Mike Idoko commends NFF, Keshi on new contract

Mike Idoko, Chairman, Technical Committee on Continental Matches for Kano Pillars, on Sunday commended the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and the Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, for agreeing to sign a new contract.Idoko told NAN in a telephone interview in Akure, that he was particularly happy with this development .It would afford the home-based players the opportunity and hope of playing in major tournaments under Keshi as the Super Eagles’ coach, he said .NAN reports that Keshi had last week signed a two-year contract with the NFF to continue coaching the national team.According to

Missing NNPC $20b: sanction PWC for deceiving Nigerians, Adeola tells Buhari

In a press release, the Senator-Elect for Lagos West Senatorial District and Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts, Hon. Solomon Adeola has called on the incoming Federal Government and relevant financial and auditing regulatory bodies to appropriately sanction the auditing firm, PriceWater House Coopers (PWC) for misleading and deceiving Nigerians on the issue of the missing $20billion NNPC fund as alleged by the former CBN governor and present Emir of Kano, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. Speaking to journalists against the backdrop of revelations from the ‘Forensic’ Audit Report of the Missing NNPC $20billion and the disclosure by PWC that it did not really audit NNPC accounts contrary to impression created, Hon. Adeola said his Committee that addressed the Press on the need to

Jonathan’ mother thanks JTF for donating bore hole to her community

Mrs Eunice Jonathan, the mother of President Goodluck Jonathan, has commended the Joint Task Force (JTF) for donating a bore hole to Akipelai community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa.The borehole, which is sited at the premises of the Community Secondary School, Akipelai, was commissioned by President Jonathan’s mother, a native of the community.She thanked the JTF Commander for his efforts towards eradicating illegalities in the Niger Delta region.The president’s mother also commended him for the professional approach in carrying out the mandate of the task force and urged the people of the community to give him the necessary to fight against oil theft.She urged youths of the community to protect the

We want PDP to be strong enough to be able to keep us on our toes – APC

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Oyegun, on Thursday said recent happenings in the country had shown that politics could be played peacefully.Oyegun said this while receiving a delegation of Former Governors Forum (FGF) at the APC national secretariat in Abuja.According to him, Nigerians should be proud as the outcome of the general elections had taught political leaders a valuable lesson, NAN reports.“The party would require the contribution of every single, well-intended head because the problem confronting us demands collective efforts to surmount.“Nigeria is going through a peaceful democratic revolution, all that is happening in the country at present shows that politics do not have to be

I will remain in PDP - Femi Fani-Kayode

Chief Femi Fani-Kayode says he will remain in the PDP despite the party's loss at the just concluded presidential election. Fani-Kayode, who served as the spokesperson for the PDP Presidential campaign organization said he won't run away from Nigeria & that he and some other party members will stay to form a viable opposition party. He said this at the handover of the presidential campaign report in Abuja today April 30th.

 "I have been in the PDP since 2003. I went to APC for 9 months. I have enunciated the reasons for that. I feel I was absolutely right to do that at that point in time. I retraced my steps when it was very clear to

Lagos State Govt. generates N2.43trillion revenue in 8 years

The Lagos State Government on Thursday it generated a total revenue of N2,433,349 trillion since the present adnministration came to office eight years ago.Mr Ben Akabueze, the Commisioner for Budget and Economic Planning, gave the figure at the 2015 ministerial news conference in Ikeja.The commissioner explained that the total revenue accrued to the state from its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and other revenue sources.Akabueze, who also put the the aggregate budget performance for the period at 79 per cent said the high revenue spoke of the fact that the state`s economy was stable and sustainable.The

Jonathan vows to handover Boko Haram-free Nigeria to Buhari

President Goodluck Jonathan pledged in Abuja on Thursday that he will do all within his powers to ensure that all Nigerian territories still held by Boko Haram are totally liberated before May 29.He said this while receiving a delegation of Heads of Customs from the West and Central African Region of the World Customs Organisation led by the Secretary-General of the organisation, Dr Kunio Mikuriya.Jonathan said that he was determined to hand over a country completely free of terrorist strongholds to the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.The President said that on going military operations in the North-East had already recorded huge successes.He said two states were completely free from the control of terrorists while operations in the third state had reached a concluding stage.“We can now say two states are completely free from terrorist control, while in the third state, it is only in one Local Government Area that they