By: Gracious Akujobi Aminu Maigari, President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) says he is optimistic they will move into the Sunday Dankaro Football House before the end of the year. The new Football House was declared open by Vice President,Namadi Sambo and handed over to NFF unfurnished by the Presidential Task Force (PTF) who used the leftover of the money realized from the Super Eagles 2010 world cup campaign to build the edifice. Maigari said that NFF had expected that they would be handed over the multi million naira edifice fully furnished but since it has turned out like…
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The Federal Government has named Dr. Christian Atako,as the Acting Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. Prior to her appointment, Dr. Atako was Director of Education, Health and Social Services of the commission. “The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, conveyed the President’s decision to the Chairman of NDDC Governing Board, Dr. Tarilah Tebepah, in a letter he read at the Board’s valedictory session last week,” A statement by the Commission read. Dr. Atako’s appointment, the statement read further takes effect from August 7. The appointment of the erstwhile Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer…
Ugandan MPs have passed a controversial bill limiting public protests – branded a “serious blow to open political debate” by Amnesty International. The Public Order Management bill was passed despite fierce criticism from religious leaders, opposition MPs and the public as well as rights groups. Police approval will now be required if three or more people want to gather publicly to discuss political issues. Supporters insist the bill is not insidious but practical. Amnesty says the bill is part of a pattern of repression, pointing to the closure of two newspapers and two radio stations in the country in May…
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has called for “serious and substantive” negotiations with the international community about its nuclear programme. At the first news conference since his inauguration on Sunday, Mr Rouhani said he was confident both sides’ concerns could be resolved in a short time. But a solution could be reached solely through “talks, not threats”, he added. The US has said Mr Rouhani’s presidency presents an opportunity for Iran to resolve the world’s “deep concerns”. “Should this new government choose to engage substantively and seriously to meet its international obligations and find a peaceful solution to this issue, it…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condoled with the Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola, over the death of his father. The former Vice President in a statement by his media office in Abuja, yesterday said that though the death of Pa Ademola Fashola is a sad development, his demise in the holy month of Ramadan was an enormous grace from God and urged the Fashola family to accept the death of its patriarch in good faith. “While it is understandable that the death of a parent is always a painful experience, I will urge members of the Fashola…
About 35 players who featured in the Port Harcourt leg of the 3rd Airtel Rising Stars, ARS, U-17 zonal championship, have qualified for the national finals. They were selected from the 3,500 youths who participated in the Port Harcourt zonal screening and elimination championship held from July 29 to August 2 at the Training Pitch of the Liberation Stadium, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Coach Egbu ‘Ziko’ Joseph, who announced the finalists, said 17 girls made the list, while 18 players qualified to represent the zone in the male category of the national finals slated for Lagos later in the month. …
President Goolduck Jonathan has denied media report that he planned to visit the former military President, Ibrahm Babangida in Minna, Niger state, to break his fast with him but was refused. Consequently, the Presidency has requested retraction of the said newspaper report and demanded apology. Presidential Media Adviser, Reuben Abati, on Tuesday dismissed the report as false, saying the President since assumption of office has never gone to the residence of any individual to break his fast in show of solidarity. He said President Jonathan, viewed the report as deliberate attempt to demean the Office of the President and therefore,…
In November 1954, the Daily Times and the West African Pilot reported that the Northern People’s Congress and the Action Group were considering the possibility of a formal union, to become the ‘Nigerian Peoples’ Congress’. (It never did happen; and one wonders what course Nigerian history would have taken had it taken place). Almost 60 years later, another set of influential Nigerian parties, the Congress for Progressive Change and the Action Congress of Nigeria– both loosely aligned with the regionalist orientations of the NPC and AG –have succeeded in pushing through a merger. I didn’t think the Independent National…
The National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Ekiti Chapter has called on Governor Kayode Fayemi to put mercenaries in motion for the conduct local government election. Mr. Bunmi Ajimoko, the newly elected President of NULGE in the state, told a press conference on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti. He posited that the slow pace of development across the state, especially at the grassroots, was as a result of non democratization of the government at the local council’s level. NULGE, Ekiti chapter kicked against continued use of hand-picked people in the name of Caretaker Committees to run the Councils. “The problem with our local government…
It is widely believed that President Goodluck Jonathan will get the nomination of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2015, just as it is also believed that if the presidential election were held today, Jonathan would lose. More so, if the newly registered All Progressives Congress were to come up with a good combined ticket of President and Vice-President. True, two years is a long time in presidential electoral politics; but it is also a short time for Jonathan to reverse the general perception that his administration is nothing but a failure. The general public is not convinced about the scorecard…