Soccer legend, Chief Coach and former Captain of Nigerian national football team, the Super Eagles, Christian Chukwu, is seriously down with an undisclosed ailment. He is in need of about $50,000 to be flown to the United States of America to undergo surgery and for other medical treatment. This was disclosed in a passionate appeal […]
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The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami (SAN) has distanced himself from claim by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) that he was working with Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi to void the result of the last governorship election in Rivers State. Malami’s spokesman, Salihu Isah, described the claim by the […]
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From Right: Dr. Chudey Pride, Mass Communication Educator and professional; Reverend Keith Stephenson, an Executive of ACU, London; and Miss Anita Adidu, Lecturer, Mass Communication, Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State, Nigeria at an International Research Workshop organised by The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) in collaboration with University of Ibadan, Ibadan, 2nd – 4th April, […]
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The Appeal Court on Saturday declared that the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the September governorship election in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke was eligible to contest the election. The Court which sat in Akure, dismissed an appeal against the judgment of an Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo which had […]
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The Borno State Emergency Management Agency on Sunday said five persons were killed and 30 others injured in a suicide bomb attack in the outskirts of Maiduguri. The Head of Emergency Response Operations of SEMA, Mr. Kachalla Usman, confirmed the incident in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri. Usman said that two female suicide […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi and the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami of conspiring to void the March 9 Rivers State governorship election. PDP through its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiya on Sunday, in Abuja said it has been informed of how alleged desperate figures of the All Progressive […]
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Director of the Lagos State Fire Service, Rasaki Musibau and seven others have been kidnapped by gunmen along Itoikin-Epe road in Ikosi-Ejirin Local Council Development Area, LCDA in the state. At the time of filing this report on Sunday, the identity of the seven others abducted by the gunmen within the axis was still unknown. […]
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By E. E. Sule There is a new publisher in town, with new poetry collections: Umar Abubakar Sidi’s The Poet of Dust and Richard Ali’s The Anguish and Vigilance of Things.It is Konya Shamsrumi, a name that sounds surreally elegant, accentuated by its self-glorifying credentials: “Conceived as an Africa-centric, tradition-style, royalties-paying publishing house run by […]
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Ten months after the Federal Government re-awarded contract for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta Expressway, the job has been going on at snail’s pace. Despite the presence of the contractor- Julius Berger Plc. on site, the motion without movement scenario playing out there has simply made the road to go from bad to […]
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When the first cases of kidnappings involving expatriate oil workers were recorded in the Niger Delta in the early 2000s, not many knew that it would grow to become a national malaise in less than two decades or thereabouts. Apart from the militancy in the Niger Delta, the deadly Islamic insurgency in the North orchestrated […]
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