By Gracious Akujobi: Vice Chairman of relegation threatened Nigeria Premier League side Lobi Stars FC, Dominic Iorfa is confident that his club will not go down. Iorfa who doubles as the club’s technical adviser confessed that the season has been very tough and no team can boast that they will win at this stage even as he insisted that Lobi will rise in this second half of the season. “Lobi Stars are surely out of contention for the league title but we shall ensure that we crawl out of the bottom of the log where we are now. Lobi have…
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By Gracious Akujobi: Board member of TEAP FC and former Minister of Solid Minerals, Oby Ezekwesili says Super Eagles needed the victory to boost their confidence. Also known as Madam “due process” Ezekwesili and her husband were among the dignitaries who watched the Eagles play their last test match before departing for Ivory coast for the return leg match of CHAN qualifiers. She expressed confidence in the Super Eagles even as she extolled her team for putting up a good performance “I would have loved TEAP FC to defeat Super Eagles, but then I also don’t mind Super Eagles winning…
By: Gracious Akujobi The Super Eagles had their last test game before travelling to Abidjan on Tuesday evening in Abuja and came away with a hard fought 2-0 win over The Everlasting Arms Parish (TEAP) FC, of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. The highly entertaining game had among the crowd former NFF board member and Technical Adviser of Lobi Stars, Dominic Iorfa, current board member and Chairman of the NFF Media Committee, Emeka Inyama, NFF Director of Technical, Dr Emmanuel Ikpeme, National Competitions Director, Dr Sanusi Mohammed, former Flying Eagles and Golden Eaglets Assistant Coach Ben Iroha and NFF…
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have emerged from St Mary’s Hospital in west London with their new baby son. Walking out to cheers from staff and well-wishers, Kate cradled her son and said it was “a special time”. Prince William said they were “still working on a name”. The couple then went back inside the private Lindo Wing and placed their son in a car seat. A few minutes later they came outside again and the duke drove his family home to Kensington Palace. A small crowd had gathered outside the palace to greet them. Speaking to reporters outside…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) may lower its targeted trading range for the naira as dwindling foreign-exchange reserves and falling oil prices undermine its ability to halt the currency’s slide, FBN Capital Limited has said. Policy makers may adjust the exchange rate to within a three percentage-point band of N160 per dollar from N155 over the next six to nine months, Gregory Kronsten, an analyst at the Lagos-based FBN Capital, said in an e-mailed response to questions over the weekend. Lower crude prices are making “it more difficult for the CBN to hold the lin on the naira exchange…
Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state, South-south Nigeria will on Wednesday 24 July 2013, at Chatham House London speak on the Topic “Reform and Resource Governance in Nigeria”. The Governor who manages one of the largest economy in Nigeria and also the Chairman of Nigeria Governor’s Forum (NGF) will also discuss his government’s strategies for responding to competing priorities across Rivers State and efforts to improve governance and transparency. Nigeria’s State governors play key roles in the country’s domestic development through reform implementation, infrastructure development, service provision and allocation of resources to Local Governments. As momentum is building towards…
If I were President Goodluck Jonathan, I would not be happy. I would wonder what I have done to deserve this type of treatment. I could even see it as a ploy to ridicule me and my office. I would appeal that such be stopped, especially for the sake of the young ones who are impressionable. As a child, I was advised to watch the television and listen to the radio, especially to news bulletins, as well as read newspapers and magazines, so as to learn how to speak and write good English. That piece of advice proved useful. However,…
Tragedy struck on Monday as 24 passengers lost their lives in two separate auto crashes. Eighteen died in an accident at Okada town, on the Benin-Ore -Lagos expressway, just as another six persons died on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. Those dead in the Edo auto crash included two children, 15 adults and a motor-boy of a heavy duty truck. The accident which occurred at Okada involved a heavy Mark truck loaded with gravel and a commercial Toyota bus belonging to Peace Mass Transit Company Limited,thus causing heavy caused heavy traffic gridlock. Mr. Kenneth Nwaegbe, Edo State Sector Commander of the Federal…
There was anxiety in Port Harcourt on Monday as news of the death of Mrs. Iwari-Oba, the mother of the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, spread in the Rivers State capital. The mother of Mrs. Jonathan was said to have been involved in a ghastly motor accident along Elele Road in Rivers State. It was gathered that the woman, who is from Okrika Local Government Area, was on her way to Bayelsa State when the accident happened. Unconfirmed report indicated that her corpse was taken to Kpaiyama Mortuary by a team of policemen and a member representing Ogu Bolo…
By: Gracious Akujobi Aftermath of the Super Eagles average show at the Confederation Cup in Brazil, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is tinkering with the idea of appointing a consortium of coaches to assist Head Coach Stephen Keshi. Prompt News Online gathered from those who should know that the NFF big wigs are of the view that Keshi is a good coach but that he is not good when it comes to reading games and making substitutions. The federation according to our source is thinking of drafting in seasoned coaches like Amodu Shuaibu, James Peters, Kashimawo Laloko, and a host…