114 inspectors, rank and file have been decorated with their new ranks by the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Zone 5, Rasheed Akintunde. Akintunde made this known in a statement by the zone’s spokesman, DSP Emeka Iheanacho, in Benin on Wednesday. He charged the officers comprising 81 Sergeants promoted to Inspectors and 33 Corporals […]
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The Nigeria Police Force said it would arraign Dino Melaye, a senator and the four suspects rearrested for alleged conspiracy and unlawful possession of prohibited firearms at the Federal High Court in Lokoja, Kogi State on May 10. The suspects are: Kabiru Seidu, alias Osama 31; Nuhu Salisu, alias small 25; Musa Mohammed, alias Iko […]
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Former Nigeria international and two time African Player of the Year has announced intention to contest the Presidency of Nigeria in 2019, vowing to improve the country’s standard of living. According to Goal.com,the former Nigeria international, who once played for Ajax, Inter Milan and Arsenal during his active days, said he had the dream to […]
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Former President and elder statesman, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has fired yet another shot at President Muhammadu Buhari, this time around, he said we are all victims of his incompetence. Obasanjo went on to state that one of his first lessons in the military was never to reinforce failure. He therefore warned Nigerians against “reinforcing failure” […]
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The Federal Government has reacted to attacks by some of the named treasury looters and has gone further to name 23 others, most of them members of the Peoples Democratic Party. In a press statement, Minister of Information and Culture, ALhaji Lai Mohammed said the list of alleged looters which Government released earlier was based […]
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The Federal Government government has set up an in-house committee to investigate the activities of the data mining firm, Cambridge Analytica, during the Nigeria’s general elections in 2007 and 2015. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the committee is to find out whether Cambridge Analytica’s work for the then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic […]
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The indefinite suspension of transfer allegiance by the International Association of Athletics Federations has stopped British-born Nigerian high jumper Mike Edwards from representing the country at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. The IAAF in February 2017 froze all new transfer of allegiance until the IAAF committee on athletes transfer could come up with a […]
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Federal Government of Nigeria has released a teaser list of members of Peoples Democratic Party who allegedly stole public funds in the 16 years the party was in power. It will be recalled that PDP which ruled Nigeria from 1999 to 2015 had through its spokesperson, Kola Ologbodinyan on Thursday challenged Vice President Yemi Osinbajo […]
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The governor of Ekiti state, Ayo Fayose has said most of the people Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo accused of mismanaging Nigeria’s resources are key figures in the current administration. In recent times, Osinbajo has made strong allegations against the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan. But Fayose asked the nation’s number two citizen to observe the situation […]
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FIFA has overlooked Nigerian referees as it named six African officials for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. In addition there will also be 10 assistant referees from Africa. The referees are Abid Medhi (Algeria), Diedhiou Malang (Senegal), Gassama Bakary (Guinea), Grisha Ghead (Egypt), Sikawe Janny (Zambia) and Tessema Bamlak (Ethiopia). The assistant referees are […]
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