By Joseph Kwewum In a stunning development that has sent shockwaves across the African football landscape, the Confederation of African Football on Tuesday night announced that it had stripped Senegal of its Africa Cup of Nations title and awarded it to Morocco, hosts of the tournament. The decision, which comes three months after the conclusion…
Bishop Matthew Kukah, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto has said that he is not against the government of President Muhammadu Buhari but is against the way the deplorable security and economic woes are being handled by the president. Fielding questions from newsmen at St Barkitha Catholic Secretariat Sokoto, Kukah said, Nigeria has becoome a house of…
The Tiv Professionals Group (TPG), an umbrella body for some professionals from the Tiv ethnic nationality, Benue State, have called on all patriots to come together and salvage the country from the deadly activities of bandits, Boko Haram and other criminal elements threatening the corporate existence of the country. In a position paper on the…
Benue state governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia has rejected claims of religious genocide in the state. The governor stated this on Wednesday at a consultative forum on the protection of the rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Forcibly Displaced Persons (FDPs) organised by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in Abuja. According to the…
“Who is the Presidency?”, an obviously irritated Babachir Lawal asked the excited journalists, who crowded him after emerging from the Federal Executive Council meeting sometimes in 2016, to inquire whether it was true he had been suspended from office by the Presidency. The journalists’ enquiry resulted from the allegation against Lawal that he cut the…
The Head of Service of the Federation (HOSF), Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, has been accused of tinkering with the list of 24 permanent secretaries approved for deployment by President Bola Tinubu. The President had on January 24, approved the redeployment of the 24 permanent secretaries to various ministries. However, the HOSF allegedly made some changes on…
