Super Falcons of Nigeria striker, Asisat Oshoala, has made the 20-man shortlist for the 2022 Women’s Ballon d’Or award. Last month, Oshoala, was crowned the 2022 CAF Women’s Player of the Year making it the fifth time the 27-year-old was taking home the prize, surpassing her compatriot Perpetua Nkwocha....
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The National President of the Nigerian Army Officers’ Wives Association (NAOWA), Mrs. Salamatu Yahaya has commissioned a primary school and secretariat complexes at the 7 Division, Maimalari Cantonment, Maiduguri, in Borno state. The projects were built in other to provide working and teaching environments...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Leading technology company, MTN Nigeria Plc has announced a new data bundle specially designed for micro small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) who desire to access free business capacity-building content but cannot afford the data required to do so. Recognizing the benefits of knowledge and...
The Federal Government has inaugurated a Presidential Steering Committee to review Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System(IPPIS), the Treasury Single Account(TSA) and Government Integrated Financial Management System( GIFMIS) over irregularities. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami, who is also the chairman of committee inaugurated it...
The Deputy Governor of Edo, Chief Philip Shaibu, on Friday received scores of defectors from the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Edo North into the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The defectors were led by Sen. Francis Alimikhena representing Edo North Senatorial District at the Senate. They said they were...
The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has pledged to work with government and lecturers to end incessant strike in Nigeria universities. Abubakar stated this at a youths programme with the theme “Intergenerational Synergy on Government”, organised by PDP to commemorate the 2022 International Youth...
Spotify, global online music streaming platform, has announced South African singer, Siobhan King, popularly called “Sio” as Spotify Equal Africa artiste for the month of August. Phiona Okumu, Spotify’s head of music for sub-Saharan Africa disclosed this in a statement on Friday. Okumu said that Sio had joined other...
Level 2 housemates of the ongoing television reality show, Big Brother Naija, Season 7, have won the week 3 wager challenge. Biggie, the coordinator of the show, announced this upon completion of the challenge as he rewarded each housemate in the level 2 house 1,500 pocket naira, to be...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A member of the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prof. Jerry Gana, has said Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers is not challenging the outcome of the party’s presidential primary. Professor Jerry Gana disclosed this in a statement he issued...
The Niger Development Commission (NDDC) has resumed the suspended scholarship scheme as part of efforts to eradicate poverty in the Niger Delta region. Mr Udengs Eradiri, Special Adviser on Youths to the Interim Administrator, NDDC, Dr Efiong Akwa, who announced the development, said that it was part of NDDC’s...
The Federal Government is determined to ensure the release of victims of the Abuja-Kaduna train attack still in captivity, according to the Minister of Transportation, Mr Muazu Sambo. Sambo spoke in Lagos on Friday while inspecting railway facilities. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that President Muhammadu Buhari...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), says it has generated N1.293 trillion in the first six months of 2022 into the Federation Account. The NCS Public Relations Officer, Deputy Comptroller Timi Bomodi said this at a news conference on Friday in Abuja. He said the amount was an increase compared...
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has criticised the Nigerian Governors Forum recommendations to the Federal Government on how to save the country from economic collapse. The NLC President, Mr Ayuba Wabba said this in a letter addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari and made available to newsmen on Friday in...
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has denied filing a suit against the Peoples Democratic Party, its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal. Recall that legal documents filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja had surfaced late on Thursday showing Wike as a plaintiff in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – President Muhammadu Buhari has again appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off the ongoing strike which has drastically affected the universities’ students all over the country apart from disrupting their academic pursuits. President Buhari also urged ASUU leaders to...
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila has decried that the current political conversation centred around division and derision by the youths. Gbajabiamila said this at a Youth and Social Development summit, organised by the Gbaja Professional Volunteers Network (GPVN) to...
Nearly 1,000 Cameroonian Army recruits undergoing training at a military academy have been dismissed over corruption allegations. The country’s Minister of Defence, Joseph Beti Assomo, said in a circular made public on Friday. Beti Assomo said the new 2022 recruits who were in full training had applied to join...
Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong has expressed joy on the release of the state former Governor, Chief Joshua Dariye, saying Plateau people also rejoice on the development. The governor stated this when he led a delegation from the state along with his wife’s, Mrs Regina Lalong to visit Dariye...
Over the decades, he never lost enthusiasm for that exceptional yarn that would shake the mighty and which he would write with the speed and simple elegance that were his hallmarks, Matthew Tostevin writes. But John (photo), who died on Tuesday aged 72, was so much more than a brave and...