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President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua is billed to return to Nigeria next week, one of the medical doctors attending to the President at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Jeddah, said yesterday.
Close your eyes and try to imagine the scenes of jubilation across Africa if a team from the continent were to win the 2010 World Cup.
In what appears to be a repeat of the 1994 and 2002 editions of the FIFA World Cup, Nigeria last night was drawn alongside Argentina, South Korea and Greece in Group B for the global football fiesta to be hosted by South Africa next year.
South Africa, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana face a difficult first round in the 2010 World Cup soccer finals, while Nigeria will contend with familiar opponents and Cameroon can probably count themselves luckier than their African counterparts.
The conviction in a Swiss Court on 19 November of Abba Abacha, son of former military leader General Sani Abacha, for participating in a criminal organisation together with the confiscation of US$350 million in assets stolen from Nigeria provide important clues to the corruption linked to the $6 billion Bonny Island gas scheme, according to legal experts in Geneva.
Afrobeat maestro, Femi Kuti, has been nominated for the 52nd edition of the Grammy Awards under the 'Best Contempo-rary World Music Album' category for his 'Day by Day' album.
Nigerian Ambas-sador to Saudi Arabia, Alhaji Garba Aminchi, has debunked insinuation that President Umaru Musa Yar'Adu's health has worsened within the past two days.
The recent intervention in the banking sector by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) should be seen as a proactive measure to instil public confidence in the system and a similar thing should be done in the capital market, CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi said in Abuja yesterday. He spoke at the opening of the 13th African Securities Exchange Association (ASEA) conference.
President Umaru Yar'Adua could well spend one year or more abroad recovering his health as there is no constitutional limitation on his absence from the country, the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, declared yesterday.
The nucleus of a comprehensive growth strategy that is uniquely Nigerian, tailor-made and capable of helping Nigeria make rapid progress is contained in the World Bank's recent Employment and Growth Report (EGR), its lead author and the bank's chief economist in Nigeria, Dr. Volker Treichel, has said.
President Umaru Musa Yaradua's November 23 departure for medical check-up abroad has understandably elicited widespread comments from the media and Nigerians generally. In every practising democracy, the health of the head of state is a legitimate area for such public debate.
VENEZUELAN Ambassador to Nigeria, Enerique Fernando Arrundell, could not have offered his advice on Nigeria's management of its petroleum resources at a better time. The anchor of government's argument is that higher prices would draw foreign investors to the downstream sector of the industry.
Former Chairman of the then Nigeria Football Association, Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima and former Secretary General in the association, Alhaji Sani Toro yesterday said Nigeria's Super Eagles are not a weak team as being peddled by some individuals.
Nigeria Football Federation has assured Nigerians that the Super Eagles will survive at the Angola 2010 Nations Cup, where they have been handed a difficult draw.
Former international, Victor Ikpeba has added his voice to the call for a foreign technical adviser to be appointed for the Super Eagles to thinker the team to the Nations Cup and World Cup coming up next year in Angola and South Africa respectively.
There are great expectations in Cape Town, South Africa as the count down to the 2010 World Cup enters its home stretch with the draws that will be conducted tonight at the magnificent 'Draw Hall' the hosts have erected to showcase the event to a global football audience.
So much has been written about the Nigerian bank crisis and the 'surgical' operations being carried out by the capitalist financial doctors, led by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Lamido Sanusi. Revelations of crass swindles by the 'larger-than-life' bank ex-chiefs have generated bank fraud in Nigerian banking, provoking much angst against these hawks who lived like Shakespearean shylocks.
Ahead of the 2011 general election, reconcilation has finally been brokered between Nasarawa State governor, Aliyu Doma and his predecessor, Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu. Also involved in the reconciliation were former deputy governor of the state, Haliru Bala Usman and incumbent Minister of Works, Dr. Hassan Lawal and their team of supporters. The reconciliation took place recently on the auspices of ...
During the last meeting of the stakeholders of the Kano State chapter of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), it was unanimously agreed that Governor Ibrahim Shekarau should in his own opinion decide who will flag the ANPP ticket as the party's governorship candidate in the 2011 general election.
No less a person than the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Idris Kutigi has admonished Nigerian judges for imposing what he called 'extravagant and ridiculous' bail conditions on applicants. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 2009 All Nigerian Judges Conference in Abuja, Kutigi reiterated what he said earlier at the 2007 conference for Nigerian judges.
Former Special Adviser to the immediate past president, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Media and Publicity, Dr Doyin Okupe, has criticised the Federal Government and National Assembly over their reactions on the call for President Umaru Yar'Adua to resign as a result of his ailing health.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ojo Maduekwe has lambasted Foreign Service officers in the ministry, describing them as "estacode seekers" with little or no integrity.
The Federal Government has earned a minimum of $37 billion from Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC oil exploration and production in the country since the past five years.
Imo State Government has shared N2.04 billion to the 27 Local Government Councils in the state for October 2009, even as the State Governor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, approved the sacking of three Transition Councils Chairmen over alleged misappropriation.
Barely 24 hours after the North-West Zone of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) described those asking President Umaru Musa Yar' Adua to resign on account of his ill health as mischief makers hell bent on causing confusion with the sole intention of dragging the integrity of the Federal Government to disrepute, the Northern Union led by Dr. Olusola Saraki yesterday joined the debate over ...
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