Eagles face daunting challenges in 2016
2015 was a bonfire of celebrations for Nigerian football following Eaglets victory at the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile and the Under-23’s triumph at the AFCON U-23 Championship in Senegal but 2016 will present daunting challenges to the Super Eagles, who have a mountain to climb to qualify for the 2017 AFCON in Gabon and FIFA 2018 World Cup in Russia.
How Nigeria’s military killed my 4 children in one night – ABU lecturer
“On the following day, my eldest son called to tell me that there were corpses everywhere and he was among the few surviving souls in the place. I encouraged him to keep praying and as we were talking, he informed me that they were approaching him with guns and that he isn’t sure his father will get to speak with him again . Shortly after, the line went off. He was also killed.
NNPC depot CSO hired us to vandalise pipelines – Suspects
“We are not vandals. I have never been to the creeks before. This is the second time I am joining them for such surveillance. It was Semiu that invited me the first time. Semiu works for the CSO. He only contracted us to work for him . He has not even paid us . It was only Semiu that was armed. The rest of us were just with torch-lights”.
We didn’t find a dime when we broke a bank’s vault – Robbery Suspects
Four suspects who were alleged to be members of a gang of robbers who recently broke into a branch of an old generation bank in Ilututu area of Ondo State, have said they were disappointed not finding a dime in the bank’s vault. The suspects, who were rounded up last weekend, by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, SIRT, in Ondo State, were said to have broken into the bank with the aid of a security guard, who had worked with bank.
2015: Year of violence, bloodshed in Kaduna
FOR Kaduna state, 2015 started on a bloody note in January and ended with an orgy of violence on December 12, in Zaria, where soldiers in the convoy of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, clashed with members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, popularly called Shi’ites. The group was reported to be in a procession, carrying out its annual “changing of flags,” ceremony to usher in the Islamic month of Maulud, birth month Prophet Mohammed.
Nigerians are getting worried over the true meaning of change – Gbagi
It is too soon for a government that is largely not on its feet, that is not cohesive to think of plunging the country into that indebtedness when in fact we have over N20 trillion, which I think given my expectation of the President, we should have recovered 60 per cent of the stolen wealth of this nation by now. So, we want to know what has been recovered to dispel the rumour that is making the rounds and which is weakening the strengthen, zest and the myth of the Buhari government.
