Nigeria’s under-23 male football team will have a good outing against Tanzania on Saturday in Dar es salaam, Youth and Sports Development Minister Sunday Dare said on Wednesday in Ibadan. The minister expressed this hope after a novelty match between the under-23 team and Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC)...
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Global leaders and donors on Wednesday at the World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany, pledged 2.6 billion dollars to work toward ending polio. Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO, made this known during a virtual news conference. ” I was very encouraged to see the level of commitment from...
A lady has won a pounded yam eating competition in Ekiti state. The lady who contested against both men and women was the first to finish her food and drink the local liquour. The incident happened in front of many eyewitnesses. Watch video below:
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Wednesday undertook a supervisory and interactive visit to the Ramat Polytechnic in Maiduguri, where he approved the permanent recruitment of 20 children of staff, with priority to those whose parents died working at the school. The Governor...
By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja – Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau has appointed erudite football administrator and Chairman of Katsina State Football Association, Alhaji Aminu Balele Kurfi and sports marketing guru, Hon. Bukola Olopade as part of a three-man panel of advisers for preparations of...
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the aviation ministry to ensure that the planned national air carrier, Nigeria Air, commences operations before the end of 2022. The president said this at the closing ceremony of the 2022 Ministerial Performance Review Retreat in Abuja. ”In line with the outcome of the...
Notwithstanding attempts by naysayers to downplay the achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, history and posterity will be fair and kind to him. The declaration was made on Wednesday in Abuja by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, at the inaugural edition of the PMB Administration...
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Western zone, has urged Federal Government to bring crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism in the Niger Delta region culprits to justice. Alhaji Dele Tajudeen, Chairman, IPMAN Western Zone, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos. Tajudeen...
North Korea’s military, on Wednesday, said it fired artillery shots overnight into maritime buffer zones near the inter-Korean border as a serious warning over South Korea’s ongoing military drills. In a statement, a spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) said the North’s military launched...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said he was introducing martial law in four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine that Moscow claimed as its own territory. In televised remarks to members of his Security Council, Putin also instructed the government to set up a special coordinating council under Prime Minister...
The Military High Command has warned politicians against using military personnel, their activities, uniforms or accoutrements as themes or for illustration of message in political advertisements or any such productions. The Director, Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Jimmy Akpor, gave the warning in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. The News...
Four persons were on Wednesday arraigned before an Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing 52 head of cattle valued at N10 million. The defendants, Musa Mohammed, 30, Suleiman Musa, 65, Ibrahim Musa, 35 and Ali Mohammed,45, whose addresses were not provided, are facing a count charge of stealing. The...
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday, insisted that Mr Kanu Agabi (SAN) was the counsel on record representing former Governor of Adamawa, Muritala Nyako in his ongoing alleged N29 billion money laundering case. The trial judge, Justice Okon Abang said this in a short ruling following the announcement...
The PDP governorship candidate in Lagos state, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor), on Wednesday promised to return governance and state resources to the people. Adediran alongside his running mate, Ms Olufunke Akindele, who flagged of his campaign at the Akowonjo area in Alimosho LGA, said that he was depending on...
The Federal High Court in Gusau adjourned until Oct. 27 for definite hearing”, the suit filed by a group: Northern Youth Assembly and other against Gov. Bello Matawalle and three others for alleged perjury. The group in the suit, alleged that there were discrepancies in the academic and birth...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Chairman of All Progressives Congress, (APC), Hon Ali Bukar Dalori has debunked social media reports alleging that there is fracas among APC stakeholders in Borno, which may truncate the success of the ruling party in the forthcoming general elections. Hon. Dalori...
The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, has called on his counterparts in other parties to suspend their campaigns and join him to help victims of floods across states of the federation. Obi made the call while addressing journalists after his visit to Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Director of Academics at Nigerian Law School, Abuja, Barrister Chibueze Okorie, says rape as one of the types of Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) is not just an offence but an abominable crime against humanity. Barrister Okorie stated this on Wednesday in Sokoto...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – All Nigerian State Governors are set to discuss how to empower the citizens with latest telecoms technologies as they partake in the maiden edition of Broadband Technical Awareness Forum for Governors (BTAF), put together by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and slated for Thursday...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has offered his condolence to President Muhammadu Buhari after severe floods claimed many lives and affected millions in the country. In a message issued on Wednesday, the Japanese Prime Minister expressed deep sadness over ”the recent floods caused by...