Dr Adetokunbo Pearse, a Lagos PDP chieftain and former member, Atiku Abubakar 2023 presidential campaign council, says there is still hope for the main opposition party in Nigeria. Pearse, a former PDP national chairmanship aspirant and gubernatorial candidate in Lagos state, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
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Nigeria’s highest ranked table tennis player, Quadri Aruna, has exited the World Table Tennis Men’s finals in Doha following a 0-3 (6-11 9-11 4-11) defeat to World number one, Zhendong Fan. The quarterfinals game at the Lusail Sports Arena on Thursday saw the Chinese dominate the game. Aruna,...
Ex-international Wasiu Ipaye on Thursday said despite doubts about the list of invited players for the 2023 Côte d’Ivoire Africa Nation’s Cup (AFCON), the Super Eagles may surprise fans by performing well at the tournament. Ipaye, a former defensive midfielder, said this in an interview with the...
As the global community knocks at the entrance doors of the year 2024, there is an urgent imperative for Nigerian leaders to commence consideration of development in its totality-going beyond cement and concrete (roads, buildings and other things). Those are important but in the year 2024, we should...
The Former President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Koroma would be arriving Nigeria on Thursday on political asylum. The former President who was investigated for his role in a botched coup d’etat and was found culpable of complicity. A signed public notice by Sierra Leonean Minister of Information and...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has said the sanction on the suspension of accreditation and evaluation of degree certificates from Benin Republic and Togo would be extended to more countries like Uganda, Kenya and Niger Republic. Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, disclosed this in an interview on...
A total of 17 players have arrived the Super Eagles’ camp in Abu Dhabi ahead of the team’s campaign at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Cote d’Ivoire. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the three-time African champions are hoping to end a 10-year...
Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri on Wednesday rallied from two sets down to defeat World number 5, Hugo Calderano of Brazil 3-2 at the ongoing World Table-tennis (WTT) men’s finals in Doha. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Aruna, who is currently ranked 16th in WTT rankings came...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Government through the Ministry of Education has suspended the accreditation and evaluation of degree certificates from Benin Republic and Togo. The spokesperson for the Ministry of Education, Augustina Obilor-Duru, disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja....
The murder of over 200 lives in rustic communities in Plateau State by bloodthirsty marauders has continued to attract local and international attention with the latest being from Pope Francis. Let us pray together for the victims of the severe violence in Nigeria’s Plateau State. May God...
Super EaglesAh, Jose Peseiro has backed Nigeria to win a fourth Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), but conceded that it would be a real challenge when action gets under way in Ivory Coast later this month. The last of Nigeria’s three continental titles came 10 years ago...
The 2023 Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, says a new Nigeria is possible in spite of the numerous yet-to-be-fulfilled aspirations of citizens. Obi, in his New Year Message to Nigerians on Monday, said that “As Nigeria is the only country we have, deeply endowed but...
By PAUL EJIME – Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) has expressed gratitude to Nigeria and paid tribute to Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Nigeria, for supporting electoral processes and the consolidation of democracy in Liberia. Speaking at the dedication of an Information and...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State has urged Nigerians to put the partisan politics of 2023 behind and unite to make the country a better place in 2024. The Lagos State APC Chairman, Pastor Cornelius Ojelabi, make this remark in his New Year Message on Sunday...
The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan-Kukah, says the repeated and unending killings on the Plateau is beyond herder-farmer clashes, adding that the murderers “want their own kind of Nigeria according to their ideology”. The cleric, in a statement on Saturday, charged the government...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – On Friday, December 29, 2023, The Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) extended an honorary tribute to Chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The event marked the dedication of a Workspace for staff, officiated by Prof. Yakubu at the...
Ex-international, Waidi Akanni, on Saturday said the Super Eagles would need a miracle to win the 2023 Côte d’Ivoire Africa Nation’s Cup (AFCON) due to inadequate preparation. Akanni said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos with barely two weeks to the...
By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja – The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has denied reports of a jersey launch for the Super Eagles as they prepare for the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament to be held in Cote d’Ivoire next year. It would be recalled that reports making the...
This piece primarily stemmed from a recent Nigeria-focused conversation with a Delta state born but Florida, United States of America (USA) based practicing Lawyer who studied in England, Finland, Sweden, and Norway among others. Aside from using the opportunity provided by the conversation to explain how today...
For Nigerians, 2023 would become one of the most remarkable years in recent memory in terms of defining moments and major events; some cheery while some are not very pleasant. This is just as there were major global events that highlighted 2023. We look at some of them:...