Nigeria Risks FIFA Ban over NFF Crisis
The world football governing body, FIFA, has warned that Nigeria may be suspended if the current crisis rocking the Nigeria Football Federation is not promptly resolved, Premium Times Report. In an email sent to the NFF president, Amaju Pinnick, from…
Kashimbilla Dam, Top Priority Project To Be Completed In Water Sector- Minister
The Honourable Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman Adamu, has stated that the Kashimbilla multi-purpose dam project is one of the top priority projects to be completed under this present administration in the water sector. The Minister stated this on…
‘347 Shiites Killed By Nigerian Troops Given Secret Mass Burial’
The Kaduna State Government on Monday announced that 347 persons were killed during the December 12 Shiite/Nigerian Army clash in Zaria. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Balarabe Lawal, disclosed this in a government submission at the ongoing Public…
More Trouble As Court Orders EFCC To Pay N5m Fine Over Rights Violation
Few days after a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday awarded N10 bn as damages in favour of the former Acting Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, over his arrest by the Economic and Financial…
Dasuki Floors FG at ECOWAS Court Over Arrest, Unlawful Detention
The former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Muhammed Sambo Dasuki (Rtd) has won the first leg of his court action challenging his alleged unlawful arrest and detention without trial since December last year by the federal government at the Economic…
Alleged NIMASA Fraud: Tompolo Challenges Constitutionality of His Trial
The former Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo a.k.a Tompolo has instituted a suit before a Lagos Federal High Court, seeking an interpretation and nullification of certain sections of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, (ACJA) 2015, which he claimed…
DSS Lied Against IPOB Over Killing of Five Northerners – Igbo Groups Say
South-East based groups, the Igbo Women Assembly, IWA, and the Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, Sunday, described as falsehood allegation by the Department of State Services, DSS, over the killing of five Northerners. The DSS had alleged that the five Northerners…
Okwy Nwodo, Emeka Worgu, Others Defect to APC
A former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo; former Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr Emeka Worgu and former House of Representatives Speaker, Agunwa Anakwe, yesterday defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu….
PDP Senator Joins APC
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lost Senator Smart Adeyemi, a key player to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi state. Adeyemi’s defection to the ruling party was confirmed in a statement issued by the governor of Kogi,…
Fayose Tackles Buhari Over Planned VAT Increment
The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Sunday criticised President Muhammadu Buhari, over the planned increase of the Value Added Tax, VAT, by five per cent. The governor, who was reacting to comments attributed to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in…
Dangote Builds $1Bn Cement Plant in Edo
The Dangote Group on Sunday started constructing a one billion dollars cement factory in Okpella, Edo State, to expand its cement production in Nigeria. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the six million metric tonnes per annum (mmtpa) Okpella…
