Karim Benzema admitted he had done all he could with Real Madrid this season to make himself favourite for the Ballon d’Or after helping the Spanish giants beat Liverpool 1-0 in Saturday’s Champions League final in Paris. Benzema did not score in the final at the Stade de France...
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Miss Oluebebe Ogbonna, a 14-year-old student of Divine Rays British School Obosi, Idemili North of Anambra, on Sunday emerged winner of the first Igbo Spelling Bee competition. Ogbonna came tops in the competition in which 356 public and private secondary school students in Awka, Nnewi and Onitsha educational zones...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cancelled all the results of the primary elections conducted in Ebonyi State on Thursday. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Hon Debo Ologunagba, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja. Hon. Ologunagba said the decision was...
A 36-year-old Nigerian, based in Italy, Nwakanma Uche, has excreted 95 pellets of heroin, after he was arrested by operatives of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency ( NDLEA). Uche was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, after it was discovered that he had ingested the...
Gunmen on Sunday, killed Mr Zakari Kigbu, a former Federal Commissioner of National Population Commission (NPC) at his residence in Azuba community near Lafia, Nasarawa State capital. ACP Ramhan Nansel, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Nasarawa State Command, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
Dr Adetokunbo Pearse, a PDP stalwart in Lagos State says the emergence of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as PDP’s presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections is a blessing for Nigeria. Abubakar polled 371 votes to emerge as PDP’s presidential candidate at the party’s primary election held in Abuja...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A group of senior legal academians, solicitor generals/permanent secretaries, and personalities from related fields have converged in Abuja to develop a suitable framework for a successful transitional justice programme in North East Nigeria. The strategic expert meeting for the development of transitional justice framework...
Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister of Aviation has reacted to Atiku Abubakar, emerging the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential flagbearer on Saturday. Atiku polled a total of 371 votes to defeat his closest rival, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State who garnered 237 votes. Wike was followed by former...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Governor Ben Ayade has denied participating in the Cross River North Senatorial primary election on Saturday. Governor Ayade debunked the report in a statement issued to newsmen on Sunday in Calabar and signed by his Special Adviser Media and Publicity Christian Ita According to...
The Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor-Kalu, has congratulated the Peoples Democratic party for electing former vice-president Atiku Abubakar, as the party’s candidate for the 2023 presidential election. Kalu in a statement on Sunday stated that Atiku’s victory in the PDP presidential primary election meant that Nigerians has understood...
A passenger plane with 22 people on board went missing in Nepal on Sunday, the operating airline and officials said, as poor weather hampered a search operation. Nepal’s air industry has boomed in recent years, carrying goods and people between hard-to-reach areas as well as foreign trekkers and climbers....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- A leading presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has congratulated former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on his victory at the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Tinubu in his congratulatory message on Sunday, however, said the emergence of Atiku,...
Gov. Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi has clinched the Kebbi Central Senatorial ticket for All Progressives Congress (APC). Declaring the election result held at Haliru Abdu Secretariat, Birnin Kebbi, the state capital, the Returning Officer, Mrs Kelechi Njoku said Bagudu scored 455 votes to be the winner of the election....
The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar has urged his fellow contestants in the primary election to work with him for the victory of the party. Abubakar said this on Sunday morning in Abuja in his acceptance speech after he was declared...
Super Eagles’ captain William Troost-Ekong on Saturday cleared into his team’s net to gift Mexico a 2-1 victory over Nigeria in an international friendly at Dallas in the U.S. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the match was the Super Eagles’ first of two international friendlies lined...
ENGAGEMENTS BY Chidi Amuta In a little over another week, a great deal of the political cacophony all over the country will have abated. The period will end with gatherings of Nigeria’s political tribes in Abuja. Their major achievement will be to lower the deafening decibels of our current political noise...
At a time like this, there is a compelling need to evaluate our politics and governance via a broader view of the people’s paramount concerns and legitimate expectations in order to unravel its values of fiscal discipline, prudent management, robust and continuous community engagement, effective and efficient public communication,...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Bauchi State Government has imposed a 24-hour curfew as a measure to contain the spread of the violent clash between rival restive youths of Yelwan Tsakani, a sub-urb of Bauchi metropolis on Friday night. This is even as the Bauchi State Commissioner of Police,...
By KEMI BUSOLA, Abuja – The African Union Commission, in partnership with the International Committee of All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) has formally unveiled the calendar of events for the 2022 annual edition of the awards ceremony. The unveiling event took place at a world press conference on Thursday...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – Olori Janet Afolabi, Queen of Apomu Kingdom on Friday hosted more than 900 Apomu children and distributed 1000 books. Mrs. Janet Afolabi said it was part of her contribution to enhance education in the community. The event took place at Alapomu Palace on May...