In quite another impressive breakthrough in its fight against international crimes, the INTERPOL Unit of the Nigeria Police, headed by DCP Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi, in conjunction with its counterpart in Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, has located and effected the arrest of one Itumo Anthony Chidebere, a suspected fraudster, who fled to Dubai after defrauding a Nigerian businesswoman of a whopping sum of Two Million US Dollars. The 35-year old suspect, who hails from Ebonyi State, has been on the run for the past 13 months after perfecting his fraudulent deal. In about June, 2012, the suspect was reported to have presented…
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By: Gracious Akujobi Nduka Ugbade, Golden Eaglets’ Assistant coach, has faulted embattled Ghana’s Under-17 coach, Paa Kwesi Fabian’s claim that the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan conducted by the continental soccer ruling body, CAF at CAN Championship in Morocco ‘was a fallacy.’ He has, therefore called on CAF to ask Fabian to explain the veracity of his claim in other not to bring the game into disrepute because of his apparent ignorance. Ugbade who skippered the Golden Eaglets to win the inaugural Under-16 World Cup at China’85 said such action was necessary so that CAF would not become a laughing…
By: Gracious Akujobi The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has instructed Super Eagles’ Head Coach, Stephen Keshi, to focus primarily on earning Nigeria a 2014 FIFA World Cup finals ticket, before the business of full preparation for the 2014 African Nations Championship can start in earnest. Against the foregoing, rising from its meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, the NFF Technical and Development Committee told Coach Keshi to come up with a 23-man list for the World Cup cracker against Malawi in Calabar on 7th September, and do away with the jumbo list of 42 that he had earlier submitted. The former…
By: Gracious Akujobi The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has begun a massive sponsorship drive to raise fund to contract a foreign coach for the senior national women team, Super Falcons, we can report authoritatively. Official source told Prompt News Online exclusively that the Technical and Development Committee at its meeting on Tuesday during which Edwin Okon was announced as the Super Falcons Interim Coach, also recommended that a seasoned foreign technical adviser should be hired for the Super Falcons. Our source further hinted that the decision to hire a foreign coach for Super Falcons was informed by the inability of…
By: Sunday Oyewole Realizing that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) does not have capacity to deal with electoral offences, the Commission’s chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has again called on the National Assembly to establish Electoral Offences Commission. Jega spoke on Tuesday at a workshop on INEC/Democracy and Good Governance (DGD) experience-sharing and confidence building organized for political parties in Abuja. The workshop which also targeted the women and youth wing of the political parties focuses on the voters’ register, continuous voter registration and permanent voters’ card. The INEC boss insisted that it lacks capacity to prosecute all the electoral…
In his bid to provide water for all in his domain, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers has inaugurated a $4.5 million Aleto-Eleme water project. The fund for the project is to be provided by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) while the state government executes it. According to the Governor, on completion, the project would supply portable drinking water to about 40, 000 people in five communities in the Eleme Local Government Area. Governor Amaechi noted that SPDC was not responsible for the oil pollution in Aleto-Eleme but agreed to fund the project as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility initiative.…
The Nigerian and London Stock Exchanges are now in possession of the Guaranty Trust Bank’s audited financial results for the half year ended 2013, the bank announced on Tuesday. The statement said a review of the June 2013 result shows positive performance across all financial indices, citing “Gross Earnings for the half year period of 2013 stood at N124.20 billion an increase of N10.68 billion from the N113.53 billion reported for the corresponding period in 2012. “Profit Before Tax was N57.36billion, up from N53.64 billion recorded in June 2012. The Bank reported a 2013 half year Profit After Tax of…
The Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) on Tuesday directed its members to commence indefinite strike action effective from 12 midnight of 21st August, 2013 in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). As a follow up, their counterparts in the 36 states of the federation and the local governments are expected to join as from 12 midnight of 28 August, 2013. The body, JOHESU, cites the federal government’s inability to resolve te lingering issues with its members hence, the need to down tools. The statement calling the health workers out on strike was signed by Dr. Ayuba P. Wabba National President Medical &Health Workers’…
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal is to be unveiled at the end of this month as the ‘Face of Healthy Living’ in Nigeria. Announcing this in a statement on Tuesday, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) President, Dr. Osahon Enabulele, says it is part of the association’s campaign to promote health consciousness in the country. “History would be made on Friday 30th August, 2013 in Sokoto when NMA would as part of her campaign to promote health consciousness in Nigeria will unveil the speaker as the face of healthy living in Nigeria. “We are medical doctors and dentist…
Concerned that the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is being unnecessarily prolonged, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has enjoined the Federal Government to rise up to its obligation by honouring its agreement with the striking lecturers. The party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, in a statement on Tuesday, posited that not meeting the demands of ASUU is tantamount to government playing with education which is the bedrock of any society. He contended that the striking teachers are not making fresh demands, saying the2009 agreements voluntarily entered into by the federal government should be implemented…