Dr. Dakuku Peterside, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State in the April election has commiserated with the Awolowo family on the exit of their Matriarch, Madam Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo. Peterside who described Awolowo as a great woman of substance said Nigeria will miss her interventions and wise counsel. A […]
Continue Reading(Vanguard) Chief (Mrs.) Hannah Dideolu Awolowo, fondly called HID, has passed on, aged 99. HID, wife of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, died, yesterday, at 3:15 pm, two months to her centenary birthday. She was said to have passed on after she held a meeting with her family members on the plan for her […]
Continue ReadingBoko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau has issued another audio recording, debunking the various claims by Nigeria’s military that militants of the sect are in disarray and surrendering to the Nigerian military. The French news agency, the AFP, reported Saturday about the audio on a day the army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman said troops destroyed more rebel […]
Continue ReadingIt was a lively start to the London derby, as Aaron Ramsey had a shot blocked and Fabregas saw an effort saved by Cech, returning to Stamford Bridge for the first time since his summer move to Arsenal. Walcott forced Asmir Begovic into a low save at the other end but the hosts started to […]
Continue ReadingThe Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has today warned the Boko Haram insurgents to surrender or face the full force of the nation’s military. Air Vice Marshal Sadique Abubakar gave the warning while addressing newsmen at the end of 2015 Annual 10-kilometer Walk/Jog exercise organised by the Admin Branch of the […]
Continue ReadingAt least, 6,300 Nigerians have braved the perilous Mediterranean Sea journey to arrive Europe between April and June this year, this is as shown by new figures of asylum seekers released by EuroStat. Contrary to widespread notions that the thousands of the desperate refugees marooned in Hungary or Croatia or the borders of Germany, Austria […]
Continue ReadingToyin Nwosu, the wife of the Deputy Managing Director (DMD) of the Sun Newspapers, spoke on her three-day ordeal in the hands of her abductors in Lagos, revealing that her abductors said they were paid to kill her. The wife of the newspaper editor was kidnapped early on Monday by a seven-man armed gang who […]
Continue ReadingDelta State House of Assembly Speaker, Rt. Hon Ovwigho Igbuya has described the former commissioner of housing in the state, Chief Paulinus Akpeki as a curse to the state, particularly Sapele Local Government, adding that his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC) as good riddance to bad rubbish. A statement in Asaba […]
Continue ReadingNdem Nkem We are in the age of technology and a large number of people have some sort of gadget or app to assist them with almost everything. As these gadgets make for the smooth running of daily tasks, users have become extremely dependent on them so much so that they can barely function without […]
Continue ReadingAirline’s U.S. operations and US$93 billion Boeing 777 order book support U.S. economy and jobs Emirates, the world’s largest operator of the U.S. -built Boeing 777, celebrated the fleet completing over 859,000 flights while logging over 4,720,000 flight hours since its first delivery in 1996. On 3 September, the airline and Boeing marked the 150th […]
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