Nigerian footballer, Victor Osimhen has been offered N4 billion in salary per year to play for Premier League club, Newcastle United. This is according to Italian outlet Calciomercato. Osimhen who currently plays for Napoli has been linked with a move to Premier League clubs; Manchester United, Arsenal and Newcastle,...
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Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has urged the Nigerian electorate to vote the right people into positions of authority, to salvage the country from its current challenges. Amaechi, who was a Special Guest of Honour at the 2022 World Press Freedom Day celebrations in Uyo on Tuesday, urged...
Senator Margery Chuba-Okadigbo, Chairman of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd., on Monday commended Nigerian delegation at the 2022 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), in Houston, Texas, United States. Chuba-Okadigbo gave the commendation while declaring open the OTC Nigerian exhibition pavilion at the conference. She expressed...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Amazed by the crowds that thronged his village central Eid praying ground in Wamakko town today, Senator Aliyu Wamakko has appealed to all Nigerians to pray for peace, security and prosperity of the country. Senator Wamakko, made the call shortly after observing the two...
Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has urged Nigerian Politicians to allow peace to reign in the country. Abubakar made the call on Monday in his Eid-el-fitr Sallah message to Nigerians in Sokoto. He said politicians in the country should play the game of politics with faith, love...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has felicitated with the Muslim ummah in Nigeria on the celebration of this year’s EId-el-Fitri. The EId-el-Fitri is celebrated worldwide by Muslims to mark the end of the Ramadan fast. The Governor in a goodwill message to the Muslim...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday joined other Muslim faithful at the parade ground of the Mambila Barracks, Abuja, to perform the Eid-el-Fitr prayer. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Nigerian leader, accompanied by some of his family members and personnel aides, arrived at the venue of...
Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, who is a presidential aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has urged Nigerians to continue to pray for peace in the country. Governor Tambuwal made the call on Sunday in his Eid-el-fitr Sallah massage to the people in Sokoto. According to him, the...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is the preferred candidate of Nigerians to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. This was revealed by a recent nationwide survey carried out by the Intellectual Forum on Politics and Governance(IFP&G). The survey, which was carried out by the group in February, indicated that Osinbajo...
Mr Omoyele Sowore, a presidential aspirant on the platform of the African Action Congress (AAC), on Saturday appealed to Nigerians to vote for his party in the 2023 general elections. Sowore, the publisher of the SaharaReporters, made the plea in Akure while speaking with newsmen, amid a resounding welcome...
Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola. Photo: Facebook/Rauf Aregbesola The Federal Government has declared Monday and Tuesday, May 2 and 3 as public holidays to mark this year’s Workers Day and Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations. Mr Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior, made the declaration on Thursday on behalf of the Federal Government....
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello on Wednesday, picked the All Progressives Congress (APC) Expression of Interest and Nomination forms for presidential race, saying he is not intimidated by anyone. Bello who was the first aspirant to pay the N100 million fee for the forms, told newsmen shortly after picking...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday said it will be a betrayal to Nigeria if he doesn’t contest the presidency in the 2023 general elections. Speaking during a visit to Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu and stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Osinbajo said aside from...
A Lagos-based legal practitioner, Festus Ogun on Monday filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari at the Federal High Court in Lagos over the excessive pain, hardship and agony Nigerians went through as a result of the fuel scarcity experienced earlier this year. The legal practitioner said he solemnly...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has given its commitment to providing strong support to Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) ahead of the forthcoming 2023 general elections Prof. Kunle Ajayi, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of the Outreach and Partnership Committee (OPC), gave the commitment at the opening of a...
A molecular biologist, Dr Bamidele Iwalokun, has advised Nigerians to urgently treat malaria attacks to prevent shortage of blood, cerebral malaria, acute respiratory distress syndrome and death. Iwalokun who is also the Director, Central Research Laboratory at the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research, Lagos, gave the advice in an...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari “over the failure to unblock the phone lines of over 72 million telecommunication subscribers barred from making calls on their SIMs.” Joined in the suit as respondents are Mr...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan says he is yet to decide whether or not to yield to pressure by different groups urging him to contest the 2023 presidential election. He said this on Friday in Abuja when his committee of friends and some youths from across the country visited him...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the All Progressives Congress (APC) high cost for nomination and expression of interest forms for elective positions for 2023 has disenfranchised many Nigerians. The PDP National Chairman, Sen. Iyorchia Ayu stated this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja The APC has pegged...
By NANA AISHA, Bauchi – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Bauchi State, has warned against multiple registration for Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) during the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise. The Head of Voter Education and Publicity, INEC Bauchi, Mr. Adamu Gujungu, disclosed this in a statement issued to...