As the remains of former U-20, U-23 and Super Eagles player, Olubayo Adefemi were finally laid to rest on Thursday, Super Eagles Coach, Samson Siasia assured that he will do everything he could to make sure Adefemi’s family do not go hungry.
AFTER months of hectic but successful campaigns, the president-elect, Dr Goodluck Jonathan will be winding down at the pristine Obudu Mountain Ranch Resort in Cross River State. Jonathan’s visit which began at the weekend is expected to last for about nine days.
IMMEDIATE past Secretary to the Edo State Government and House of Representatives member- elect for Owan Federal Constituency, Mr Pally Iriase, yesterday, called for caution on the recent call by some individuals for the abrogation of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) due to the recent killings of corps members in some parts of the north.
Main draw matches in the 2011 Central bank of Nigeria (CBN) Junior Tennis tourney serves off Monday at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club in Onikan.
The national U-23 team were, Saturday rattled in the early minutes of the All Africa Games qualifier at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin with a penalty goal in the 30th minute before the Austin Eguavoen-tutored lads rallied to a 6-1 trouncing of their Liberian counterparts.
Gov. Mohammad Goje of Gombe State,Saturday, announced the appointment of caretaker committee members to oversee the affairs of the 11 council areas in the state.
THE Benin monarch, Oba Erediauwa has backed Governor Adams Oshiomhole for a second term in office, saying that his achievements so far in office has changed the face of the state.
As winners and losers emerge at the just concluded general elections, Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Canada, Professor Iyorwuese Hagher has urged State and Federal governments to establish unity governments at the tiers of governance to reflect the voting pattern at the polls.
Owerri – Soldiers have been deployed to beef up security and forestall possible breakdown of law and order in Owerri and other major cities of Imo.
Gov. Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State, Friday, dedicated his victory to those, who died in the post-presidential election riot in the state
Gov. Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State has been re-elected for another four years, INEC announced in Bauchi on Friday.
Celebration continues in the camps of winners of the just concluded elections and gnashing of the teeth by the losers. Yet, Professor Attahiru Jega, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, which he heads is still being discussed, for good or bad by both sides on the performance of the commission.
The Federal Government is putting finishing touches to a new bill to review the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC. The strengthen the physical security of m embers of NYSC security situation of the scheme against the backdrop of the recent murder of nine of them in the North.
BENIN CITY The Edo State chairman of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Mr. Godwin Erhahon, has faulted the call for the arrest of his party’s Presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari by the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Bishop Ayo Oritsejafor, and dismissed it as “too hasty and unfair”.
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