News: We are not yet there, Garba insists

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• Elegbeleye, Glo hail team

Flying Eagles coach, Manu Garba, maintains his team is still not the best at the 2015 African Youth Championship (AYC) despite winning two straight games and racking up seven goals.

The Nigeria U-20 team became the first team to qualify for the 2015 Junior World Cup in New Zealand after they tallied six points from two matches.

News: Exclusive photos from the fatal accident in Abuja this morning

There was a fatal accident this morning At Nicon Junction Abuja. A trailer lost its brake and crashed into a car killing the passenger in the car and also a passerby. Good Samaritans came to the rescue of injured victims before Road Safety Intervened. RIP to the dead. More photos after the cut...

News: Dramat has not resigned - police ministry

Johannesburg - Suspended Hawks boss Anwa Dramat has not resigned, an official said on Friday.

"In a letter in December [Dramat]... indicated that he would want a meeting [with Police MinisterNathi Nhleko] and would want to discuss his possible resignation," the minister's spokesperson Musa Zondi said.

News: Travel Paddy, Golden Tulip support Happy Days fiesta

The thrid edition of Happy Days’ Creche and Pre-school Sports Fiesta holds today at the Astro-Turf, Ikoyi, Lagos State, with support from Travel Paddy and Golden Tulip Hotels

According to director of the school, Adekemi Badmos, activities at the fiesta have been designed to stimulate the kids’ psychomotor skills.

News: NLC clears 3,119 delegates to elect new exco

ALTHOUGH the facts were yet to emerge as at press time yesterday, there were indications that the Wabba Ayuba group tagged “redemption group” has 2,119 out of the 3,119 delegates accredited for the election.

The General Secretary of National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), Joe Ajaero and President of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) Wabba Ayuba were the two candidates contesting for the post of president.

News: Jonathan visits Awujale, vows to implement

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan continued his South West campaign with a visit yesterday to the monarch of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, and his chiefs in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, where he assured that if re-elected, his administration would implement the recommendations of the National Conference “to the latter.”

News: Family of the young girl/fish seller killed in Lekki yesterday mourn

There was utter devastation as the news reached the family of the young girl who was shot dead yesterday by armed robbers during the explosive robbery encounter in Lekki. According to the family, they told all that she'd been out selling fish before the tragedy hit. See a photo of the girl here. More photos of the mourning family after the cut...

News: Sad! Victims of today's robbery attack in Lekki (graphic photos)

At least six people lost their lives today after dare-devil robbers dressed in military uniform robbed a bank on Admiralty Way in Lekki Phase 1. See some photos after the cut...

New: Robbers kill three policemen , three others in Lagos bank raid

A gang of armed robbers yesterday, invaded a new generation bank near Lekki/Ikoyi Link Bridge, Lekki, Lagos, killing no fewer six persons, among them three policemen.

The robbers who gained access into the area in a speed boat through the lagoon were reportedly armed with sophisticated rifles opened fire on a police patrol van.

According to an eyewitness, “the six persons feared dead were three policemen hit by the robbers bullets, a woman who sells fish and banks’ staff.

The robbers numbering about 12 invaded the bank at about 5pm firing sporadically into the air.

News: TAN begins training of 100,000 volunteers for Jonathan’s re-election

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Director-General of TAN, Patrick Ubah

THE Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) yesterday began the training of its targeted 100,000 volunteers who are expected to move into various electoral wards nationwide to convince eligible voters on the need to re-elect President Goodluck Jonathan.

The training exercise, which began yesterday in Abuja in partnership with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation, had in attendance volunteers from all the states of the federation and the FCT.


Speaking at the training session, which held at 

International Conference Centre (ICC) Abuja, the Director-General of the campaign organisation, Dr. Ahmadu Ali, charged the volunteers to go out and speak about the good        Director-General of TAN, Patrick Ubah                 things the President had done and is still doing.

Ali, who told the volunteers to “go all out and do the needful, stressed that the PDP has a saleable candidate whose profile is intimidating to the opposition, adding that while they go about pushing all sorts of propaganda, the volunteers should tell the people in their languages what Jonathan had done in their locality.

Earlier in his remarks, the Director-General of TAN, Patrick Ubah who charged the volunteers to return to their respective wards and promote the candidature of President Jonathan, urged the volunteers to see their assignment as that of marketers who have deadline to meet.

While promising that the first set of 100,000 volunteers would be paid by TAN, Ubah said they were being trained to harvest the votes for the PDP and the candidature of President Jonathan as well as other candidates on the platform of the party, urging them to be cordial, confident and persuasive in their propagation of the transformation agenda of President Jonathan and the party as a means to woo the voters from all sides to the PDP.

On his part, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh who represented the PDP National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu, said that while the propagation of the theme could be universal, they should be guided by wisdom as they approach their respective would-be-voters with respect and cordiality.

Metuh, therefore, advised the volunteers to be wise, saying that TAN is not sending them out to go and make trouble but to go and sell the advantage of the party, which says that it caters for national interest unlike others

News: NEMA distributes relief materials to slain soldiers’ families in North-East

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THE National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) yesterday distributed relief materials to wives and families of military personnel who died during the fight against Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East sub-region of the country.

NEMA Director-General, Alhaji Mohammed Sani Sidi, said President Goodluck Jonathan directed the agency to extend its mandate to families and wives of military troops who died in the course of fighting insurgents.

News: Govt boosts film industry with N500m

Nollywood Set (Actors and Actresses doing their job) Image: Nollywood

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has set aside about N500 million to boast the Nigerian film industry, with focus on the North-east region.

Addressing a sensitization workshop organised in Bauchi for filmmakers in the zone on Wednesday, the Director-General, Nigeria Film and Video Censors Board, Patricia Bala, explained that the gesture was part of the Federal Government’s initiative to boast the film industry towards self-employment and to reduce youth restiveness.

News: Nigerian, foreign partners to build N121b fertiliser, power plants in Edo

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IN a further boost to the Nigerian local content policy, a N121 billion investment in the building of a fertiliser plant and a 350-megawatt power generating plant has been sited in Ologbo in Edo State.

News: Jonathan, Moroccan king spoke, Nigeria insists

DESPITE the deepening diplomatic row between Nigeria and Morocco, which led the North African country to recall its envoy on Wednesday, sources at the Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs have insisted that President, Goodluck Jonathan, had a conversation with King Mohammed VI.

Speaking with The Guardian in Abuja yesterday, the ministry source insisted that the president had last week Friday, spoken via telephone with the Moroccan monarch on the