Year: 2015
U-20 W/Cup Stars Join Siasia’s Eagles Today
Coach of Nigeria’s U-23 Eagles, Samson Siasia, has called up eight players from the recent FIFA U-20 World Cup as…
OMISORE: Mischief As A Way Of Life
By Lateef Raji In the politics of the 4th Republic, especially in the South West geo-political zone, some characters have…
Okiro And A Failed Blackmailing Scheme
By Thomas Adegoke Retired Inspector-General of Police Mr. Mike Okiro, hit the nail on the head over the hullabaloo regarding…
Kidnapping As An Ill-Wind
Kidnapping has become so rampant that hardly a day passes without report of the incident happening in our country. The…
Wike vows to demote traditional rulers favoured by Amaechi
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has vowed to upturn the status of some traditional rulers in…
Akpabio Is Author Of Rigging, Says Umana Umana
The All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom in the 11 April governorship election, Umana Okon Umana has…
Unpaid Salaries: Buhari Meets Governors Tuesday
President Muhammadu Buhari will Tuesday meet with Nigerian state governors over the unpaid salaries to workers in some states. Although…
Ambode Vows To Transform Lagos To Tourism, Entertainment Hub
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has assured residents that the State Government will not collect any toll at the…
Ambode promises to reward diligent, hardworking NYSC members
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Monday assured members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) of reward if…
NASS Delaying Buhari’s Cabinet —Garba Shehu
The Senior Special Assistant (Media and Publicity) to President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, has explained why the ministerial list of…
National Assembly told to review PIB
Some experts in the Nigerian oil and gas industry on Monday called on the leadership of the new National Assembly…
Oyedepo Curses Kidnappers
Founder and General Overseer of Living Faith Church Worldwide a.k.a. Winners’ Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has cursed kidnappers for bringing…
Edo Govt. wants FG to rehabilitate Fugar/Agenebode road
Edo Deputy Governor Pius Odubu on Monday appealed to the Federal Government to rehabilitate the Fugar/Agenebode road being threatened by…
N25.7bn Fraud: Court frees Francis Atuche
Henry Ojelu A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja today struck out the N25.7billion theft charge filed against former Managing…
Jigawa to empower 8610 widows
Governor Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa said his administration had concluded arrangement to empower 8, 610 widows across the state. Badaru…
Akpabio is the author of rigging, says Umana Umana
The All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom at the last general election, Umana Okon Umana has described former…
Maradona to contest FIFA presidency
Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona has decided to stand as a candidate for the FIFA presidency to replace Sepp Blatter,…
Unpaid salaries: Buhari meets governors on Tuesday
President Muhammadu Buhari will tomorrow meet with Nigerian state governors over the unpaid salaries to workers in some states. Although…
Banks did not do enough to police FIFA transactions, says global agency
REUTERS – A global group of government anti-money-laundering agencies said that financial institutions have not done enough to police suspicious…
PICTURE: Official portrait and title of Aisha Buhari
The wife of the president, will now be addressed as Mrs Aisha Muhammadu Buhari following the release of her official…
Al-Makura condemns attack on Tse-Ikpur community in Benue
Governor Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa state has condemned the recent attack on Tse-Ikpur community of Logo Local Government Area of…
Kogi distributes N23.2bn loan to 145,000 farmers
The Kogi State Government says it has begun the distribution of N23.2 billion loan and grants to 145,000 farmers in…
Wike to expand federal high court building, reform TIMARIV
Rivers State Government has disclosed plans to expand the Federal High Court building in Port Harcourt. Governor Nyesom Wike made…
Brazil beat Venezuela, advance to Copa quarters
Santiago (AFP) – Brazil shrugged off the absence of suspended captain Neymar to reach the Copa America quarter-finals with a…
Farmers to Buhari: Relax credit access rules to boost food production
Stakeholders in agriculture sector have appealed to the Federal Government to relax what they called stringent rules in accessing credit…
Victims of Akwa Ibom communal crises get NEMA relief materials
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has provided relief materials to support the rehabilitation of victims of communal clashes in…
Tele Ikuru is a ‘shameless clown’ – Amaechi
Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, former governor of Rivers state has described Tele Ikuru, former deputy governor who served with him for…
Wike’s probe a fraudulent witch-hunt, says Amaechi
The immediate past Governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has described the so-called probe of his administration…
Wike sacks Rivers Radio GM, appoints ex-SilverBird Mgr
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike has ordered the immediate sack of the General Manager of Rivers State…
Rector goes into hiding as students protest in Ogun
Abiofun Onafuye/Abeokuta Pandemonium broke out last week Thursday at the Ogun State Institute of Technology, Igbesa, Ado-Odo-Ota local government area…