Author: Dotun Oladipo

    With a vote of 302,986, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party and a former Governor of Adamawa State, Alhaji Murtala Nyako, has emerged the winner of the gubernatorial election held in the state on Saturday. The results from the 21 local government areas of the state showed that Nyako had votes that met the required spread of at least 25 per cent of the votes cast in the election in at least two-third of the local government areas. He won in 13 out of the 21 local government areas of the state. The candidate of the Action…

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  The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has attacked a facility of one of the oil majors in the country, Agip. MEND, which described the attack on the Agip facility as “insignificant”, said it intends to go all out to disrupt oil production in the Niger Delta. In a statement on Sunday, MEND said it will not relent in attacking oil production facilities until its demands are fully met. The statement also said the group’s attack will also focus on businesses that belong to South Africans in the country and those of people who have betrayed the…

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  Nigeria’s national U-20 women’s team, the Flamingoes, showed no mercy as they handed a 3-0 defeat to their counterparts from Kenya in a World Cup qualifying game played at the MKO Stadium in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Saturday, according to a report monitored on Premium Times website. Nigeria already had a 2-0 advantage from the first leg played in Nairobi, Kenya two weeks ago and Saturday’s victory gave the Flamingoes a 5-0 aggregate win over the East Africans. Playing in front of an appreciable crowd on the astro turf pitch at the MKO Stadium, the Flamingoes came out smoking…

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Nigeria Premier League Tornadoes 1-0 Wikki Rising 0-0 Rangers Sharks 0-0 Akwa Utd   Nigeria National League  FC Abuja 1-0 36 Lions  Giwa 2-1 Plateau Utd  Nasarawa 3-0 Sokoto Utd  Abia Comets 2-1 Nembe  First Bank 1-0 Go-Round  Grays 1-0 Prime  Bridge 1-0 Ila

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  Stoppila Sunzu, Christopher Katongo and James Chamanga scored as Zambia overcame 10-man Sudan 3-0 to reach the CAF African Cup of Nations semi-finals after a 16-year absence.   Favourites Zambia were rarely under pressure and Sunzu took advantage of slack marking to nod them ahead on 15 minutes.   Katongo scored the second midway through the second half and substitute Chamanga added a late third.   Sudan had Saif Eldin red-carded 19 minutes into the second half when his team was trailing by one goal.   His dismissal signaled the end of any hope the Jediane Falcons had of…

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  The President, Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Alhaji Shettima Yerima, has said that the Emir of Kazaure, Dr. Najib Hussaini Adamu, is not speaking for the North on the issue of the sentencing to death of a former Chief Security Officer to the late General Sani Abacha, Major Hmaza al-Mustapha, for the killing of Kudirat Abiola, wife of late business mogul and winner of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. Yerima, in a statement on Saturday, said that Adamu, who stated the position of the North as being against the execution of al-Mustapha…

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  The former President of the Ijaw Youth Council and leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has described a man who claimed to be a founding member of the dreaded Jama’aful Ahlul sunna wal Liddawati wal Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, Sheikh Haliru, as a fraud.  Dokubo-Asari, in a telephone interview with The Eagle Online on if he knows Haliru who mentioned him in his confession as having trained together in Libya, said that the ‘born again’ Boko Haram member was only out to dupe the government and confuse Nigerians.  He told The Eagle…

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  Cases of ballot box snatching have been reported in at least three local government areas in the ongoing gubernatorial election in Adamawa State.  This is just as results that have come in so far shows that the Action Congress of Nigeria and the Peoples Democratic Party are the two parties fighting for the top position.  The three local government areas where sources told The Eagle Online that cases of ballot box snatching have been reported are Shelleng Local Government Area, Maadagali Local Government Area and Mayobelwa Local Government Area.  The immediate past Governor of the state and candidate of…

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  The United Nations Security Council has just voted on a draft resolution concerning the ongoing violence in Syria.  Of the voting members, Russia and China were the only ones to vote against the draft, but as permanent members of the UNSC they both hold veto power, and the resolution has not been passed as a result.  The news follows days of heated political debates in the UNSC, with many members supporting a Western-backed draft calling for foreign nations to put an end to what some called the “Syrian killing machine.”  Russia and China were the only permanent Security Council…

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  A former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, has denied allegations of non-performance leveled against him by the President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. Sylva, who is still in court to contest the rightful owner of the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, said the President lied when he said he had not performed as a governor and that he was stoned as a sign of his rejection even while in power. The former governor said if anyone would be accused of non-performance, it should be Jonathan. He said he performed better than Jonathan as a governor and that as…

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  A one-time governorship candidate of the National Conscience Party in Ogun State, Ogbeni Lanre Banjo, has accepted to serve the people of Ogun State under His Excellency, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, as a Director of Glanvill Enthoven Company (GEC) of Nigeria, one of the companies in the Oodua Investment Group of Companies. GEC is a leading Insurance and Reinsurance Broker in Nigeria. It handles all classes of general insurance and, through wholly owned subsidiary companies, also handles Reinsurance, Life and Employee Benefit Insurance.   Banjo contested the governorship seat in 2003, 2007 and 2011. He became a Certified Public (Chartered)…

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    A former Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chris Ngige, has denied allegations by another Governor of the state, Dr. Chinweoke Mbadinuju, that he (Ngige) is his (Mbadinuju’s) “boy.”  Ngige, now the representative of Anambra Central Senatorial District, said that the account of developments in anambra State given by Mbadinuju in a recent interview were false.  He said this was more so in the section of the interview where Mbadinuju said he was the secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party in Anambra State between 1999 and 2003.  Mbadinuju was quoted in the interview Ngige referred to: “Ngige was my…

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    Information reaching The Eagle Online from Adamawa State is that there is a massive turnout of voters for the state’s governorship election, which is in progress.  Sources said that this is more so in the major towns of the state, especially the state capital, Yola.  It was learnt shortly after midday that voting had commenced in most parts of the state.  It was learnt that the majority of the early callers at the polling booths were civil servants who have not been paid for about four months.  Sources also told The Eagle Online that the former Governor of…

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    The money available to Milan had started to create a divide between teams within the league — those who could afford to attract the big names and achieve success quickly, and those who could not achieve the same success in a similar time-frame. The haves and the have-nots. It was obvious where your superstar footballer would choose to go to.   In many instances, teams who failed to attract the big names suffered badly. An example of this is the transfer of the world football legend, Roberto Baggio, from Fiorentina to the mega-rich Juventus in 1990, for a…

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  The Kogi State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association is in a mourning mood.   This followed the death of one of its members, Dr. M.A. Ameh, in the attack on the state on Friday by suspected members of Boko Haram.   Three other persons were also reported dead in the attack in ajaokuta, Kogi State.   In a statement by the Chairman of the NMA in Kogi State, Dr. Attah Amhed, the doctors lamented the loss of Ameh, who was returning from a call duty.   The short statement by Ahmed reads: “It is with a heavy heart…

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  The President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, on Friday said the former Governor of the state, Timi Sylva, failed in his four years as governor to deliver democratic dividends to the people of the state.   Jonathan, who spoke at the gubernatorial campaign of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, in Bayelsa State, said this was the major reason the party did not give its ticket at its primaries to Sylva.   He said it was evident that the people of the state were not pleased with Sylva’s performance, adding that the possibility of the party losing the election was quite…

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  The Arik air hostess caught on December 18, 2011 at the Heathrow Airport, United Kingdom, for attempting to smuggle cocaine worth about £250,000, Chinwendu Ogbonnaya, has been jailed for five years and six months.   Ogbonnaya was sentenced on Thursday by an Isleworth Crown Court judge in West London.   She would also be deported once she finishes serving her sentence.   Ogbonna, 29, committed the offence as a member of the Arik Air crew that flew from the Murtala Mohammed Internation Airport, Lagos into the United Kingdom on a regular commercial flight service.   The drug was discovered…

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  The Ekiti State Government has filed a notice of appeal at the Court of Appeal sitting in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, against the verdict of a state High Court that sacked five members of the state’s Independent Electoral Commission.   The state government also announced the indefinite postponement of the local government polls, which the EKSIEC was to have conducted today before the disqualification of the five members of the commission for being card-carrying members of the Action Congress of Nigeria, the party in power in the state.   A statement by the state’s Commissioner for Information, Funminiyi Afuye,…

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  The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has identified inconsistency in government policies as responsible for Nigeria’s slow pace of growth and development.   Speaking at the closing ceremony of a two-day Interactive Session between the state government and the Organised Private Sector in Ilorin, the state capital, Ahmed, while recognising the fact that resources were scarce in the face of competing demands, said there must be a roadmap through which resources would be allocated to projects in order of priority.   According to him, it was in recognition of this that the state government at inception in May…

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