The IOC on Tuesday barred Russian athletes from taking part in the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics on July 26 and criticised the Kremlin for planning to hold its own “Friendship Games” to rival those held in the French capital. “These decisions demonstrate how far the IOC has ...
Amusan, who is the 100mH world record holder, was a clear favourite ahead of the race, was shown a yellow after beating the gun for the first time but lined up again. On the second time of the gun going off, Amusan did not make any mistake, sprinting to an ...
The House of Representatives yesterday, approved the extension of the N2.177 trillion Supplementary Act, 2023, from December 31, 2023, to June 30, 2024, following President Bola Tinubu’s request. The budget revealed that the sum of N967,486,010,536 was for Statutory Transfers; N6,557,597,611,797 was for Debt Service; N8,329,370,195,637 was for Recurrent (Non-Debt) ...
President Bola Tinubu, last night, promised that the sacrifices of the 16 soldiers killed last week in Okuama, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, would not be in vain. Speaking during the breaking of Ramadan fast at State House, Abuja, with Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. ...
The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), Mele Kyari, yesterday said that the anticipated public listing of the company’s shares at the stock market as provided for in the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) will start soon. Kyari told international oil and gas players participating ...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), yesterday, announced that all valid Foreign Exchange (FX) backlogs owed various sectors of the economy had been settled. The FX settlement fulfilled a key pledge of the CBN governor, Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, to process an inherited backlog of $7 billion in outstanding liabilities. That ...
The Nigeria Chess community was thrown into mourning mood yesterday after the news of the death of its foremost supporter of the game, Engineer Jonathan Odega broke. He was aged 65 and hailed from Ubulu Okiti, Aniocha South Local Government area of Delta State. According to the Media Director of ...
Nigeria’s Under-20 female football team, the Falconets, will take on Ghana on Thursday in the final of the women’s football event at the 13th African Games in Ghana. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Falconets booked their place in the finals after defeating Uganda 2-0 in the ...
Barely hours after his appointment as interim Head Coach of the Super Eagles, ex international Finidi George, had his first meeting with backroom staff of the Nigerian senior national team in Marrakech, Morocco. The three-time African champions who finished as finalists at the AFCON 2023 in Côte d’Ivoire last month ...
Nigerian taekwondo sensation, Elizabeth Anyanacho, on Tuesday won a gold medal at the ongoing African Games in Ghana. It’s Nigeria’s first taekwondo gold at the competition and it came after Anyanacho defeated Africa’s No.1 ranked taekwondo athlete Mohammed Aya of Egypt in three rounds to claim the gold medal in ...
