African champions Nigeria are battle-ready to confront CONCACAF champions Mexico in a prestigious, high-profile international friendly match at the Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, United States of America on Friday. The Super Eagles’ contingent to the match arrived in the United States of America on Tuesday afternoon, landing at the Houston International Airport at exactly 2:40pm local time (8:40pm Nigeria time) after an 11-hour flight from Frankfurt, Germany. The team was received by Chairman of the NFF Media and Publicity Committee, Emeka Inyama, and Mr. Jairo Pachon, NFF’s FIFA Match Agent who is organizing the big match alongside the…
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· Says Critics Should Assess Objectively Conscious of the criticisms that may trail the presentation of his mid-term scorecard, President Goodluck Jonathan has called on Nigerians to develop criteria upon which the administration would be assessed. Presenting a 250-page document entitled “Mid-term Report of the Transformation Agenda” on Wednesday at the International Conference Centre, Abuja; he said a politician could be subjective in assessing another politician. The report, which the details the achievements of his administration sector-by-sector in the past two years was summarized by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.…
With the breakup into two of the Nigerian Governors Forum as a consequence of the failure of President Goodluck Jonathan’s men to have their way, Nigerians, indeed the world, have reason to fear for the future of the country’s ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party, and most importantly what the President will do to the corporate existence of the country if he fails to clinch the office in 2015. But this too goes for the opposition politicians, who have not equally shown the preparedness to accept defeat as they accept victory. The breakup of the NGF, with the…
Presidential Media Adviser, Reuben Abati on Tuesday came hard on the spokesman of the Congress for Progress Change (CPC), Rotimi Fashakin for displaying “habitual indolence” in criticizing President Goodluck Jonathan over the just concluded Special Summit of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He contended that Fashakin failed to research before jumping into conclusion that President Jonathan missed his speaking slot at the summit and did not send representative, describing the action as “silly”. Abati’s statement reads in full, “We are dealing with such hideous and second rate characters in Nigeria’s public space, belonging to the ACN…
Chinese hackers have accessed designs for more than two dozen US weapons systems, a US newspaper has reported. Designs for combat aircraft, ships and missile defences were among those compromised, a Pentagon paper found, the Washington Post reported. A public version of the same Defense Science Board report said in January that the US was unprepared for a full-scale cyber attack. A Pentagon spokesman said “intrusions” had not eroded its technological edge. The Defense Science Board did not return requests for comment from the BBC. The Washington Post report comes as Australia discloses Chinese hackers stole floor plans for the…
Contrary to report in a section of the media that about 6,000 Nigerians have crossed the border into the Republic of Niger because of military operations in Borno, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said only 126 persons actually fled. A statement by the Director General of NEMA, Sani Sidi on Tuesday insisted that so far, about 2,367 have fled, saying that 126 of them are Nigerians while others are Nigerien that returned home because of the situation in northern Nigeria. The statement reads, “We want to state categorically that from information available to us; about 2,367 persons…
The Director of Defence Information (DDI), Brig Gen Chris Olukolade on Tuesday disclosed that a close associate of the Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau has been found dead. According to him, the terrorist died while running errand for the leadership of Boko Haram. His words, “a terrorist believed to be a close associate of insurgents’ leader Abubakar Shekau has been found dead as he ran errand for the leadership. “The other two fellow terrorists one of which is confirmed to be a Nigerien are now in the custody of the Multinational Joint Task Force. The three were in the process…
The European Union (EU) and UNICEF have signed a five-year contribution agreement for a Rural Water and Sanitation Project in Plateau, Ekiti and Adamawa States worth €14.75 million (about N3 billion) as well as a four-year contribution agreement worth €30 million (about N6.75 billion) to scale up improvement in Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Kebbi and Adamawa states. This is a follow up to the corresponding Financing Agreements signed on 30 April 2013 between the Government of Nigeria and European Union to strengthen their collaborative partnership and development agenda. The project component of the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Reform Project,…
Forty ECOWAS volunteers deployed to Guinea have been charged to see themselves as ambassadors of the region and to undertake initiatives that will contribute to the development of the country. “You arrived in our country at a moment when it is fully engaged with the process of disconnecting with the negative aspects of its past and undertaking changes aimed at improving the material conditions of the population,” Elhadj Mohamed Cisse, Secretary General of the Ministry of International Cooperation, told the volunteers at the end of their weeklong induction programme in Conakry at the weekend. He extolled the values of voluntarism…
The Nigeria Football Federation will on Thursday in Abuja hold the Draw Ceremony for this year’s 2013 Federation Cup finals. According to NFF’s Director of Competitions, Mohammed Sanusi, a total of 63 clubs will be in the pot at the ceremony billed for the FIFA Technical Centre, National Stadium Complex, as from 12pm. No club from Yobe State registered for the annual glamour competition, while Ranch Bees FC of Kaduna would be disqualified from the ceremony should the club’s management fail to off-set, by Thursday morning, an outstanding debt of N200,000 payable since last year. “The management of Ranch Bees…