By Gracious Akujobi The Nigeria Football Federation technical committee will meet in Abuja next week Tuesday to appoint coaches for at least four of Nigeria’s national teams. Chairman Technical Committee, Chris Green who disclosed this stated that he hopes that they would be able to recommend quality coaches to the NFF Executive Committee for approval. “We are meeting on Tuesday in Abuja and on the front burner will be the choice of coaches for national teams among other important issues. I think we should be able to screen the CVs of the coaches who applied to handle the various national…
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By Gracious Akujobi Sequel to the qualification of four teams for the final 4 playoff of the DSTV basketball league, Nigeria Basketball Federation has released dates for the grand finale. According to Patrick Omorodion, member of Basketball Federation who also doubles as the Federation’s media officer, the Federation in conjunction with the league sponsors will address the media soon. “The Federation and sponsors of the league will address a joint press conference prior to the season ending events” He says the play-offs events will be one that will be all encompassing as they have a lineup of events. “On September…
The Lagos State Government has sealed a property of a former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, in Park View Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos. The sealing of the house is coming on the heels of the criticism of Fashola by Kalu over the deportation of 72 residents of Lagos, who are of South East origin. The Igbo men and women were dumped by the Lagos State Government under the bridge in Onitsha, Anambra State, in the wee hours of the day. Amnesty International has in fact put the number of Lagos State residents deported by the Fashola administration at…
Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to late Head of State, Gen.Sani Abacha, may soon be back in court over the alleged murder of Kudirat Abiola, wife of late MKO Abiola. This is because Lagos State government has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court, challenging the judgment of the Court of Appeal which acquitted and discharged him alongside Lateef Shofolahan. According to Ade Ipaye, Lagos state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, the decision to appeal the judgment was reached having considered that there are enough and good grounds for the appeal. Ipaye, disclosed this on Tuesday…
By: Adewole Martins ( Eagle Online) Delta Unperturbed that the Conference of Nigeria Political Parties had damaging remarks to make about him in a three-page statement dated May 16, 2013, co-signed by its Secretary, who doubles as the state Chairman of the KOWA Party, Prince Jude Eze, and six other opposition parties’ chairmen for allegedly arrogating unconstitutional powers to himself, Governor Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan of Delta State has continued to deliver on the mandate that produced him in 2007 and 2011. Even the group placed on record the laudable and remarkable achievements Uduaghan made during the period under review by…
A civil society group with mass membership, Human Rights Writers’ Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has tasked the chairman of the fiscal Responsibility Commission, Dr. Aliyu Jibril Yelwa on the imperative of full disclosure on matters concerning involvement of public office holders in high profile corrupt practices. HURIWA said the essence of bringing about the signing into law of the freedom of information law by the current administration was for the protection, promotion and enforcement of full public disclosure of pertinent information to be acted upon by the anti-graft agencies established to stamp out the hydra-headed monster even as the Rights…
By: Bolaji Oyegunle, London The longest reigning African queen of the tracks, Nigeria’s Mary Onyali-Omagbemi will be in London this weekend to grace the Launch event of Africa Sport in Diaspora. Onyali, well known to have won numerous gold medals in All-Africa Games 100 and 200m events, spanning from 1991 through till 2003, is the current Special Assistant to the Director General of Nigeria’s National Sports Commission, Gbenga Elegbeleye. Onyali will accompany Elegbeleye, who is billed to give a keynote address at the event, and lead a workshop group. A bronze medalist in the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games, Onyali…
Nigerian students in Universities across the country may not return to their campuses soon if the words of the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, are anything to go by. Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), have been on a nationwide strike for five weeks now thus, paralyzing academic activities in the nation’s Ivory Towers. Speaking in Minna, Niger state, at annual National Council on Finance and Economic Development meeting on Tuesday, the minister said the federal government does not have the kind of money ASUU is demanding. According to Okonjo-Iwela, the…
By: Sunday Oyewole Governor Godswil Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, has said that chieftains of the opposition party are already panicking over the ongoing reconciliation in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to the Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, at the end of the ongoing reconciliation, the party will come out stronger and better positioned ahead of the 2015 election. The reconciliation among governors and stakeholders, he noted is already yielding positive fruits, saying all the governors are now committed to ensuring the success of the party in the next general election. Governor Akpabio, spoke with State House…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Governor Babatunde Fashola during a condolence visit of the former Vice President to the Governor of Lagos over the death of his father, Pa Ibrahim Ademola Fashola in Lagos on Tuesday.