By Funmilayo Omidiji The opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has petitioned the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Suleimon Abba, over the attack threat by the repented militant and leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Mujahid Asari-Dokubo against its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. The petition which was signed by the party’s National […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos The Companion, an association of Muslim men in Businesses and Professions has condemned last Friday ruling by an Ikeja High Court’s ban, on the use of Hijab in the Lagos state public schools. The group in a press statement issued Tuesday in Lagos, by its National President, Barrister Musibau Oyefeso noted that the judgement […]
South African Paralympic athlete medalist, Oscar Pistorius has been slammed with the five years imprisonment over the killing last year, of his former girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Delivering the judgement Tuesday in a Pretoria court, Justice Thokozile Masipa, gave the convicted Pistorius a three-year suspended sentence on a firearms charge. Earlier, the prosecution had argued for […]
The Ekiti State Governor, Mr Peter Ayo Fayose has ordered the sack of all the local government education secretaries. According to a press statement issued in Ado Ekiti Tuesday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Idowu Adelusi, the sack takes immediate effect. The statement ordered the affected secretaries to hand over government […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Owerri Special Adviser (SPA) to President Goodluck Jonathan on Youth Empowerment, Mr. Obi Adim, on Monday joined the Imo state gubernatorial race, as he purchased the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, nomination form. Adim, is going to slug it out in the party primaries with the likes of desperate Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, […]
By Uche Nwosu In his thesis The Decay of Lying, Oscar Wilde, an Irish writer (1854-1900) declared that, “The final revelation is that lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things is the proper aim of the art”. If we stress it further we can conclude that lying is the art of releasing information that is […]
Oyewale Oyelola, Ilorin Just as the supporters of the two leading Presidential aspirants in All Progressives Party (APC) are busy working to ensure their principal pick the APC sole presidential ticket for 2015 general elections, the APC governors have concluded plans to meet on Wednesday in Ilorin to finalize the best option for the party’s […]
South African will not host the 2015 African Cup of Nations if Morocco withdraws, it has been revealed. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) approached South Africa last week, after Morocco asked to postpone the event because of the Ebola crisis. Sports minister Fikile Mbalula categorically told journalists that South Africa will not take up […]
Traditional rulers from Kwara North Senatorial zone have endorsed the State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed over his various people oriented developmental programnes, especially in their zone, with a pledge to continue their support for government in nurturing the state through growth and development. The traditional rulers, led by Etsu Patigi and vice chairman of Kwara […]
THE Sultan of Sokoto and President-General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III has commended Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan for promoting inter-ethnic and religious harmony in the country. Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III who is in Asaba to chair a lecture on Anger Management being organised to mark the Governor’s 60th […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Residents of South- Eastern Nigeria have called on the Federal government to as a matter of urgency probe how the Subsidy Re-Investment and Empowerment Programme SURE-P funds released to various states in the zone since inception are utilized. Some of the concerned citizens of the geo political zone who spoke to […]
…To Send Team To Sierra Leone The Lagos State Government has doled out a whooping N50 million to First Consultant Medical Centre, Lagos to help the hospital get back to its feet after the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) first broke out in the hospital. Late Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian envoy had imported the disease to […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has hailed Monday declaration by the World Health Organisation (WHO), of Nigeria as Ebola-free country. President Jonathan in a statement issued Monday by his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati dedicated the certification to the many patriotic health workers, volunteers and ordinary Nigerians who worked tirelessly, […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos state has nullified the “Share Purchase Agreement”, that changed and transferred the ownership of Newswatch Communications Ltd, publisher of the Newswatch newspaper and magazine to one of the country’s industrialists and a Lawyer, Mr Jimoh Ibrahim. The plaintiffs and minority shareholders, Mr Nuhu Aruwa and Prof. Jubril Aminu […]
By Niyi Adeyi, Lagos The Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN) has sent a passionate appeal to its members to rally round its former National President, Barrister Nurudeen Asunogie, to survive his deteriorating health condition. In a post on Facebook by the association’s current National President, Sirajudeen Abdulazeez Folayemi Monday, MSSN indicated Asunogie was […]
The internally displaced residents of Chibok, in Borno state, North Eastern Nigeria, can now heave more sigh of relief as the Federal Government has just sent more relief materials to them. The North-East Zonal Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Muhammed Kanar made this announcement Monday, in Yola, the Adamawa […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja Staff of the Federal Ministry Of Information Monday protested against the immediate past Minister of Information, Labaran Maku over his alleged embezzlement of their allowances. The minister was billed to formally hand over on Monday to the officer to oversee the ministry pending the appointment of another minister. Maku was among the […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has finally declared Nigeria officially free of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). After the recommended six weeks without either suspected or confirmed cases of EVD, WHO Monday morning made the declaration, with commendation for swift and coordinated actions by the Nigerian government to curtail the spared of the deadly […]
The management of the Heritage Banking Company Limited has distanced itself from the information, relating to the ongoing nationwide online recruitment registration exercise by it. In a press release signed by the Head, Media Research and Analysis (Heritage’s PR firm), Ganiyu Olowu, the Bank stated its attention has been drawn to information making the rounds on social media, recruitment portals/blogs […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria There were moments in the struggle against the militants when it seemed to the general public that our president, Dr Jonathan and his administration had given up on Boko Haram. It was like they were saying to Boko Haram “Let heaven fall and see who would […]
