Minister of Sports Barrister Solomon Dalung says the ministry as already started preparing for the next Olympics holding in Tokyo, Japan. The minister said this on his official Facebook page, Barrister Solomon Dalung on Tuesday stating his concern for the nation’s current performance at Rio 2016. Dalung said, “We have started preparations for Tokyo 2020 already,...
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President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria must avoid the mistakes of the past. He said Nigeria as a country recognized her problems early enough, but remained potential for too long, and so did not achieve much results. The President spoke Tuesday at State House, Abuja, while receiving Executive Members of Association of Africa Automotive...
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Nigeria’s Divine Oduduru finished second behind 200m World Record holder Usian Bolt in Heat 9 on Wednesday at the Rio Olympics. The Nigerian sprinter clocked a time of 20:34 seconds, 0:06 seconds behind Bolt who clocked 20:28 seconds in first. Oduduru who was in lane 9 in the heat has now qualified for the semi-finals...
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Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday stopped the August 17 convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from holding in Port Harcourt as planned by the Ahmed Makarfi faction. This court also directed the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to ensure the convention does not hold. He also ordered the Independent...
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by Tolu Omoyeni The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has barely lasted one year but it has been trailed with groaning, complaints, regrets and general ruckus. More interesting are the we-told-you-so remarks that former president Jonathan’s loyalists make every other day, mostly with the aim of spiting all those of you who voted Buhari. The...
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President Muhammadu Buhari says he is studying details of the judiciary panel of inquiry’s report on the Army/Shiites clash of Saturday, 12 December 2015 where up to 348 Shiites were allegedly killed by personnel of the Nigerian Army. In a statement issued on Tuesday by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity,...
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The All Progressives Congress in Ondo State on Tuesday erupted in crisis after some members claimed the state’s chairman, Isaacs Kekemeke, had endorsed a governorship aspirant ahead of the governorship primaries slated for August 27. According to Premium Times, the aggrieved members claimed to have impeached the chairman, closing the secretariat gate against him and his...
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These are the top five stories that drove the conversation today 1. Nnamdi Kanu will never renounce Biafra -IPOB The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has denied the allegations made by the Movement for the Emancipation of Biafra (MEND) that Nnamdi Kanu plans to denounce Biafra. 2. AGF to investigate death of civil servant The...
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In 2013, at the inception of Spark, I wrote the below manifesto. We are not a fund and we are not an incubator; we are a company that builds companies. We focus on Lagos, Nigeria as the gateway to Africa. We focus on well defined and scalable revenue models. We are a collection of internet...
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The Executive Director of SystemSpecs, Deremi Atanda, has urged the Federal Government to refocus its attention on Information Communication Technology (ICT) for speedy economic growth. Atanda who was a guest on CNBC Africa’s mid-belt programme Power Lunch recently, observed that there was a gap between ICT and government’s fiscal policies which the current administration’s implementation...
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The Katsina State Police Command has recovered 2,151 animals from rustlers from 10 vulnerable local government areas, a report revealed. This was disclosed in a report of the command’s activities released by the state Police Commissioner, Usman Abdullahi, on Tuesday. The breakdown of the recovered animals and the local government where they were rescued, as...
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Few minutes after receiving the sum of N30 million donated by Union Bank of Nigeria, Minister of Sports Solomon Dalung has reassured Nigerians that the athletes will make the nation proud at the ongoing Rio Olympic Games as, “we will not leave Rio without winning medals’’. Press Officer, Team Nigeria, Tony Ubani quoted the minister as...
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The Akwa Ibom state Government House was on Tuesday besieged by over 100 militants. According to Daily Trust the militants who protested violently demanded that they be included in the Amnesty Programme and that they must see Governor Udom Emmanuel at all cost. Police have been trying to disperse them with tear gas and firearms. Details...
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers on Tuesday accused Gov. Nyesom Wike to stop wasting taxpayers’ money on offsetting bills for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) convention. This is contained in a statement issued in Port Harcourt by Mr Chris Finebone, Publicity Secretary of APC in the state. The statement urged Wike not to...
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A 29-year-old undertaker, Sheriff Oyewole was on Tuesday sentenced to 9 years imprisonment for raping and taking nude pictures of a 23-year old woman after drugging her. Chief Magistrate, Mrs Kikelomo Ayeye of the Tinubu Chief Magistrates’ Court gave the verdict after it found the rapist guilty on all five-count charges. Oyewole was first arraigned...
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The Lagos State Government (LASG) has said young farmers in the state would benefit from the N25 billion Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF). This was revealed by Sanni Okanlawon, the Special Adviser to Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode on Food Security on Tuesday during a chat with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. He...
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Cross River state governor, Ben Ayade on Tuesday handed down an indefinite suspension to two top officials of his administration. According to Channels Television those suspended are the state’s Commissioner for Water Resources, Ntufam Ojie and the Managing Director of Water Board Limited, Dr. Oju Igile. The governor who paid an unscheduled visit to the...
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Former FIFA president, Joao Havelange who helped bring the Olympic Games to Rio, has died at the age of 100 on Tuesday. The news was confirmed by Andresa Feijo, spokeswoman for the Samaritano Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, where Havelange had been treated for pneumonia in July. He was the President of the Brazilian Sports Confederation from...
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The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has fired back at the Movement for the Emancipation of Biafra, MEND, for claiming that embattled IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu secretly agreed to denounce Biafra in exchange for his freedom. In a statement released on Monday and signed by Chika Edoziem of its Europe branch, the group said it...
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Monday, arrested a former Commissioner for Public Utilities in Ebonyi State, Engineer Benjamin Ogbonnaya Okah, for alleged abuse of office and collection of gratification to the tune of N83 million. The arrest came after a petition by the Ebonyi State government over a $12 million contract to a...
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Armed robbers attacked a convoy of bullion vans belonging to the Central Bank of Nigeria in the early hours of Tuesday at Hawan Kibo along Jos – Abuja road. It was gathered that the bullion vans accompanied by armed mobile policemen escorts had left Jos in the early hours of Tuesday en route Abuja. It was also...
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The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has started the registration of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs from the ages of 17 in Bama, Borno State. In a statement on Monday night signed by Army spokesperson, Colonel Sani Usman, he said the exercise was aimed at providing food and relief materials for the IDPs. The statement...
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The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has called for investigations into the death of a former Chief Protocol Officer to the Minister of State for Defence, Desmond Nunugwo, in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Desmond had died on June 9, 2016, barely six hours...
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The Lagos State Police command has arrested one Fatima Williams and her neighbor, Yusuf for torturing a 16-year-old housemaid identified as Kemi, with hot iron and electric cable. The Cotonou indigene has been living with Williams, a mother of four since January 2016 as a housemaid. According to reports, the victim was allegedly tortured for...
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Two U-23 alternate players – Stanley Dimgba and goalkeeper, Yusuf Mohammed who are with the Dream Team in Brazil for the Olympics games have been sent back to Nigeria by the Sports minister, Solomon Dalung. The team’s media officer, Timi Ebikagboro alongside the curator and the team coordinator also flew back to Nigeria on Monday...
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The corpses of two newborn babies have been recovered from a canal beside a petrol station in the Ajangbadi area of Lagos State. It was learnt that the two boys, suspected to be twins were dumped there on Friday and their corpses have been removed and deposited in a mortuary by the Environmental Health Monitoring Unit, after...
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Here are some stories from yesterday and others that unraveled while you slept – and are now buzzing this morning in today’s Entertainment Roundup. Actress Mercy Aigbe-Gentry unveils website and mobile app The creations of websites and mobile apps as a way to connect with fans are fast becoming a trend in the Nigerian...
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Bahamian Sprinter, Shaunae Miller on Monday won the Women’s 400m final after completing the race in a time of 49:44s. Coming second place behind her was American, Allyson Felix who finished in 49:51s, climing the silver medals while Shericka Jackson from Jamaica came third after finishing the race in 49:85s. In the Men’s 800m final,...
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by Chineme Uzo I will tell you why I believe Hillary Clinton will not be elected President of the United States of America. But, before I give reasons, let me give you a brief on the two parties and the candidates, then leave you to decide. America is a two party democracy. You have the...
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The Federal Inland Revenue Service on Monday said it had sealed some companies over unremitted taxes running into N715m. In a statement, FIRS revealed that the sealed companies were located at Lagos, Abuja and Asaba, Delta State. It identified the companies as Urban Shelter Limited in Abuja, Venro Energy Limited in Lagos, Enegas in Lagos...
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