The senator accused by the Joint Task Force (JTF) of harbouring a top Boko Haram commander in his personal residence in Maiduguri, Ahmed Zanna, told a select group of senior reporters in Abuja yesterday that the arrest was actually effected in the resi...
The Vice President, Health, Safety and Communication, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Tony Attah, in this interview with ANAYO ONUKWUGHA, speaks on the rising wave of oil theft in the Niger Delta region. What is your take on the rising case...
Sheila, widow of late Dr Tai Solarin, is dead. She died at the Babcock University Hospital, Ilisan, Ogun State, yesterday afternoon. She was 83. Sheila, the co-founder of a foremost private school in Ogun State, Mayflower School, was said to have falle...
Former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Bamanga Tukur, National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh, and former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Chief Emeka...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday conceded defeat in the Ondo State governorship poll and congratulated the Labour Party’s candidate, Governor Olusegun Mimiko, on his victory. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Oli...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced shortly after the declaring Dr Olusegun Mimiko winner of the Ondo State gubernatorial election yesterday that a certificate of return would be issued to him tomorrow by noon. As the n...
Niger State governor Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu says majority of the people of the state are happy with his policies and programmes. He said at a town hall meeting in Minna as part of the on going Good Governance Tour to Niger state led by Minist...
The Niger state chapter of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has advised Gov Muazu Babangida Aliyu not to adopt diversionary tactics in addressing some of the key issues raised by the opposition parties in the state, as no body is sponsoring th...
Mr. Kehinde Lawanson, Executive Director, Corporate Banking of First Bank Nigeria Plc who was at the just concluded US-Nigeria Infrastructure Conference in Washington DC spoke with ABIODUN OLUWAROTIMI, LEADERSHIP Bureau Chief in the US on corruption, i...
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson says he would stand by his players if they decided to leave the field of play in protest at racist abuse following the treatment of Danny Rose for the England Under-21 side in Serbia. Manchester United manage...
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has admitted he is concerned about the gap developing between his spluttering side and the rest of the Premier League title contenders. Wenger’s team crashed to their second defeat of the season at Norwich City on Sa...
Former NFF President Sani lulu Abadullahi has envisaged lack of proper age documentation as the major problems of grassroot football development. The former FCT Director of Sports spoke in Gwagwalada Abuja at the weekend where he watched his pet team F...
Nigeria women league champion have maintained an unbeaten record in the ongoing final round of the Africa Champions Cup for Women holding in Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire. After two games in the preliminary round of the continent’s biggest women cl...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) administration has vowed to revoke all areas designed for sports centres now turned into parks and recreation centres. It said the move was to accelerate sports facilities for sports development. The Honourable Minis...
The selection of players for the Glo Soccer Academy will start in Nigeria tomorrow at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City. The Benin screening of players to the Academy which has been described by Chief Segun Odegbami, ex-Nigerian international,...