Argentina vs Nigeria:Eagles have a score to settle
Sixteen years ago, Diego Armando Maradona took the field in Massachusetts against Nigeria in what would be his final World Cup match. That day, the 33 year old Maradona was not at his best, but he used his vast experience and guile to top the Africans 2_1 in one of the most entertaining games of USA 1994.
Constitution review: Speakers to receive harmonised copy
THE Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu has said the harmonised draft copy of amendment made to the 1999 Constitution will be handed over to the 36 Speakers of State Houses of Assembly next week.
Elections: Sokoto CAN alleges intimidation
THE stalemated Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, elections is taking a new dimension as some privileged officials at the CAN Secretariat are allegedly using police and SSS operatives to intimidate state branches of CAN in the North where loyalty is in doubt, to change their leadership on or before the next elections on June 21.
June 12: Still a burden
UNTIL June 12, 1993, Nigerian elections were always characterised by massive rigging driven by bloated census figures(politics being a game of number), pre and post-election violence and bad-blooded court cases, with the plaintiffs and defendants trying to outdo one another in bribing the judges of our courts so much so that one of them had to tell Nigerians that his hands were tied.
N180m fraud: EFCC files fresh evidence against Nyame
Fresh evidence have been filed before an Abuja High Court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against former governor of Taraba State, Rev. Jolly Nyame, over his on-going N180 million fraud case.
Eagles, Maradona divide South Africans
There is an uncommon synergy of oneness among all the six African flagbearers in the World Cup. All the teams speak with one voice and wish an African team to go all the way.
