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...
Former Super Eagle coach Stephen Keshi is dead
Former Nigerian National team coach Stephen Keshi is dead, his death was confirmed
this morning by his relatives and the Nigerian Football Federation.
According to
the family relatives Mr Keshi complained of being unwell yesterday being Tuesday, 7 june at night
and was rushed to Faith Hospital at Benin government reservation area where he
died at 3am in the morning.
The...
Tuesday, 7 June 2016
PDP will appeal Kogi tribunal judgment.
The state election petition
tribunal had on Tuesday dismissed the petition filed by the former governor for
lack of merit and legal incompetence.
Awoniyi told newsmen, shortly
after the judgment of the tribunal, that consultation was already going on
within the party’s legal team of lawyers on how to appeal the judgment.
“Our lawyers are already
reviewing the...
United States of America expresses concern over Niger Delta violence
The U.S. Embassy to Nigeria on
Tuesday expressed concern over the reports of attacks and other incidents in
the Niger Delta.
This is contained in a
statement issued by the Embassy’s Public Affairs Unit in Abuja. It states that
the U.S. mission to Nigeria is monitoring reports of attacks and other
incidents in the Niger Delta and it shares the concerns of all Nigerians...
Niger-Delta Avengers: Osinbajo Meets governors, Service Chiefs
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi
Osinbajo is currently holding a meeting with governors from oil producing
states and the nation’s service chiefs.
The meeting, which is taking
place at the Conference Hall of the Vice President’s office at the Presidential
Villa, Abuja is believed to be aimed at finding a lasting solution to the
renewedmilitants activities in the Niger...
Federal Government threatens to withdraw license of recalcitrant banks, telecom companies.
The Federal Government, Tuesday
expressed shock that employers in the financial sector, especially banks were
breaching its directives to stop further retrenchment, threatening to withdraw
the operating license of any bank or telecommunication company that breached
its directive to stop mass sack of workers.
Speaking to Nigerian
journalists at the ongoing 105th session of the International Labour Congress,
ILC, in Geneva, Switzerland, Minister...
Monday, 30 May 2016
MY MOTHER, MY WORLD.....
I wish to use this wonderful
opportunity to thank you mom for bringing I (juu boy), my elder sister ifeoma (ify
lyn) and my younger sister Joy(nne mum) like used to call us when you were
still alive. It’s unfortunate you no more alive to watch your nne mum and ify
babe turn into mothers with lovely kids and your favourite juu boy struggle to
become a man.
You were a lovely and lively
woman. I could remember how you carried on in taking care of...
Sunday, 29 May 2016
Letter to Niger Delta Avengers.
My Letter To Niger Delta Avengers And Their Supporters.
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Before I start I have a few questions for you supporters.
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1. Where did the Niger Delta Struggle go to in the last 6 years'
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2. Why is there so much vandalization of oil facilities off late'
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3. Is it true you don't want Tompolo arrested
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4. Is the allegations leveled on Tompolo true' If no, why has he not honoured the invitation and if yes, then the so called development money...
Friday, 27 May 2016
Cynthia Morgan launches charity for the needy
Cynthia Morgan
Morgan had undertaken a
tour of two communities, Bariga in Somolu and Makoko community in Yaba areas of
Lagos.
During
her visit to the two densely populated communities, the artiste donated food
items and toiletries to the residents.
The singer also splashed
the pictures of her activities on her Instagram.
Some of her posts read:
“This...
Child Abuse... A must read by every parents.
To me, child abuse does not only
mean the wrong use of or ill-treating of a child like the dictionary defines it
but it also means the teaching of bad behavioural patterns to a child through
the bad examples you exhibit. When a child is not thought the right conduct of
living and he grows up acting contrary to the rules of the land and the rules
of God, such a child...
