Ja Rule has been sentenced to an extra 28 months in prison on tax evasion charges that will run concurrent with his current sentence. “I was a young man who made a lot of money. I didn’t have the best people guiding me. I made mistak...
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno has presented 11 vehicles and N1.815, 000 to those who lost cars and cash in the recent Boko Haram and Joint Task Force clash in Kalari London Ciki ward of the metropolis. Presenting the cars and the money to the victi...
The fate of the former president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Sani Lulu Abdullahi and three erstwhile officials, Amanze Uchegbulam, Taiwo Ogunjobi and Bolaji Ojo-Oba will be determined today as the substantive suit instituted by the...
The Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has postponed the group stage games of this year’s Federation Cup competition, earlier billed to take place between July 20 and 24 in four centres across the federation. At a meetin...
Samson Siasia is still in the hunt for at least three quality additions to his back four as he gets set to name his squad this week. At centre back, he is in the hunt for someone to partner captain Joseph Yobo. At left back, he requires a capable depu...
In only his first season in Portugal, Nigeria international defender Elderson Echiejile was part of the Sporting Braga team who went all the way to the final of the Europa League as well as finished fourth in the Portuguese championship. However, injur...
Flying Eagles captain, Ramon Azeez and teammate, Olarenwaju Kayode will today join the rest of the team as they continue the build-up for the world U-20 championship slated for Colombia. It is now exactly two weeks before Nigeria’s opening match ...
Nigerian stars will on Saturday August 28, 2011 storm the HMVApollo for the 2011 Afrobeats Festival.
Barely one week after the torrential rainfall that that left no fewer than 15 people dead in different parts of Lagos State and that destroyed property worth millions of Naira, another downpour in the city on Sunday wreaked havoc, leaving most of the r...
A seven –year-old child, Irene Edwards, requires the support of well-meaning Nigerians to put her life together again, being faced with a challenging health condition - kidney disease. WINIFRED OGBEBO reports. Seven-year-old Irene Edwards is figh...
Director, FCT Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS), Major Adamu Argungu (rtd) has lamented that despite the huge sums of money invested in the robot system of traffic law enforcement, the project had not yielded the anticipated results, as only ...
Executive director, FCT Primary Health Care Board, Dr. Rilwanu Mohammed, has disclosed that only one case of polio was recorded in the FCT in 2010 and that no case has been reported this year, a clear indication that the FCT was winning the war against...
No fewer than 84,758 entrepreneurs have benefited from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through the Entrepreneurship Development Centres (EDCs) over the last four years, the CBN governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has said. The beneficiaries compri...
Casual staff engaged by the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) have decried that they are being excluded and marginalised by the management of the board.This was disclosed by some of the affected members of staff, who preferred anonymity, at t...
Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP-17) in Durban, South Africa, participants at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Symposium on ICTs and Climate Change in Ghana have renewed calls for global leaders to recognise the power of in...