President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of Vice Admiral Ola Ibrahim as the new Chief of Defence Staff. He replaced Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petinrin. A statement by Dr Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publ...
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has won the ``one-off’’ Extraordinary award of Mo Ibrahim Foundation. Mo Ibrahim, the chairman of the Foundation, told newsmen on Thursday in Johannesburg that the body gave Tutu the award for his life...
The current Vice-Chancellor of the Gombe State University, Professor Abdullahi Mahdi, was the Vice Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) from 1996-2004. In this interview with MIDAT JOSEPH, he speaks about the early times university founded i...
Kano State Police Command has recovered stolen jewelleries worth N20 million belonging to Maryam Sani Abacha, the State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, has said. He told reporters yesterday that one of the suspects who bought some of the ...
President Goodluck Jonathan has set up a committee under the chairmanship of the Vice President ,Achitect Namadi Sambo, whose terms of reference include seeking adequate funding for the security services outside the annual budget. President...
There were strong indications, yesterday, that the National Assembly and the Presidency might have reached a truce over the 2013 budget. This emerged yesterday when the Senate Majority Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba announced on the floor that the P...
Four Nigerian peacekeepers have been killed and eight others injured in Darfur UNAMID, the joint mission of the United Nations and African Union in this region of western Sudan announced yesterday. The mission has been underway for over four years and ...
South Africa U20s will arrive Nigeria tonight and fly out to Ilorin tomorrow for the 2013 AYC return leg qualifier against Nigeria on Sunday. The first leg qualifier ended in a 1-1 draw in Nelspruit, South Africa, about a fortnight ago. The Amaji...
The Super Eagles of Nigeria has dropped five places to 63rd in the world in the latest FIFA Rankings released by the world football governing body. This is Nigeria’s worst ranking in a decade to show the decline of the team in world football. Thi...
The Nigeria Football Federation declared yesterday that the Senior National Team, Super Eagles will pull no punches when hostilities begin against the Lone Star of Liberia in a 2013 African Cup of Nations decider in Calabar next week. Saturday’s ...
Ex-Nigeria international, Henry Nwosu has said the recall of Chelsea midfield enforcer, John Mikel Obi to the Super Eagles is a “right decision.” Nwosu, a former Nigerian Under17s head coach, said Keshi’s recall of Mikel to the Super ...
President of Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, Engineer Sani M. Ndanusa has joined the long list of eminent figures mourning the death of Dr Abdullateef Oladimeji Adegbite. Dr Adegbite died in his house in Lagos at the age of 79, last week. As Nigerians ...
The arrival of Sharks Stanley Okoronkwo and Kalu Orji of Heartland Fc of Owerri, has changed the complexion of the battle for shirts among the 22 home based players in camp for the duel against the Lone Star of Liberia come October 13 in Calabar. The d...
Three teenagers, Suleiman Abdullahi, 17, Ibrahim Sule, 17 and Sani Dahiru, 18 were yesterday arraigned before a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Gwagwalada for alleged false claim of manhood disappearance. The police prosecutor, Martha Paul, tol...
A restaurateur and mother of 15-year old girl has told a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Karu how the pastor of a church she attends serially had carnal knowledge of her daughter, impregnating her and aborting the pregnancy. According to her, the pas...