President Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday in New York made a strong case for Nigeria’s election to the United Nations Security Council. Addressing the world leaders and other delegates at the opening of the 68th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, President Jonathan declared that Nigeria’s commendable performance on previous occasions when it held a non-permanent seat on the security council, should assure the global community that the country deserved to be elected to the council again for the 2014-2015 session. “Our support for the United Nations Security Council in its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace…
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Leading Telecoms services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has been named the Most Innovative Telecoms Operator in Nigeria at an Industry Award’s event that attracted regulators, telecoms pundits, top politicians and seasoned journalists. Chaired by Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, the Nigeria’s Telecoms Award, is widely considered as one of the most prestigious and foremost platforms for celebrating key milestones in Nigeria’s telecommunications landscape. Airtel also emerged the Best Customer Services Operator at the event, which held Saturday night at the Incubator Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos. Award citations read in the company’s honour said Airtel has led in innovation and celebrated…
By Gracious Akujobi President of Nigeria Football Federation, Aminu Maigari has commended FIFA for approving FIFA Member Association Goalkeeping Course currently going on at the in Abuja. FIFA instructor and goalkeeper trainer, Louis Clayton will train the goalkeepers at the Goal Project from September 22 – September 28. Maigari, also disclosed that NFF will also organise another FIFA Course for Trainers all geared towards improving football in the country “I am using this opportunity to thank FIFA for approving this Goalkeeping Course for the Nigeria Football Federation. I am also aware that starting from October 15 to October 19 this year the…
By: Gracious Akujobi The Nigeria Football Federation has voided a ‘state of emergency’ purportedly declared by the League Management Company and the Club Owners on Nigeria football. The League Management Company, with the support of owners of Premier League clubs, had ‘declared’ a ‘state of emergency’ in the domestic game as the bodies countenance the final weeks of the Premier League season. Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday, NFF President, Aminu Maigari decried the statement and said categorically that “there is no situation in Nigeria football to warrant the declaration of a ‘state of emergency’. “It was a wrong move by…
Gracious Akujobi The Director-General, National Sports Commission (NSC), Gbenga Elegbeleye has promised that the commission will sponsor two athletes from the National Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to the next Commonwealth Games slated for Glasgow, Scotland in 2014. He gave the assurance on Tuesday when he paid a courtesy visit to the Commandant General of the NSCDC, Dr. Ade Abolurin in Abuja. Elegbeleye, said the offer is in recognition of the role the organization is playing in the development of sports in Nigeria. He noted that often times the system do not give athletes the commensurate encouragement or due recognition…
I read the Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie extensive interview in The Guardian of Sunday, September 22, 2013 in which he spoke on the 2015 presidency and the bid by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to seek re-election for a second term in office. The front page lead story written by Mr Gbenga Salau flagged down my attention and aroused my interest in the three-page interview at pages 55, 56 and 57. Okogie was, as usual, forthright on the various issues he engaged, but his position with respect to Jonathan’s re-election bid was somewhat disappointing. Okogie, in a manner of speaking, does…
It is quite interesting the extent the opposition elements in and outside the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have decided to go to feed the Nigerian people with a salad of lies about the phantom one-term pact that President Goodluck Jonathan purportedly entered into with governors in the build up to the party’s presidential primaries ahead of the 2011 general elections. Governor of Niger State, Muazu Babangida Aliyu, who is one of the rebel governors working in cahoots to oust the national chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and frustrate the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan, was the first…
A quick glance at my international passport was what I needed to reassure myself that Kafanchan, a rusty and sleepy town in the Southern part of Kaduna State remains my place of birth on record. Cumulatively I spent about twenty years from childhood to adult hood in Kafanchan. Ndiuche- Arondizuogu [Onuimo local government area of Imo state] my home town in actuality and Kafanchan my birth place shares only but one similarity-gross underdevelopment. But Kafanchan has maintained the notoriety as center of inter-ethnic and inter-religious riots as against the background that it used to be the hub or settlement for…
Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed on Monday distributed car loans worth three billion naira to teachers and other civil servants in the state and also commissioned an NUJ ultra-modern press centre in Ilorin. Making the presentation of the car loan to beneficiaries at the Banquet Hall in Ilorin, the state Governor said the loan was “another opportunity to demonstrate this administration’s long-standing commitment to improving the welfare of civil servants across the state, including Secondary and Primary School Teachers”. According to the Governor, civil servants are the foot soldiers of good governance and those who work silently to ensure that government’s vision for the uncommon development…
President Goodluck Jonathan Monday in New York called for a stronger global consensus and determination to end the scourge of terrorism as quickly as possible. Speaking at talks with President Barrack Obama of the United States ahead of the opening of the 68th session of the United Nations Tuesday, President Jonathan said that unless the international community unites and deploys its enormous resources to eradicate terrorism, it will continue to be embarrassed by terrorist outrages such as the heinous attack on defenceless shoppers in Nairobi at the weekend which both leaders strongly condemned. President Jonathan expressed his appreciation of the…