NFF hammer dangles on Nwankwo
Skipper of U-23 Olympic team, Obiora Nwankwo may have played his last match in the colours of Nigeria with his unprofessional conduct least expected from a skipper at the on-going Olympic qualifiers in Morocco.
Saddam, Gaddafi and the Arabs: An African perspective
THE news has it that Saif al-Islam was arrested in Libya without being brutally killed like other members of his family. The media have published gory and offensive images of the killing of his father and former Libyan leader, Muammar Ghaddafi without warning for discretion.
Shell shuts key oil field for maintenance
Anglo-Dutch oil group Shell said Wednesday it had shut down a key oilfield in southern part of Nigeria for maintenance that could last “several weeks.”
Applicant gets 1 month for wearing shoes in mosque
A 32-year old applicant, Ahmed Hassan, has been sentenced to one month imprisonment by an Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court for wearing shoes into a mosque in Nyanya.
Nigeria withdraws $2bn from oil savings – Finance ministry
The Federation Account Allocation Committee has disclosed that it withdrew $2 billion from the excess crude account to finance several projects across the country just as the presidential task force on power said privatisation in the power sector would be concluded by second quarter of next year.
Nigeria’s crude oil to dry up in 37 years, except…
EXCEPT the Federal Government urgently creates aggressive policies of hydrocarbon reserves replacement, geologists and other stakeholders in the oil sector have raised an alarm that the nation’s crude oil reserve would be totally depleted in the next 37 years precisely by 2048.
