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Nigeria’s women football team, the Super Falcons, have arrived in Kansas City, Kansas, United State for their doubleheader friendly with the United States Women’s National Team (USWNT). Head Coach of the Super Falcons, Randy Waldrum, has selected four players from Nigeria’s U-20 girls that reached the quarter-finals at the just-concluded FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup […]
Continue ReadingOgun State Police Command, Nigeria has confirmed the arrest of a 23-year-old woman, Mary Olatayo, for allegedly selling her three-week-old baby boy for N600,000. In a statement on Thursday, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), said the suspect was arrested following a complaint from the father of the baby. Oyeyemi said: […]
Continue ReadingNigeria and the United States government have reached an agreement on the return of over $23 million of the Abacha loot. The agreement signing ceremony was held in the office of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami on Tuesday, August 23. Mr. Malami signed on behalf of the […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi as well as the Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Kassim Shettima, on Monday graced the current Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) annual conference in Lagos, Nigeria, where they respectively decried the state of the […]
Continue Reading(In line with what has become my annual tradition every August, I devote this column as a tribute to my friend and compatriot, General Ibrahim Babangida, as he marks his 81st birthday this week) General Ibrahim Babangida, the former military president, has never told anyone that he is a politician nor has he seen or […]
Continue ReadingCoalition of Fulbe Professionals in Africa (COFPIA) has replied and rebuked Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore over its attack on the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi. COFPIA, a Fulani professional group, said the comment by the National Secretary of Miyetti Allah, Alhaji Alhasan Salah, against Peter Obi as “politically sponsored.” The […]
Continue ReadingDeclining opportunities, rising insecurity and a bleak economic outlook have created an environment polluted by anger. This anger has bred a growing rank of political fundamentalists and fanatics. There is palpable anger on Nigeria social media platforms whenever politics is at issue and what is at issue these days, if not the 2023 elections? In […]
Continue ReadingThe husband who strangled his wife in Suleja, Niger state, has also died from complications after he consumed a poisonous substance. Mr Adeniyi Jose, from Akure, Ondo State, strangled his wife-of-eight years, Chidinma Gloria Ibeh, from Imo state, with a rope and also suffocated her with a pillow. Afterwards, he consumed a posionous substance said […]
Continue ReadingMr. Adeniyi Jose, 45, from Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria, reportedly strangled his wife-of-eight years Chioma Gloria Ibeh, 39, from Imo state, over allegations of infidelity. The incident occurred in Suleja, Niger State on Monday, August 8, 2022. Mr. Jose used a rope to strangle his wife. After killing her, he consumed a poisonous substance. The unconscious […]
Continue ReadingThe World Bank Fiscal Year 2021 audited financial statements, known as the International Development Association (IDA) financial statement, showed that Nigeria was rated fifth on the list with $11.7bn IDA debt stock as of June 30, 2021. But, the newly released World Bank Fiscal Year 2022 audited financial statements for IDA showed that Nigeria has […]
Continue ReadingOluwatobiloba Amusan, Nigeria’s track golden girl, won the women’s 100m hurdles at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, United Kingdom Sunday morning to race into the Games history as the second sprint hurdler to successfully defend the title she won four years ago in Gold Coast, Australia. The 12.30 secs she clocked in winning the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian wrestler, Odunayo Adekuoroye has won a gold medal in the women’s 57kg Freestyle wrestling for Team Nigeria at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The 28-year-old defeated her Indian opponent, Anshu Malik 6-4 (VPO1) to secure Nigeria’s first gold medal in Wrestling, and defend the crown she won four years ago. Before […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Mustapha Balogun, 74, died a few days to his 75th birthday, at a hospital in Lekki, Lagos at about 8:30 pm on Thursday during a brief illness, according to family sources. Born August 25, 1947, in Ila Orangun, Osun State, he was appointed the IGP in March 2002. He worked […]
Continue ReadingFormer Director-General of Budget Office of the Federation, Bode Agusto, has said that pegging the naira to the United States’ dollar can not sustainably address the exchange rate crisis. Mr Agusto also said floating the Naira, which means allowing the forces of demand and supply to determine the rate at which the local currency exchanges […]
Continue ReadingThe United Nations, UN Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, has indicted both Nigeria and Kenya Governments for the arrest and extraordinary rendition, torture and continued detention of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, without due process. UN therefore, asked Nigerian Government to, “immediate release Kanu unconditionally” […]
Continue ReadingPopular American based Nigerian business executive and philanthropist, Sandra Ijeoma Iheuwa simply called Sandra Iheuwa, has taken to her Instastory to point out how people can get justice in the country. According to Iheuwa, one needs to have money to get justice in Nigeria. She added that ”money stops nonsense” in this part of the […]
Continue ReadingI stumbled on a story in the Nigerian media which says that the National Assembly is planning to consider no fewer than 63 bills for the creation of new universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and monotechnics, and I wondered whether madness has finally descended on Nigeria’s education sector. Nigeria at the moment has about 49 […]
Continue ReadingWhen singer and songwriter, Bukola Elemide, known as Asa, sang the “Fire On the Mountain” song at the unveiling of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited in Abuja some days back, she probably didn’t know the extent of the woe that was about to betide the entire nation in a matter of days. Within one […]
Continue ReadingBody of a young woman identified simply as Kate was found buried in her boyfriend’s room at Okaka area of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, on Friday, July 29 morning. It was gathered that the deceased had been missing for days and the boyfriend identified as Joseph denied knowledge of her whereabouts. According to reports, family […]
Continue ReadingOn Sunday, June 4, Nigeria was shaken by the news of a horrendous attack on a Christian Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, South-West Nigeria, in which over thirty people – men, women, and children – were killed, and hundreds critically injured. Barely two months earlier, a violent attack on an Abuja-Kaduna train left several passengers killed, and […]
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