The Nigeria Nationwide League has commended the genuine interest of Sokoto State governor Ibrahim Wamakko in the development of grassroots football in Nigeria. Nationwide League chairman and board member in the Nigeria Football Federation, Ahmad Muazu ...
The General Manager, Games Services at the on-going 18th National Sports Festival, Brig.Gen Emmanuel Okaro (Rtd.) yesterday announced the disqualification of the Ondo State Female Hockey team for fraudulent practices. The Ondo State team was found to h...
Member of the National Assembly representing Akoko Edo Federal constituency in Edo State, Hon Peter Akpatason, on Saturday came down heavily on the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN), Mallam Lamido Sanusi Lamido, and described his eco...
The firm grip of the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), on the politics of Lagos seems to be tenuous with the wave of several reversals in its fortunes in last year’s local government polls, where its candidates won a landslide victory cart...
Unknown gunmen yesterday killed two persons in a fierce gun battle with security men in Azare town of Bauchi, BBC Hausa Service has reported. According to the report, this is happening barely two days after a traditional leader was shot dead in front o...
Former Military Head of state, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, former Lagos State Governor, Chief Ahmed Bola Tinubu and Speaker of House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal were yesterday among the dignitaries that observed the three-day...
Barring any last minute change, the House of Representatives will on Thursday, December 6, 2012, address the petition sent to it by Capital Oil and Gas Industries Ltd. The petition, which was sent to the Speaker about two weeks ago, is made against the...
Although 2015 is more than 28 months away, the race to succeed the incumbent governor of Rivers State, Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has begun in earnest with Rivers South-East and Rivers West senatorial districts battling to produce the next gove...
The skepticism with which Nigerians view National Budget has led to its perception as an annual ritual. UCHENNA AWOM writes that a new season bundled with figure contradictions are here again. The National Assembly premises has become a Mecca of some s...
Gen. Yakubu Gowon, former Head of State, has identified love and care as the best way of encouraging People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA). He said such show of love and acceptance would guarantee longevity for the people. Gowon spoke in Lagos ...
The National Cancer Prevention Programme (NCPP), has urged government at all levels to make budgetary provisions for vaccines to protect people against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), which causes cancers. Dr Kin Egwuonwu, the National Coordinat...
The Delta Government has closed all camps opened to cater for the recent flood-ravaged victims in the state, Dr Tony Nwaka, the Commissioner for Special Duties, has said. Nwaka told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Asaba that the closure which start...
The Lagos State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Mr Nseobong Akpabio, on Saturday advised HIV positive officers to take care of themselves.. Commenting on the World's HIV and AIDS day, Akpabio told the News Agency of N...
The Primate of All Nigeria Anglican Communion, Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, on Saturday dismissed calls in some quarters for Churches in the country to be mandated to pay tax to government. Okoh said this in Abuja at the 2012 Carnival for Christ, organised...
The Chief of Defence Staff, Adm. Ola Ibrahim, has ordered the redeployment of AVM Ibrahim Kure, the Commandant, Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji. Also to be redeployed is Maj.-Gen. M.D. Isa, the Corps Commandant Army Infantry Corps, J...