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President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan heartily congratulated Nigeria’s under-20 female football team, the Falconets on their qualification for the final match of the ongoing FIFA tournament in Canada. Super Falconets The President made this known in a press release from Presidential spokesman, Dr. Reuben Ababti. The President applauded the Falconets’ scintillating display which earned them a 6-2 victory in Wednesday’s semi-final encounter with …

IZVARYNE, Ukraine — The first trucks from a long-stalled Russian convoy said to be carrying humanitarian aid crossed the border into eastern Ukraine on Friday, without the consent of the Ukrainian government and unaccompanied by Red Cross escorts, as had been earlier agreed upon. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a long statement in Moscow saying, in essence, that …

Governor Adams Oshiomhole has flagged off the new 64-page e-Passport in Edo State, saying the new passport released by the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), is in tandem with what obtains in other civilized parts of the world. Speaking at the event at the Offices of the Nigeria Immigration Service in Benin City, yesterday, Oshiomhole also commended the Immigration for their …

ABUJA — EXACTLY 158 days after he inaugurated the 2014 National Conference, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, received the report of the confab and vowed that his government would implement the recommendations. The visibly elated President, who said that Nigerians had shamed critics, who thought the exercise would dismember the country, added that the government would discuss the outcome with the …

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State yesterday said the Federal Government was yet to justify the 52 percent revenue allocation; it received monthly from the federation account. Fashola spoke at the flag-off of the expanded Lagos State Economic and Empowerment Programme, EEP, at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja. The governor, who described the central government as the big …

Yesterday, Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s president was interrupted during a parliamentary session where he was responding to allegations that he had excessively spent public funds in renovating his sprawling residence in the rural KwaZula-Natal province. A BBC news report today announced that President Zuma declared that he had “responded appropriately to parliament” after a member of parliament, Julius Malema, asked …

US Navy fighters and drones provided air cover to Kurdish and Iraqi forces battling IS near the city of Mosul. On Tuesday the group released a video showing the beheading of journalist James Foley, who went missing in 2012. In it, the militants threatened to kill another US reporter they are holding. But since the video was released, American forces …

ABUJA — The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said yesterday, that it would not allow the use of masked security agents to safeguard the 2015 general elections, stressing that “any security personnel deployed for the election must be someone identifiable.” INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, who made the position of the Commission known during an interactive session he had in …

Sequel to the July 3rd recommendation by the National Conference that 18 additional states be created to bring the total number of states in Nigeria to 54, members of the National conference Committee on Political Restructuring and Forms of Government, jointly headed by Ike Nwachukwu & Mohammed Kumalia have released a copy of proposed new map of Nigeria with the …

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has cancelled the orientation camping for 2014 second stream batch B corps members as a result of the presidential pronouncement that all schools should not be re-opened at this time of national health emergency. All prospective corps members deployed to the affected states scheduled for the exercise are to report at the designated orientation …