Last week, news went viral on the blogosphere that ex-international, Austin Jay Jay Okocha was delving into Nollywood to produce a world class movie on the life of the ‘rainmaker’, Majek Fashek, which will be shot in Nigeria and New York. The story generated lots of dust until popular filmmaker, Charles Novia, vehemently reacted to…
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Nigeria's Health Sector May Crumble As NMA Gives FG 21-Day Ultimatum
Barely few days after the Medical and Health Workers Union suspended its nine-day indefinite strike, the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has resolved to give the Federal Government a 21-day ultimatum to meet its demands or see the health sector crumble. This notice was given at the weekend at the end of body’s 2013 National Executive…
PHOTONEWS: Soludo In Closed-Door Meeting With Atiku
Atiku and Soludo The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Charles Chukwuma Soludo, paid a courtesy visit to ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, in his Abuja home barely 24 hours after the latter formed a parallel Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, along with seven PDP governors. The Anambra gubernatorial hopeful led a group of…
Prognosis: PDP May Move to Expel Completely Its Factional Wing Members By Harry Amusa
It is my thinking (ominous) that in the few days to come, the only option open to the Bamanga Turkur led-national PDP is to suspend those it considers as rebels or rather anti-party members who are now romancing with the new factional PDP chaired by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Though this may not come as a surprise…
How Bukola Saraki's 2015 Presidential Ambition Exposed His Messy Scandal
*Why He May Ruin His Political Life The politics of Kwara State had been synonymous with the name of the Sarakis. For many years, the late Dr Olusola Saraki, fondly called Baba Oloye held sway in the middle belt state and had colossal power to the extent that his words were law as far as…
House Of Reps Member Escapes Mob Attack In Zamfara
Hon Ibrahim Shehu Gusau representing Gusau-Tsafe federal constituency at the lower chamber of the National Assembly, NASS, was lucky to have escaped unhurt when a mob attacked his convoy in the state capital on Saturday when he visited the town. The lawmaker was said to have arrived the state to attend a meeting with some…
Wike May Dump Obuah As Rivers PDP Fate Hangs In The Balance
Fresh crisis has hit the already polarized ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State as the party heads for the rocks with the new plot by the leader of the faction led by Felix Obuah, Chief Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike to dump the controversial Chairman over what Wike considers as weak and cantankerous. A source…
2013 Mid-Year Report: GTBank Rakes N57b Before Tax Profit
Unarguably one of Nigeria’s most successful and best banks, Guaranty Trust Bank plc, has continued to soar higher leaving other competitors to wonder how the bank has remained a force to be reckoned with in the financial sector. In its released 2013 mid-year audited financial report, which ended on June 30, 2013 on the Nigerian…
Tukur Vows To Deal With Atiku-Led PDP Faction
The National Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Bamanga Tukur, has submitted that his faction of the ruling PDP “does not recognise any parallel party” formed by former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on Saturday, in Abuja, after the ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s second-in-command, along with some others, walked out of the party’s convention held yesterday…
Man U Falls At Liverpool
Manchester United suffered a loss at Anfield on Sunday afternoon as Daniel Sturridge’s fourth-minute strike was enough to hand Liverpool a victory in the contest. The tension-soaked match was stretched into 96 minutes as the Red Army tried to pick a point on the road. It was David Moyes’ first visit to the Merseyside since…