Just breaks your heart, doesn’t it? And this is the pattern, I’m afraid. This is what’s been our lot for four years. Nigerians are people of goodwill; we just need an active and dynamic-enough President to unite behind. Unfortunately, and despite a majority fervently wishing him to do well, Jonathan has persistently dropped the ball. Simply bleating ad nauseam about Read More
The Director General of the National Sports Commission(NSC), Honourable Gbenga Elegbeleye has hailed President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for the achievements sport has recorded so far which according to him is evident as regards impressive results recorded so far by Team Nigeria in the ongoing African Youth Tournament in Gaborone, Botswana. Team Nigeria is fighting hard to emerge the overall winner Read More
Samuel Aruwan Kaduna state government would this Friday morning distribute over N84 million to the survivors of March 14, 2014, killings in which gunmen killed 148 persons in three villages in Kaura local government area. Special Adviser on Christian Matters to Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, Rev. Joseph Hayab, disclosed this yesterday in Kaduna. He said asides the over N84 million, Read More
Umar Bayo Abdulwahab Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara state has said that his administration was determined to rid the state of abandoned projects syndrome and the associated wastage of public resources. The governor said his determination was informed by his pledge to complete all on-going projects started by his predecessor, Dr Bukola Saraki, which were then at different completion levels Read More
Dan Agbese I confess I have a lot of sympathy for Chief Olisa Metuh, national publicity secretary of PDP. Speaking for a political party as big as his can be anything but a nice time at what reporters call the watering hole. He is doing his best to ensure that both the party and the federal government present to the Read More
The Ambassador of the Republic of Sudan to Nigeria, His Excellency, Tagelsir Mahgoub Ali, says that contrary to the insinuations in some circles about his country having links with the Boko Haram sect, following the arrest of one of the suspects in the Nyanya bomb blast, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, in his country, Sudan has no links with the dreaded sect, Read More
Scotland Manager, Gordon Strachan caused a stir in the Nigerian dressing room moments before the game against his side in an international friendly, when he presented his Nigerian counterpart, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, with a branded brandy, with the name ‘Famous Keshi’. When Keshi received the gift in the presence of Team Administrator, Dayo Enebi Achor and Media Officer Ben Alaiya Read More
As the nation celebrated Democracy Day yesterday, the natives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said they had nothing to celebrate in the day because democracy does not exist in the territory. In an interview with Blueprint yesterday, the President of Original Inhabitants Development Association of Abuja (OIDA), Pastor Danladi Jeji, said if other Nigerians had something to celebrate about Read More
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has taken the second leg African Women Championship qualifier between Super Falcons and the She -Amavubi of Rwanda to Kaduna. According to NFF Director of Competitions, Sanusi Mohammed the match will be played at the Ahmadu Bello stadium Kaduna on Saturday, June 7. Super Falcons have been informed of the decision to play the return Read More
It would be the fight of titans in Port Harcourt this weekend as the league leaders, Rivers Angels host their bitter rivals Delta Queens in what would be the star match of the week in the Nigeria Women Football Premier League. When the two sides met at the first stanza of the league, they settled for a one all draw. Read More
No fewer than 300 ex- students of the Ekiti State University affiliated to Kwara state College of Education, Ilorin, on Wednesday protested the delay in issuance of their final degree results. The angry students made bonfires at different locations of the College Campus to express their dismay disrupting academic and other activities for several hours. President of the Students Union Read More
Yobo, Osaze, Ameobi, Egwuekwe speak up After the Nigerian national team played out a pulsating 2-2 draw against the Tartan Army of Scotland on Wednesday at the Craven Cottage in London, players of the World Cup bound team have started to take stock of what may be in the coming days with many of them saying they don’t envy Read More
ABDULRAHMAN A. ABDULRAUF writes on his encounter with Magaji, a grinding machine operator in a suburb of Jigawa state, who almost ran mad over job loss and how he got a bailout Located by the roadside which of course gives the small settlement the benefits of having a feel of civilisation and modernity, the people of Nasarawa, a quiet community Read More
Ini Edo wrote on Instagram: “Out on de streets is a realisation of my love for pastries, cakes, cookies, bread n anything baked. Inidelicious pasteries. No 18 Ogota Road, Ogudu Lagos. Enjoy n thanks for de patronage.” The actress is not the first entertainer to go into another business that is totally unrelated to entertainment. Recently, D’banj launched Koko Garri Read More
Fuji music icon, Alhaji Wasiu Ayinde Marshall a.k.a. K-1 De Ultimate, is known to always use his music to speak against issues going on the country and he is doing it yet one more time. “State of The Nation” a new album, dedicated to the Awujale of Ijebuland, HRM Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, is K-1’s latest effort with which the Read More
By Ezrel Tabiowo The much-awaited report of the Senate Committee on Finance has dismissed the allegations by the suspended Governor of Central Bank (CBN), Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, against the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as utterly unfounded and untrue, following the outcome of investigations, and whose report was submitted to the Senate during plenary yesterday. The report indicated that Read More
By Sadiq Abubakar Four out of the 223 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram at Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno state, have re-united with their parents. The state Commissioner for Education, Musa Inuwa Kubo, informed the Presidential Fact-Finding Committee on the Chibok attack this when he made a presentation in Maiduguri last week. Kubo, who appeared before the committee on Read More
By Oyibo Salihu Gunmen yesterday killed a retired Executive Director with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Chief Isa Edime, 67, at Ojikpada Egume village in Dekina local government area of Kogi state. The same assassins also killed a vigilante leader in the area, Mohammed Wada, the same day. Kogi state Commissioner of Police, Sa’idu Madawaki, while confirming the Read More
By Bayo Alabira Dutse Jigawa state Governor, Dr Sule Lamido, said based on Section 2121 of the 1999 Constitution he has released 14 prisoners who were serving various jail terms across the state. The Commissioner for Justice, Barrister Yakubu Abdullahi Ruba, said the governor was empowered by Section 1221 of the constitution to release whoever he wanted to, no matter Read More
A literary voice revered globally for her poetic command and her commitment to civil rights has fallen silent. Maya Angelou died at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on Wednesday, said her literary agent, Helen Brann. Angelou had been “frail” and suffering from heart problems, the agent said. Angelou’s legacy is twofold. She leaves behind a body of important artistic Read More
By Abdullahi M. Gulloma Nigeria would achieve its vision of becoming one of the 20 most developed economies in the world by the 2020 in view of the achievements recorded by the present administration, Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, said yesterday. Maku told State House correspondents at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting yesterday in Read More
By Raphael Ede Tears and grief marked the Children’s’ Day celebrations in Enugu on Tuesday as thousands of primary and secondary school children wept openly praying for the safety and speedy release of the students of the Government Secondary School, Chibok, abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents. The children roused the audience at the Michael Okpara Square venue of the Read More
By Chizoba Ogbeche The Nigeria Police has trained commandants of police colleges across the country on the effective implementation of the recently introduced human rights syllabus for police colleges and institutions aimed at enhancing professionalism and ethics among police officers. Speaking at the training workshop organised in collaboration with the Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare Action, the Ministry of Police Affairs, Read More
By Ameh Ejekwonyilo Abuja An Abuja Federal High Court yesterday granted an application by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to join, as a co-defendant in a suit instituted by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), seeking to unseat 11 senators who defected to the APC. The suit was filed before Justice Ahmed Mohammed by the PDP and its National Chairman, Adamu Read More
By Rotimi Ojomoyela Political leaders in the country came under heavy knock yesterday as the United States government described comments credited to them as “not only inflammatory, but highly incendiary.” It described such comments as “message of violence, especially now that Ekiti and Osun prepare for their governorship elections on June 21 and August 9, respectively. The United States’ Consular-General Read More
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