The FCT chapter of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, (SWAN) has uncovered plans by the Federal Capital Territory administration to disband the FCT Queens, the only female team in the territory. It beats SWAN’s imagination that rather than addressing several issues that have been raised about the state of Sports in the territory with particular emphasis on the non-payment of the salaries of the FCT Queens and the deliberate refusal to set up the sporting associations, the FCT administration could only respond to the allegations by planning to disband the female team. SWAN believes that such plan is a…
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Fellow Nigerians, there is no place where democracy is desperately seeking and pleading for attention than our dear country. I will explain and demonstrate what I mean in a jiffy. Nigerians love the good things of life but oftentimes hate the process needed to attain them. We are a nation of miracle-seekers; the reason religion is very attractive here without commensurate piety and Godliness. A man who has just stolen his latest billions is not ashamed to run to his church and Pastor to offer a tithe on his loot. You recognise the important folks in your church as they…
Senator and former Governor Ahmed Sani, the Yerima Bakura, has finally had his way. The Nigerian Senate has bowed to his will and agreed to be silent about the age that young girls can get married in Nigeria. What this means once it is followed through and enshrined in our laws and Constitution is that girls that are as young as nine years old, provided they are deemed as having been ‘’physically developed enough’’ by their suitors, could be lawfully bedded and married in our country. That is the sordid level that we have now, as a people and as…
President Goolduck Jonathan is leaving no stone unturned in its bid to woo all the perceived enemies to his side ahead of the 2015 presidential election. The President who was in Abeokuta on a condolence visit to his Media Adviser, Reuben Abati, who concluded the burial ceremony of his late mother on Friday, seized the opportunity to hold closed door talks with former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He arrived Ogun state capital in company of Senator Folashade Brent and headed straight to Owu residence of the former President where they both held a closed door meeting. The thrust of the discussion…
President Goodluck Jonathan Saturday in Lagos restated the opposition of Nigeria and the African Union to the unconstitutional removal of any democratically-elected government. Speaking during an audience with Ambassador Raouf Saad, Special Envoy of the Interim President of Egypt, Mr. Adly Mansour at the State House, Marina, President Jonathan declared that the Federal Government maintains its stand that only the electorate in any country have the constitutional right to remove an elected leader. Welcoming the assurance by Ambassador Saad that the Egyptian military were not currently involved in the day-to-day administration of the country, President Jonathan advised the interim government…
A court in India has sentenced six men to life imprisonment over the gang rape of a Swiss tourist in March this year. The woman, 39, and her husband were attacked while camping in woodland in central Madhya Pradesh state. The men, aged between 22 and 30, were all from a village close to the scene of the rape. The attack came months after a 23-year-old Indian woman died following a gang rape on a bus in Delhi, sparking protests across the country. Weeks before the Swiss tourist was raped, changes to the laws were proposed signalling stricter punishments for…
Israel says it will release a number of Palestinian prisoners as part of an agreement made with US Secretary of State John Kerry to resume peace talks. Yuval Steinitz, minister responsible for international relations, said it would involve “heavyweight prisoners in jail for decades”. Mr Kerry announced on Friday that initial talks would be held in Washington “in the next week or so”. The Israeli minister’s remarks are the first details of the deal. Mr Kerry had declined to tell reporters in Amman what the two sides had agreed to, saying that the “best way to give these negotiations…
Nigeria will not succumb to pressure from the international community to sign the Gay Rights Bill into law and to abolish the death penalty, Foreign Affairs Minister, Olugbenga Ashiru has said. Speaking during an interactive session with members of the Diplomatic Corps in Abuja on Friday, Ashiru confirmed that the federal government has been under intense pressure not to sign the anti same-sex marriage bill recently passed by the country’s legislators into law. While insisting that the two contentious issues will not change until when a proper constitutional amendment is made, the Minister said foreign countries cannot impose their alien…
President Goodluck Jonathan is optimistic that the issue of Boko Haram insurgency will be over in the next three months. The Islamist sect, Boko Haram had claimed responsibility for series of attacks in north-east Nigeria in particular as well as the attacks on the Police headquarters and United Nations building, both in Abuja, the nation’s capital. On Friday, the President said in a CNN interview monitored by our correspondent that Nigeria’s “security architecture” was not prepared for the problem of terrorism. He also said the country was not negotiating with Boko Haram contrary to opinions, but simply making attempts to…
President Goodluck Friday commissioned a Police Housing Estate named after him. The multi-million naira housing estate is located at Idimu in Alimisho local government area of Lagos State. The estate which goes by the name ‘Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Police Housing Estate’ comprises 200 units of 3-bedroom flats built under a Public-Private Partnership scheme. Developed by Remax, the project was financed by Aso Housing and Loans Limited. President Jonathan who reiterated his administration’s commitment to police welfare however, noted that it was the first time the Nigerian Police would achieve such a laudable feat in its entire history. While commending the…