AkinfeAyo's blog

SUPER Eagles skipper Mikel Obi could be on the verge of joining Turkish giants Fenerbahce before the close of this January transfer window after the club stepped up its interest in the midfielder ended his contract with Chinese side Tianjin Teda.

GOVERNMENT ministers and labour leaders been unable to end the ongoing standoff regarding the implementation of the new N30,000 ($62) a month national minimum wage after a meeting held in Abuja to resolve the matter ended without an agreement.

ISLAMIC cleric Imam Abdulsalam Salaudeen has confessed to the recent raping of a five year old girl in Lagos attributing it to the handiwork of his enemies who he said had cast a spell on him.

Imam, Salaudeen, 43, a father of five, from Igando, in Lagos State, was arrested for raping the five-year-old Arabic schoolgirl. Following his interrogation, he claimed that he had been having a running battle with spiritual forces for years.

CHELSEA winger Victor Moses has indicated that he is willing to commence talks with the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) about returning to the Super Eagles in what would be a reversal of a decision to quit the national team and focus on his club career.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate prosecution of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) president Amaju Pinnick over allegations that he was involved in a multi-billion scam.

NIGERIAN Police Force (NPF) senior commanders have revealed that Senator Dino Melaye is in a stable condition in after being admitted into the Police Hospital in Abuja yesterday following his arrest.

NIGERIA has been ranked 110th out of 161 countries when it comes to ease of doing business in a recent survey by Forbes magazine that places the country 14 on the African continent behind the likes of Ghana and Senegal.

TRANSPORT minister Rotimi Amaechi has given the contractor working on the Lagos-Ibadan railway line two weeks to complete the Iju to Agbado section of the project as the government wants commercial operations to begin on it this month.

YORUBA militant group the Oodua People's Congress (OPC) has declared that it will be backing the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate Babajide Sanwoolu for the governorship of Lagos State when elections hold in March.

TRADITIONAL clergymen the Association of White Witches in Nigeria (AWWN) have warned former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar that he has to visit their shrines as well as churches and mosques if he wants to win next month's presidential elections.