As part of giving back to its immediate community, the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBB) will tomorrow embark on its Community Outreach Programme with a visit to future players of the game and the less privileged in the society. According to the president of the NBBF, Tijjani Umar, the day’s programme will begin at 10. am with a visit to the Read More
By AbdulRaheem Aodu Kaduna The Ansar-Ud-Deen Society of Nigeria, Kaduna branch, and Nasrul-Lahi-il-Fathi Society of Nigeria (NASFAT), Kaduna branch, have described the death of Captain Yusuf Sabo Sambo as “shocking and a huge loss to Nigeria.” In a condolence message to Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo over the death of his younger brother, the two religious organisations said Captain Sambo’s Read More
Early 2006, I wrote President Olusegun Obasanjo, pleading he starts work on the dream Great Nigeria. Past Nigerian leaders dreamed of Great Nigeria too but unless a dream is interpreted and implemented, it remains a dream or mere illusion. The Great Nigeria dream has not been interpreted or implemented. But it is no fantasy. It happens that no Joseph has Read More
By Rotimi Ojomoyela Ado-Ekiti Governor of Ondo state, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, has described the candidate of the Labour Party (LP) for the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti state, Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele, as “a man with a divine agenda” to transform Ekiti state. Mimiko, the national leader of the party, also described the LP as the “only party that can Read More
By Oyesoji Aremu The greatest contemporary challenge to national security in Nigeria is the insurgency orchestrated by the sect called Boko Haram. Not until 2009, insurgency and its concomitant effects (both emotional and physical) were alien to Nigeria. Nigeria, most especially, the north eastern regions of the country; and of recent, in Abuja, there has been ceaseless terrorist attacks. Terrorism Read More
By Rotimi Ojomoyela Ado-Ekiti Ekiti state Police Command has arrested the vice-principal of St. Mary’ Girls College, Ikole-Ekiti, Mr Ajayi Taiwo Ayo, for allegedly defiling a 12-year-old student. The incident which allegedly took place on March 18, this year, inside vice-principal’s office was reported to the police by a female staff of the school who noticed the suspicious entry of Read More
By Ikenna Okonkwo Abuja Ahead of today’s match day 13 of Nigeria National League (NNL) slated to hold at various match venues, team manager of Supreme Court FC, Mr. Tolulope Oguntimehin, has charged his players and technical crew to get back to winning ways and secure maximum points when they file out against Ranchers Bees in Kaduna. Recent performances by Read More
By Usman Ibn A. Lapai Kaduna An Islamic Scholar in Kaduna, Ustaz Mustapha Abdulraheem, has tasked Muslim parents on the need to ensure that their children acquired Islamic knowledge, saying that “it’s the best legacy a parent can leave for his child in this world.” “Islamic and western education is important and Muslims are allowed to acquire both,” he said. Read More
By Ayodele Adegbuyi Abuja Worried by the lingering strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) and Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) that had paralysed academic activities, the House of Representatives has decided to wade into the disagreement with a view to finding a lasting solution. The decision followed a motion on matters of urgent Read More
By AbdulRaheem Aodu Kaduna Governor Mukhtar Yero of Kaduna state has called on Kaduna state workers to renew their discipline, dedication to duty and commitment to quality service to enable the state achieve its aims of service delivery to the people. Yero, who felicitated with workers on the celebration of today’s Workers’ Day, commended them for their efforts in building Read More
Nigeria’s Flying Eagles continued their build-up for next month’s 2015 AYC qualifier in Tanzania with an 8 – 0 thumping of gritty Ikare United of Ondo state yesterday in Abuja. Musa Yahaya and Taiwo Awoniyi produced a brace each with further goals by Alhassan Ibrahim a.k.a Muazam, SulaimanAbdullahi, Abubakar Lawal and Wasiu Jimoh. The test match played at the FIFA Read More
By Chibisi Ohakah Abuja Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, alongside Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, were among eminent world citizens who were last week named to the Time Magazine annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the world have been honoured at a gala in New York. The Minister Read More
By Bayo Alabira Dutse The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Jigawa state command, has arrested a 35-year-old man, Yusuf Musa, for allegedly stealing 11 goats. NSCDC commandant in the state, Mr Muhammad Gidado Fari, told newsmen yesterday in Dutse that the suspect was arrested in Jaruwa village in Jahun local government area of the state. Gidado explained that Read More
By Aideloje Ojo Minna Niger state government has given commercial motorcycle operators, also known as okada riders, eight weeks ultimatum to find alternative means of livelihood before the ban on their operation take effect in the City. Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu disclosed this on Tuesday, adding that the Suleja local government council requested the state government to effect the ban Read More
Vice-President Namadi Sambo was quoted as saying: “We are going to war front and (to) bring back our stolen mandate; everybody knows that Ekiti belongs to PDP; they used all instruments to take it away from us…. Osun is PDP. Osun was stolen from us. The end of stealing has come.” Although Vice- President Sambo went further to restate the Read More
By Musa Adamu Abuja Federal government has ordered that effective from today the nation’s Distribution companies (DISCOS) must stop collecting fixed charge from consumers who had no power for 15 days of a month. Chairman, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr. Sam Amadi, gave the directive while addressing news men in Abuja yesterday. Amadi said the commission had resolved and Read More
By Ikenna Okonkwo Abuja No fewer than 16 participating teams including defending champions, First Deepwater will slog it out in the second phase of Zenith Bank Women Basketball which kicks off tomorrow in Ilorin, Kwara state capital. The next phase of the competition which is at its 10th edition, is taking place barely two months after the first stage was Read More
The topics that have Nigerians glued to their televisions, newspapers and computer screens are sex, lies and politics. Sex stories and articles garner such a readership and an avalanche of comments on the internet. Lies by rhetoricians and those skilled in manipulations also enjoy wide readership. A rhetorician is someone more capable of persuading a crowd of ignorant people on Read More
By Bode Olagoke Abuja Several support groups under the Goodluck Jonathan For Transformation (GIFT) yesterday staged a peaceful march on the streets of Abuja to compel President Goodluck Jonathan to seek re-election in the 2015 general elections. The groups said they had considered many factors and, therefore, resolved that “the only way Nigeria can truly get to the Promised Land Read More
By Hawwah Abdullahi Gambo [email protected] Sometimes, the wounded were left for days to die a slow painful death and some others were thrown into a mass grave with the dead and ended up suffocating to death. Somehow we survived the first evening of the attack. That night, I smeared myself with blood and told my brother to do the same. Read More
Miss Yemisi Olowookere, a Nutrionist in Garki Hospital, Abuja, said diabetic patients could benefit from eating mangoes for the fruit’s positive effect on the arteries. Olowookere told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abujthat mangoesa yesterday that mangoes helped to prevent the circulatory complications associated with diabetes. According to her, mangoes are of great benefit to the circulatory system Read More
By Sidi A. Umar Sokoto A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Sokoto and spokesman of Yusuf Suleiman Campaign Organisation, Alhaji Yusuf Abubakar, has debunked rumours making the rounds in Sokoto that the former Minister of Youth Development, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman, and his supporters would defect to the APC. Abubakar, who made the denial in an interview with Read More
By Samuel Ogidan Abuja Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) women yesterday challenged the authority of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, to release the names and pictures of the 234 girls abducted by Boko Haram. The women, made up of Christians and Muslims, made the request at the party’s national secretariat where they organised a prayer session for the unity in of Read More
Stories by Etta Michael Bisong Abuja The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has charged women during this year’s Girls in ICT Day to seek smart careers in ICT development to enhance their socio-economic welfare. The Girls in ICT Day is an annual awareness-raising initiative designed to promote technology careers and studies to a new generation of girls and young women with Read More
Stories by Bode Olagoke Abuja Aides of delegates participating in the National Conference have protested the refusal of the conference secretariat to pay them what they called entitlement. In a letter dated April 28 to the conference chairman, Justice Idris Kutigi, the aides, under the aegis of Forum of Aides and Drivers of National Conference 2014 Delegates, said they had Read More
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