One week from today, the Super Eagles will host Sao Tome and Principe in Uyo for the last group match of the AFCON 2023 qualifier. Even as the Super Eagles have already qualified for the tournament, there were fears over who would handle the team as Nigeria has no coach. The contract with Portuguese coach,…
Fayose pointed out that while Nigeria may have shortcomings, it is unique since the country’s democracy has been reasonably established. A former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, says he is pleased with developments in Gabon following soldiers’ seizure of power in the oil-rich Central African country. In an exclusive interview on Channels Television’s Hard…
The decision reportedly signals the end of the diplomat’s tenure as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the United Kingdom. President Bola Tinubu has recalled Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ambassador Sarafa Tunji Ishola. Ishola was appointed by former President Muhammadu Buhari in January 2021. However, the Minister…
At least, three persons comprising passengers and drivers of two vehicles escaped death when a cement-loaded truck belonging to Dangote Group rammed into a taxi in the Panseke area of Abeokuta, Ogun State in the late hours of Thursday. Our correspondent who visited the scene of the accident gathered that the Dangote truck with registration…
The Osun government has refuted news about purported recruitment into the state civil service, saying it is misleading. Malam Olawale Rasheed, the spokesperson for Gov. Ademola Adeleke said this in a statement on Friday in Osogbo. He said the state was not recruiting for any position in the civil service. Rasheed urged members of the…
Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has felicitated with Emeritus Professor, Mojeed Olayide Abass who is 80 years old , praying to God to grant him more blessed years on earth. In a statement signed by Adeleke’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed on Friday, Adeleke described Prof Abass as a great mentor of many leaders within and…
Tunisian police have arrested four Tunisians, including a fisherman, on suspicion of maritime piracy for taking engines and money from a boat carrying Tunisian migrants who were trying to reach Italy, AFP learnt on Thursday from a judicial source. “Last Saturday, four people were arrested by the National Guard in Teboulba, near Monastir (east)” after…
At least 48 civilians and one policeman were killed on Wednesday in Goma in a military operation to prevent a demonstration against the UN in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to an internal document of the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) consulted by AFP on Thursday. According to the document, authenticated by military and intelligence…
The drone attack on an airbase in the Russian city of Pskov on Tuesday was launched from inside Russia, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief has said. Kyrylo Budanov said two Ilyushin cargo planes were destroyed and two damaged. Russia says four were damaged. Mr Budanov did not say whether the attack was carried out by Ukrainian…
The prime minister runs the city-state’s government, currently Lee Hsien Loong of the People’s Action Party (PAP), which has ruled Singapore continuously since 1959. Singaporeans headed to the polls Friday in the city-state’s first contested presidential election in more than a decade, a vote being closely watched as an indication of support for the ruling…
