The second edition of the Abaji Fishing festival in the FCT will hold between April 13 and April 15. Mr Abuo Ojie, the Head, Public Relations Department, FCT Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat, disclosed this on Tuesday in an interview with ...
Nigeria is God’s special creation for the service of its citizens and those of other nations, especially in Africa, former President Olusegun Obasanjo said in Lagos on Monday. “What we are is not for ourselves alone,’’ Obasanjo ...
A civil servant, Aishat Pedro, on Tuesday urged an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve her 22-year-old loveless marriage. Aishat, 46, had approached the court seeking the dissolution of her union with her husband, Amusa Pedro, a sales represen...
One Mr. Faseyi Adebayo, whose address was given as 31 Idowu close, in Alimosho LGA of Lagos state, has been arrested for impregnating his 17 year old daughter Bisola Adebayo. Bisola, while narrating her ordeal to the police at Afonka police station on ...
A PDP chieftain in Adamawa, Dr Umar Ardo, has led a protest to the INEC office in Yola over the conduct of Saturday’s ward congresses in the state. Ardo led a group of supporters under the banner of “Adamawa key Stakeholders” to the I...
Norway-based midfielder Fengor Ogude and Elderson Echiejile from Portuguese club Sporting Braga are top of the new list of overseas-based pros to be invited for Nigeria’s next game. Officials informed MTNFootball.com that Coach Stephen Keshi is s...
A FIFA investigator says that the first stage of his probe into international match-fixing has turned up no evidence implicating South Africans. A handful of Bafana Bafana games in the run-up to the 2010 World Cup are under investigation, including fri...
Sam Emehelu, a consultant to the Nigerian Golf Federation (NGF), has said that the implementation of the federation’s developmental programmes would produce world-class players like Tiger Woods and Ernie Els. Emehelu told NAN yesterday in Lagos t...
Working for Roman Abramovich will be “hell” for the next Chelsea manager, according to former Blues boss Luiz Felipe Scolari. Abramovich is looking for his eighth permanent manager since 2003 after sacking Andre Villas-Boas on Sunday. &ldqu...
Director of Technical at the Nigeria Football Federation, Dr. Emmanuel Ikpeme yesterday dismissed insinuations in a section of the media that the FIFA Technical Centre, otherwise known as the Goal Project, where the technical crew of the U-17 National ...
The Federal Governmment has formally protested the deportation of 125 Nigerians last week from South Africa for not possessing a valid yellow fever certificate before entering the country. The 125 passengers were aboard Arik Air which landed at the Oli...
Worried that local government administration in the entire South Eastern States have not been run in compliance with constitutional prescription of democracy since 1999, a non-governmental organization (NGO), Human Rights Writers’ Association of ...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday swore in five new resident commissioners in Abuja. The new commissioners are Prof. Jato Jacob from Nasarawa State, Mr. Olusegun Agbaji from Ekiti, Barrister Austin Okogie from Edo, Nasir Ol...
An Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos yesterday remanded a man, Odion Ukhoria, at the Ikoyi Prisons for allegedly killing his wife. Ukhoria, 41, whose plea was not taken, is facing a charge of murder. The Magistrate, Mrs. F.M. Kayode, ordered...
The Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Mrs. Rose Chineyere Uzoma, yesterday queried the 35 percent service delivery rating given to them by the Service Compact for All Nigerian (SERVICOM), and demanded to see the criteria us...