American Football boss storms Nigeria next month
As part of efforts to popularize American football, the President of the International Federation of American Football (IFAF), Tommy Wiking will visit Nigeria next month with the aim to establish the foothold of the sport.
Oyo ACN guber: Court refuses to halt Ajimobi’s candidacy
ATTEMPTS by three of the aggrieved Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, aspirants to stop the candidature of Senator Abiola Ajimobi, yesterday met a brick wall as the trial judge, Justice Johnson Shakarho, refused to grant any restraining order because other processes were yet to be fully filed.
Witnesses blame P-Harcourt stampede on security operatives
Security operatives from Abuja have been blamed for being largely responsible for the stampede last Saturday in Port Harcourt, which resulted in the death of about ten persons with several others sustaining injuries.
Arms shipment: Judge accuses prosecuting counsel of ‘messing up case’
The trial of an a Iranian, Azim Ajargani and a Nigerian, Ali Abass Jega, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, for illegal shipment of arms into Nigeria from Iran, commenced yesterday, with trial judge in the matter, Justice Okechukwu Okeke accusing the prosecuting counsel of shoddy prosecution.
Don’t destroy the house you built, PDP tells Ciroma
THE Presidential Campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, urged former Minister of Finance, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, and other members of the Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF, to bow to the will of the majority that elected President Goodluck Jonathan as the Presidential candidate.
Court clears Chime for Enugu guber election
Respite came the way of Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State, yesterday, as an Abuja division of the Federal High Court vacated the interim order that hitherto restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from recognizing his candidacy.
CCB begins verification of ministers’ assets
The Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, yesterday in Abuja said it had commenced verification of personal assets declared by Ministers under President Goodluck Jonathan.
PC tasks Jega on sanitising of INEC
The Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, has called on the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Attahiru Jega, to make haste and sanitize the commission to rid it of dishonest personnel whose activities could derail the forthcoming April elections.
Lam blames doctors’ strike on insensitivity of Oyo govt
Former Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Lamidi Adesina, yesterday said the excruciating pains patients were going through in the state as a result of doctors’ strike was caused by the insensitivity of the Peoples Democratic Party led government.
Soldiers assault NEXT reporter in Lagos
A female crime/security reporter with the NEXT newspapers, Miss Patience Agbo, was yesterday, subjected to all forms of inhuman treatment by some armed soldiers at the Ikeja Cantonment for attempting to take pictures of some shanty shops at the mammy market that were razed by fire weekend.
Security beefed as Jonathan rally hits Jos
Security has been beefed up in Jos, the Plateau State capital, ahead of today’s campaign rally by President Goodluck Jonathan at the Rang Pam Township Stadium.
