Eniola Bolaji has won Nigeria’s first medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. The 18-year-old won a bronze medal in the women’s singles SL3 badminton event at the La Chapelle Arena on Monday. She defeated Ukraine’s Kozyna Oksana 2-0 in a one-sided third-place match to clinch the country’s first medal at the Games. Bolaji won both…
The organisers of BBNaija season nine have announced the unpairing of its housemates. The reality TV show, which premiered on July 28, had unveiled 28 housemates paired up into a total of 14 teams. But after Sunday’s eviction, Biggie dissolved the pairs. Now, the housemates will play the game as individuals, not duos. According to…
The attention of Osun State Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has been drawn to a delusional and misleading report purportedly issued by a non-existent group of people called Osun Workers Union (OWU). It is crystal clear that these said elements are not legally or constitutionally recognized as an affiliate of the two labour…
The state government says it had taken proactive measures since January to create awareness and sensitise the public. The Edo State Government has recorded one outbreak of Mpox in the state as well as eight suspected cases of Cholera. Dr Ojeifo Stephenson, the state Director of Public Health at the Ministry of Health, disclosed this…
L The barrage comes just days after Ukraine’s energy infrastructure was targeted by over 200 Russian drones and miss Russia said Sunday that it had thwarted a “massive” Ukrainian drone attack by downing 158 drones across 15 regions, including two over the capital Moscow A coal-fired power plant near the city was reported hit, as…
There was jubilation among civil servants in Ebonyi State as Governor Francis Nwifuru approved the payment of a Seventy Thousand Naira Minimum Wage. Governor Nwifuru made the announcement during the grand finale of the Ojiji Izhi New Yam Festival 2024. He directed relevant government authorities to draft modalities for implementing the new minimum wage, set…
Chelsea suffered fresh frustration after blowing the lead in a 1-1 draw against Crystal Palace, while Newcastle beat Tottenham 2-1 as Manchester United and Liverpool prepared for their Premier League showdown on Sunday. Enzo Maresca’s Chelsea have won only once in the first three league games of the Italian’s reign after a chaotic close season….
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has stated that he is happy working for President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress government. Wike, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party and the only opposition member in Tinubu’s cabinet, made this remark on Saturday during the PDP Congress in Port Harcourt, the…
By Sarafa Ibrahim Someone sent a message to me on WhatsApp, and I have since been ruminating about the phrase used, which informed the title of this my piece. Ostensibly commenting on a video showing a procession of newly acquired tractors making their ways into Osogbo, the state capital, he said,’Adeleke breathes life to agriculture…
As part of efforts to ensure food security in Osun State, Governor Ademola Adeleke on Friday, unveiled 31 newly purchased tractors and distributed 6,000 herbicides, 80,000 cashew seedlings, 8,000 cassava cuttings, 8,000 various vegetable seeds and 500 bags of lime to farmers, women associations, people living with disabilities and government schools with large farmlands in…
