By Patrick Omorodion The late Reggae crooner Peter Tosh sang a song which will make a lot of sense in the lingering crisis tearing Nigerian football apart today. That is, everybody talking about peace and nobody wants to talk about justice. First Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima was removed as Chairman of the Nigerian Football Association, NFA, [...]
THE Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has insisted that everything the national U-20 women’s team; Falconets need to succeed in the second round, second leg tie of the 2012 FIFA World Cup Qualifier against the Young Mighty Warriors of Zimbabwe in Harare on Sunday has been provided. The Falconets hold a three-goal cushion from the [...]
THE Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has insisted that everything the national U-20 women’s team; Falconets need to succeed in the second round, second leg tie of the 2012 FIFA World Cup Qualifier against the Young Mighty Warriors of Zimbabwe in Harare on Sunday has been provided. The Falconets hold a three-goal cushion from the first [...]
Despite the incessant bombings been detonated in the Northern part of the country, Kaduna state will still host the 2014 World Cup qualifier between Nigeria and Namibia. After the Sunday’s bomb blast that took the lives of over 40 people, officials of the Nigeria Football Federation said the venue for the World cup qualifiers remains [...]
The Super Eagles will face a team in the top five of the latest Fifa rankings, according to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). Spain, Germany, Uruguay, The Netherlands and Portugal are the nations currently in the top five places according to the latest classification by the world football governing body, Fifa and the NFF has [...]
Death Of Nans Senate President And Four Others In Auto Crash Erc Condoles With Nans And Students
PRESS STATEMENT Death Of Nans Senate President And Four Others In Auto Crash Erc Condoles With Nans And Students The death of the Senate President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Donald Onukaogu Sunday, Dimeji Azeez (a.k.a Fagbocious) and three others is indeed shocking. Reportedly, they died in an auto crash while on their [...]
Taming the Ghost Workers Abdullahi M. Seidu For years, ghosts’ workers in Nigeria are not meant to be seen on their duty post but clearly visible on the payroll. They crawl under the shadow of darkness to suck dry our common wealth. They are reapers where they have not sown anything! Going by the [...]
Clarifying Nigeria’s Debt Position
Clarifying Nigeria’s Debt Position There has recently been a lot of misinformation and misconception in our public debate on debt. My goal in this article is to shed some light on the public debt, to clarify the real state of Nigeria’s debt position, and hopefully, provide a knowledge platform for constructive debate. Let me say [...]
Governor Yari: An Excellent Performer in search of “Result-Oriented SSG”
Governor Yari: An Excellent Performer in search of “Result-Oriented SSG” I do not live in Zamfara but passively at the moment, so my view is shaped from what opinions of pundits gathered and my research. As I moved round, the enormity of work done was not only amazing and revealing but very exciting to behold. Good networking, expansion [...]
Africa’s mobile youths drive change Cell phones reshape youth cultures
Africa’s mobile youths drive change Cell phones reshape youth cultures By Jocelyne Sambira The sight of teenagers selling mushrooms using mobile phones is becoming a familiar one in rural Namibia. Namibia Polytechnic faculty member Maurice Nkusi, designer of a cell phone–based curriculum, told the TechDailyNews that most of these children have never even used a [...]
Nigeria’s Film industry could provide 2 Million Jobs
Nigeria’s film industry could provide 2 million jobs By Rebecca Moudio As an entrepreneur, 32-year-old chemistry graduate Jason Njoku achieved success in a most unlikely way: he is Africa’s largest distributor of Nigerian movies, and has raked in over $8 million since 2010, when he founded the company Iroko Partners. In December 2012 at a [...]
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FEC approves $2.9 billion for development of phase4 of Onne Port
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the sum of $2.9billion for the development of the Phase 4B Port Facilities at Onne Oil and Gas Free Zone in Port Harcourt. Briefing Journalists after the weekly meeting, the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku who briefed alongside the Minister of Agriculture, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina and Minister of [...]
Amaechi, Rivers top officials functionaries shun Patience Jonathan’s Port …
Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, and his wife, Judith, on Wednesday shunned the inauguration of the South-South Zonal Secretariat of the Women for Change and Development Initiative by the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience. Apart from the governor and his wife, other top officials of the Rivers State government also boycotted the occasion which [...]
Amaechi Accuses CP Of Leaking Security Information
By: Anayo Onukwugha on June 20, 2013 – 6:19am Culled from :Here We enjoin our readers to send their stories/articles/reports, including pictures to story@riversstatenews.com
FEC approves N420bn contract for development of Onne Port –Maku
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a 2.8 billion dollars (about N420 billion) contract for the development of the Onne Oil and Gas Free Zone in Port Harcourt, through concession. The Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, made this known when he briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the Council’s meeting presided [...]
Amaechi shuns Patience Jonathan’s Port Harcourt event
•L-R: Wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan; wife of Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mrs. Unoma Akpabio; and Zonal Coordinator, Women for Change and Development Initiative, Mrs. Toru Ofili, at the opening of South-South zonal office of WCDI in Port Harcourt…on Wednesday. | credits: NAN Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, and his wife, Judith, on [...]
FEC Approves Development Of Onne Port
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the development of phase 4b Port facilities at Onne Oil and Gas Free Zone, Onne Port Complex in Rivers State. Briefing State House correspondents on the outcome of the meeting on Wednesday, the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku said that the concept of the development of the facilities [...]
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