The Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC),
will soon begin the process of dispute resolution between the Tijjani
Umar and Musa Kida led boards after basketball world governing body,
FIBA, mandated it to ensure peace return to the administration of
basketball in Nigeria before November 30. FIBA...
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Italian Champions Juventus Loan Out Promising Nigerian Striker King Udoh
Promising Nigerian striker King Udoh will be spending another season away from parent club Juventus.
Various
reports in the Italian media, including Tuttolegapro.com, have
confirmed that the center forward has joined Serie C club Fermana on
loan for the whole of the 2017-2018 season.
Udoh earned...
WCQ: Super Eagles Set To Crush Indomitable Lions In Titanic Battle
Nigeria's Super Eagles will face one of their toughest challenges in the
2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers as they host the Indomitable Lions of
Cameroon at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium on Friday.
There is no doubt that the two football power house in Africa need to
dig out the maximum points...
Beat Cameroon, Get $10,000 for Each Goal Scored, A’Ibom Tells Eagles
Duro Ikhazuagbe
Super Eagles claim to be one of the
football powers in Africa will be tested to the limit this evening at
the Nest of Champions in Uyo as reigning AFCON 2017 kings, Cameroon,
battles Nigeria for the three points at stake.
This first game of the double-header
World Cup...
NIMASA Targets 100% Implementation of ISPS Code
The Director General of the Nigerian
Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside
has stated that the agency will not rest on its oars until 100 per cent
compliance of the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS)
Code is achieved in all port facilities...
Edochie emerges DPC candiate
Nollywood star, Yul Edochie has emerged as Anambra governorship candidate for the Democratic Peoples Congress (DPC).
Chief Edochie was elected unopposed at
the party’s primary which took place yesterday in Awka, the Anambra
State capital. The party also elected state party executives to run...
NECA, Imagine Business Services Launch Entrepreneurship Programme
Solomon Elusoji and Mabel Benson
The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative
Association (NECA), in partnership with Imagine Business Services, has
launched NECApreneur, an e-learning solution targeted at providing an
easy-to-access opportunity for teeming Nigerian youths to upscale their
skills...
Anambra guber: Cancel APC primary result or lose election, groups tell Oyegun
By Chinelo Obogo
Four
support groups registered with the national secretariat of All
Progressives Congress (APC) have rejected the nomination of Tony Nwoye
as the party’s governorship candidate for the forthcoming Anambra
election and have asked for a repeat of the primary.
The...
Anambra guber: ‘Obiano should be allowed to complete second term’ -Ezekwobi
By Brown Chimezie
Willie Obiano
Support Group, Lagos, has urged Anambra voters to show support to
Governor Obiano by voting for him in the forthcoming elections so he can
complete a second term.
An Igbo traditional leader in Ifako/Ogba
area of Lagos and member of the group, Eze...
Anti-hate Speech: Lawyers Set Agenda For Legislation
BY AHURAKA ISAH, and Gbenga Soleye,
Legal experts in the country have posited that as much as the
proposed anti-hate speech laws have become imperative with the
prevailing political undercurrent in the country, the federal government
should expressly and explicitly define what constitute...
Health Ministry Vehicle Scandal: ‘MDA Cannot Spend Above N50m’
By AGBO-PAUL AUGUSTINE
Procurement expert and national coordinator, Procurement Coordinator
And Advocacy Initiative (PRADIN) Mr Mohammed Attah, has said that no
ministry, department and agency (MDA) of government has power to spend
more than N50 million even in an emergency situation.
In...
Ship Finance: NIMASA Moves to Disburse $100m CVFF Fund
Eromosele Abiodun
Director General of the Nigerian
Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside
has assured Nigerian ship-owners that the agency is making frantic
efforts to disburse the Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund (CVFF) in line
with set down regulations.
Peterside...
NAHCO Boss Tasks Staff on Performance, Security
Chinedu Eze
The acting Managing Director of the
Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc (nahco aviance), Mrs. Folashade
Ode, has urged the staff members to be dedicated to their duties.
Ode, who spoke while on a visit to some
units within the company, told members of staff that it is important for
them to be very vigilant.
She said the company appreciates the efforts they put into their work...
BPE Boss Inspects SAHCOL
The Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Alex
Okoh has commended Skyway Aviation Handling Company Limited (SAHCOL)
when he visited the company at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos as
part of the bureau’s post privatisation monitoring programme.
Okoh, who was accompanied...
Okorocha, APGA disagree on Eke-Ukwu Owerri demolition
Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha and the All Progressives Grand Alliance( APGA), in the state have disagreed sharply on alleged deaths at the Ekeukwu Owerri market in Owerri, the state capital.
Okorocha insisted nobody died during the demolition last Saturday, and accused political elites...
Nigeria needs more agric reforms, say stakeholders
Nigeria needs more reforms to boost agricultural
productivity and competitiveness of the economy, the Acting Executive
Director, Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI),
Dr. Olufemi Oladunmi has said.
While he acknowledged the government’s success in pursuing
macroeconomic and structural reforms, Oladunmi said more attention was
needed to improve the attractiveness of the...
FirstBank initiates fundraising for Sierra Leone flood victims
FirstBank has initiated a fund-raising drive among
its members of staff as part of the FirstBank Employee Volunteering
Scheme, set up to provide humanitarian services to the bank’s host
communities, including victims of mudslides and floods that devastated
parts of Sierra Leone’s capital,...
‘Off-grid solar ’ll transform businesses’
Mobile solar revolution will transform Nigeria’s small-business
economy, Lumos Nigeria Chief Executive Officer Mr. Yuri Tsitrinbaum has
said.
He said access to power is a major constraint to the Small and Medium
Enterprises (SMEs), and many are using the Lumos Mobile Electricity
service, which provides customers with reliable, clean, affordable solar
electricity.
Speaking with The Nation,...
CBN: Foreign reserves hit 30-month high at $31.6b
The nation’s foreign exchange reserves have stood at
a 30-month high at $31.59 billion, as at August 18. The Central Bank of
Nigeria(CBN) data have shown.
Nigeria’s dollar reserves have climbed back to a level they last
reached in January 2015, shortly before the general elections....
Skills acquisition: Senator Oduah empowers 1000 constituents
Sen. Stella Oduah, representing Anambra North Senatorial District in the
National Assembly, says she is training 1000 people in various skills
including agriculture, to be self reliant.
Oduah said in an with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in
Abuja that the training was...
News ASUU: My child also affected by strike – Labour Minister, Chris Ngige
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, on Wednesday
disclosed that his child is also affected by the current ongoing strike
action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.
Ngige revealed this when he spoke with state house correspondents after the Federal Executive...
South Asia faces severe monsoon flooding and transport chaos
MORE than 1,000 people have died across India, Bangladesh and Nepal following the worst monsoon floods to hit South Asia in more than a decad...
Desperate tweets pleading for rescue from Hurricane Harvey flooding
A MUM-TO-BE, stuck in rising floodwaters in the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, has live tweeted her desperate pleas to be rescue...
Brexit showdown: EU left 'flabbergasted' after British negotiators dismantle legal basis for divorce bill
EU Brexit negotiators were left “flabbergasted” after their British counterparts launched a legal deconstruction of the so-called “Brexit bill” Wednesday as the Brussels talks headed for an increasingly acrimonious impasse, EU sources have told The Telegraph.
British negotiators spent three...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Doctors loose baby while fighting during C-section
Doctors loose baby while fighting during C-section
A hospital worker leaked a startling video recorded from inside an operation theater of a hospital in India’s western state on Wednesday, showing doctors engaged in a verbal brawl as a patient undergoing emergency C-section lies sedated between...
Friday, August 25, 2017
A man who has as many as thirteen degrees in both America and Europe, has emerged the governorship candidate for the ADC.
A man who has as many as thirteen degrees in both America and Europe, has emerged the governorship candidate for the ADC.&nb...
'We are a country of laws': Canada's PM Justin Trudeau warns illegal immigrants
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcomed a flood of immigrants
with open arms but warned them to please enter the country legally. He
sounded the alarm on the growing flood of immigrants entering Canada.
"Canada is an opening and welcoming society, but let me be clear. We
are...