Minister trains with Eagles ahead Cape Verde friendly
Sports Minister, Mallam Bolaji Abdulahi, who came into the Faro, Portugal camp of the national team at noon on Tuesday, underlined his youthfulness as he still found time to be at the team’s training session, at 3:30pm Portuguese time (4:30pm Nigeria), observing every move of the players and the Stephen Keshi led technical crew.
Teenager in court for alleged fogery of NDIC passbook
A teenager, Garuba Damilola, yesterday appeared before a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court in Lagos, for allegedly attempting to defraud the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, of N143,000.
200 students get N6m bursary
TWO HUNDRED students have been awarded bursary worth N6 million by Ochiagha Reagan Ufomba, Abia State 2011 governorship candidate of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, with a charge on them not to disappoint their parents and guardians.
Dele Giwa’s mother dies at 87
THE mother of Nigeria’s foremost journalist and late Editor in-Chief of Newswatch Magazine, Dele Giwa, Madam Elekia Aishat Giwa, 87, is dead.
Controversy over pension, gratuity now put to rest, says Labour
ORGANISED Labour in the nation’s Power Sector, has said the controversy over the continuity of gratuity after the enactment of the Pension Reform Act (PRA) of 2004 which gave birth to the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, has now been rested following the agreement reached with government on the payment of pension and gratuity to Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, workers.
Panel on virginity test submits report in Ogun
The panel set up to investigate allegations of unlawful administration of virginity test on 10 students in Ogun State on Tuesday submitted its report.
Terry nearing Chelsea return
LONDON (AFP) – Chelsea captain John Terry is making progress in his bid for a return to first-team action and could feature in this weekend’s Premier League match against Stoke, manager Rafael Benitez said on Tuesday.
Subsidy: FG to pay 23 marketers soon – Okonjo-Iweala
THE Federal Government, yesterday, said fuel subsidy payments totalling N94 billion have been verified for 23 marketers and “will be paid in the next few days.”
Security: We should stop shifting blame – Song
FORMER Deputy National Chairman, Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, Alhaji Adamu Song , Tuesday said that if the problem of insecurity must be addressed in Nigeria, we must as a nation stop shifting blame.
Vanguard/NPF Summit: Security challenges threat to democracy – IGP
Inspector General of police, Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar, Tuesday,declared that the current security challenges confronting the nation were a threat to democracy noting that it has seriously retarded the delivery of democratic dividends in some parts of the country.
Security challenges retarded delivery of democratic dividends – IGP.
Inspector General of police, Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar Tuesday declared that the current security challenges confronting the nation were a threat to democracy noting that it has seriously retarded the delivery of democratic dividends in some parts of the country. Speaking at the opening of the National Summit on Security Challenges Tuesday, the IGP said, […]
