Month: September 2014

Eagles In Win Or Win Clash With South Africa

The Nigerian senior national football team will go head-to-head with their South African counterpart in an AFCON qualifying match later on Wednesday in the late Nelson Mandela country. The Super Eagles will ensure a victory against the Bafana Bafana in order to be in a good position of qualifying for the competition. The Eagles lost…

Missing Officers: Police IG Expresses Worry

On August 20, 2014, some gunmen suspected to be Boko Haran members attacked a Police Mobile Force Training School in Gworza, Borno State. Thirty-five officers were picked by the gunmen, but seven were later rescued. Since then, the Force intensified its search for the officers. Addressing newsmen in Abuja on the missing officers, the Acting…

FG Confirms Recapture Of Bama From Boko Haram

The recapture of Bama town in Borno State by the Nigerian Army has been confirmed by the Federal Government. Few weeks ago, members of the Islamic sect captured the town and chased out the military from the community. Speaking with journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, the co-ordinator of the National Information Centre, Mike Omeri, disclosed…

Fire Engulfs Lagos Market

A plank market in Lagos was gutted by fire on Monday, destroying properties worth several millions of naira in the process. The incident took place in the early hours of Monday at the Abule-Egba plank market in Lagos.. Going by what some shop owners in the market told our reporter, the inferno was caused by…

2015: PDP To Romance Amaechi, Oshiomhole For Jonathan

National Vice Chairman (South South) of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Cairo Ojugbo, has assured his party that he would ensure Governors Rotimi Amaechi and Adams Oshiomhole of Rivers and Edo States respectively throw their weights behind the re-election ambition of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in 2015. Amaechi and Oshiomhole are currently with the opposition…

Adamawa, Jigawa Governors To Join APC Soon—Kwankwaso

Kano State governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has stated that his colleagues in charge of Niger and Jigawa States, Babangida Aliyu and Sule Lamido respectively would soon join him in the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the spirit of the G7 Governors. Kwankwaso made this known on Monday in Sokoto State at the APC North-West Zonal…

Cleric Encourages Almsgiving Among Christians

Story by Nwaorgu Faustinus The minister of God in charge of the Restoration Church also known as the Miracle Galore Ministries in Enugu State, Pastor Ifeanyi Okpe has enjoined Christians to cultivate the spirit of giving alms to their fellow human beings, especially to those they are better than. The preacher stated this on Sunday,…