The Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Imo State Chapter has commended the Governor, Ikedi Ohakim for his relentless effort in supporting the state team, Heartland FC of Owerri which saw them bounce back to winning ways in their CAF Champions League campaign this season.

The United Nations Children Education Fund, UNICEF have joined the Hope 4 Girls project being put together by Nigeria’s former female national team player, Mobolaji Akiode.

By Jide Ajani WHereas the Boko Haram sect’s forceful evangelism was hinged on the banishment of western education, describing it as haram (an impurity), the alleged, manner in which the sect leader, Mohammed Yusuf, was killed in Police custody is also being insinuated as another act of impurity, an extra-judicial killing.  This report takes you […]

Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets and defending champion of the FIFA U-17 World Cup Friday got a tough draw for the 2009 edition which incidentally is being hosted by the country in eight centres namely Abuja, Lagos, Kaduna, Calabar, Kano, Enugu, Ijebu-Ode and Bauchi.

By Umar Yusuf Yola – IT is estimated that over one hundred thousand Nigerians    have lost their lives in ethno-religious crisis that have engulfed the country since the enthronement of democracy in 1979. The number of those injured triples the dead, while those displaced are put at millions. The Maitatsine crisis in Kano in […]

By Innocent Anaba THE directive by President Umaru Yar’Adua  to the national security adviser (NSA), last week, to carry out a full scale investigation into the killing of Mohammed Yusuf, leader of the religious sect, Boko Haram, has brought to the fore  the issue of extra-judicial killings in the country. Yar’Adua  had described the killing […]

Following a special request from the Local Organising Committee to FIFA, three-time champions Brazil have been given special status and will play at the Lagos Centre during this year’s FIFA Under-17 World Cup.
The South Americans have been seeded automatically as the top team in Group B.
Hosts Nigeria are the top seeds in Group A and will play in Abuja.

The politicians are fooling around again like they did in previous “republics”. They should be called to order before we are all consumed by the disorder which this tomfoolery is most certainly going to result in, as our past history so tragically depicts. My only fear is that we might not be as lucky as in previous situations where we emerged from it all in one piece. We will be over stretching our luck if we keep that hope alive.

In the morning of 22nd of April, I woke to pray in the house, as we woke to have our morning devotion. I heard a coup broadcast. It was in that coup broadcast that I heard there was a coup. And I did not know that the coup was in my house.

My approach to the matter of Caban Bamboo is to avoid unnecessary preambles and sentiments. Right now there is a gaping hole or vacant space where Caban Bamboo once stood majestically. The fact as far as eyes can see is that the structure has been pulled down.

At two of the Federal Government Colleges , Warri and Otu-Jeremi arms collection centres, yesterday, the security agents manning the centres sat doing nothing, as there was no militant willing to surrender his arms. The third arms collection centre in the state is at the Warri North Local Government Council secretariat.

Also, the Kaduna state Secretary of CAN and Publicity Secretary of Northern CAN, Rev. Joseph Hayab, in his own contribution said that Christians already have their own internal mechanism to regulate their own preachers.
Hayab said that no Catholic, Anglican or Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA) can preach the gospel without being licensed to do so, adding that this was the situation in other churches.

Speaking at the unveiling of the houses known as DHQ quarters, Dike noted that the acute accommodation problems experienced by officers and men of the armed forces in Abuja, a situation that led to two or three families sharing one apartment with its attendant consequences, motivated him to embark on the project.

“The allegation that Alhaji Dokubo- Asari is planning a secession as declared by the so-called General Adekunle is laugable and puerile and we take it as a statement from a drunk and demented individual needing urgent pyscho -spiritual check up

The respondent in the case at the Appeal Court, Ikechi Okoro who was the claimant at the trial court had secured judgement against the appellants where the trial court enter a final judgement in his favour on the ground that the appellants have no defence to the claim for the amount claimed in the writ filed by the claimant.