Manchester City rubbed salt into Arsenal wounds with a 5-0 thrashing on Saturday to inflict the Gunners’ worst start to a league season since 1954. Mikel Arteta’s men have lost their first three league games and are yet to even score a goal with the pressure rising on the...
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The Peoples Democratic Party has chosen Abuja as the venue for its national convention. The decision was reached at the party’s 92nd National Executive Committee meeting which was presided over by acting National Chairman, Elder Yemi Akinwonmi on Saturday. The NEC also agreed to reconvene in September. Main opposition...
The Ogun Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has said that two people lost their lives on Saturday in a three-vehicle pile-up around AP Petrol Station on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The State Sector Commander of FRSC, Mr Ahmed Umar, who confirmed the incident to the News Agency...
A newborn baby boy was on Saturday found dead at the dump site in front of a Primary School in Okaka community, Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa. According to residents of the area, the baby must have been abandoned by the mother in the night. The News Agency...
The Federal Government on Saturday recommenced the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme in Lagos State. Flaging-off the 5th and 6th Bi-Monthly payment in Lagos State, Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment, Mrs Yetunde Arobieke, said that 6,810 persons/households had benefited from the programme since inception. Arobieke said that the...
The Federal Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (FMSTI) has been supporting more than 200 talented youth entrepreneurs financially. Dr Danazumi Ibrahim, Director General National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion made the disclosure in Bauchi on Saturday. He was speaking as representative of the Minister of State of...
It is evident that our politics in Nigeria is evolving: Knowledge of the meaning of politics is percolating through the maze of ignorance down through the perception of the people of Nigeria. I have, for sometime, deliberately refrained from commenting on the aspiration by our leader HE Senator George...
Abia State Government has so far disbursed over N630 million to 9,347 beneficiaries of the Federal Government’s Conditional Cash Transfer in six pilot local government areas of the state. The Head of the Unit of the programme in the state, Mr Okeziem Nwoko, disclosed this to the News Agency...
World football star Cristiano Ronaldo has grown his family since his days in his first stint at Manchester United – and is now the proud dad of four children. Cristiano has also been happily in a relationship with his Spanish-Argentine model girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez for the past five years....
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in collaboration with other security agencies will on Aug. 30 start impounding vehicles with fake and unauthorised number plates in Kogi. The state Sector Commander of the FRSC, Mr Solomon Agure, who disclosed this in a statement in Lokoja on Saturday said that...
He has been very much around in the political terrain. His political savvy and ability to meander through the uncharted waters of the stillborn democracy had once earned him the title of “The Luckiest Rivers Politician” by The Beam Newspaper, in December 2007. Prince Uche Secondus has proved that...
By BABARA KALU, Abakaliki – The Ebonyi State Police Command on Saturday said it have rescued a nine-month-old girl abandoned at Ebonyi Riverside in Ezzillo Community in Ishielu Local Government Area of the state. The command’s spokesperson, DSP Loveth Odah, who disclosed this in a statement in Abakaliki, said...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, said that the service would soon embark on an e-project that would help in checking irregular migration in the country. Mr. Babandede said irregular migrants without valid documents would be prosecuted, adding that, nobody...
The United States has urged its citizens to “immediately” leave the gates around Kabul’s airport, where a suicide bomber this week targeted crowds trying to flee Taliban rule. Earlier Friday, the Pentagon said that the high-risk Kabul airlift operation to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies still faced “specific, credible...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo has evacuated a three-week-old baby and 69 students of the state who were stranded in Jos, Plateau State. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Gboyega Akosile, disclosed this on Friday via a statement, noting that evacuation followed emergency calls from the students who...
The GOC, 8 Division Nigerian Army, Sokoto, Maj.-Gen. Uwem Bassey has said.The Nigerian Army and the Police in Zamfara have begun collaborating in the fight against banditry and restoring security in the state. Bassey, also the Force Commander, Operation Hadarin Daji, stated this when he paid a courtesy visit...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said the country now has 199, 333 COVID-19 infections as at Friday Aug. 27 across all the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory. The NCDC, who made the announcement on its verified...
The United States has launched a drone attack against a planner for the Islamic State (ISIS), the U.S. Central Command has revealed. The U.S. attack is coming less than 48 hours after a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, killed 13 U.S. service members and some 170 Afghans. “U.S. military...
The Plateau chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday said it has resolved its differences and will conduct its ward congress on Sept.11. Mr Emmanuel Goar, Spokesperson of Sen. Tunde Ogbeha led State Caretaker Committee, made the disclosure in Jos after the party’s caucus meeting. “We want...
The Plateau State House of Assembly has given Gov. Simon Lalong two weeks to address the security challenges bedviling the state. Mr Philip Dasun, Chairman, House Committee on Information conveyed the position of the legislators when he briefed newsmen in Jos. Mr. Dasun said that the assembly would know...