Nigeria’s very important to CAF – Hayatou
President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Alhaji (Dr) Issa Hayatou has affirmed that failure to qualify for the 30th Africa Cup of Nations has not diminished the importance of Nigeria to the entire structure of African football.
‘How American experts allowed growth of boko haram’
GOVERNMENTS and newspapers around the world attributed the horrific Christmas Day bombings of churches in Nigeria to “Boko Haram” — a shadowy group that is routinely described as an extremist Islamist organization based in the northeast corner of Nigeria.
Goodbye Okonjo-Iweala
On Thursday, November 27, 2014, the PUNCH, on page 14 reported as follows: “Don’t blame me for naira devaluation – Okonjo-Iweala.” In the report, the Minister of Finance, was quoted as saying that “Nigeria has what it takes to manage its way through. Benchmark for the budget 2015 had been lowered to more realistic $73 per barrel. Never in the history of budgeting in Nigeria had a Finance Minister been so often wrong as Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala had been this year. But before presenting the irrefutable evidence, a quick remark is needed about her self-acquittal from blame for the devaluation. Certainly, the Finance Minister cannot be blamed for devaluation.
PDP Governorship Primaries: David Edevbie emerges as dark horse in Delta; gets UPU endorsement
AHEAD of tomorrow’s governorship primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), five governorship aspirants in Delta State, weekend, said they would not dump the party if they lost the primaries provided a level–playing field is provided for all the competing aspirants.
Oil slump: Bring down fuel price immediately, Fashola tells FG
lagos—As the global oil prices slid further downward, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, asked the Federal Government to review downward the pump prices of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, from N97 per litre in the country in tandem with the slump in world oil price.
Nigerian peacekeeper brought to Netherlands for Ebola care
A Nigerian UN peacekeeper infected with Ebola in Liberia arrived Saturday for treatment in The Netherlands, Dutch authorities said.
2015: We’ll kick PDP out of Aso Rock – Oyegun, Oni
THE National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigwe Oyegun and the party’s Deputy National Chairman (South), Engr Segun Oni have boasted that APC will kick out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and form the next government at the centre.
Russian cargo plane impounded in Kano, Security agencies begin investigation
Security operatives in Nigeria have impounded a Russian cargo plane with registration number AN124100RA82038 conveying arms and ammunition from Bangui, Central African Republic, to Ndjamena, the capital city of Chad. The plane was impounded at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport.
We could no longer run from insurgents — Borno residents
At least 100 people including civilians, terrorists and security operatives lost their lives, while several others sustained gunshot wounds in three separate attacks on Damaturu, Yobe State capital, Maiduguri Borno State capital as well as Lassa village, Borno State. The attacks lasted three days.
Revealed at last: Why Ini Edo’s marriage failed
It is no longer news that top actress Ini Edo’s marriage to Philips Ehiagwina has collapsed. So much has been written mostly by writers relying on third party sources as to why the marriage failed.
10 soldiers die in battle as army repels Boko Haram from Ashaka town
THE Nigerian Military, yesterday, put up a brave fight against hundreds of Boko Haram terrorists who attacked the dynamite-manufacturing town of Ashaka in Gombe State.
