Following comments from former FCT minister and Arewa Consultative Forum(ACF)’s Board of Trustee ( BoT) Chairman, Lt. Gen. Jeremiah Useni (rtd), that Vice President Namadi Sambo has no clout to rally the north towards 2015, former Presidential Ad...
Despite the recommendation by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar that State Police could be introduced in Nigeria to augment policing activities in the states, Northern Governors are sticking to their guns reaffirming their earlier opposition to the ...
Senator representing Abia Uche Chukwumerije (PDP, Abia) yesterday said that the true meaning and intent of his signature gathering effort was grossly distorted in news reports, and said that it was not true that he was gathering signatures to com...
As part of incentives to women in the country, the federal government has initiated the YOUWIN business plan competition to empower women with a grant of N10million. Management Partner on United Nations Project, Mr. Akubo Adegbe, anno...
The Vice Chairman of the Concerned Indigenes of the Niger State and a member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Alhaji Aweisu Wana, has been arrested by men of the state security service in niger state for allegedly being in pos...
Without doubt or fear of equivocation, I strongly believe that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan deserves commendation for the successes he has achieved in the transformation agenda since he was elected on May 20, 2011. Nigeria has had numerous leaders...
Coach John Obuh has promised that the Flying Eagles will qualify for next year’s AYC in Algeria after they drew 1-1 with South Africa in Nelspruit on Friday. The Flying Eagles are the defending African champions having won the 2011 competition in...
Arrangements for the Dr. Alex Ekwueme under -18 National Junior Tennis Championship have reached advanced stage even as the competition is expected to kick off at Enugu Sports Club from 8th to 12th October, 2012. Briefing newsmen on the upcoming ...
National U-17 side, Flamingoes were on Saturday held by Canada in a pulsating 1-1 draw at the Tofig Bahramov Stadium. Though the team spurned a lot of scoring chances, but only got a goal through Ihezuo’s volley to equalize on a goal which earlie...
Cup holders, Heartland have placed 14 players on the transfer market while they retained 21. Heartland finished eighth on the log on 51 points from 36 matches. General Manager of the Naze Millionaires, Fan Ndubuoke said the players, who have been asked...
The Coordinator, Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), Arch. Reuben Okoya has made good his threat to sanction contractors who fail to live up to the terms of their contracts, by terminating the street light maintenance contract of CON Engineer...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Mariam Aloma-Mukhtar will, on Wednesday, inaugurate Kumai Bayang Akaahs, and Bayelsa State-born Stanley Shinko Alagoa as Supreme Court justices. Justice Akaahs replaced the suspended Court of Appeal president, Justic...
The Niger State Commissioner for Education, Mrs Susan Gana, has said that 17, 550 senior secondary school students in the state have failed their 2011/2012 promotion examinations. Gana, who revealed this at a press briefing in Minna on Saturday, said t...
The Vice President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr Issa Aremu, has called on the federal government to ensure a functional rail and energy sectors in order to boost the nation’s economy. Aremu, who made the call in Ilorin while speaking with...
The Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM) on Sunday in Abuja urged the Federal Government to urgently resuscitate the refineries to solve petroleum products scarcity. Dr Michael Olawale-Cole, President of the institute, made the call at a thanksgiving...