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Swiss authorities yesterday convicted Abba, one of the sons of the late military dictator, General Sani Abacha, for graft and ordered $350 million worth of assets to be seized from him.
The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) yesterday ordered the police to arrest former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, and detain him in their custody.
The three-day United Nations summit on world food security was recently wrapped up in Rome with its host lamenting that it produced neither measurable targets nor specific deadlines for ending a scourge that afflicts more than 1 billion people around the planet.
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was making frantic efforts last night to resolve the supremacy battle between the Senate and the House of Representatives as fears of a prolonged dispute on the passage of the 2010 budget gripped the Presidency.
THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has thrown its weight behind the House of Representatives in its current face-off with the Senate over which chamber should host the President for the 2010 budget presentation.
About 20 people have lost their lives and over 2,000 hospitalised following a cholera outbreak in Borno State.
Nigeria's poor maintenance culture is public knowledge. So the worry is why it has refused to improve. It shows in every aspect of national life - roads, schools, hospitals and now stadia.
The former chairman of the All Nigerian Peoples Party in Bauchi State, Alhaji Sani Shehu, has been expunged from the party by the state chapter of the party for alleged stealing of party funds which runs into millions of naira and allegedly conducting himself against the party constitution.
FORMER Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Dr. Aliyu Modibbo thinks governors have become emperors because state houses of assembly were not strong enough to control them.
There could not have been a better way for Minister of Works, Housing and Urban Development, Alhaji Hassan Lawal and Ondo State governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, to experience what millions of Nigerians pass through daily than their recent trapping, for hours, in a traffic jam on the Benin-Ore Expressway.
A miffed House of Representatives yesterday described the Minister of Niger Delta, Mr. Ufot Ekaette as a failure and promptly dismissed as a fraud, his report on contracts paid for, consultancy payments and the percentage of work completed on projects in the Niger Delta region
Under-fire Nigeria coach, Shuaibu Amodu says he has earned the right to be treated with respect by both the fans and media.
Super Eagles will begin their chase for Angola 2010 by pitching up a training camp in South Africa. We gathered yesterday that Eagles coach Shaibu Amodu has proposed to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for players to assemble in South Africa for a pre Nations Cup camp after the Christmas Holiday.
Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has commended Super Eagle's chief coach, Amodu Shaibu for leading the senior national team to clinch the 2010 World Cup ticket.
Nigerian footballers under the auspices of the Nigerian Footballers Union have called on the Federal government of Nigeria to urgently intervene in the case Al-Merreikh player and former Enyimba FC star, Stephen Worgu who was recently charged with alcoholic consumption in Sudan and has been sentenced to 40 lashes of the cane.
Former Chairman of Gombe Football Association, Ahmed Shuaib Gara Gombe has described the call to sack the head coach of the Super Eagles, Amadu Shuaibu, and recruit a more competent World class coach to lead the team to South Africa as immoral and counterproductive.
Following persistent media reports of alleged fraud in the LOC, and His Excellency, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan's comment on Tuesday that the Federal Government of Nigeria would probe the finances of the global event organising committee, the Board of the LOC has backed the resolve of the government to probe the activities of the LOC.
Governor Muhammad Danjuma Goje of Gombe State is not happy with the non-availability of a standard stadium in his domain before the commencement of the just concluded FIFA U-17 World Cup.
The board of the Local Organising Committee of the FIFA U-17 World Cup headed by Alhaji Sani Lulu engaged the Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission in endless battles over control of projects and funds while the tournament lasted even though the board itself is not mentioned in the relevant aspects of the Public Procurement Act adopted by the committee, a senior ...
The Federal Government has declared Thursday, November 26, and Friday, November 27, as public holidays to mark the Muslim festival of Id-El-Kabir.
Indications emerged, Friday, that it took what could have culminated into a violent riot at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison, Apapa, Lagos for prison authorities at Maximum Prisons, Kirikiri to formally hand over the popular prison blue-and blue uniform to convicted Chieftain of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Board Chairman of Nigerian Ports Authority, Chief Bode George.
How would you like to sit in the comfort of your home and shop in major stores in the UK? Say for example, you sit in your home in Lagos, and shop at Marks and Spencer, Mothercare, TM Lewin or the Apple Store?
Otunba Eddie Aderinokun a renowned journalist was born July 13, 1940 in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Chief Aderinokun, former Editor, Daily Express and one time Vice President of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) is not comfortable with what he described as below-standard pace at which journalism profession in Nigeria today is running.
An eighty man contingent arrived Lagos Thursday night from Ghana to participate in the 2009 Nigeria-Ghana International Tennis Tournament beginning this weekend at the Ikoyi Club 1938, Tennis Section.
President of the Nigeria Golf Federation (NGF) Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola has assured that the 2009 President Cup Golf Tournament, would be bigger and better, while adding that President Musa Yar'Adua has given his words to be part of the tournament.
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