There were indications, Tuesday, that the subterranean moves being made by the Presidency to edge out Governor Rotimi Amaechi from the leadership position of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, might…
Ahead of the election of a new chairman for the forum of 36 states governors, the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), some governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos must put its house in order to win the 2015 elections in Lagos State, just as Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State must…
The political crisis ravaging the Rivers state chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, on Tuesday led to the resignation of Obinna Anyanwu, the Special Assistant to Governor Rotimi Amaechi on…
HUNDREDS of young men at the weekend thronged the Rangers training pitch in Enugu and Liberation Stadium in Port Harcourt to participate in the trials for this year’s MTN Football…
There were indications, Tuesday, that the subterranean moves being made by the Presidency to edge out Governor Rotimi Amaechi from the leadership position of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, might lead to the emergence of two rival chairmen. Vanguard learnt from reliable sources that the subtle attempt by the pro-Jonathan camp to coax some governors [...]
Ahead of the election of a new chairman for the forum of 36 states governors, the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), some governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have started arriving in Abuja . A source disclosed to Daily Sun that the election has been fixed for Friday while the anti-Amaechi forces [...]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos must put its house in order to win the 2015 elections in Lagos State, just as Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State must show respect for the office of President Goodluck Jonathan instead of disrespecting him. Owolabi Salis, a chieftain of the ruling PDP and one of the [...]
The political crisis ravaging the Rivers state chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, on Tuesday led to the resignation of Obinna Anyanwu, the Special Assistant to Governor Rotimi Amaechi on Conflict Resolution. His resignation which appeared involuntary was announced in a terse statement addressed to the Governor. In the letter, Anyanwu said his resignation was [...]
HUNDREDS of young men at the weekend thronged the Rangers training pitch in Enugu and Liberation Stadium in Port Harcourt to participate in the trials for this year’s MTN Football Scholar. The trials, which started the series of auditioning for Season Three Academy, saw the enthusiastic youths demonstrating soccer artistry in groups under the watch [...]
Two suspects were arrested while collecting N5 million ransom. Seven suspected kidnappers have been killed in Anambra, while two others were captured by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in the state. The Public Relations Officer of the Anambra State Police Command, Emeka Chukwuemeka, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria [...]
The software giant, Microsoft Nigeria in collaboration with Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN) have hosted the 2013 Microsoft NGO connection day Nigeria in Calabar. The two-day networking and information-sharing event brought together non-profit organizations from across the state to an interactive ICT capacity-building program enabling participants to learn more about Microsoft’s technologies and opportunities for non-profit [...]
THE Anambra State House of Assembly has called on the executive to submit an audited account of the 21 councils of the state for the past two years within the next fortnight. The Assembly, presided over by the Speaker, Chinwe Nwaebili, had in a motion by its Chairman on Public Accounts, Gabriel Onyenweife, unanimously requested [...]
NIGERIA: Achebe to Get Befitting Burial – Obi Category: Nigeria News Published on Wednesday, 22 May 2013 03:22 Written by Emeka Osondu Hits: 65 Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State has said that the state is ready to accord the late literary icon, Prof. Chinua Achebe, a befitting burial and that the state government would [...]
VENTURES AFRICA – A Chinese trade delegation led by the Deputy Mayor of Chang Chun City, China, Gui Guangli has expressed intent to establish a truck manufacturing plant at the Calabar Free Trade Zone (CFTZ), Nigeria. Guangli revealed this during a courtesy call to Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State. He said the team [...]
Nigeria’s Super Eagles will host the Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire between 6th and 7th July in the first of a two-leg qualifying fixture for next year’s African Nations Championship, the Confederation of African Football has decided. In a letter to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), CAF also stated that the return leg, billed for the [...]
Lagos — An ex-international, Christain Chukwu, on Tuesday urged the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and other football authorities in the country, to urgently address the issue of declining spectators at match venues. Chuwku, a former Green Eagles captain, in Lagos said that lack of spectators at match venues was inimical for a football-loving country like [...]
The President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Aminu Maigari, and some members of the NFF Executive Committee have been appointed into standing committees of the Confederation of African Football, CAF, for the period, 2013-2015. In the list of standing committees published on the CAF Media Channel, Maigari, under whose leadership Nigeria football has soared to [...]
Aminu Maigari Sani Abdullahi is a member of the Organizing Committee for the African Nations Championship. The President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Aminu Maigari, and some members of the NFF Executive Committee have been appointed into standing committees of the Confederation of African Football, CAF, for the period, 2013-2015. In the list of standing [...]
Some of the major players that the country has hung hope on to qualify for the 2014 World Cup and also do the country proud in next month’s Confederations Cup may not answer the national call after all.A major setback has plagued the Super Eagles set up as of today as Victor Moses will not be [...]
Dozens of crying children and women have been locked out of a UN base manned by South African peacekeepers outside Goma in eastern Congo, despite a barrage of shooting and bombing close by. Since Monday, DR Congo Government forces have been using helicopter gunships to bomb bases of M23 rebels around Mutaho – some 17Km [...]
Despite court defeats and international condemnation, the government of Botswana is continuing its assault on the San by attempting to forcibly relocate another community from land they have occupied for decades, says the Khwedom Council, a non-governmental organisation advocating for the rights of the San (or Basarwa) people. “It is another sad season for the [...]
South Africa and Kenya signed a memorandum of understanding on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday that will enable filmmakers from the two countries to work together in telling the continent’s stories. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed by Zama Mkosi, CEO of South Africa’s National Film and Video Foundation, and [...]
Harare — For the last month Gibson Severe and his wife, Merjury Severe, known opposition supporters from Hurungwe district in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland West Province, have been hiding out in the country’s capital Harare. The Movement for Democratic Change – Morgan Tsvangirai (MDC-T) supporters were forced to flee their rural home in Hurungwe district after Zimbabwe [...]
The Press Union of Liberia has lifted the blackout it imposed on the Liberian Presidency on May 9, 2013. The PUL reached the decision on Tuesday following a meeting of its members at the union’s headquarters. “We come today to disappoint our President that it has never been our intention to have an open ended [...]
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LAGOS, Apr 25 – The party was just getting started at a plush club in this teeming Nigerian city, hip-hop blaring, the bar bathed in blue light — and champagne bottles on ice already adorning tables. “Too much oil money,” said a 40-year-old man at Rhapsody’s in the high-end Victoria Island district of Lagos, when [...]
Veteran actor, Zachee Ama Orji popularly called Zack Orji has officially joined the list of movie stars who have officially yielded to the callings of God to enter a full time ministry. It all started with actress Iyabo Ogunsola aka Efunsetan Aniwura followed by Eucharia Anunobi and actor Kanayo O Kanayo. According to reliable sources, [...]
The party was just getting started at a plush club in this teeming Nigerian city, hip-hop blaring, the bar bathed in blue light — and champagne bottles on ice already adorning tables. “Too much oil money,” said a 40-year-old man at Rhapsody’s in the high-end Victoria Island district of Lagos, when asked about Nigerian spending [...]
Why I married Igbo woman – Yoruba actor, Gbenga Animashaun Hits: 92 Gbenga Anaimashaun As Nollywood actor, Gbenga Anaimashaun cleaved to his spouse, Chinelo Aningwu at St. Leo’s Catholic Church, Ikeja, Lagos, on Saturday, May 4, his face brimmed with undying joy; from his countenance, one could assuredly avow that their union was indeed made [...]
Jumoke Akinrodoye came to the United States last year from Nigeria specifically to give birth. It wasn’t to secure citizenship for her baby—she’s a U.S. citizen, so her child would be too, no matter where he was born. Instead, Akinrodoye wanted to ensure she and her baby survived delivery. “To me, getting any kind of [...]
As the World Health Organisation pledged not to have any negotiation with any tobacco company, Nigeria says it has revised its anti-tobacco law. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the bill to review the existing tobacco law is now before the National Assembly NAN also recalls that Nigeria signed and ratified the Framework [...]
Senate president David Mark has called for oral health to be made “integral part of healthcare system.” “Unless it is embedded in the health policy, we will be swimming against the tide,” Mark said. He spoke when he inaugurated 37 state ambassadors, including Edo state governor Adams Oshiomhole and Benue artiste 2Face Idibia, to help [...]
HEALTH experts have called for heightened efforts to tackle malnutrition in children, through enhancing and improving childcare manpower base in the country by training and re-training of primary healthcare providers and paediatricians. At a 3-day international conference put together by Sub Saharan Health Solutions Nigeria in partnership with paediatricians from the Imperial College, London, the [...]
Health: Nigeria accounts for 10 percent global maternal mortality rates Global maternal mortality rates – Indications emerged Wednesday that Nigeria accounts for 10 per cent of the world’s maternal mortality, indicating that women were being shut out of the impressive economic growth. The United Kingdom’s International Development Minister, Ms. Lynne Featherstone, said this in Abuja [...]
The Big Uniport Four (Jonathan, Amaechi, Wike & Princewill) And Way Out Of The Rivers Macabre Dance
The Big Uniport Four (Jonathan, Amaechi, Wike Princewill) And Way Out Of The Rivers Macabre Dance By Eze Chukwuemeka Eze. ezemediaconcept08@rocketmail.com, 08038199163 PREAMBLE Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of [...]
Divide Nigeria Peacefully OR by Civil War
The fact that Boko Haram has succeeded in waging war against Nigeria in total violation of the fundamental principles of society means Nigeria security arrangements have failed, and either the personnel are untrained or ill-equipped to meet the present and future threats to Nigeria territorial integrity The perpetual granting of amnesty to people who commit [...]
Fulani Forum to NEF: You Do Not Represent The Good People of North Nigeri
Fulani Forum to NEF: You Do Not Represent The Good People of North Nigeria In lieu of your statement: NEF to Jonathan: You‘ve declared war on Northern Nigeria We progressive youth of North Nigeria hereby assert that the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) does not represent the good people of North Nigeria. We are disappointed in [...]
Japan, a subtle but effective partner for Africa
Japan, a subtle but effective partner for Africa Interview with JICA President, Akihiko Tanaka By Jocelyne Sambira Africa’s continued growth has sparked the interest of investors from industrialized nations, resulting in fierce competition for its resources and markets. The aggressive economic expansion efforts by China and India, among others, come to mind. Japan, however, has [...]
Clergy Bethrand Osinachi Ujunwa calls for unity among Christians
Clergy Bethrand Osinachi Ujunwa calls for unity among Christians By Nwaorgu Faustinus The former parish priest of St. Paul’s Catholic Parish Umuodagu Ntu in Ngor/Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State, Rev. Father Bethrand has called on Christians to be united as a body. Rev. Bethrand made the call at a send-off and reception church [...]
Malian children face education crisis
Malian children face education crisis Conflict disrupts schools By Kingsley Ighobor While the world remains focused on ending Mali’s conflict following rebel incursions into the northern part of the country early last year, there are about 400,000 Malian children facing severe disruptions in their education, warns the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF. The fund and other [...]
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Rotimi Amaechi’s Exit Might See The Emergence Of 2 Chairs For NGF
There were indications, Tuesday, that the subterranean moves being made by the Presidency to edge out Governor Rotimi Amaechi from the leadership position of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, might lead to the emergence of two rival chairmen. Vanguard learnt from reliable sources that the subtle attempt by the pro-Jonathan camp to coax some governors [...]
Amaechi knows fate on Friday as NGF election holds
Ahead of the election of a new chairman for the forum of 36 states governors, the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), some governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have started arriving in Abuja . A source disclosed to Daily Sun that the election has been fixed for Friday while the anti-Amaechi forces [...]
Faceoff: ‘Amaechi must beg Jonathan’
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos must put its house in order to win the 2015 elections in Lagos State, just as Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State must show respect for the office of President Goodluck Jonathan instead of disrespecting him. Owolabi Salis, a chieftain of the ruling PDP and one of the [...]
Rivers PDP crisis: Amaechi’s aide obeys father’s order to resign from cabinet
The political crisis ravaging the Rivers state chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, on Tuesday led to the resignation of Obinna Anyanwu, the Special Assistant to Governor Rotimi Amaechi on Conflict Resolution. His resignation which appeared involuntary was announced in a terse statement addressed to the Governor. In the letter, Anyanwu said his resignation was [...]
MTN Football Scholar trials berth in Enugu, Port Harcourt
HUNDREDS of young men at the weekend thronged the Rangers training pitch in Enugu and Liberation Stadium in Port Harcourt to participate in the trials for this year’s MTN Football Scholar. The trials, which started the series of auditioning for Season Three Academy, saw the enthusiastic youths demonstrating soccer artistry in groups under the watch [...]
Aide resigns following father’s call on Amaechi to resign
RIVERS State governor’s line-up suffered a setback Monday, as one of his aides, Obinna Anyanwu, tendered his resignation letter to his boss, Mr Rotimi Amaechi. Obinna, son of Chief Emma Anyanwu, a leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Etche Local Government Area of the state, was until his resignation, a Special Assistant to [...]
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