In his first news conference as interim FIFA President, Issa Hayatou was...
ZURICH (AP) — Issa Hayatou seemed to fall asleep on the job in his first news conference as interim FIFA president on Thursday. Just three weeks after undergoing a kidney transplant, it was easy to...
View ArticleLai Mohammed says Buhari’s foreign trips have been for the good of Nigerians
President Muhammadu Buhari’s foreign trips since assuming office are critical to the implementation of his administration key policies of enhancing security, jump-starting the economy, creating jobs...
View Article‘Just wait until we unveil the 2016 budget’| Lai Mohammed says all change is...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the Federal Government will take advantage of the vast opportunities in the agriculture, solid minerals, and real sectors to create jobs for...
View ArticleThere’ve been bomb blasts in Borno and scores are feared dead
Twin bombs have rocked Borno in North East Nigeria; with the death toll feared to be on the high side, eyewitnesses on the ground have relayed to Ekekeee. The affected locations are Kimba area of Biu...
View ArticlePius Adesanmi: We are all Otukpo
Whenever former Senate President, His Excellency Chief Distinguished Senator David Bonaventure Alechenu Mark, makes national headlines, it is usually about setting back Nigeria by a few centuries. And...
View ArticlePlan by governors to sack workers is APC policy–Fayose
Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has distanced himself from the decision reached by the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) recently. State Chief Executives under the aegis of the NGF reiterated after...
View ArticleKidnappers abduct former presidential candidate in Kogi
Former Presidential candidate and National Chairman of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Alhaji Ganiyu Galadima has been reported kidnapped at Obajana in Kogi State, reports The Vanguard. The...
View ArticleAfter singing the entire week, the EFCC has released Dokpesi on bail
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has allowed Chief Raymond Dokpesi a view of the outdoors again after an interrogation that lasted all of three days. A former chairman of DAAR...
View Article#BayelsaDecides: Card reader machine had the nerve to reject Jonathan again
When former President Goodluck Jonathan arrived Polling Unit 039, Ward 13 in Ogbia local government area, alongside his wife Dame Patience, to get accredited in readiness for casting their ballot much...
View ArticleDSS uncovers Boko Haram sleeper cells waiting to wreak havoc during the...
The Department of State Services (DSS) has alerted residents of Abuja of Boko Haram sleeper cells waiting to be activated during the yuletide. In a statement signed by one Tony Opuiyo on Saturday, the...
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The Ojuelegba tanker fire in pictures
On Saturday at about 3am, a tanker fully laden with petrol was involved in an accident, spilled its content onto the road, a fire ensued and some four other buses parked under the Ojuelegba bridge...
View ArticleWe interrupt your football weekend to announce that Kanye and Kim have a new...
Christmas came early for the Kardashian West family. Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West welcomed their second child, a son, on Saturday morning, Dec. 5, she announced on her website and app. “Mother...
View ArticleWhy I beckoned on Obasanjo to help with the Guinea Bissau crisis–Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he enlisted the assistance of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to mediate in the political crisis in Guinea Bissau because of his wide political and military...
View ArticleThe 1st set of results from the Kogi supplementary election are as follows
According to the Vanguard newspaper, the following are the early results from the Kogi governorship election. Recall that 91 polling units are still up for grabs in the State. The supplementary...
View Article#BayelsaDecides: INEC reschedules election in Southern Ijaw
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rescheduled the governorship election in Southern Ijaw. The rescheduled election will hold on Sunday, December 6. The rescheduling has...
View ArticlePDP in early lead as #BayelsaDecides
The PDP’s Seriake Dickson is well on his way to getting re-elected as Governor of Bayelsa State if early results at our disposal are anything to go by. The Bayelsa vote has been marred by violence and...
View ArticleSonala Olumhense: The social media line in the sand
There was a lady in Enugu that the great singer Joe Nez did not seem to like very much. The first words of his song about her are “Fat, fat as a cow,” and even before telling her story, Mr. Nez pounds...
View ArticleBREAKING: INEC declares Yahaya Bello Kogi Governor-elect
From being the APC governorship primary runner-up a few months ago, Alhaji Yahaya Bello is now Kogi governor-elect and that is official. APC polled 247,752 votes to defeat the PDP which came a close...
View ArticleBiafra agitation completely understandable and legitimate–Federal Government
The federal government has described the agitations by some Nigerians, largely in the South-East, as “completely legitimate.” There have been mass protests by Igbos in South-East Nigeria for an...
View ArticleThe Nigerian Army has officially invaded Sambisa forest
Nigerian troops are now inside the belly of the dreaded Sambisa forest which for years has served as Boko Haram operational headquarters. In a statement announcing the advance of the troops, army...
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