The League Management Company (LMC), has fined Heartland a total of N4,750,000 and ordered that they will play their next three home games behind closed doors after the revenge attack on regional rivals FC IfeanyiUbah, last weekend.
The LMC also announced they face a suspended points deduction for the crowd incidence that trailed their Week 28 fixture against FC IfeanyiUbah at the Dan Anyiam Stadium in Owerri.
One, Iyke Jacob, identified...
Friday, 29 July 2016
Thursday, 28 July 2016
DSS arrest 10 suspected kidnappers in army camouflage uniforms in Kogi
The Department of State Services (DSS), Kogi Command, says it has arrested 10 suspected kidnappers in the last six weeks where it recovered items which include three pairs of army camouflage uniforms in its bid to eliminate kidnapping in the state. Mr Joseph Okpo, the State Director of the command, disclosed this in a statement he signed and made available to newsmen on Thursday in Abuja.
Okpo said that four of the suspected kidnappers/robbers...
Wednesday, 27 July 2016
Wike explains why he made peace with Amaechi
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State said on Wednesday he attended the peace meeting organised by the Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, because of his commitment to peace and development of the state.
The IGP had on Tuesday in Abuja organised a peace meeting between Wike and the former governor of Rivers State, Mr Rotimi Amaechi.
Amaechi is the current...
APC govs meet Buhari, resolve to seek Ekweremadu’s removal
State governors elected on the platform
of the All Progressives Congress have resolved to do all within their
powers to ensure that Senator Ike Ekweremadu is removed as the Deputy
President of the Senate, The PUNCH has learnt.
Our correspondent learnt that this was
the fallout of the two-hour meeting the governors had with President
Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential...
Monday, 11 July 2016
How Suspected Muslim Fanatics Hacked Female Redeemed Church Preacher To Death In Abuja
husband with 7 children of the deceased
The husband of a female preacher hacked to the death in Abuja has shed more light into the gruesome murder of the 42 year-old mother of seven, Mrs. Eunice Elisha, the wife of a Redeemed Pastor who was murdered in cold blood in the early hour of Saturday July 9th by suspected Muslim fanatics while evangelizing around...
Sunday, 10 July 2016
Funeral committee to document Keshi’s history
The Minister of Youth and Sports Solomon Dalung has charged the National Committee for the State Funeral of the fallen Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi to document the life history of the football legend, who died on June 8, as a reference for the younger generation.
The minister gave the charge when he inaugurated the committee on Friday in Abuja.
“This event is significant...
Wednesday, 8 June 2016
Niger Delta Avengers blows up another Chevron pipeline, rebuffs FG’s dialogue move.
Delta
Avengers today, said it would not negotiate with the Federal Government.
The militant
group, which blew up a crude oil pipeline belonging to Chevron Nigeria Limited,
CNL, in the early hours today, tweeted: “This is to inform the general public
that we are not negotiating with any Committee.
If Federal
Government is discussing with any group they’re...
