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Nigeria’s Super Falcons defeated Australia 3-2 at the Brisbane Stadium on Thursday. Nigerian female national team beat their opponent to record their first win in the competition and the fifth win in the history of the Women’s World Cup. The Nigerian side came from a goal down to hand the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup […]
Continue Reading1. Diversion of N40 billion from Federation Account A company, Continental Transfert Technique had been hired by the Ministry of Interior to collect the Combined Expatriate Residence Permit and Alien Card (CERPAC) Fee of $2,000 per annum from every expatriate in Nigeria. The revenue from 2019 comes to an average of N40 billion per annum. […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s International electricity customers- ers-Togo, Benin and Niger are owing Nigeria $18.29 million for electricity consumed in 2022, the Ni- Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), has said. The international customers include Compagnie Energie Electrique du Togo of Benin Republic, (CEET); Société Béninoise d’Energie Electrique (SBEE) and NIGELEC-electric power generation and transmission utility in Niger. New […]
Continue ReadingHours after confirming that she has been charged with anti-doping violation, Nigerian athlete, Tobi Amusan has been handed a provisional suspension for allegedly missing three drug tests. The announcement was made by Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on Wednesday, July 19. AIU tweeted: “The AIU confirms that it has today charged and provisionally suspended Tobi Amusan (NGR) for […]
Continue ReadingIn at least 70 recorded cases of police brutality in the United States, the victim cried out three words: I. Can’t. Breathe. From Eric Garner in 2014 to George Floyd in 2020, people hogtied or put in a chokehold cried out those words but were ignored by officers who thought they were lying or exaggerating […]
Continue ReadingThunder lightening has reportedly struck early this week in the agrarian Oro Ago community, Ifelodun local government area in Kwara state, Nigeria and killed three suspected kidnappers. It was gathered that the incident might not be unconnected with the resolve of local vigilance team in the Igbomina axis to check security challenges in the area. […]
Continue Reading25-year-old Nigerian man arrested for falsely presenting himself as a lawyer, AbdulGafar Ayanrinde, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment by an Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court. Spokesperson of Osun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Kehinde Adeleke, on Wednesday, said Ayanrinde committed the offences between 18th and 22nd May 2023 and […]
Continue ReadingThe last time Ms Hilda Effiong Bassey featured in this column was in a piece titled “Tales The Country Told Me: Hilda Baci and Seun Kuti” (ThisDay, May 16) wherein I commented on her courage and heroism for using her culinary skills to bring herself to global attention by breaking the Guinness World Record in […]
Continue ReadingOperatives from Bauchi State Police Command have arrested a 21 years old housewife, Maimunatu Sulaiman of Kofar Dumi area in Bauchi metropolis, Bauchi State, Nigeria, for culpable homicide as she allegedly killed her husband. In a press release by the Acting PPRO of the Command, ASP Aminu Gimba Ahmed on Friday, the Police stated that […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Senator, Ben Murray Bruce has announced himself as the first owner of a $300,000 Alef flying electric car in Nigeria. Though the car is yet to arrive in the country, nor even ready, the Silver Bird boss announced this on his preferred social media page — Twitter, saying, when the car is delivered […]
Continue ReadingIt is a sad day and a sadder period for sports in Nigeria. A few days ago, Jeremiah Okorodudu, a famous Nigerian boxer, probably the most flamboyant and loquacious boxer in the country’s boxing history, died in a private hospital in the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria. He was only 64 years of age. His death […]
Continue ReadingTo save Nigeria we must, among other things, go back to Education, Healthcare and Infrastructural development, Cut The High Cost Of Governance, with the President, ministers, governors, legislators and all other political appointees taking a substantial pay cut to save money that could be spent on the welfare of the citizenry – Chief Philip Asiodu, […]
Continue ReadingSince well before Nigeria’s return to elective governance in 1999, the country has been overtaken by a progressive escalation of what Hannah Arendt in her classic On Violence called “a massive intrusion of criminal violence into politics.” In contemporary Nigerianism, the word for this is “banditry”. “Bandits” is a conveniently capacious bogeyman for insecurity in Nigeria that precludes […]
Continue ReadingThere has been so much talk of late about the Ministerial appointments that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is about to make. Given the fast-paced style of governance that he has adopted so far, it is expected that he would not waste time in coming up with a list of cabinet Ministers. The 1999 Constitution vests […]
Continue ReadingA middle-aged Nigerian woman has been arrested for allegedly setting a policewoman and her two children ablaze on Sunday in Nnokwa, Idemili South Local Government Area (LGA) of Anambra State, Nigeria. The suspect, who hailed from Amawbia was said to have been divorced by her husband and shortly after became homeless and in dire need […]
Continue ReadingMother of four girls, Mrs. Martina Okey Itagbor, was accused of witchcraft and burnt to death in Old Netim, Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River State. The deceased woman was accused of causing the death of two young men who died in a motor accident. Some youths in the community gathered on the 13th […]
Continue ReadingOlayemi Agbeloba a sixteen-year-old girl, has died by suicide after the husband of her boss whose name could only be confirmed as Ajibode, allegedly raped her at their residence in the Eruwa community, in the Ibarapa Local Government Area of Oyo State. After perpetrating the crime, Ajibode, who is a welder, was said to have […]
Continue ReadingNigerian national men’s football team has moved up a place in the latest FIFA men’s rankings with a point of 1486.48 for June. The Super Eagles, who were ranked 40th in the world in the ranking released in May, gained six points and moved to 39th, according to Punch. The Eagles’ rise in the rankings […]
Continue ReadingOperatives of Sokoto State Police Command, Sokoto State, Nigeria confirmed on Sunday the murder of a butcher, Usman Buda, over alleged blasphemy of Prophet Mohammed. Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, ASP Ahmad Rufa’i, who confirmed the killing in a statement on Sunday, said a distress call was received at 9:20 am that the […]
Continue ReadingBody of a severely malnourished unidentified woman was found dumped along the Makurdi-Aliade Road in Benue State, Nigeria. Activist Ukan Kurugh, who shared the photo on Monday, June 26, called on relevant authorities to evacuate the corpse. “Graphic Image! The body of a badly malnourished unidentified woman is lying dead directly opposite the main entrance […]
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