UEFA and the Amaury group, owner of L’Equipe and France Football magazine which created the Ballon d’Or, announced Friday they had signed a partnership to co-organise the awards ceremony starting next year. The Paris-based Amaury group will remain the owner of the Ballon d’Or and continue to oversee the vote, while UEFA will take charge…
Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has appointed Ife Prince, Adelowo Aderemi as a part-time member of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB). In a statement issued on Friday, signed by the governor’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed noted that the appointment takes immediate effect. Prince Aderemi joins other members of the board announced on Thursday…
Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife have demanded an apology from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission following the arrest of 69 suspects by the commission in a raid of outside campus hostels in the wee-hours of Wednesday. The Students’ Union of the university had said the arrested persons were students of the university….
Osun State PDP has described the purported SoS sent to security agencies in the state as a smokescreen for heinous criminality being planned by the persistently aggrieved APC in the state, asking residents across the state to be more vigilant than ever, against possible attacks by militant wing of the opposition party. The ruling party…
Osun State Government, on Thursday, issued a directive to healthcare professionals in State hospitals and private facilities, ordering them to provide immediate treatment to gunshot victims, even in the absence of a police report. The State’s Commissioner for Health, Barr. Jola Akintola, disclosed this during an interview held with Journalists in his office in Osogbo….
The leadership and members of the Ondo Redemption Front (ORF) has called on President Bola Tinubu to use his office to ascertain the true state of health of Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu as same has been shrouded in secrecy over the months. ORF urged the President Tinubu, as the leader of the ruling…
Former minister of communications, Adebayo Shittu, has criticised female ministers in the cabinet of President Bola Tinubu for dressing like beauty pageant contestants. Shittu said on Thursday on Channels TV’s “Politics Today” that government officials should take public offices seriously. Shittu made the statement while reacting to Tinubu’s warning to ministers at a retreat on…
The Federal Government has officially commissioned a pilot conversion centre for vehicles that will run on compressed natural gas in the Federal Capital Territory. It said the centre will boost the CNG initiative of the government and mitigate the effect of subsidy removal on petrol by reducing transportation costs. This was disclosed in a statement…
Nigeria’s foreign exchange market may soon experience some liquidity as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has begun clearing the backlog of foreign exchange obligations. Multiple sources said the CBN has taken steps to douse the tension generated by its inability to clear forex backlog for banks and airline The CBN has been burdened by…
The Joint Task Force, Operation Delta Safe (OPDS) has arrested an MV Mother Mary, vessel with 300,000 litres of illegally refined AGO(Diesel) as well as two of its crew members in Rivers state. OPDS seized the vessel at the Federal Ocean Terminal in Onne, Eleme Council Area of Rivers on the Bonny River. Addressing journalists…
