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NFF to decide premier league start
Nigerian football chiefs are to meet this week to thrash out a new date for the delayed start of the…
Labour Party boycotts Anambra partial poll
The National Chairman of Nigeria’s Labour Party, Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, on Monday announced the decision of the party to boycott…
NFA slams 10 year ban on Lam Adesina, board member
The Nigeria Football Association (NFA) on Monday, imposed a 10-year ban on a member of the board, Mr Olaleye Adepoju,…
APC splits in Niger state
A faction of All Progressives Congress (APC) led by Alhaji Baba Aminu, has emerged in Niger state. Aminu emerged as…
Police confirm attack on aviation minister’s car
The Nigerian Police Command on Monday in Abuja confirmed that gunmen fired shots at the car of the Minister of…
AIB begins investigating Ilorin plane crash
Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent The Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, has opened an investigation into the Ilorin plane crash which occurred on…
Judiciary workers sue state, Federal government over funding
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Judiciary Staff Association of Nigeria, JUSUN, has dragged the Federal Government before a Federal High Court…
APGA ’ll Win Anambra poll even if conducted 10 times, says Obi
Governor Peter Obi of the eastern Nigerian state of Anambra said on Monday that there was no rigging in the…
3 escape death as training aircraft crashes
Three crew members on board a training aircraft of International Aviation College, Ilorin, escaped death as the plane crashed during…
Trading closes lower at NSE
Transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) closed lower on Monday with the market indices dropping marginally by 0.06 per…
Anambra election: INEC official remanded in police custody
A Wuse Zone 2 Chief Magistrates’ Court, in the Nigerian Federal capital of Abuja, on Monday, ordered that an INEC…
Ebonyi university breaks ranks with ASUU, reopens for lectures
The management of Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, in eastern Nigeria on Monday ordered all the lecturers and students to return…
Supporters of Museveni remove Kampala Mayor
The mayor of Uganda’s capital Kampala was ousted from office by local councillors on Monday after a lengthly power struggle…
Lai Mohammed: Jega’s credibility gone with Anambra poll
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta As controversy continues to dog the 16 November governorship election in the eastern Nigerian state of Anambra,…
Sugary Drinks Increase Cancer In Women
Women addicted to sugar-sweetened beverages and carbonated drinks do not only risk obesity, diabetes and heart disease, they also risk…
N77m Fraud: Court Dismisses Application To Discharge Ex-Oyo Commissioner
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday, dismissed an oral application made by counsel to Kazeem Adedeji, former Commissioner…
Israel To Deport African Migrants
The Israeli cabinet has approved measures aimed at deporting thousands of Africans who illegally entered the country and who are…
TUC advocates pay rise for Nigerian workers
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) on Monday requested the Federal Government to revisit the issue of pay rise…
Football: Oshiomhole set to revive Bendel Insurance
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of the southern Nigerian state of Edo has inaugurated the Interim Management Committee of the Bendel Insurance…
NFF: Steer Clear Of Eaglets
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has warned dubious persons parading themselves as football agents to steer clear of the triumphant…
Kwara 2013’ll Produce Future Stars
The ongoing Sterling Bank-sponsored National School Sports Festival has been described as another platform to harness the enormous talents abound…
Adamu: Nigerians Should Celebrate Keshi
Former Director General of National Sports Commission, NSC, Dr. Amos Adamu, has called on Nigeria Football Federation, NFF to invest…
10-Year-Old Pupil Wins Swimming Gold For Lagos
Faith John , a ten years old pupil of Ipakodo Primary School, Ikorodu, Lagos, emerged the champion in the girls’…
Fatal abortion: Court rules doctor has case to answer
A Magistrate’s Court in Yaba, Lagos, western Nigeria, on Monday held that a 35-year-old doctor, Edeye Monday, had a case…
National Conference And “The Fierce Urgency Of Now!”
By Chido Onumah Like many Nigerians I am suspicious of the national conference or dialogue proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan.…
Oduahgate: Jonathan’s Dangerous Silence
President Goodluck Jonathan’s silence on the corruption scandal involving Stella Oduah, Nigeria’s embattled Minister of Aviation, is not only dangerous,…
Anambra 2013 Shame And INEC
By Joe Igbokwe On Monday November 4 2013 I wrote a piece titled Anambra 2013: What We Expect From INEC.…
Michael Jackson Killed Himself —Doctor
Doctor Conrad Murray, personal doctor of the late King o Pop, Michael Jackson, has disclosed in an exclusive interview with…
300 Gunmen Sack Jos Town, Kill 5
Some 300 gunmen stormed a mostly Christian village in central Nigeria on Sunday, killing five people and burning scores of…
Iyayi’s Burial: ASUU Bars Govt Officials
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has barred government officials from participating in the burial programmes of its former…