Following are the results of Match Day 11 fixtures in the 2021/2022 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) played on Sunday: Sunshine Stars 0-1 Enyimba International Remo Stars 1-0 Shooting Stars (3SC) Plateau United 1-0 Rivers United Wikki Tourists 0-0 Rangers International Kwara United 1-0 Lobi Stars Niger Tornadoes 2-1...
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President Muhammadu Buhari commenced the week under review with a promise that the Federal Government would honour promises made to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) This the President said, was to prevent disruptive strikes, engender uninterrupted academic programmes and improve funding of education institutions. The President made...
By JIMIN GEOFFREY, Markudi – Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has told former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar that people of the state are not happy with him for abandoning them during their trying times. Governor Ortom spoke on Sunday at the Benue Peoples House when he...
The Eggon stakeholders of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nasarawa State have urged the people of the state to re-elect Gov. Abdullahi Sule for a second term in 2023. The stakeholders drummed their support during an inaugural meeting of Eggon Movement for APC, Nasarawa state, on Sunday in Nassarawa...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has said the death of the Emir of Jama’are, Ahmad Wabi III, one of the longest-reigning traditional rulers in Africa, “is the end of an era.” The president expressed his grief over the death of the Emir, who was laid to...
Ahead of its national convention on Feb. 26, youth members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) South-South zone, have called for more unity and opportunities for youth to occupy prominent positions in the party. Mr Gabriel Iduseri, the South-South Youth Leader of the party, made the appeal at the...
Al Hilal thumped hosts Al Jazira 6-1 on Sunday in Abu Dhabi to book their place in the 2021 FIFA Club World Cup semi-finals against Chelsea. Al Jazira, who are 2020/2021 UAE Pro League champions, opened the scoring through Abdoulay Diaby after 14 minutes. But goals from former English...
The Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited had a busy week following the award of honourary doctorate degree on its Group Managing Director (GMD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Malam Mele Kyari. The award was bestowed on the awardee by Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna. Other prominent Nigerians...
FC Barcelona produced arguably the most impressive performance of Xavi’s tenure as the Blaugrana made something of a statement in their 4-2 defeat of Atletico Madrid. Diego Simeone brought up Xavi’s past criticism of Atletico Madrid’s style of play in the build-up. But the latter had the last laugh...
A handful of football fans in Bauchi on Sunday went berserk and attacked the referee of the match between Wikki Tourists Football Club and visiting Rangers International of Enugu. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident occurred after the match, a 2021/2022 Nigeria Professional Football League...
Sadio Mane made up for an earlier penalty kick miss with the decisive kick on Sunday in Yaounde as Senegal claimed their first Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) title. They claimed the title with a 4-2 penalty kick shootout win over Egypt at the Olembe Stadium in the final match of...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Sokoto Missionary Zonal Pastor of Christian Evangelical Fellowship of Nigeria (CEFN), Rev Stephen Okadonye has urged christians to cultivate the attitude of self discipline in order to sustained progress in life. Rev Okadonye who made the call on Sunday while preaching on the...
The Old Students’ Association of Community Comprehensive High School, Ikaram Akoko, says it has attracted construction of projects worth N12 million to the school. The President of the Association, Olurotimi Williams-Daudu, stated this at the inauguration of renovated five classrooms block and foundation laying ceremony of the schools’ administrative...
Some residents of Agric community in Ojo Local Government, Lagos state, are bemoaning the increase in armed robbery attacks at their major bus stops. The residents also alleged that the hoodlums sell and smoke hard drugs with reckless abandon and at night rob people of their valuables. The residents...
Igbo Women Forum, a political group, says it will mobilise at least 25 million votes for Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi in the 2023 Presidential election. The group stated this in a statement by its President, Mrs Uju Obi, in Abuja on Sunday. She said to achieve this, the...
Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed has dragged an online publication, Pointblank News, before an Abuja High court over alleged libel. In a copy of the Writ of Summon obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, the minister is seeking the sum of N50 billion aggravated...
Igoche Mark, President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), has charged the Nigeria Female Basketball team, D’ Tigress, to make the country proud at the FIBA Women’s World Cup Qualifiers in Serbia. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the D’ Tigress would face France, China and Mali...
Sen. Victor Lar, Campaign Director, Ali-Modu Sheriff Campaign Organisation, has debunked allegations that Sen. Ali-Modu Sheriff, has links with the Boko Haram sect. Senator Lar debunked the allegations in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Sunday in Abuja. He said that Sheriff, a frontline All...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – UNICEF has warned that Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is on the rise among Nigerian girls aged 0-14 years and it have risen from 16.9 per cent in 2013 to 19.2 per cent in 2018. In a bid to reduce this worrying trend, UNICEF has...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – African growth and development will require strong, visionary leadership that caters for the needs of the people, and effectively strengthens institutions that encourage peaceful co-existence, while providing disincentives to conflicts and coups, President Muhammadu Buhari and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Sunday in...