Re-elected President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick has called for peace and reforms amid rancour and discontentment in the country’s football. Pinnick amassed a total of 34 votes to beat Aminu Maigari, who came a distant second with…
NNPC records N17.16b trading surplus (Nation)
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has consolidated on its operational performance with a trading surplus of ₦17.16bn in the month of April, 2018. NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, who disclosed this in a…
OPEC crude grades’ price up by 70% in two years (Nation)
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has said the average price of its members’ crude grades (OPEC Basket) rose by 70 per cent in two years to $73.27 per barrel (bbl). Oil prices crashed globally in 2014 from over…
Ugandan govt tightens security as Bobi Wine returns (Punch)
Ugandan security deployed on the streets of the capital and controlled roads leading to the international airport on Thursday ahead of the return MP Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as singer Bobi Wine. Kyagulanyi, 36, has been seeking medical treatment in…
Lagos 2019: It’s over for Ambode as peace efforts fail (Sun)
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode’s intense peace moves in the last 72 hours, to save his political career, has fallen flat; following the insistence of All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftains that the governor must go. Sources revealed that rather…
Buhari, Ambode in closed-door meeting (Punch)
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja met behind closed door with Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria reliably learnt that the governor would be updating the president on latest…
Pinnick beats 3 contenders to reemerge as NFF president
Members of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have reelected Amaju Pinnick as president. According to the NFF official Twitter handle, in the election held Thursday, Pinnick polled 34 votes to beat three other contestants to retain the seat. Alhaji Aminu Magari got…
Nigerian human trafficker has jail sentence increased in UK (Huffpost)
London-based nurse Josephine Iyamu, who used voodoo threats to traffick vulnerable women from Nigeria to Germany to work as prostitutes, has had her 14-year prison sentence increased to 18 years by Court of Appeal judges. Iyamu made her victims swear…
Ambode in crucial meeting with Oshiomhole, APC govs over primary (Punch)
Governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, including the embattled Lagos State Governor, Akinwumi Ambode are currently locked in a crucial meeting behind closed doors. Ambode arrived the Imo State Governors’ Lodge, the venue of the APC governors…
Finally, Oshiomhole bows to pressure over APC primaries (Punch)
The leadership of the All Progressives Congress has acceded to the insistence of state chapters of the party to decide the mode of primary for the selection of candidates for the 2019 elections. The decision was reached after an over…