Nigeria’s ‘no-show’ in Napoli, one miss too many
As the curtain falls on the 2019 World University Games in Napoli, Italy, it would be on record that Nigeria did not send a team to the biennial championship, which is in its 30th edition. This is what happens when no form of accountability is required from our administrators, neither are sanctions meted out to erring officials who time and time again, bungle Nigeria’s participation in international competitions.
As Comrade MKK leads NNPC
It was at the amphitheatre on the first floor of the NNPC Towers last Monday, July 8, 2019. The amphitheatre charged with anticipation overflowed with personalities for Mele Kolo Kyari, MKK to take the insignia of office as the 19th Group Managing Director, GMD of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. It indeed, happened in a colourful ceremony that for the first time since the creation of the NNPC in 1977, a head of the national oil company would be ceremoniously pulled out on retirement for a new one to formally take office.
Marriage: When the woman is older
When the news about 19 year old teenage actress, Regina Daniels who married a 59 year old Barrister, politician and businessman, broke, there were lots of mixed feelings about her decision.
Buhari on new cabinet: I’ll never appoint ‘strangers’ again
As Nigerians anx-iously await the constitution of the new Federal Executive Council, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday reflected on the last four years of his administration and declared that he would no longer appoint those he personally didn’t know.
Armed bandits attack, injure Atiku’s witnesses
Proceedings at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, came to abrupt end yesterday, as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, notified the panel that witnesses scheduled to appear and testify against President Muhammadu Buhari, were attacked by armed bandits.
Ilaje /Ajah clash: Over 10 persons killed , 60 houses burnt, women raped
The tranquillity hitherto witnessed by residents of Ilaje and Ajah communities in Lagos State, is presently being truncated by the eruption of crises which have left not less than 10 persons dead, with others injured.
