The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has launched an investigation on Tuesday after two Mali players were filmed fighting with each other after their team were eliminated from the Women’s World Cup. The incident took place after Mali lost 68-81 to Serbia in their Group B clash in Sydney on...
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A Kenyan lawyer charged at the International Criminal Court with bribing witnesses in the collapsed trial of President William Ruto six years ago, has died, Kenyan media reported on Tuesday. Citizen Television and Standard Newspapers reported that Paul Gicheru was found dead at his home in Nairobi’s Karen area,...
A mass grave has been found in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar. However, with the Taliban pointing the finger at a security official from the former government whom the current rulers assassinated in an attack in 2018. Two spokespeople for the de facto Taliban government told dpa on Tuesday...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has postponed the start of its campaigns earlier slated for Wednesday. The Director-General, of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council and Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau, made this known in a statement on Tuesday. “Recall that we had earlier earmarked a peace...
Mr Victor Ekpo, Managing Director, Cross River State Water Board, has attributed irregular water supply across the state to vandalised pipes and lately to high cost of diesel. Ekpo, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar on Tuesday, said efforts were on to restore water...
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Tuesday said the total death toll from this season’s monsoon rain, flood since mid-June has reached 1,638 along with 12,865 injured in Pakistan. According to a report released by the NDMA, 588 children and 332 women were among those who lost their lives...
Tanzanian tourism authorities has said that they were at the final preparations to start a process of introducing cable car on Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain. Mary Masanja, the Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, said the process to introduce the cable car was on the mountain is...
The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has trained 200 personnel across the country on mental health. The training was conducted by Instinct Resource Services (IRS) in Port Harcourt. According to a statement signed by Managing Director, IRS, Mr Ayuba Fagbemi, the training is part of efforts of the NIS Comptroller-General,...
By Dr. KELECHI ONYEMAOBI Internally displaced persons camps in various parts of Maiduguri, Borno State, northeast Nigeria, bubbled with livelihood activities just before they shut down in August 2022 – as the men and women perfected new skills that would help them to feed their families when they returned...
By ORKULA SHAAGGEE, Abuja – A leading contender in the NFF Presidential election slated for September 30, and the Chief of Staff to the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Alhaji Abba Yola has bagged the prestigious Thomas Sankara Leadership Prize for Pan- African Icon of Sports Renaissance Award....
By ORKULA SHAAGGEE, Abuja – The Minister for Sports and Youth Development, Sunday Dare will on Tuesday meet with all candidates seeking to replace Amaju Melvin Pinnick, as the new president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). The 2022 NFF Electoral Committee last week cleared 11 aspirants to contest...
A man whose life ambition eluded him deserves sympathy. Days ago, the governor of Rivers state Nyesom Wike held a national press conference on the crisis he is visiting on his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He said not much that was new. But he re-emphasised that his...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Nasarawa State Commissioner of Local Government, Community Development and Chieftaincy Affairs, Alhaji Yusuf Aliyu Turaki, and The Commissioner for Finance, Daniel Agyeno and State Accountant General, Zakka Yakubu, have been summoned by the Nasarawa House of Assembly, to appear before it on Tuesday at...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State, Committee on Flood Disaster has visited no fewer than three Local Government Areas namely Shani, Damboa and Chibok that are worst hit by floods in the state. The committee which was set up by Governor Babagana Zulum under the Chairmanship of State...
The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested 44 suspected criminals and recovered arms and ammunition from them. Mr Sikiru Akande, Commissioner of Police in the state made this known in Yola on Monday while briefing newsmen. Akande said that the suspects were arrested for various offences ranging from kidnapping,...
Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi, the Speaker, Nasarawa State House of Assembly, has urged students and all Nigerians to pray for an end to the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The speaker made the call on Tuesday shortly after received an award of Excellence as ”Speaker...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it has come out with new guidelines to ensure seamless conduct of future operational processes, including the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board made this known in its Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar on Monday in Abuja....
The Nigerian Exchange Ltd. (NGX) was upbeat on Monday as market capitalisation increased by N87 billion or 0.33 per cent to close at N26.532 trillion from N26.445 trillion recorded on Friday. Also, the All-Share Index (ASI) increased by 162.70 basis points, representing a rise of 0.33 per cent to...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has appointed former Senate President Bukola Saraki and six others as Special Advisers in his presidential campaign team. Abubakar said this in a statement by his Media Adviser, Mr Paul Ibe in Abuja on Monday,...
The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Ernest Umakhihe, says the Nigeria’s Livestock subsector has huge economic potentials worth more than N33 trillion annually that ought to be explored. Umakhihe said this at the inauguration of the Edo chapter of Animal Science Association of Nigeria...