By Ben Efe World soccer governing body FIFA, has extended its investigation of the cash for vote saga to the World Cup bids of Spain and Qatar. It was learnt that FIFA began investigation of the countries’ bid and if found wanting, Spain and Qatar could be disqualified from the bidding process. Spain is one […]

A group in the Niger Delta, under the auspices of the Warri Transparency Group, yesterday, appealed to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to resolve the issue of political imbalance in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, by creating additional state House of Assembly seats in the area.

FOUR suspected abductors, allegedly involved in the kidnapping of a popular transporter in Benin, Edo State, have been arrested by a Joint Security Patrol Team.

When I first came across the mouth to mouth picture, I was sure it had been photoshopped. But seeing the rest of the collection, my indifference turned to concern. Now, I am made to understand that the pictures were purposely conceived and painstakingly achieved in a professional photo shoot that should portray the subjects’ intention. And what would that (the intention) be? Simple, to sell a magazine!

Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have disclosed that the chairman of the Nigeria Premier League (NPL), Davidson Owumi has a case to answer and was to be flown out to Enugu Thursday, a day after he was granted a temporary bail the previous day.

AS many Nigerians offer different opinions on the suspension of Dr Amos Adamu over bribery allegation, sports commentator, Martins Osaile a.k.a Don King

Journalists participating in the ongoing 2010 Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Lagos Council, Media Games have berated the organisers for poor publicity.

Nigeria Under-20 coach, John Obuh, has said he will not beg top striker Ahmed Musa to rejoin the team ahead of this weekend’s African Youth Championship qualifier at home to Mauritius.

TRAGEDY was averted yesterday in Benin at the commissioning of the new football turf of the Sam Ogbemudia Stadium as no fewer than 10 students fainted as a result of a stampede after a surge from the mammoth crowd that graced the ceremony. The victims were stretched out and taken away in a waiting ambulance after they were revived.

The dream of Boy Westerhof of Holland was to win the first leg of the 10th Governor’s Cup Lagos Tennis Championship, but he got a shock of his life when was sent packing by Isreali Amir Weintraub in a quarter final match played at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Onikan.

When the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, announced the sack of chief executives and other top management of five banks on August 14, 2009, the financial sector was shaken to its root. The banks affected were Intercontinental Bank, Union Bank, Afri Bank, Oceanic Bank and Fin Bank.

Mr Uchenna Emelonye, is International Development Law Organisation, IDLO, Manager, Governance, Institutional and Justice Reform Programmes. IDLO is an international inter-governmental organisation with the mandate to pursue the establishment of rule of law as an essential pre-condition for economic and social development and the achievement of human security. Emelonye’s mandate include overseeing IDLO’s rule of law and good governance initiatives in developing countries, countries in economic transition and in those emerging from armed conflict.

A coalition of civil society groups, Joint Action Forum, JAF, and organised labour have kicked against Federal Government’s planned privatisation of Power Holding Companies of Nigeria, PHCN, and said they would begin a mass protest and civil disobedience across the country to resist the policy on October 25.

In less than 12 years of our return to ‘democratic’ governance, Nigeria has had more than four electoral laws passed. The frequency of this ‘reform’ at each election turn and the geometrical decline in our election fortunes suggests a fundamental lacuna and a philosophical deficiency in our orientation especially as it relates to democratic governance. What is the basic philosophy behind our electoral reforms?

On Friday, October 1, 2010, Nigeria marked her Golden Jubilee or 50 years of Independence. In 1954, Nigeria opted for Federal System of government, which was retained by subsequent constitutions including the constitution of Nigeria 1999.