Basketball: D’Tigress, Turkey, Argentina in warm-up games
As the national female basketball team, D’Tigress get set to begin camping in preparation for the Women Olympic Qualifying Tournament, WOQT scheduled for June 13-19, 2016 in France, the team are expected to play two warm up matches, the Chief Coach Scott Nnaji has disclosed.
Rivers judiciary crisis: Wike blasts NBA
GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has decried the alleged failure of members of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, to rescue the judiciary in the state when it was crippled under the last administration.
Okowa inaugurates traffic management agency
Delta State governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has inaugurated Delta State Traffic Management Agency, DESTMA, with a charge to improve traffic compliance, ensure safe, reliable and accident free transportation on the state’s roads.
The time for genuine electoral reform is NOW!
THE spate of surprisingly unanimous yet lamentable 2015 governorship election petition decisions handed down by the Justice Mahmud Mohammed-led Supreme Court has made the case for genuine and lasting electoral reform a matter of national urgency, bordering on an emergency.
APC, PDP supporters clash in Jigawa
The clash between supporters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, after the visit of the National Chairman of PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, to Jigawa State recently, has left one person dead and five injured.
Before returning IDPs to their homes
A total of 1, 934, 765 displaced persons are currently living in formal camps, and satellite camps in liberated communities as a result of the insurgency in the north eastern state. According to Saad Bello, the Yola Camp Coordinator in Adamawa State, Borno has 19 camps with 150, 858 IDPs; Yobe has nine camps with 31, 988 IDPs and Adamawa four camps with 6, 937 IDPs.
