The Nigeria Football Federation will spend over N700 million (about $5 million) on the Super Eagles 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign, MTNFootball.com reports on Tuesday. The amount is contained in the 2012 budget summary submitted to the House of Representatives by the leadership of the NFF. The Eagles will kick off the qualifiers at home [...]
A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole and its erswhile deputy, Bayero Nafada have been cleared of a corruption charge by an Abuja High Court. Justice Suleiman Belgore ruled on Tuesday that the duo had no case to answer in connection with a N40 billion misapropriation charge filed by the Economics and [...]
The Nigeria Police Force Monday announced the passing away of the wife of the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Hajia Mariam Mohammed Abubakar. Mariam, 48, was said to have died in the early hours of Monday in the family house at Gandun Albasa quarters of Kano after a brief illness. She was buried at the Tarauni [...]
A court in Nigeria on Monday sentenced Major Hamza al-Mustapha, the security chief of former Nigerian military ruler Sani Abacha, to death by hanging for the 1996 killing of an Opposition candidate’s wife. Mustapha was given the death penalty for ordering the killing of Kudirat Abiola, wife of Opposition candidate Moshood Abiola who is widely [...]
All candidates who applied for various courses into Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Oron are informed that the academy has released her official 2011/2012 admission list. All applicants can proceed to the Maritime Academy Website to check their admission status. Goodluck.
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A homeless man who was stuck in thick mud near the Rio Grande river in Albuquerque for three days was rescued Saturday after some high school students on a field trip heard him yelling for help, authorities said. However, the man’s newfound freedom wasn’t going to last. Police said he was wanted on a felony [...]
A four-year-old U.S. boy pulled out nine bags of marijuana fro his jacket pocket during lunch time at Hanover Elementary School Tuesday afternoon. Police said they were called to the school after the young special needs student displayed the drugs, authorities said. Meriden police said the nine individually wrapped bags of marijuana appeared prepared for [...]
Academic Staff Union of Universities is set to call off its strike action after its consultation with individual striking universities on the offer made by the Federal Government. ASUU had been on strike for over two months now demanding increased funding for universities as well as increased wages and retirement age for members from 65 [...]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan weekend decried the poor African and international ranking of Nigerian universities, saying older universities, particularly the University of Nigeria, must endeavour to change the situation. Jonathan stated that the recent ratings which indicated that “no Nigerian university is among the top 10 providers of tertiary institutions in Africa, not to mention globally” [...]
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Confusion reigned Friday in Kogi as two governors were sworn in following the Supreme Court judgement sacking five governors. The Governor-elect, (the Peoples Democratic Party candidate who won the December 3, 2011 governorship election in the state), Captain Idris Wada, and the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Alhaji Abdullahi Bello, were sworn in [...]
Gunmen in Nigeria have killed at least one officer after opening fire on a police station in the city of Kano, where attacks claimed by Islamists left 185 dead last week, police said Saturday. Security forces in Africa’s most populous nation and top oil producer are struggling to contain the menace by the Boko Haram [...]
FORMER Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), yesterday, warned those who are harbouring the thought of disintegrating the country to have a rethink as he would not hesitate to re-enlist in the military and fight if the issue of secession rears its head. Speaking at the Ninth Daily Trust Dialogue held at the Congress Hall [...]
Yenagoa the Bayelsa State capital, Friday,erupted in celebration as the news of the ouster of Governor Timipre Sylva by the Supreme Court hit the air wave. Immediately, the police authorities sealed off the Creek Haven Government House, in Bayelsa State ostensibly to prevent looting of the place. Heavily armed policemen barricaded the Onopa end of [...]
Scholarship Name: Australian Development Scholarships (ADS) Brief description Australian Government Postgraduate Scholarships for Nigerian Students to study at Australian Universities in 2012-2013 Accepted Subject Areas? This program will focus in Education, Public Policy (including public sector reform, trade and diplomacy), Health and Agriculture/Food Security. About Scholarship Australian Development Scholarships (ADS) for Africa offers scholarship for [...]
Durham University will be awarding three postgraduate scholarships to outstanding candidates from West Africa. Each scholarship is awarded in the form of a one-year postgraduate taught tuition fee waiver; one each in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health, Faculty of Science and Durham Business School.* This means that students do not have to pay [...]
Ringim local government area of Jigawa State, the country home of sacked Inspector General of Police, IGP,Mr. Hafizu Abubakar Ringim was full of security operatives fully armed as part of measures to deny members of Bokom Haram access to the town. It was gathered that the security operatives has mounted different stop and search check [...]
The German Foreign Ministry confirmed on Friday that a German citizen had been kidnapped in northern Nigeria. The police commissioner in Nigeria’s second city, Kano, told Reuters on Thursday gunmen had kidnapped a German national working on a construction site. Radical Islamist sect Bokoo Haram has increasingly moved into Kano, a city of around 10 [...]
Nigeria’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday to remove five powerful state governors from office because their tenures should have expired last year, replacing them with the speakers of the house of assembly from the respective states. The governors of Nigeria’s 36 states are among the most powerful politicians in Africa’s most populous nation, in some [...]
POLICE boss Hafiz Ringim, has tendered his retirement letter with immidiate effect while a Police helicopter is on its way to Bauchi now to bring the New IGP MD Abubakar to Abuja. Official announcement is likely to be made today. Already, a number of DIG’s have started parking their personal belongings in their offices since [...]
All unclaimed dead bodies recovered from last Friday’s deadly attacks in Kano will be given a mass burial. Most of the bodies are said to be decomposing at the Murtala Muhammed Hospital in the city. Paramedics attached to the Murtala Muhammed Hospital who spoke anonymously said that over 50 bodies have so far been buried [...]
There appears to be a silver-lining in the horizon over the protracted industrial action embarked upon by Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities, ASUU. Feelers from ASUU delegation, led by its National President, Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie, and that of the Federal Government, led by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator Anyim [...]
National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Ukachukwu Awuzie has denied rumour that the union has called off the strike it embarked upon since last year. On Tuesday last week, there was rumour that ASUU dialogued with representatives of the Federal Government and that the union has called off its strike, [...]