The two main contenders in the Abia State Governorship poll, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), have given conditions for their participation in the April 25 supplementary poll. Returning Officer, Professor Benjamin Ozumba had declared the April 11 election inconclusive after PDP’s candidate, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu polled […]
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has requested the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Mrs. Fatou Bensouda to use her “good offices and position to investigate allegations of hate speech by the Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini, which has resulted in killing, violence and discrimination against Nigerians and other African citizens living in South Africa, […]
Nearly 22 million infants missed out in 2013 on the routine vaccine against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus One-fifth of the world’s children are still not receiving routine life-saving vaccinations and efforts to ensure global immunisation coverage remain “far off track,” the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Nearly 22 million infants, many living in […]
Nigerian forces backed by warplanes invaded Islamist group Boko Haram’s last known stronghold, the Sambisa forest, on Wednesday, in an effort to finally defeat their six-year-old insurgency, two military sources said. Armies from Nigeria and neighbours Chad, Niger and Cameroon have in the past two months launched a concerted push to try to crush the […]
Coach Arsene Wenger gets another chance to finally beat his old nemesis and keep the Premier League title race alive for a little longer when Arsenal host leaders Chelsea this Sunday. For all the Frenchman’s achievements during his long reign in north London, he has never enjoyed a win against a side managed by Jose […]
Current African Footballer of the Year, Yaya Toure has given an indication that his time at Manchester City could be coming to a close, as the player has voiced his desire to play where he is “offered new challenges.” The Ivorian midfielder has been at the Etihad since 2010, but rumors of his departure […]
Next year’s UEFA Champions League competition is set to get an overhaul in the way teams are seeded ahead of the group stage draw, UEFA has confirmed. It had been long rumoured that the European confederation would change the process by which it seeds the top eight teams at the head of each […]
Apparently, the Arsenal and French national team legend Thierry Henry hates fun, based on his comments following Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez’s late, game-winning goal against Atletico Madrid in the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals, Wednesday. Giving his post-game take on Sky Sports, Henry was extremely critical of the way Hernandez celebrated his 88th-minute winner, which Henry […]
A female staff of popular eatery, Sweet Sensation, Oluremi Olayinka was Wednesday convicted and sentenced to 266 years imprisonment by Justice A.A Akinyemi of Ogun State High Court, Abeokuta, for stealing N8million belonging to her employer. The offence is contrary to sections 390(6)(7)(, 467 and 468 respectively of the Criminal Code Law Cap 29, Laws […]
Facebook Inc said it started testing its mobile calling app ‘Hello’ on Android, which allows users to connect with Facebook to see the identity and information about callers even if the number is not saved on the phone. Hello, built by the messenger team, can pull information people and businesses have shared on Facebook. The […]
PSA Peugeot Citroen and IBM are working together to hook cars up to the Internet, going beyond mapping and infotainment to link vehicles up to shops, service networks and urban transport grids, the companies said on Wednesday. Financial terms of the new, seven-year partnership were not disclosed. The agreement to develop new types of valued-added […]
The group controlling Libya’s coastal capital Tripoli says it will “confront” any unilateral European Union moves to attack sites used by people smugglers, urging the bloc to consult it over plans to deal with the migration crisis. Two governments, each backed by loose coalitions of ex-rebels who once fought together to oust Muammar Gaddafi, […]
Chinese nuclear experts believe North Korea may already have a nuclear arsenal of 20 warheads and the uranium enrichment capacity to double that figure by next year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The estimate, which the Journal said was relayed to US nuclear specialists in a closed-door meeting in February, is significantly […]
Jordan Henderson has ended months of contract negotiations with Liverpool by signing a new five-year deal at Anfield worth a basic £100,000 a week. The Liverpool vice-captain was one of several players this season to hit an impasse over a new contract with the club’s owners, Fenway Sports Group, but has now agreed an incentivised […]
Chief Coach of Nasarawa United Football Club of Lafia, Baba Ganaru, Wednesday said the club’s 2-1 defeat of Kano Pillars was their best response to their supporters’ criticism. Ganaru said in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital after their 2014/2015 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) week five match that the victory was a testament. “It was […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the newly-appointed Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, to approach his new task with a high level of professionalism while shunning partisanship, which it claims has negatively affected key national institutions, especially the police. In a statement issued in Abuja, Thursday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji […]
Mignon McLaughlin, the late American journalist and author, tells us that the death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive – perhaps for some purpose, which we ought to re-examine. Any such re-examination however usually leads to the ageless philosophical questions about life and death. What is really life? Where […]
Ekiti state Governor, Ayodele Fayose in a statement has called on the United Nations and the African Union (AU) to hold the All Progressives Congress (APC) responsible in the event of breakdown of law and order in Ekiti and the entire South Western states. The governor’s statement is coming on the heels of alleged grand […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Monday, arraigned one Stephen Omaidu before a Justice M. A Nasir of Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Jabi, Abuja on a two count charge bordering on theft to the tune of N68, 028, 000, 000.00 (sixty eight billion and twenty eight million naira). In a statement […]
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, has debunked reports of asylum being sought by her, just as she insists said she has not committed any crime and though admitting she stepped on big toes during her tenure. Fielding questions from the media in Abuja, Wednesday, Alison-Madueke, perhaps the most criticised minister under President Goodluck […]
With 10 days to go until the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight, contracts are not signed, tickets are not on sale, and the fight that could save boxing is instead reflecting the flaws that continue to damage it. While the two camps agreed to the fight in February, they have yet to sign the contract, […]
The Abia State government has insisted it does not have confidence in the Resident Electoral Commissioner for the state, Professor Selina Oko, just as it has given conditions for its participation in the April 25 supplementary governorship poll in the state. State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Chief Anthony Agbazuere who made government’s position known […]
Immediate-past Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Suleiman Abba has appealed for forgiveness from anyone he might have wronged while in office. This was as his successor, Solomon Arase, the 17th indigenous IGP, in his inaugural address, promised to surmount the several social and human challenges, further assuring that he will provide the highest professional service in […]
Editors from across the country will converge on Lagos from tomorrow, Friday April 24 for the 2015 Biennial Convention of the Nigeria Guild of Editors NGE. The event, which will feature election of new officers of the Guild is being hosted by the Lagos State government at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Obafemi Awolowo Way, Ikeja, […]
