Brazil are tipped to claim the FIFA World Cup for the sixth time in the tournament which kicks off on Nov. 20 in Qatar. This is according to a Reuters poll which last successfully predicted the champions in 2010. The global survey of 135 football-following market analysts worldwide agreed...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The International Association for Advancement and Defense of Human Rights (IAADHR) has called on religious leaders in Nigeria to refrain from using their pulpits as platforms to ventilate political campaigns. The group said religious politics is capable of destroying the foundation of unity and...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – The Enugu State Police Commissioner, CP Ahmed Ammani has ordered the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department (SCIID) to commence a thorough investigation into the case of alleged conspiracy and murder of a newborn male child (infanticide), by the mother of the child. The...
U.S. President Joe Biden is due to appear for a short visit at a major UN climate conference in Egypt’s resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Friday. The stopover comes days after dozens of world leaders gathered in the Red Sea resort for a summit parallel to the climate conference,...
Ballon d’Or runner-up Sadio Mane was named in Senegal’s World Cup squad by coach Aliou Cisse on Friday despite of a recent injury. Cisse said he hoped the condition of the Bayern Munich attacker would improve within a few weeks and declared himself “really optimistic” that the injury would...
Malam Nuhu Ribadu, the Director, All Progressives Congress (APC) Stakeholders Relations Directorate for 2023 poll, says Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is most saleable among candidates for the presidential election. Ribadu said this at the inauguration of the directorate in Abuja. “Luckily for us, our job is cut out for us,...
The decade long insurgency by the Boko Haram in the north east part of Nigeria has wrecked havoc on many lives including families, societies and communities as well as affected a wide spectrum of social and economic sphere. The Boko Haram has transformed into a transnational threat, thereby creating...
Gunmen have abducted Mr Seun Emmanuel, a driver at the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) and demanded for the sum of N10 million as ransom. Emmanuel was abducted on Tuesday on Owo-Ifon Road in Ondo State while on an official assignment to Akure with the company’s manager in Ondo...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the methodology for claims and objections in register of voters by citizens. Mr Festus Okoye, the INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, said this in a statement in Abuja. Okoye said that INEC at its weekly meeting...
The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Oladayo Amao, has urged NAF operational commanders to remain resolute and sustain the current onslaught against insurgents and other criminals in the country. This is contained in a statement issued by the Director of Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force...
Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof. Florence Obi, has called on fresh students of the institution to report all cases of sexual harassment from lecturers and staff to the university authority. Obi made the call on Friday in Calabar during an orientation programme organised for newly admitted...
By MOHAMMED DANBATTA – As the dust begins to settle on the Arise TV Presidential town hall meeting, political observers and Nigerians who followed the programme dispassionately have been unanimous in awarding Governor Ifeanyi Okowa the highest mark. Received opinion is that Okowa who is the vice presidential candidate...
…Presents law establishing State Bureau of Statistics Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has assented to the 2022 supplementary budget with internal reviews and adjustments that maintain the appropriation envelope of N175,903,441,384. The bill was recently passed by the Benue State House Assembly. The breakdown of the 2022 appropriation law...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Executive Director, of Explore Aids, Dr. Lawan Balami has said that development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC) is funding Explore Aid to provide early childhood education at child friendly spaces for children in to government health facilities across Borno State. Dr. Balami said...
A Catholic priest in France is being investigated for the rape of a minor, according to the Paris public prosecutor’s office on Thursday. The clergyman in his fifties from western France was remanded. He was also alleged to have administered drugs to the assaulted teenager without his knowledge at...
Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo on Thursday said the purported investments by his predecessor in office, Peter Obi are worth next to nothing. Obi is the presidential candidate of the Labour Party. Before clinching the party’s ticket, he governed Anambra from 2006 to 2014. Speaking during an interview on...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Richard Adebayo, has said that the Federal Government has invested over $3bn invested in seven sugar Backward Integration Programme (BIP) projects and eight independent projects across the country. He stated this on Thursday at the Command Guest...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Damaturu – The management of the Northeast Youth Initiative For Development has commended the efforts and plans of His Excellency, Hon Mai Mala Buni to establish 17 Girls Day Senior Secondary school across the state. The governor who broke the news to the general public at...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has assured the new Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG Adesina Soyemi, posted to the Police Zone 4 Headquarters in the state that he would not encourage him to pervert justice. He stated this when he received the new...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A 46 years old kidney patient at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH), Tijjani Lawan has begged Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum and other privileged individuals to assist and pay his medical bills for kidney transplant. Mr. Lawan made the appeal in a...