Politics destroying Nigerian football – Akpoborie

Akpoborie

With the Nigeria Football Federation seemingly being handicapped to take any decisive action on out-of-contract Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi, former Super Eagles striker Jonathan Akpoborie has reacted to the development, saying the NFF may have been the reason for their own problems.

Akpoborie says he doesn’t feel sorry for the NFF, believing the way they came into office may have contributed to them being handicapped as it seems, adding they will have to deal with the problems.

Omotola complain over APC 's decision not to present Fashola as a Vice President candidate

Female Suicide Bomber Arrested In Kano Trying to Blow Up Primary School

female suicide bomber

A female suicide bomber trying to blow up a primary school at Dinshe area was reported to have been arrested on Monday.

Dinshe is a place close to Kurna, Kano State .

Details later…

Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool star offered new deal

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard had been offered a new contract by the club, manager Brendan Rodgers said on Monday.

“Firstly in terms of the club the latest is that Steven Gerrard and his representatives have been offered a contract here and at this moment in time that’s where it’s at,” Rodgers said at a news conference ahead of Liverpool’s match away to bottom of the Premier League Leicester on Tuesday.

“It certainly won’t be money,” the Northern Irishman added. “I’ve spoken to him enough times at length and that won’t be the case.

“Between now and the end of the season he deserves the opportunity to think.”

Former England midfielder Gerrard, 34, has spent his entire 16-year professional career at home town side Liverpool.

However, in October he said he could leave Anfield if he wasn’t offered a new deal.

Gunmen invades Ado Ekiti Prisons, Kills one Prison Official, Free all Prisoners!

At least one prison official was feared killed, with over 20 security dogs dead, on Sunday night when some gunmen stormed the Federal Prison in Ado Ekiti.

Sources said the gunmen numbering about 60 stormed the prison in Hilux trucks with dangerous weapons, such as cudgels, cutlasses, AK 47 rifles and charms.

It was learnt that as soon as the gunmen arrived the Prison, they first detonated a bomb after which they engaged in sporadic shootings that lasted more than 30 minutes.
There were insinuations that the attack was staged to set free a murder suspect, Mr. Adeniyi Adedipe, who is facing criminal charges over the murder of a former state chairman of National Union of Road Transport Workers, Chief Omolafe Aderiye.

APC strongly condemns Kano blast, says terrorism will never win

More than 100 people were killed in multiple bomb attacks at the Central Mosque in Kano 

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned, in the strongest terms possible, Friday's senseless attack on innocent worshipers at a mosque in Kano, saying terrorism will never prevail no matter how long it takes.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the attack has again confirmed what it (APC) has always believed: That terrorism is an attack on our nationhood and the way we live.

''Every attack against innocent people, including women and children, or those who are performing or pursuing their commitment to their God or faith, is a cowardly and senseless victimization and exploitation of vulnerability.

''The fabric and character of our people, whether in Kano or anywhere else across the nation, are stronger than this attack on our collective humanity. Our resolve as a nation will always overcome evil and any assault on how we live and practice our respective faith.

Senator Alkali Abdulkadir Jajere (Apc)

Senator Alkali Jajere representing Yobe South Senatorial District has said that there was no auspicious time to commence the impeachment proceedings of President Goodluck Jonathan than now before the insurgents would wipe out his constituents from the surface earth.

Already, a source among the Senators championing the Jonathan-must-go crusade yesterday hinted that the members would meet today in an undisclosed venue to perfect their plans on when to present the impeachment notice on the floor of the senate.

Senator Jajere who is said to be among the arrow-heads of the impeachment alleged that President Jonathan had committed many impeachable offences as he had allegedly breached the constitution of the country severally.

According to him, the poor handling of the insurgency in the three states of North East of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe especially his constituency by the Jonathan’s administration despite huge sums of money being voted for the military, was deliberate.

He said, “Are we going to wait and continue to tolerate a leader who, cannot stop the daily physical and psychological torture of my constituents. The insurgency situation is threatening the corporate existence of Nigeria and the earlier we act, the better. ”