Zlatan Ibrahimovic is set to return to international duty with Sweden, after he was selected for their Euro 2024 qualifiers against Belgium and Azerbaijan. The AC Milan forward has spent most of the season on the sidelines after undergoing a knee operation at the end of the 2021/2022 campaign,...
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State says INEC and security agencies must raise the bar of elections in the area in Saturday’s elections. The Chairman of PDP, Alimosho LGA, Mr Ishola Shodiya, who made the call on Wednesday during a media briefing...
After years of absence, the Nigerian Base Defence Company, deployed into the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) has joined the rest of the Multinational Peacekeeping Force. The Acting Head of Mission and Force Commander of UNISFA, Maj.-Gen. Benjamin Sawyerr, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday....
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Ahead of the Gubernatorial elections on Saturday, the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Senator Bassey Otu, says if he’s elected he will adopt the National Sports Industry Policy ( NSIP) signed by President Muhammed Buhari last year. Senator Otu said The...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Ahead of Saturday’s gubernatorial elections, the organized labour in Cross River State has endorsed the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Cross River, BasseyOtu as its preferred choice. The endorsement was announced by the labour leaders during a courtesy call on the...
After the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the former governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the All-Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu as the Nigerian president-elect, ethnic tension and rivalry ensued between supporters of the presidential candidates. This anxiety has been more palpable and evident...
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has pledged to be more vigilant during the upcoming governorship and states assembly elections. Mr Aminu Shamsuddin, the NIS Comptroller in Kwara, made the pledge in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin on Wednesday. Shamsuddin said the command would...
The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) says its troops of Sectors 3 and 4 have apprehended more than 900 suspected family members and collaborators of Boko Haram/ISWAP insurgents. This is contained in a statement on Wednesday by MNJTF, Chief Military Public Information Officer in N’Djamena Chad, Lt.-Col. Kamarudeen Adegoke....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen, has been conferred with an award by the UN Global Women Foundation Advocacy for Change, a global body. Mr Olujimi Oyetomi, the Director, Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Women Affairs, disclosed this in a...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says its operations are guided by the Electoral Act and not by political parties. Prof. Gabriel Yomere, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Cross River, made this known in Calabar during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Yomere was reacting to...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has reiterated the Ministry’s commitment towards ensuring a safe and secure cyberspace for Nigerians before, during, and after the 2023 Presidential Elections. This is according to a statement issued on Tuesday by...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade has extended teachers’ retirement age by five years in the state. Governor Ayade stated this on Tuesday, when he received the executive members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) at an event held on Tuesday at the...
Before imaginations begin to run riot, let me quickly assure my readers that President Muhammadu Buhari is not in any danger whatsoever either in the hands of Senator Ifeanyi Godwin Araraume or in the hands of Vincent Adodo, who prefers to be referred to as a citizen of Nigeria,...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The chairman of Peoples Democratic (PDP) Chairman in Tambuwal Local Government Area, Alhaji Umaru Sarkin Noma, has appealed for peaceful conduct in the18th March Governorship and State Assembly election. Umaru who made the appeal in reaction to a viral video in the social media...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, today launched a $600 million programme for young Nigerians in the technology and creative sectors with a call on African governments and the private sector to do more to support the growth of innovation in the continent. The Vice...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Stakeholders from across Nasarawa South Senatorial District, have resolved to deliver Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, as well as all house of assembly candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), during this Saturday’s guber/assembly election. The position was taken at a meeting convened...
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The police in Gombe have arrested a 38-year-old teacher for allegedly defiling four pupils. The pupils who are aged eight, nine, 12 and 14 years respectively are sisters from the same father. ASP Mahid Abubakar, the Command’s Public Relations Officer said this in a press statement issued in Gombe....
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran, (aka Jandor) has unveiled his wife, Mariam Adediran, to members of the PDP family in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that there have been some political propaganda about the family of the 45-year-old frontline contender...
The Lagos State Labour Party Governorship Candidate, Mr Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, on Tuesday met with Arewa Community and other ethnic groups, assuring them of better Lagos if elected. Rhodes-Vivour, at a joint interactive session with various ethnic groups, said that he was determined to deliver a state that would work...