The remaining flicker of hope on the possibility of seeing injured goalkeeper Austin Ejide return against defending Champions Zambia on Friday in the Eagles second game in Afcon dimmed yesterday.

Nigerian troops will remain in Mali till the crisis is over, President Goodluck Jonathan has said.

ABUJA — The Nigerian Army Tuesday court-martialled and dismissed four soldiers serving with the Brigade of Guards in Abuja, over alleged rape, extortion and assault.

STAKEHOLDERS in the Subsidy Reinvestment Programme SURE-P, yesterday shunned an invitation by a House of Representatives panel set up to assess the Subsidy Reinvestment Programme of President Goodluck Jonathan.

THE omens remain frightful regarding what awaits us this year in the moral conscience arena of our ever more degenerate social landscape. On Monday, 14 January, a holy mob in Ekwe, a village in Isu Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State, arrested three men suspected of having consensual sex, beat them up, stripped them bare to their dangling nuts, tied them together and paraded them through the streets.

By Tony Ubani Quotes from the 2013 Afcon “We have to work harder as a team, nothing can bring us down after this result. Victor Moses was not physically fit for this game but he will play the next one if he gets better”. Stephen Keshi- Super Eagles Coach “As far as the result is […]

THIS is a fact that many know, but which is hardly acknowledged. In reviewing the trajectory of countries like the USA, Japan, Norway, Germany, Britain, Singapore, and now Brazil and India, the role of qualitative human capital in their advancement and in upholding their successes today as rich societies cannot be overlooked. In the political terrain, decisions on human capital development are even more difficult.

SOUTH-SOUTH leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has said the major reason why the North was opposed to the Petroleum Industry Bill , PIB, was because of the allocation of 10 per cent equity to host communities.

Emotion ran high yesterday, at the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, following a startling revelation by a suspected kidnapper of how he snuffed life out of his seven-year-old victim.

It is a known fact that Ibadan metropolis is no longer what it used to be. Even though, roads and other projects are still under construction, residents of the ancient city now breathe fresh air. There is free flow of both vehicular and human traffic. Places where traffic snarl used to be a permanent feature are now free. The environment is becoming cleaner by the day due to the demolition of illegal structures embarked upon by Governor Abiola Ajimobi.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State said that Lagos is the only state that will be unaffected in the federation if the oil revenues stopped coming for Nigeria, because 70 percent of its funds is internally generated.

GOVERNOR Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, has advocated a conscious youth employment policy to be jointly powered by the Federal Government and the 36 states of the federation as a major strategy towards solving the rising insurgency in the country.

OWERRI—Abacheke community in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State, has dragged the state government to Oguta High Court, praying it to stop Governor Rochas Okorocha from utilising the N400 million released to the state by the Federal Government to attend to the needs of those sacked by flood.

AS he is wont to do, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi triggered another quarrel when he called for the banning of ethnic and religious organisations on the grounds that they inhibit the growth of an all-inclusive political process, threaten national unity and heighten the state of insecurity in the nation.

The House of Representatives yesterday urged President Goodluck Jonathan to explore the option of dialogue with Boko Haram and other groups causing unrest in the country.