Fasting responsible for our 4-0 loss, says First Bank Coach
Coach Luqman Osho of First Bank F.C. of Lagos has blamed his team`s 4-0 loss on fasting by his players in their match against Abubakar Bukola Saraki (ABS) F.C. in Ilorin on Sunday.
Be patient with Buhari, Yusuf urges Nigerians
The Senator representing Taraba Central, Mr Yusuf Yusuf, has urged Nigerians to exercise patience and cooperate with the Federal Government as it made effort to revamp the nation’s ailing economy. Yusuf told newsmen in Abuja on Monday that he was not unmindful of the challenges currently faced by Nigerians, but expressed optimism that the present administration would deliver on its mandate.
Buhari has not allocated any oil bloc– Kachikwu
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, has clarified that President Muhammadu Buhari has not allocated oil blocs to any individual since he came into office. The minister made the clarification on Monday in Uyo at the South-South region Town Hall Meeting organised by the Ministry of Information and Culture.
Photos: How Sheriff gained entry into PDP’s Secretariat
The ousted National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Alimodu Sheriff, on Monday, finally gained entry into the national secretariat of the party, after four attempts.
Breaking: Niger Delta Avengers now ready for dialogue
THE Niger Delta Avengers NDA, Monday, agreed to dialogue with the Federal Government, suspending its “Operation Red Economy”, which saw the militant group almost crippling the oil industry since February when it commenced bombing of oil and gas installations in the Niger Delta region.
NDA: Ayakoromo community raises alarm over planned attack by JTF
The Ayakoromo community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State are now living in fear over the rumour making the rounds that the Chief of Defence Staff and Chief of Army Staff have ordered the militarisation and the bombardment of the community on the the ground that some members of Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, are hiding in the community.
145,345 pupils to sit for 2016 BEC exams
One Hundred and forty five thousand, three hundred and forty five (145,345) students, comprising of 77,938 and 67,407 from public and private schools respectively will sit for the Basic Education Certificate Examination for onward transition to senior secondary school.
LASU promotes 47 academic staff as profs, associate profs
The Lagos State University (LASU) has promoted 25 associate professors to professors and 22 senior lecturers to associate professors, the university’s official bulletin stated .
Cleaner docked over alleged possession of signed banks’ cheques
A cleaner, Sodiq Oyetunde, who was found in possession of 15 leaves of signed banks’ cheques, was on Monday charged before a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.
IGP orders Police to vacate PDP secretariat as Sheriff ‘take over’
Ousted Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Modu Sheriff, has gained entry into the party’s National Secretariat after four attempts. This follows the withdrawal of the detachment of policemen stationed in and around the building on the orders of the IGP.
Ayakoromo and Niger Delta Avengers
THE Niger Delta, once calm like Matthew Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’ after the formal commencement of the 2009 Amnesty Programme created by Late President Umaru Musa Yar ‘Adua which made Tompolo and other freedom activists embrace absolute peace unambiguously, now boils kodokodo. The Niger Delta boils; the Niger Delta boils because the Niger Delta Avengers, stuck to a new development ideology of their own creation, opposed to Tompolo’s revolutionary philosophy, has made the destruction of oil installations and facilities in Nigeria their pastime.
