The drama going on in the Nigerian football ahead of the August 26 election into the executive committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) took a different dimension yesterday when the electoral committee saddled with the responsibility of conducting the elections disqualified the acting president of the NFF, Chief Mike Umeh and the former chairman of the technical committee of the federation, Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi.

Apparently, after all efforts to regain his position as the president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) failed, the impeached former president, Alhaji Aminu Maigari yesterday tendered his letter of resignation to the NFF secretariat.

LIBERIA’s deputy finance minister, Sebastian Omar, who cleared Patrick Sawyer to travel, yesterday, defended himself against charges of incompetence for clearing Sawyer to travel to Nigeria for a conference. In the conversation on Facebook tracked by online publication, Premium Times, Omar stood his ground, and revealed that Sawyer was his friend.

Lagos—Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has requested for the adjustment of the budget to meet services from citizens, which are “sufficiently compelling and cannot wait until 2015”.

The Federal Government has secured over N44 billion funding support from the World Bank and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to create 460,000 jobs across eight sectors of the economy under the Growth and Employment (GEM) project over the next six years (2013-2018).

ON Monday, August 11, the West Africa Examination Council, WAEC, released its May/June 2014 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, results, where only 31.28 per cent obtained credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics.

By Is’haq Modibbo Kawu “A Medical Doctor who is a very senior officer with one of the key FGN agencies involved in managing this crisis confirmed… that he also bathed in salt! Can you imagine the implication of this…?…This has brought to the fore how vulnerable our people are to narratives that could harm them! […]

CALABAR—Indigenes of Bakassi, who were forced out of their homes and villages that were ceded to Cameroon by the International Court of Justice in the Hague, and settled at Ikot Effiom and Obutong in Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State, yesterday, trooped to Governor Liyel Imoke’s office to protest the non-payment of their monthly stipends.

SINCE former governor of Jigawa State, Ibrahim Saminu Turaki, handed over power to Alhaji Sule Lamido in May, 2007 the two men have maintained a distant if not mutually suspicious relationship. Now, their paths are about to meet

THE impeachment clauses are among the most powerful enactments in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Section 143 provides the steps that can be taken to remove the president and vice president from office, while Section 188 does the same for governors and deputy governors.