Month: July 2016
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Any Govt That Don’t Invest In Youth Invest In Crime And Vices – Hon Awude
Honourable Dayo Awude is currently the Commissioner for Youth and Sports in Ondo State. In this interview with nationalTRAIL the youthful Commissioner who was Head of the State Scholarship Board, says his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would still win the coming governorship election in the state, despite All Progressives Congress, APC‘s threat, he…
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Between Herdsmen And Boko Haram
Nobody knows exactly what their grudges are with communities, whether in the North, or Southern part of Nigeria. But everybody is worried by the increasing devastation by herdsmen. They have become synonymous with death and sorrow, the twin human calamity they visit on societies daily. Attacks by herdsmen have become one recurring negative index that…
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I Want Eagles Job Because I Will Qualify Nigeria To World Cup – Yusuf
Nigeria caretaker coach Salisu Yusuf has told AfricanFootball. com he applied for the Super Eagles top post because he believes he can qualify the country to the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Yusuf recently won two friendlies against Mali and Luxembourg and he has now said he is convinced that under him Nigeria can go…
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SPECIAL REPORT: Facts About Maina’s Battle With The Senate
By Inuwa BWALA, Abuja Nigerians may be good at forgetting issues so quickly, but certainly not the 2012 drama in the Nigerian senator over its committee report on alleged N195 billion fraud allegedly committed by the defunct Presidential Task Team on pension Reforms, headed by one Abdulrasheed Maina, a Deputy Director in the federal Civil…
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APC Moves To Suspend Kogi Gov, Bello
Security Aborts Saudi Trip, As Kogites Threaten Mass Defection By Ben ADAJI, in Lokoja These are certainly not the best of times for the embattled Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello as the 11 man disciplinary committee set up by the state working committee of his political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), has…
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Forces That Control Buhari
Untold Story Of The War Within The President’s Caucus By Sam ADEGBE, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari may not have tested hands in appointed positions on board to assist in running the affairs of Nigeria, but there exists an informal circle of associates, some of who are powerful and highly sophisticated and may be the brains…
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Abia: Why AGF Declines Legal Opinion – Aide
Orders Parties To await Court Verdict Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, has denied having a hand in the stalemate in Abia State over the rightful occupant of the Governorship seat following a court judgment which voided Governor Okezie Ikpeazu’s mandate. A statement by media Adviser to the Minister explained that, the…
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PDP Crisis: Makarfi, Obi Risk Jail for Contempt
As Court Orders Their Lawyers To Disappear from PDP Job Reaffirms Sheriff As Chairman, Describes Makarfi’s Emergence As Strange and Suspicious By Peter OSSAI, Abuja Ahmed Makarfi and Ben Obi, Chairman and Secretary of the PDP Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, risk imprisonment for contempt of court orders, having continued to parade…
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Retired DIGs, AIGs Under Probe
Intrigues, Power Play Of Their Retirements Officers Set To Fight Back, May Expose New IG The last may not have been heard about the purge in the top hierarchy of the Nigerian Police last week, by the presidency following revelations that some of them may have had links with the now popular Dasukigate. nationalTRAIL investigations…
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NDLEA Arrests 203 Suspects In Niger
Juliana MAIRIGA, Minna The National Drug and Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have disclosed that in the last six months, it has arrested two hundred and three suspects with a total seizure of two thousand, seven hundred and seventy kilograms (2,770.451kg), of various drugs. The Niger State Commandant, Joseph Iweajunwa stated as part of activities to…