A travel agent, named Maria Silvia scammed Manchester United striker, Cristiano Ronaldo, out of £250,000 (about N140 million) after the football star entrusted her with his credit cards and pin. The 53-year-old travel agent also scammed Ronaldo’s super-agent Jorge Mendes of £14,000 and Manchester United winger, Nani, of over...
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For the first time in its four-decade existence, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board is being a represented at the World Congress of the International Press Institute in Vienna, Austria. This was made possible by the present leadership of the Board which, in a bid to align its operations...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has raised alarm on the menace of illegal admissions in the nation’s tertiary institutions. According to the Registrar of the Board, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, the high rate of illegal admissions had become worrisome, as requests for their...
A 23-year-old woman, Firdausi Sulaiman on Monday dragged her husband, Haruna Haruna, before a Sharia Court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, seeking divorce on grounds that he beats her and says she eats too much. In her petition, Suleiman, who lives in Rigasa in Kaduna, also told the...
The United States’ known death toll from COVID-19 would surpass the number of dead from the Spanish Flu within the next few days or so, according to the side-by-side numbers. Though a direct comparison between the raw numbers did not give the whole story, medical experts and statisticians said....
Authorities have evacuated about 5,000 people from villages in the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma as lava spews from an erupting volcano, local officials said. The 15-meter high lava flow has already swallowed 20 houses in the village of El Paso and sections of roads, Mayor Sergio Rodriguez...
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has vowed that the north will continue leading Nigeria, arguing that the region has the majority to produce a leader through the ballot. With the 2023 presidential polls in view, leaders and politicians of southern extraction have been clamoring for a shift in power,...
Following the annual Information Security Management System (ISMS) audit by the British Standard Institute (BSI), Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX Group or The Group) and its subsidiaries has retained its ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification. This marks the 7th consecutive year that The Group will hold this certification since it was first...
Separate from the awareness that the euphoria which heralded the epoch appointments of Professor Lillian Imuetinyan Salami, a home economist/nutritionist and former Dean of the Faculty of Education, as the second female vice-chancellor after Grace Alele Williams, and the 10th substantive vice-chancellor of the University of Benin, Edo State,...
OLA MODUPE, Ogun – The Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 45-year-old man, Olaoluwa Jimoh, for allegedly impregnating his daughter, in Ode-Remo area of the state. This is contained in a statement issued by the Police Spokesman in Ogun, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi. ”The command arrested Jimoh, on Sept.16,...
A man opened fire at a university in the Russian city of Perm, killing eight and injured 20 people, investigators said on Monday morning, according to the Interfax agency. The attacker was killed, according to the university in the city about 1,200 kilometres east of Moscow, initially; there had...
The Federal Road Safety Corps, Lagos Sector Command, says four people who were trapped by a fallen container have been rescued alive. The Corps Commander, Mr Olusegun Ogungbemide, made the disclosure in a statement on Sunday in Lagos, signed by the Route Commander, FRSC Public Education Officer, Mrs Olabisi...
Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Amb. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande says Nigeria is a strong voice on the global stage and has been a pre-eminent regional voice for Africa. Muhammad-Bande told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York that the world had also been listening to Nigeria’s voice...
President Muhammadu Buhari makes no pretence about his desire to deepen and diversify the nation’s economy. The Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, the nation’s ports manager, is a key parastatal in this regard. It’s therefore of little wonder that the president’s attention is regularly on the activities of the NPA....
The Theatre Commander, Joint Task Force (North East) Operation Hadin Kai, Maj.-Gen. Christopher Musa, says the military will continue to push harder in the fight against insurgency until there is total peace. Musa stated this while addressing journalists from Abuja who are on media tour to Maiduguri on the...
The Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the UN, Prof. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, says Nigeria will join other world leaders to push for global COVID-19 vaccine equity at the ongoing UN General Assembly high-level meetings. Muhammad-Bande told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York that President Muhammadu Buhari would...
Rivers United FC of Nigeria, on Sunday, completed a double victory over Young Africans of Tanzania, to earn a place in the first round of the CAF TotalEnergies Champions’ League. United defeated the visiting team 1-0 at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt. Technical Adviser of Rivers United,...
The Federal Government has imposed travel restrictions on passengers who shun the COVID-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test. Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, disclosed this via a statement on Sunday, adding that the restrictions came into...
Akwa United of Uyo have been eliminated from the 2020/2021 CAF Champions League. It was a sad day for Nigeria’s representatives Akwa United as the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) champions were eliminated by Algeria’s Ligue 1 champions CR Belouizdad. They failed to build on their preliminary round first-leg...