Super Eagles and Chelsea star, Victor Moses has credited manager Antonio Conte for reviving his career at Stamford Bridge by converting him into a wing back during their Premier League title charge this season. The 26-year-old Nigeria international was previously sent out on loan for three consecutive seasons by manager Jose Mourinho before Conte arrived…
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From: Godwin Tsa, Abuja A witness in the trial of the then Chairman of the House Ad-hoc Committee on Fuel subsidy, Mr. Farouk Lawan, has denied receiving bribe from businessman, Mr. Femi Otedola in 2012. The witness, Mr. Adams Jagaba, was a three-term member of the House of Representatives and was testifying as the fourth…
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From Godwin Tsa, Abuja A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) sitting in the Gudu District, Abuja has ordered the remand of former Minister of the FCT, Senator Bala Mohammed in prison custody pending the ruling on his bail application. The former minister was arraigned before Justice Abubakar Talba on six charges of…
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From Godwin Tsa, Abuja Former Benue State governor, Dr. Gabriel Suswam Wednesday withdrew his N10 billion fundamental rights enforcement suit he filed against the Department of State Service, its Director-General, Lawal Daura, and the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN) before the Abuja division of the Federal High Court….
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By Philip Nwosu, Lagos and Molly Kilete, Abuja The Nigerian Army has announced the appointment of 147 officers to man key positions in the various divisions and formations. The Army says the appointments is to enable it to re-strategies in tackling the security challenges in the country. Under the new arrangement, Major General AM Dikko,…
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• How some private schools overuse teachers but pay them peanut • First degree holders collect N10,000 as salary; Masters, N15 – N20,000 • We’re really concerned and doing something about it – Prof. Ajiboye, General Secretary, TRCN By Jet Stanley Madu The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has its motto as: “service and justice.” Some private…
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• Foundation unveils teachers’ reward on earth as three of them win N3.5m By Perpetua Egesimba One of the major reasons many young school leavers avoid the teaching profession like plague is the old saying that the teacher’s reward is in heaven. That is the belief that Meadow Hall Foundation, a subsidiary of Meadow Hall Group,…
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By Jet Stanley-Madu The Proprietress, CEDEC International Group of Schools Olodi-Apapa, Unachukwu Ijeoma (PhD) spoke extensively on the derivable benefits in paying teachers well. “It is a well motivating factor”, she insists, asserting that poor remuneration contributes to high teacher turnover. “Of course, we don’t need to over-flog the issue. The benefits are enormous. Like…
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From Emmanuel Ahanonu and Ubong Edet, UNICAL The University of Calabar (UNICAL) International Conference Centre was recently filled to the brim during the induction of 80 UNICAL Medical Lab. Scientists. Declaring the ceremony open, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Zana Akpagu, represented by the DVC (Academics), Prof. Florence Obi, described the occasion as epoch-making. “Medical laboratory…
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• UNIZIK takes its China relationship a step further by inaugurating alumni body of her Confucius Institute By Franklin Onwubiko (UNIZIK) The existing romance between Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, and China through her Confucius Institute experienced a leap recently when the alumni association of the institute was inaugurated by the Vice Consular General of Chinese…
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Paulinus Aidoghie, Abuja Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, says the Federal Government has passed the Revised National Building Code into law. Fashola made the disclosure while inaugurating the newly reconstituted Architect Registration Council of Nigeria in Abuja. Fashola said the Federal Government took the step to help the Built Industry, adding…
Geoffrey Anyanwu, Awka The principal of Seat of Wisdom Secondary School, Okija, Mr. Modestus Eze is now on the run after allegedly having canal knowledge of one of his male students (name withheld). The principal was said to have fled his house after residents of the area suspected his act on the young student…
Godwin Tsa, Abuja The Abuja division of the Federal High Court yesterday halted the trial of the National Commandant of the Peace Corps of Nigeria, Ambassador Dickson Akoh in the 13 count alleged criminal charges brought against him by the Nigerian police. Justice john Tsoho stopped the trial in protest of the persistent…
Rose Ejembi, Makurdi The Benue State Government says it has lost over N400 billion worth of property to renewed militia herdsmen attacks on communities in the state between 2015 and now. Governor Samuel Ortom who disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the achievements and challenges of his administration in the past three years, at Government…
Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri The acting Chairman of the Imo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Chris Oguoma, has raised the alarm over sales of fake nomination forms for the forthcoming LG election in the state. Oguoma cautioned the aspirants of the party contesting for various positions in the July 14 Local Government…
NAN The Chairman of Calabar Carnival Commission, Mr Gabe Onah, has expressed sadness over the death of the popular reggae artiste, Ras Kimono on Sunday describing it as “painful.” Onah who expressed his feelings in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Calabar, said that Kimono was a legend. He…
Laide Raheem, Abeokuta For the families of Alhaji Aminu Isiaka and Bankole Isaiah Adeniran, the tragic incident of May 12, 2018, will forever linger on in their memory. That was the day men and officers of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Ogun State command, accompanied by some soldiers, invaded the border town of Ilara in Imeko-Afon…
Noah Ebije, Kaduna Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BOT), Sen. Walid Jibrin has said the party is not in a hurry to reconstitute its board. He said the process would commence as soon as the party meets with the requirement in the amended Constitution of the party. Jibrin in…
Felix Ikem, Nsukka Wherever there is palmwine there is truth, so says a popular saying. From time immemorial, tens of hundreds of rural dwellers, especially in the South East, have depended heavily on palm wine tapping to eke out a living. It is therefore a common feature to see men climbing palm trees to tap…
Sunday Ani ([email protected]) Following a barrage of reports by local and international media about the deplorable and inhuman condition of Nigerians trapped in Libya, the Federal Government of Nigeria, in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration, arranged to airlift those willing to come back home. The operation led to the repatriation of over 10,000…
Henry Akubuiro In 2017, Hon. Jerry Alagbaoso became a major talking point in Nigerian literature as his reissued literary works made it to the UBEC (Universal Basic Education) reading list, and were circulated in twenty-one states across the federation for use by students in Nigerian schools. Since then, curiosity has been set apace what constitutes…
We don’t know what they’re talking about – Govt Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa For years now, poverty and squalor have been the companions of the Egbo family from Kpansia in Yenagoa Local Government area of Bayelsa State. But the family believes that, ordinarily, it should have absolutely no business with poverty, if the events of 2004…
■ Randy lecturers on the prowl in universities Gabriel Dike; Bianca Iboma; Fred Ezeh, Abuja; Emmanuel Adeyemi, Lokoja The nation’s tertiary institution has come a long way. Since the establishment of Yaba Higher College, there has been a phenomenal growth in the sector, which now include private institutions. According to stakeholders, these growth and development…
Despite being a green horn in the movie industry, the CEO of Mind Bursters Film Ventures, Emeka Kachikwu, has practically set the social media network buzzing alongside other media platforms with his new movie, Boss of All Bosses. From one geo-cinema region to the next, the highly anticipated movie is indeed gaining grounds among the…
Every President’s public life reveals. It provides an unusual opportunity for understanding the interplay between personality, institutions and what he does with the Constitution which is the ground rule of the country. Three years in office, I don’t think anybody needs to tell somebody about President Muhammadu Buhari’s character, his preferred methods of acquiring power…
Every President’s public life reveals. It provides an unusual opportunity for understanding the interplay between personality, institutions and what he does with the Constitution which is the ground rule of the country. Three years in office, I don’t think anybody needs to tell somebody about President Muhammadu Buhari’s character, his preferred methods of acquiring power…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to bring the June 12 imbroglio to a resounding closure is simply a political master stroke. He has declared June 12, the day 25 years ago that MKO Abiola won the presidential election that Professor Humphrey Nwosu conducted, the real Democracy Day. The result of that election was blocked midway by…
There is something morally disgusting that is going on in Nigerian universities. Academic staff members know about it but feel, in a strange way, that it is a part of the unquantifiable reward they are supposed to receive for their services to the university system. This kind of reasoning can only emanate from depraved minds….
Life is an ultra-weird inanimate mass of scary twists and funny turns remote-controlled by a monstrously-creative higher force. Life’s Maker and Giver must be the great-great-grand-grandfather of literature. Imagine the seamless plots, the deafening suspense, and the untold wizardry that combine to weave life so intricately into such delectable art. Forget its untold unpredictability, life…
When an illustrious personage passes on, his death is not mourned but celebrated. This phenomenal human characteristic underlies the celebratory circumstance that had underpinned the epochal translation of Professor Albert Chinualumogu Achebe. The global outpouring of eulogies is a splendid testament to the superlative reckoning and a profundity of aura this renowned novelist of facile…
The agitation for the sovereign state of Biafra is gaining currency by the day. And so is the call for the restructuring of the country. I wrote the story you are about to read in October 2008. Almost 10 years after, our situation has not changed. In fact, it has worsened. Who will rescue Nigeria?…
Where were you when you heard the news of the June 12 annulment? Where were you when you heard that the man you freely gave your votes in the freest presidential poll ever held in this country would no longer be president of Nigeria? Where were you when the hope of the man of hope…
I now know how Prof Wole Soyinka felt, when he got a cable in the early 70s, that simply said “The man died”. This was a journalist Segun Sowemimo – who was brutally beaten, by soldiers on the others of a Military Governor of then Western Region. The reason? An imagined slight. The journalist had…
Our society has never ceased to be a hostile environment, even before the amalgamation in 1914. Before then most of what is known as component parts of our nation were independent kingdoms and empires and if history is true most of them were constantly at war with each other and even till today the story…
Alex and Angela have been married for two years now and the relationship is perfect. But lately, Alex has been having money issues with his wife. Angela is a shopaholic in every ramification; there is nothing Alex says that will make her stop. She makes reckless purchases and when her husband calls her attention to…
