Nigeria Police authorities Wednesday confirmed that Rivers House Leader, Chidi Lloyd is at the Force headquarters in Abuja, helping detectives in the ongoing investigation into the fracas that broke out in the House recently. According to the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, the lawmaker is cooperating with detectives. He therefore, enjoined the people of rivers state to maintain calm, promising speedy investigation. “The House Leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Honourable Chidi Lloyd, yesterday 23rd July, 2013, reported at Force CID, Force Headquarters, Abuja, in response to a summon earlier issued by the Police…
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By: Gracious Akujobi President of the Nigeria Volleyball Federation (NVBF), Habu Gumel, has assured that both the country’s male and female national teams would qualify for the 2014 World Championships. The qualifier, which is the competition’s first phase, started on July 23 and will end on July 26 with only Nigeria, Niger and Togo participating after Benin Republic failed to make it. Gumel told journalists Tuesday in Abuja he was confident of Team Nigeria’s success due to their intensive training and preparation for the competition. “I want to assure you that Nigeria will qualify because they have been undergoing intensive training” “And I believe that,…
President of the Senate, David Mark and his wife, Helen yesterday sympathized with the First Lady, Patience Jonathan over the death of her mother, Madam Charity Fyneyaco Kalada, who died in an auto crash along Elele-Isiokpo road, Port Harcourt on Tuesday. Mark in a condolence message to President Goodluck Jonathan, the First Lady and the entire First family said the death of Late Kalada was heartbreaking but, stressed that, “God gives life and take at will”. He said, “This is very sad, it is indeed a great loss. I can only console our dear First Lady to take solace in…
The Minister of State, Health, Dr. Muhammed Ali Pate, has resigned voluntarily from the Federal Executive Council effective from Wednesday. President Goodluck Jonathan has since accepted the resignation. Dr Pate in his resignation letter dated July 22 and addressed to the President, said he was leaving the Cabinet to take up appointment with Duke University’s Global Health Institute, USA, as a Professor. The appointment he said will enable him to serve as Senior Adviser to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation based in Washington DC as well as participates in a university-wide Africa initiative. He however, volunteered to carry on with…
The Federal Government, Tuesday, announced that the Turn-Around Maintenance of the Port-Harcourt refinery will be completed by the fourth quarter of 2013. It also disclosed that work on the Kaduna and Warri Refineries is expected to be concluded by the fourth quarter of 2014, while it said plans are on-going to link Abuja and the Northern part of the country with gas pipelines by 2015. The implication is that Nigeria’s crude refining capacity is expected to increase from the end 2013. Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, Minister of Petroleum Resources, who disclosed this during the presentation of the ministry’s mid-term score-card at…
Piqued by the resolution of the Nigeria’s Upper Chamber to amend Section 29 (4) (b) of the 1999 constitution, President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, on Tuesday threatened to lead mass protest to the Senate. Under the provision of the Section, underage girls are considered to be adults and the issue is now generating serious national debate. In a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja, CAN President also dismissed fomer Zamfara governor, Ahmed Sani Yerima’s argument that deleting the section would contravene Islamic law. The argument, Oritesejafor noted “presupposes that Nigeria, a secular state,…
The crisis rocking the PDP in Ekiti State worsened on Tuesday as the party announced the suspension of Mr Ayo Fayose, a former governor in the state. The Chairman of the party, Chief Makanjuola Ogundipe, who announced the suspension in Ado-Ekiti, said Fayose’s suspension followed the roles he allegedly played in the invasion of the state secretariat by hoodlums last week. Also suspended with Fayose, he said, were the state Secretary of the party, Dr Tope Aluko, state Women Leader, Mrs Busola Oyebode as well as state Public Relations Officer, Kola Oluwole.Ogundipe said investigations conducted by the party indicated that the…
Wife of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Titi Abubakar has expressed her condolences to the First Lady Patience Jonathan on the death of her mother, Mrs. Iwari-Oba, in a car crash. In a letter of condolence she released in Abuja on Tuesday, Titi Abubakar said she was personally touched by the sudden and unfortunate death of the First Lady’s mother. According to her, mother’s love is the deepest experience in the life of her children and for that reason, she said; Nigerians should connect to the First Lady with a sense of sympathy and empathy. Titi Abubakar said as a…
By Gracious Akujobi: Super Eagles home based skipper, Chigozie Agbim, has said he remains a player of Warri Wolves on loan to Enugu Rangers International until contractual terms are sorted out by both sides. Agbim was reacting to reports in a section of the media which quoted him as saying that he is a full Rangers player and owes his allegiance to the Enugu side. “No, I never said that, all I said was that Rangers and Warri Wolves are still negotiating over my future and at the end of the day they will tell the world what agreement they…
By: Gracious Akujobi The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has effected minor reshuffle in the secretariats of both the Nigeria National league (NNL) and the Nigeria Nation Wide league (NNWL) with the secretaries of both leagues recalled to the Glass House. The changes saw NNL secretary Ayo Abdulrahman being recalled to the headquarters and NNWL scribe Emmanuel Adesanya also expected to report to Inter -Club unit at the Glass House. To take over from them are Lawrence Katken who reports to NNL as the new scribe while Shola Ogunowo goes to NNWL. When contacted the Chairman of the National League, Emeka…