Former Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, has confirmed speculations that he is interested in staging a come back as the team’s gaffer, a job Stephen Keshi is currently still hanging on to in interim capacity. Speaking during a media parley with Friends of Football Foundation in Abuja yesterday, the coach stated that though it is the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) ... Read More »
The violence in Ekiti State forced the Military High Command to deploy soldiers in the state on Saturday. Our correspondent saw the soldiers moving around the state capital, Ado-Ekiti, to forestall breakdown of law and order. In a terse response to our correspondent, the spokesperson of the 32 Artillery Brigade, Akure, Capt. Ademola Adegoke, said the troops were deployed because ... Read More »
The well attended three-day National Women Conference organized by the Committee of Wives of Lagos Officials (COWLSO) came to an end on Wednesday with the State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, asserting that beyond superficially celebrating appointment of women into positions, what Nigerian women really require are justice and fairness and not favours. In his remarks, as part of the ... Read More »
A 30-year-old man has allegedly raped a 20-year-old girl (names withheld) and uploaded pictures, taken during the act, on the social media. Vanguard gathered that the suspect, Olaniyan Oluwakayode, who hails from Osun State allegedly, raped the victim in his apartment at Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area of the state. The victim, a native of Akwa Ibom State, alleged that after ... Read More »
The Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has refuted claims by the Lagos Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) linking purported loyalists of the Minister to the murder of one Alhaji Azeez Asake. According to a statement issued by Joe Igbokwe, the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the APC on Sunday September 21, 2014, “After the PDP ... Read More »
The Federal Government has summoned the Egyptian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Ashraf Salama, over the ill-treatment meted out on a Nigerian teenager, Master Joshua Kunle Abdulazeez, by Egypt Air. An official of the airline had torn the teenager’s Nigerian passports in Istanbul, Turkey, while on his way to Ukraine to resume studies as a medical student. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ... Read More »
The Lagos State Government Tuesday called on Residents of the State to be wary of a facebook scam whereby some unscrupulous persons are using the photographs of Governor Babatunde Fashola, SAN, and ascribing fictitious statements to him on fake Facebook accounts aimed at defrauding innocent citizens. The call became necessary in view of the activities of scammers who have been ... Read More »
“I shall engage in enlightenment, empowerment of women in child-upbringing and clean environment after office”, she says Lagos State First Lady and Chairman, Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials (COWLSO), Dame Emmanuella Abimbola Fashola, Tuesday listed the achievements of the Committee in the last seven years even as she briefed the press on this year’s Annual National Women Conference ... Read More »
A total of four regional winners have emerged in the ongoing 2014 Onga National Campus Cooking Competition. The winners, picked at the Campus activations done in four universities out of the 14 targeted for the campaign, will join others to compete at the grand finale holding in Lagos from which a national winner will emerge. The regional winners who have ... Read More »
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