Dream Team VI win U-23 AFCON

Samson Siasia’s Dream Team VI have emerged winners of the Confederation of African football (CAF) Under-23 African Cup of Nations (AFCON). Two goals from Oghenekaro Etebo – a penalty in the 15th minute and a solo run that ended in a delicate finish in the 40th minute rendered Algeria’s solitary goal, an own goal either […]

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Anti-corruption: Buhari will step on big toes

Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari “will step on big toes” in his anti-corruption campaign. Garba said this in Kaduna at the opening of a three-day retreat for state house correspondents. He described the media as “one of government’s most lethal weapons” in […]

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Arms Deal: Dasuki’s Ex-finance Officer Reveals How Cash Was Shared

More revelations by former Accounts Officer II, Ibrahim Idris Wambai have shown that the Office of Nigeria’s former Vice President Namadi Sambo was on a monthly stipend of N20million from the Office of the National Security Adviser(ONSA). Several presidential aides also benefitted from slush funds from the ONSA,according to Wambai,who singled out five firms which […]

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Murray- Bruce promises to drag perpetrators of Bayelsa poll violence to ICC

The Bayelsa lawmaker representing Bayelsa East senatorial district, Ben Murray-Bruce, has vowed to drag perpetrators of violence during the Bayelsa State governorship election to the International Criminal Court in Hague. The senator who was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, made this statement known following the violence, abduction and killings that […]

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