The Minister of Youth and Sport, Solomon Dalung, said on Wednesday he was yet to receive any court order nullifying Amaju Pinnick’s Nigeria Football Federation presidency. Dalung said this at the NFF Extra-Ordinary General Assembly in Abuja that he has not been informed of any court decision. He said, “As a lawyer and a Minister
Adelani Adepegba, Abuja Amnesty International has challenged the Federal Government to bring to trial the perpetrators of the Shi’ite killings in which up to 347 persons were said to have been murdered by the army. The AI in a statement by its Nigerian Country Director, M.K. Ibrahim, said the horrific revelations that hundreds of Shi’ites
Sunday Aborisade, Abuja The Senate on Wednesday started the legislative procedure for the passage of the controversial Petroleum Industry Bill as the document scaled first reading on the floor of the upper chamber. The bill has been renamed Petroleum Industry and Governance Bill after both chambers of the National Assembly, had harmonised it. The development marked
Sunday Aborisade, Abuja The Senate on Wednesday asked its Joint Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream and Downstream), Finance and Appropriation to immediately commence the investigation of joint venture cash calls by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation. The Senate gave the directive after expressing concern over an allegation that the NNPC had been violating rules governing its
Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado Ekiti Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has travelled to Guangzhou, China to attend the 119th China Import and Export Fair otherwise known as the Canton Fair holding between April 14 and 19. Special Assistant to the Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, who made this known in a pres
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday threatened that his administration would descend heavily on oil and gas pipelines vandals as well as other saboteurs the same way the nation’s Armed Forces are dealing with members of the Boko Haram sect. He also said instead of the sensible ones to have realised the sincerity
Sunday Aborisade, Abuja Senators from the Southern part of Nigeria have asked President Muhammadu Buhari, to withold his assent on the 2016 budget if the Appropriation Committees of both chambers of the National Assembly refused to include the Calabar – Lagos rail project in the 2016 appropriation bill. Investigations by our correspondent revealed that the
Eniola Akinkuotu The General Overseer of The Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua, has denied reports linking him and his wife, Evelyn, to an offshore company, Chillon Consultancy Limited. German newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, had last week released the Panama Papers, the biggest leak in the history of data journalism, publishing online 11.5 million
Adelani Adepegba, Abuja Over 570,174 candidates have so far applied for enlistment into the Nigeria Police Force, since the recruitment exercise commenced about two weeks ago. It was gathered that the two portals being used for the recruitment were witnessing record traffic as thousands of candidates applied for recruitment into the police as constables, Cadet Inspectors
Alexander Okere, Benin An Evbouriaria Magistrates’ Court sitting in Benin, Edo State, on Wednesday sentenced a 25-year-old man, identified as Unity Agbonifo, to 18 months imprisonment for stealing a BlackBerry phone. The Prosecutor, Sergeant Olatoye Oluwaseun, had told the court that Agbonifo committed the crime on March 21, on Sapele road in Benin. Oluwaseun had
Ade Adesomoju, Abuja An employee of Access Bank Plc, Olubunmi Ojoko, on Wednesday, narrated how a former Head of Service, Mr. Stephen Oronsaye, used the Federal Government’s N190m which he allegedly kept in a secret account in his capacity as the then Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Financial Action Task Force. Ojoko
Enyioha Opara, Minna The Governor of Niger State, Alhaji Abubakar Bello on Wednesday decried the poor state of courts in the state, saying most of the proceedings are held under trees. Bello also approved the release of funds for the renovation of Court rooms in the state, as well as ensure the prompt payment of
The Nigerian Bar Association on Wednesday pledged a clampdown on legal practitioners who engaged in acts capable of clogging the wheels of Justice. The President of the NBA, Mr Augustine Alegeh (SAN), said the disciplinary arm of the association would not spare any lawyer found guilty of reprehensible conducts. Alegeh made the statement while reacting
Police on Tuesday raided the headquarters of the Panamanian law firm whose leaked Panama Papers revealed how the world’s wealthy and powerful used offshore companies to stash assets. Police with an organised crime unit carried out the raid at Mossack Fonseca “with no incident or interference,” prosecutors said in a statement, adding that searches would
A consultant paediatrician, White Waters Hospital, Lagos, Dr. Arinola Aduloju, on Wednesday said babies who suck their thumbs were likely to have speech impairment and dental malocclusion in the future. Aduloju said although babies usually have natural sucking reflexes, it could cause them to put their thumbs or fingers into their mouths even before birth.
Portugal international, Christiano Ronaldo, hits his third hat-trick in this season’s competition to fire Real Madrid into the semi-finals setting two new records. The Portugal international rose to Real Madrid’s rescue once again as his hat-trick secured a 3-2 victory over Wolfsburg helping the Spanish club into the Champions League semi-finals. Zinedine Zidane’s men suffered shocking
Married people are more likely to survive cancer than unmarried people, a new study suggests. The researchers found that single men with cancer had a death rate 27 percent higher than it was for married male patients, while the death rate for single female patients was 19 percent higher than their married counterparts, reports WebMD.com. “The effects
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has decried the level of decay of infrastructure in Army barracks across the country. Buratai said this at the inauguration of some renovated residential accommodation for soldiers at the Maxwell Khobe Cantonment, Jos. Buratai blamed the condition on long years of neglect and poor budgetary allocation to
The office of the French President, Francois Hollande, said on Wednesday that two French soldiers had died in Mali after their heavy armoured vehicle hit a land mine, taking the number of people killed in the incident to three. It said in Paris that one soldier was pronounced dead on Tuesday after the vehicle struck
A Chinese court ruled against two men seeking to marry, it said Wednesday, as more sexual minorities push for equal rights in the country. Sun Wenlin, 27, sued a civil affairs bureau after it refused to grant him and his partner, Hu Mingliang, a marriage certificate. The Furong district court in Changsha, in the central
TRUE FACTS ABOUT THE PENIS (III) Do you know that a man has about eleven erections a day? Which explains, well, everything and about nine of those happen at night which is why something is ALWAYS poking you in your sleep. Men actually need to ejaculate to remain “healthy.” A fact that will obviously be
I am constrained to comment on the above issue of unjustifiable proliferation of First Class graduates from our private universities. It is very absurd that students that failed to obtain anything close to 250 in their Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination scores or Post-UTME examination are now being awarded First Class degrees! I want to criticise
What really does Chris Giwa want from the Nigerian Football Federation? Does he want to become NFF President by all means? Do Giwa and his ilk not realise that their recalcitrant attitude could cause Nigeria a ban from FIFA on all football events? Just last year, Giwa took this matter to the Court of Arbitration
I write to complement what the author of the above comment published on the page on Tuesday, entitled as above. The writer, one Chidi Onyeyiri, called on the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, to undertake a total reconstruction of the Owerri-Mbaise-Umuahia. I guess the writer had not been born by the time
The unending drama on the 2016 national budget plays back and forth, like the pendulum, between the Executive and Legislature. If it were a fiction, it would be a best seller! This all-important document, has been subjected to heinous travesty, such that it would not be worth the name. Firstly, it was reported missing in