There are strong indications that former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, may not achieve his dream of flying the flag of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the December 5 governorship election in the state. Recall that the APC, on Wednesday, cancelled results of the primary held on Tuesday, which produced Sylva as winner.…
Flying Eagles player, Wilfred Ndidi has congratulated Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries Football Club of Lagos, MFM FC, on their promotion into the elite Nigeria Premier League. Ndidi, who now plies his football trade in Genk of Belgium, played for the Dr DK Olukoya-led church’s football club for about three seasons before leaving them.…
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived New York for the 70th session of the UN General Assembly, Femi Adesina, his spokesman has revealed. The President was received at the JFK international airport by Nigerian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Prof Joy Ogwu; Permanent Secretary Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Paul Bulus Lolo; and National Security…
The monthly sanitation exercise in Lagos State will not hold in on Saturday, September 26, 2015, the state government has announced. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Mrs Oluwatoyin Onisarotu, disclosed that movement will not be restricted tomorrow as normally observed during sanitation because of the Sallah celebration in the country. A statement from…
Niger Delta leaders under the aegis of the Niger Delta People’s Movement, NDPM, on Friday, advised Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole to shun politics of witch-hunting, imposition and urged the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to stand firmly by bringing Sylva to power in December 2015. The leaders accused Oshiomhole of conniving with…
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has stressed importance of the entertainment industry, especially the movie section, in positively shaping the society. Ambode, while receiving a Hollywood actor, Danny Glover, who is in the country for a new film that chronicles the Ebola Virus Disease that struck Nigeria in 2014, 93 Days, promised to throw…
Chairman of Yudala, an online and offline retail chain, Sam Ojo, has said his company is expected to create thousands of jobs for Nigerian youths and also make many of them millionaires. Ojo, in an online chat with newsmen from his base in the US, said Yudala is an organisation that is poised to take…
The government of Saudi Arabia has directed a thorough investigation into stampede at the annual Hajj pilgrimage, which left more than 700 people dead near Mecca. Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohamed bin Nayef, who chairs the Saudi Hajj committee, during a meeting on Thursday, ordered a probe into the stampede and its reports submitted to…
Pope Francis has expressed his “sentiments of closeness in the face of the tragedy” that claimed the lives of over 700 pilgrimages who died in a stampede outside the Islamic holy city of Mecca a while ago. The Catholic priest, who is in the US on working visit, while speaking during an evening prayer service…
**Mourns HID Awolowo Former presidential candidate, Chris Okotie, has commiserated with the family of late H.I.D Awolowo, passed on last Saturday at the age of 99 at her residence in Ikenne, Ogun State. Okotie, a reputable man of God in Nigeria, in a press statement issued from his media office in Lagos, described the death…