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A coalition of Northern politicians, academics, professionals and businessmen met yesterday at Asokoro, in Abuja, to deliberate on matters of serious concern to the Northern states of Nigeria and their peoples. In the course of the meeting the Northern...
DAVID-CHYDDY ELEKE in this report looks at the preparations being made to ensure hitch free burial for former warlord, and the leader of the Igbo people, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Since the announcement of his death last year, 26th November, the...
Former governorship aspirant in Kaduna State, under the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Idris Shuaibu Mikati and member Governing Council of the Kaduna State University is an expert in human resource management and governance. In this int...
There seems to be no reprieve in sight for embattled former Bayelsa State Governor Timipre Sylva, as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday filed a six-count charge of money laundering against him at the Federal High Court in Abu...
The Kano State Police Command has said that the house of the acting inspector- general of police, Muhammad Dikko Abubakar was never attacked by the suspected Boko Haram sect members, saying the attack was on policemen who were on foot patrol and not th...
Igbo traders in Abuja will today close their shops in honour of their late leader, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Speaking to journalists in Abuja, the chairman, Abuja local organising committee for Ojukwu’s burial, Barr. Nwabueze Obi said Igbo tra...
Chairman, Senate Joint Committee on Establishment, Public Service, States and Local Government Administration, Senator Aloysius Etok, yesterday said poor management of the pension scheme is capable of throwing the country into crisis. Briefing journali...
The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr. Osita Chidoka, has denounced call by Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on the federal government to review operations of the FRSC, saying that he is ignorant. The Corps Ma...
A 34-year-old graduate, Mr. Oyeghe Bineabi Miederi, has embarked on an indefinite hunger strike to express his frustration for being unemployed six years after graduation, allegedly due to hearing impairment. Oyeghe, who hails from Foropa community in ...
A former executive member of FIFA, Dr. Amos Adamu, has lost his appeal against a three-year ban from football at the Court of Arbitration for Sport sitting in Lausanne Switzerland. The court yesterday upheld the judgement of the world football governin...
The two most successful clubs in the history of the Italian Serie A, Juventus and AC Milan will clash tonight in the San Siro, in the top of the table clash. For some reason, the clash between Juventus and AC Milan has been relegated to the background ...
Ahead of Wednesday’s all important 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and their Rwandan counterparts in Kigali, Eagles’ goalkeeper trainer, Ike Shorunmu has warned the foreign based professionals invite...
In football, players always take the glory but coaches take the heat when things are going wrong in the team. Presently three high profile coaches are on the hot seat and things are going horribly wrong for them. The coaches are Andres Villa Boas of Ch...
Super Eagles’ new invitee, Victor Moses could be in the final season of his football career in the English premiership with Wigan Athletics as the bottom place club could say goodbye to the most lucrative league in the world at the end of the cur...
Kaduna State owned basketball club, KADA Stars have revealed they are prepared for the commencement of the new season which is expected to dunk-off this weekend in both the Atlantic and Savannah Conferences. Coach of KADA Stars, Sani Turi said his team...