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Federation of International Football, (FIFA) has banned Cameroun from international football due to government’s interference in the country’s football federation. The provisional ban came just few minutes after the country was awarded three World Cup qualifying points against fellow African team, Togo for fielding unqualified player against them.”The FIFA statutes oblige member associations to manage their affairs independently and with no influence from third parties,” world soccer’s governing body said in a statement to Reuters. FIFA said a committee would be set up to revise Federation Camerounaise de Football, FECAFOOT’s statutes and organise elections and that the ban would…
Top five Hollywood films for the week are Man of Steel, produced by Warner Brothers. The film made 20.7 million Dollars to make it to number 5 positions this week. At number 4 is the film, White House Down, produced by Sony, which put a total sum of 24. 8 million Dollars into the hands of the producers. World War Z, made it to the number 3 position after rewarding Paramount Pictures with 29.77 million Dollars during the week. At number 2 position is The Heat.The film put a gross sum of 39.1 million Dollars into the hands of…
Actors Guild of Nigeria(AGN) Lagos State is in now in deep crisis following the inability of the body to conduct an election that will produce a clear cut winner. So far, two candidates, Don Pedro Aganbi and Victor Osuagwu that participated in the election have been sworn in as chairmen of the association. The national body swore in Osuagwu as duly elected chairman while the local chapter went ahead at their last congress in Lagos to adopt Don Pedro Aganbi as their chairman and consequently swore him in as winner of the June 22 election. Speaking in Lagos, Aganbi said…
The Federal Government is currently working on proposal that would transform the entire landscape and structure of the National Arts Theater, Iganmu, Lagos into a masterpiece and one of a kind centre of entertainment in Africa. The project is expected to be carried out through a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement spearheaded by VGL Consultant. Under the arrangement, a five star hotel will be built on 12 hectares of land, 27 hectares allocated for office accommodation, 18 hectares allocated for world class shopping complex while what is left will be devoted for a car park that would take at least…
The military authority in Egypt is once more in power having forced defiant President Mohammed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood out of power less than one year after he was sworn in. General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced suspension of the constitution and a road map to democratic rule to a cherry crowd but with a revised constitution. President of the Supreme Constitutional Court will now act as Interim Head of State but will be assisted by an interim council until new presidential and parliamentary elections will be held. The military leader made the announcement after an extensive consultation with politicians…
The Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has berated the Imo State Governor, Mr. Rochas Okorocha over what it called a desperate attempt to truncate the wish of the people in Imo State, describing his actions as undemocratic. A statement signed by Acting Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Tony Okeke said it is unfortunate that Okorocha deployed thugs that violently disrupted activities during the election adding that the governor went ahead to unilaterally declare results of election when the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared the election inconclusive. According to the party, the Imo state governor needs to urgently retrace his…
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has slammed the presidency for seeking to usurp the role of INEC by describing the rerun election to the Imo House of Assembly in Oguta as inconclusive. In a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said it was up to INEC to determine whether the election was ‘inconclusive’ or marred by ‘violence and irregularities’, not the presidency. ”To the best of our knowledge, it is either the candidates or the parties involved in an election that can take a legal recourse over any perceived…
The Lagos State Government has said that the asset base of the state co-operative society has hit N60 billion. Commissioner of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Prince Gbolahan Lawal who made the revelation today at an occasion to celebrate the 2013 International Day of Co-operative, said the state government will soon begin the production of 60 million eggs annually through Agric-Yes initiative. He said that plans are on to achieve the target of one million tons of fish per year and 25 percent increase in food production by 2015. Lawal who added that more communities would also be empowered to achieve the…
President Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday in Abuja condemned the irregularities which characterized the rerun election to the Imo State of Assembly in Oguta last Saturday, saying that the conduct of certain persons and groups involved in the election totally negated the spirit of one man, one vote which his administration is trying to foster in Nigeria. Speaking at an audience with a delegation from the Nigerian Senators’ Forum, President Jonathan urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the nation’s security agencies to take immediate steps to bring all those who played any role in the violence and electoral irregularities that…
A former director in the department of Press and Public Relations in the Lagos State Ministry of Information and Strategy, Mr. Kunle Oshodi-Glover is dead. He died on Sunday, 30th of June, 2013 after a brief illness. He was 65. Born on the 31st of March, 1948, he and indigene of Lagos Island, Lagos State. He had his early education at St. Paul’s Primary School in 1955 -1962 and Igbobi College, Lagos between 1963 and 1967. From there he proceeded to the Federal School of Science, Lagos between 1966- 1968. After successfully completing his studies there, he was given scholarship…
