it will resume collation of votes in the Bauchi Governorship poll, next Tuesday. The electoral body said a winner could eventually be confirmed after it resolved matters affecting two local governments: Ningi and Tafawa Balewa This decision was revealed in a press statement on Friday night after resolving some issues around the…
All eight persons trapped in the three-storey building collapse in Ibadan, on Friday have been rescued. The Nigeria Emergency Management Authority, NEMA, confirmed this on through South West Coordinator, Slakku Luggard and Director of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Akin Makinde. No fewer than six persons were rescued on Friday, hours after the accident, following emergency intervention by the…
Former Nigeria international, Victor Moses says he rather would enjoy playing football without feeling the pressure. Moses disclosed this in a report by complete sports after Fenerbahce's hard fought 2-1 home win over Sivasspor in the Turkish Super Lig, on Friday. The 28 year-old is on an eighteen months loan deal stay at the club from Chelsea. His assist pulled…
FIFA, the international football governing body, has approved the use of VAR (video assistant referee) at this year's Women World Cup in France. The decision was reached upon recommendation by the body's Referees Committee, on Friday. The use of the VAR is to enhance decision making at the global showpiece. “CONFIRMED: The FIFA Council today ratified that Video Assistant Referees…
Three suspects in the Offa Robbery attack of April 5, 2018, have accused members of the police of complicity. Ayoade Akinnibosun, Ibikunle Ogunleye and Adeola Abraham told a High Court of Kwara, in Ilorin that their statements of admittance for the crime and implicating president of Nigeria's senate, Bukola Saraki were obtained under duress; thus, forced to make the confessions.…
Patience Jonathan loses over 5bn to the Nigerian government in two separate cases of illegal financial activities.
A building collapsed in Ita Faji area of Lagos Island, Southwest Nigeria, on Wednesday, claiming several lives and leaving scores injured.
The world recorded the darkest week in the first quarter of 2019 as lives were lost across the globe. In one week, blood, tears and death wreaked from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Lagos, Nigeria, to Christchurch, New Zealand. All incidents taking over 200 lives. On Sunday, March 10, an Ethiopian Airline ET 302 Boeing 737 Max 8 jet loaded with…
Nigeria will lose an estimated $6 billion in revenue to international oil companies, Shell and Eni, over the deal on the controversial oil block, widely known as Oil Prospecting License (OPL) 245. icirnigeria.org reported the new findings quoting a report by Global Witness called Take The Future. According to icir.org, leaked emails and confidential documents also showed that the oil…
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has publicly disagreed with the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress over the right of aggrieved members to seek redress in court. In a statement by Femi Adesina, the president’s media adviser, President Muhammadu Buhari stressed that if anyone is displeased with the way and manner anything has been done, and feels deprived of…
The President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara met with the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari over the recent massacre in Plateau state on Wednesday. The meeting which was at the instance of the President of the Senate is currently holding at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The news of the ongoing…
A late Marcos Rojo goal sent Argentina into the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ knockout stages in dramatic style. Needing a win to have any chance of progression, the defender volleyed La Albiceleste 2-1 in front in the 86th minute to break Nigerian hearts. Victor Moses's second-half penalty looked to be enough to earn Nigeria a crucial point, cancelling out a stunning…
Nigeria got their first win of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ by beating tournament debutants Iceland 2-0 in Volgograd. The result means the race for second place in Group D will go down to the last game on 26 June. Ultimately, three teams will compete for a spot in the Round of 16 on the final day, with the…
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said on Wednesday that the National Assembly mutilated and rewrote the budget proposals for 2018 presented by the Executive last November. In a brazen usurpation of executive powers, the National Assembly slashed 347 billion Naira in the allocations to 4,700 projects submitted to it for consideration and introduced 6,403 projects of its own amounting to 578…