By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja – Nigeria’s senior men national football team, Super Eagles will confront the Senior National Team of Costa Rica in a prestigious international friendly in the country’s capital, San Jose on 9th November. NFF’s FIFA Match Agent, Jairo Pachon of Eurodata Sport told thenff.com on Thursday, that the three-time...
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By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja – Nigeria’s U17 girls, Flamingos have flown out of Turkey after a 10-day training camp in final preparation for this year’s FIFA U17 World Cup finals in India. The team of 21 players and 12 officials flew out of the Istanbul International Airport to Goa...
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has appointed former National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Kolawole Ologbondiyan, as one of his spokespersons for the 2023 presidential campaign. Atiku’s media aide, Mr Paul Ibe, said in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, that the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has met with the freed 23 passengers of the March 28, 2022 Abuja-Kaduna train attack at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) hospital in Kaduna. Presidentail spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, confirmed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. He said the...
Two second half goals by Japan’s Mina Tanaka condemned Nigeria’s Super Falcons to a 0-2 defeat in their international friendly match at the Noevir Stadium in Kobe on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Nigerian senior women national football team could not keep up with...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has said the state government will commence payment of outstanding arrears of promotional benefits to state civil servants by the end of January 2023 The governor revealed this during the swearing in ceremony of the new Chairman and board...
Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola has appealed the Federal High Court’s judgment that nullified his nomination as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the July 16, 2022 governorship election in the state. This is contained in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Ismail Omipidan,...
The Federal Government says it will be impossible for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to change from its vice of looting public treasury, if it ever has access to power. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said this in an interview with the News Agency...
A former police officer stormed a nursery in Thailand on Thursday, shooting dead at least 30 people, most of them children, before killing himself and his family. The attacker, armed with a shotgun, a pistol and a knife, opened fire on the childcare centre in Nong Bua Lam Phu...
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded a 35-year-old man, Monday Endurance, to Kirikiri Correctional Center for allegedly impregnating his teenage step daughter. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs B. O Osunsanmi did not take the plea of the defendant, but ordered that the case file be forwarded to Lagos...
The World Bank says the world is unlikely to meet the goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030, according to a new World Bank study. This is contained in a statement obtained from the World Bank website on Thursday in Abuja by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). According...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja As communities grapple with the devastating effect of flooding in some parts of Kogi state, the FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has made a passionate appeal to the federal government to aid the state government in relief materials. The minister who made...
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Anambra Command, has arrested a yet-to-be-identified woman for beating her maid to death. In the video shared on social media, on Thursday, the suspect had taken NAPTIP officials to the bush were she dumped the already decomposing body...
By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja – Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has described the election of Chief Felix Anyansi-Agwu as 1st Vice President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) as a “well-deserved recognition” of the latter’s years of dedication to the development of football, especially in Abia State through...
By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja – President of the world football-ruling body, FIFA, Mr. Gianni Infantino has congratulated the new President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau and members of his new Board, following the Elective General Assembly of the NFF that took place in Benin City...
Barely 12 hours after a report by PRNigeria, the Divisional Police Officer, (DPO) of Birnin Gwari Division, CSP Sani Mohammed Gyadi-Gyadi, abducted about three months ago, has finally been released. This followed a sophisticated intelligence-coordinated operation led by the joint security service, PRNigeria gathered. Gyadi-Gyadi, kidnapped by terrorists in...
Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, Governor of Delta State and Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is an Igbo man. No debate! As running mate to Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential standard bearer of the PDP, the Igbo have more than a foothold in the Atiku Presidency. It’s disheartening...
Two persons had been burnt beyond recognition, while three others sustained injuries when a tanker laden with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS or petrol) exploded at Ilo-Awela Junction, at Toll-Gate area on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. Mr Ahmed Umar, the Ogun Sector Commander of Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC), who confirmed the development...
The Director-General, Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), Mr Olawale Fasanya, has reiterated the need for small and medium scale businesses to tap into the export market. Fasanya made the expression at an export facilitation programme for 100 entrepreneurs in Enugu on Thursday. He said the...
The Federal Government says Nigeria will need one trillion Naira to cater for the health of the vulnerable citizens across the country. This would be done through the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF). Dr Chris Isokpunwu, Secretary of the Ministerial Oversight committee for BHCPF, Federal Ministry of Health...