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 ...
The Super Eagles camp for the game opened on Tuesday. But Osimhen, Africa’s Player of the Year, would miss the matches, according to an update on the team’s social media page. Osimhen, 25, has struggled with fitness in the past weeks and will not make the 22nd and 26 March ...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, have protested alleged exclusion of party members from appointments by the Minister, Nyesom Wike.The stakeholders accused the Minister of literally importing all his cronies in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from Rivers State into the FCT and ...
The House of Representatives is considering a bill to empower state governors to appoint and remove judges in state High Court, a function presently performed by the National Judicial Council (NJC). The proposed legislation provides that the appointment and removal of the judges, which shall be based on the advice ...
Without a doubt, athletics is one of Team Nigeria’s area of strength as the country boasts of world performers who are poised to maintain her dominance in the event. Leading the charge for Nigeria is none other than Tobiloba Amusan, the world record holder in the 100m hurdles event. Amusan’s ...
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa, yesterday ordered the arrest and investigation of the killers of a commanding officer, two majors, one captain, and 12 soldiers, deployed to quell a communal crisis in Okuoma community in Ughelli South Local Government Area (LGA) of Delta State.Delta State Governor, ...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Ezenwo Nyesom Wike has commissioned the Sunrise Waterpark, a world-class recreational centre reputed to be the biggest in West Africa. The expansive facility is located on Asokoro Hill, clearly overlooking Mogadishu Barracks, Abuja, and other parts of the city centre. The minister said ...
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) which measures the rate of change in prices of goods and commodities, increased by 1.80 per cent to 31.70 per cent in February compared to 29.90 per cent in the preceding month, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) stated yesterday. This is the highest inflation ...
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, (UNODC) has called for greater implementation of the non-custodial measures to truly make the correctional facilities across the country reformative institutions for inmates. Speaking to journalists in Abuja during a four-day Inmates Classification training for officers of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), ...
