By: Gracious Akujobi The Chairman of Confluence Queens Football Club, Abdul Adama has hailed the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) over its verdict against Standard Babes FC of Aba on Friday. The NFF’s Organising and Disciplinary Committee (O&D) on Thursday awarded three points and three goals to the Kogi ladies after deliberating on the protest filed against Standard Babes of Aba. The club, Confluence Queens had alleged that Standard Babes fielded an ineligible player in a Week-18 tie played on August 26th, 2013 during 2012/2013 season. Mr. Adama who spoke through his media assistant, Samuel Ahmadu, described the protest win for…
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Should I say it was by happenstance or luck or a mixture of both fortune and happenstance that the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission invited me as a lead resource person from the civil society community to participate at the recently concluded South East Zonal public Hearing on the ongoing preparation of the new national revenue formula by the commission which took place in Enugu, the South East regional Political capital between 26th/27th September 2013 at the ‘prestigious’ Nike Lake Hotel in Agbakpa Nike Enugu, Enugu State. So I actively participated with excitement and patriotic flavor following the factual…
President Goodluck Jonathan will host another edition of the Presidential Media Chat on Sunday at 7pm, Presidential Media Adviser, Dr. Reuben Abati has said. President Jonathan will in the course of the programme, answer questions from a panel of journalists on current national issues and events, as well as policies and actions of his administration. Members of the public who have questions they will like the President to respond to on the programme may send them in via Twitter to @mediachatng1. The programme will be broadcast live on the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), the Federal Radio…
Kogi state Police Command has arrested two suspected armed robbers who often dressed in police uniform to rob unsuspecting people on the Okene-Auchi road. The state acting Commissioner of Police, Austin Evbaklavbakun told newsmen the suspects- Ibrahim Aliyu and Yakubu Alfa, have been terrorizing travelers on that road for long. According to him, items recovered from them were two AK 47 assault rifles with police inscriptions: NPF 21193, and NPF O6988. Also, huge quantity of live ammunitions, police uniforms including mopol berets, cutlasses, criminal charms and some quantities of weed suspected to be Indian hemps were recovered. Narrating how his…
Men succumb to sexual temptations (such as cheating) more than women because they experience strong sexual impulses, not because they have weak self-control. At least, these are the findings of a recent study. Previous research has shown that men are more likely than women to pursue romantic partners that are “off limits”. However, until now, the explanation for sex difference was largely unexplored. One possible explanation for this effect is that men experience stronger sexual impulses than women do. A second possibility is that women have better self-control than men. The current study’s results support the former explanation and provide…
The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a binding resolution on ridding Syria of chemical weapons. At a session in New York, the 15-member body backed the draft document agreed earlier by Russia and the US. The deal breaks a two-and-a-half year deadlock in the UN over Syria, where fighting between government forces and rebels rages on. The vote came after the international chemical watchdog agreed on a plan to destroy Syria’s stockpile by mid-2014. ‘Powerful diplomacy’ Speaking after the vote in New York, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon described the decision as “historic”. “Tonight the international community has delivered.”…
US President Barack Obama: “The test will be meaningful, transparent and verifiable actions” US President Barack Obama has spoken by phone to Iran’s Hassan Rouhani – the first such top-level conversation in more than 30 years. Mr Obama spoke of a “unique opportunity” to make progress with Iran’s new leadership, amid a flurry of diplomacy over its nuclear programme. Earlier, Mr Rouhani said Iran was keen to reach a deal soon. He also asserted that Iran did not seek a nuclear bomb, as Western powers have long suspected. Describing meetings at the UN this week as a “first step”, he…
Natore Power Limited has stated that the company’s efforts and investments towards the achievement of stable power supply in the country is being sustained and the company is ready to take major steps, which would be made public soon. Notore Power recently signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with ContourGlobal to develop, construct, finance and operate a gas-fired power station with an available capacity of 500 MW in order to boost power supply in the country. The Chief Executive Officer and Managing of the company, Femi Solebo in a statement, said this partnership will increase national power generation capacity and…
Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo has called on Nigerians to be their brothers’ keeper by living in peace and harmony with one another so that peace could continue to reign in the country. The vice president made this call at the national mosque Abuja, at a special Friday prayer session convened to commemorate Nigeria’s 53rd independence anniversary Sambo prayed for the continued guidance and protection of the president and other leaders in the country and for God to give them the wisdom and strength to continue pilot the affairs of the nation in the right path for peace and development.…
The Federal Government is committed to sustaining the reform ongoing in the petroleum sector, the Group Managing Director (GMD), Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu has assured. According to him, top on the reform agenda is the determined efforts of the Federal Government to ensure that the three refineries; the Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company (WRPC), the Port Harcourt Refinery and Petrochemical Company as well as the Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company KRPC) become fully operational. Mr. Yakubu in a document obtained from the NNPC headquarters, in Abuja, noted that the upstream sub-sector of the industry which deals with…