Reports reaching TELL have it that Stephen Keshi, who was sacked a few weeks back, has been reinstated as the coach of the Super Eagles after members of the two factions of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF met with president Goodluck Jonathan, today in Abuja. There are also reports that Chris Giwa has withdrawn his…
Drama At Lagos Airport As Cured Ebola Patient Arrives
There was a mild drama at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos yesterday as a Nigerian, who had already been cured of Ebola Virus Disease in Sierra Leone arrived the country aboard a Royal Air Maroc flight. Theophilus Onnakhinon, who had been cured of Ebola was flown from Sierra Leone by the airline. A…
M.I To Feature 27 Artistes In New Album
In what appears to be a compensation for the delayed release of his third studio album, Nigerian award winning rapper M.I, real name Jude Abaga, has announced that his third album will feature 27 other artistes from Nigeria, Jamaica and Ghana. According to a list that M.I released on his Instagram page, the new album…
Nigerian Sammie Okposo Nominated for South Africa’s Biggest Gospel Awards
Nigerian gospel artiste and Globacom ambassador Sammie Okposo, has been shortlisted for this year’s South-Africa gospel music awards, SABC Crown Music Awards Okposo is the only Nigerian artiste nominated for the awards and he is in the same category with four other African gospel artistes, Frank Chimpazi, Shongwe & Khuphuka, Saved Group and Seapour N.…
PDP Asks Tambuwal To Resign
The National leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has welcomed the defection of Aminu Tambuwal, Speaker of the House of Representatives from the party and advised him to resign as Speaker The PDP argued that since Tambuwal was no longer in the ruling party with majority in the House, the honourable thing for him…
Bangladesh Islamist Leader Sentenced To Death
Motiur RahmanNizami, head of Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party has been sentenced to death for war crimes committed during the country’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971. A war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh with a three-judge panel announced the verdict to a packed courtroom in Dhaka on Wednesday. Mohammad Ali, state prosecutor said the sentence…
Amaechi’s Test of Popularity?
The celebrant called it a gathering to test his popularity, opposition saw it as a gathering of rented crowd, party loyalists claimed it was a huge turnout of supporters. But no matter what anyone may say, the 40,000-capacity Rivers State stadium at Igwuruta received more than it was built for on Saturday, October 25, during…
Gunmen Kill Four Policemen, Abduct Six Oil Workers
Gunmen on a speedboat in Bayelsa State have killed four policemen and kidnapped six Nigerian Agip energy firm employees in an attack that happened on Friday, October 24 in the Nembe Creek area of the state. Mustapha Anka, spokesman for the military’s Joint Task Force in the region, said, “Four policemen who were escorting a…
Tambuwal Decamps To APC
After weeks of speculations, Aminu Tambuwal, Speaker of the House of Representatives, has formally decamped to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Tambuwal said he left the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, his former party to pursue his political ambition in Sokoto, his state of origin. The Speaker is said to have dumped the PDP to contest…
NFF Crisis: President Jonathan To Meet Pinnick
President Goodluck Jonathan is outraged by those who are prolonging the crisis in the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, and has invited Amaju Pinnick, President of the Nigeria Football Federation, to know the cause of the latest problem. A friend of the President who accompanied him on a pilgrimage to Israel and was monitoring the situations…