South Africa and Mozambique will kick-off the 2014 African Nations Championship when they clash in the Group A opener at Cape Town Stadium on Saturday, 18h00 CAT. The host nation’s team has not had ideal preparation according to coach Gordon Igesund, who has had to wrangle over the availability of players from domestic clubs and…
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) announced December 31, 2013, that Forte Oil plc (formerly AP plc), Nigeria’s foremost indigenous major marketer of refined petroleum products, and Transnational Corporation of Nigeria plc have been enlisted into the NSE 30 Index, a league of the Exchange’s most capitalised stocks, thereby commencing the new year as one of…
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association, PENGASSAN, have cancelled their proposed joint strike actions. This decision was reached on Tuesday night in Abuja after a meeting with the Federal Government. The oil and gas unions entered into a six-hour meeting with representatives…
“There will be nothing like automatic tickets for anyone; incumbents and challengers seeking the PDP ticket must go through the normal process to secure it,” the Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Zone 3 of Kaduna State, Joseph Gumbari, has declared. Recently, there have been reports that some members of the PDP have insisted…
The Plateau State governor, Jonah Jang, has condemned Monday’s attack in Shonong in Riyom local government area of the state by some gunmen. The incident left over 30 persons dead, mainly children, women and old men. In a statement released on Tuesday by the state Commissioner for Information and Communication, Yiljap Abraham, the governor described…
Story by Nwaorgu Faustinus The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, has strongly condemned the alleged use of violence against the judiciary in the state by members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. This is coming barely a day after a Court in Rivers State was bombed by some thugs in the state. The…
Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State has denied reports that a woman slumped and died in his office on Monday after being delayed for a long time. Refuting the story on Tuesday, while inaugurating the Niger State Geographic Information System, NIGIS, board, the governor explained that the woman in question died of ill health at…
Nigeria’s embattled Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, has allegedly moved to promptly edit her online profiles to adjust her academic qualifications. Oduah had earlier allegedly claimed to have obtained an MBA degree from St Paul’s College, Lawrenceville, Virginia, United States of America, but a report by SaharaReporters claimed the institution denied awarding an MBA to…
Convoy of the governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, was reportedly involved in a fatal road accident on Monday. The road mishap took place while the governor was on his way to the burial of late Emir of Shani, Alhaji Mohammed Mailafiya, who died last week in India. Vanguard reported that a close associate to…
HAVING tried all the delay tricks in the book, President Goodluck Jonathan is now confronted with a choice: retain the Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah, or sack her. The President’s body language and vacillation demonstrate unmistakeably that he prefers to keep the controversial minister. This is a tragic error of judgment and confirms to the whole…