Buhari Links Sports To Job Creation, Peace

Abuja – President Mohammadu Buhari has urged sports administrators not to see sports as just games but more as veritable tools for job creation, fostering peace and other desirable outcomes in nation and regional building.

Buhari made the call to ministers of sports

GOtv Boxing Night 13: Boxers Talk Tough

Boxers billed to fight at the GOtv Boxing Night 13 on Tuesday 26 December have been talking tough.

The event, which holds at the Landmark Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos, will feature seven bouts.

Occupy Owerri: Okorocha, This Is Just The Beginning

Recent developments in the Land of Hope point to the fact that ‘Our mumu don do’ in the state ruled, not governed, by the ‘Eze Onyeagwalam’. It seems the emperor’s hypnotism and charm in some cases have crossed its ‘best before’ date. The people have woken from his mesmerism. They are about to take back their state.

Succour For Siamese Twins Of Nigerian Couple

Lagos Mr. Obinna and Mrs. Amarachi Ugwoke were full of joy during the thanksgiving service held at the Archangels’ Parish Satellite Town, Lagos last Sunday for the successful separation of their conjoined twins, who defied medical expectations and survived for so long.

The omphalopagus twins 

Equities Market Reverses Negative Trend, Up 0.40%

Lagos – The equities market reversed a two-day downtrend at the close of trading yesterday as the All Share Index (ASI) rose 0.40 per cent to 37,933.86 points, while year-to-date (YTD) return expanded to 41.2 per cent.

Thus, market capitalisation increased by N53.4 billion to settle at N13.5 trillion. The positive performance can majorly be attributed to buy interest in large cap stocks – Nestle Nigeria (+2.1%), Guaranty Trust Bank (+1.5%),

Discordant Tunes As INEC Registers 21 Parties

Lagos – In what could be described as a promise kept by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the commission last Thursday announced the registration of more 21 political parties in the country.  

Senate Abandons 2018 Budget Passage Till March

        

Abuja – Senators on Tuesday took turns to lambast the presidency for submitting to it a budget estimate they considered as empty and unworkable.

Following the alleged defects, the passage of the budget was shifted to March, 2018 to

2019: Amosun, Tinubu Battle For Control Of South-West

Lagos – There are feelers that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), and Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State are currently engaged in a supremacy battle over the control of the South-West

Thousands Lose Homes, Shops, As Demolition Wave Hits Lagos

Many residents of Ishawo and Igbogbo communities in Ikorodu, Lagos watched helplessly as their houses get demolished by heavy duty machinery yesterday. The demolition is obviously being commissioned by the state government.

This, however, is not a senseless demolition

Ronaldo Credits Three Man United Teammates After Ballon d’Or Award

Cristiano Ronaldo has credited his success to three players at Manchester United.

Ronaldo won the fifth Ballon d’Or of his career on Thursday, drawing level with Lionel Messi