Team Nigeria’s Ezekiel Nathaniel broke a 12-year record to advance to the semifinals of the men’s 400m hurdles event at the ongoing Paris 2024 Olympic Games yesterday. He secured his place in the semifinal by finishing second in heat 4 with 48.32 secs, becoming the first Nigerian to achieve the feat in 12 years after…
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday granted N50m bail each to two students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic and Resign Regal Academy, Timothy Oluwabukola and Anthony Odemerho, who allegedly hacked MTN Nigeria Communication computers and stole airtime and data valued at N1.9bn. Justice Akintayo Aluko granted them bail after hearing two separate bail applications…
Team Nigeria’s Favour Ofili made history Monday’s night for qualifying for the final of the women’s 200 metres at the ongoing 2024 Olympic Games at the Stade de France in Paris. Ofili became first Nigerian to reach the milestone since Mary Onyali raced to the final of the women’s 200m event at the Atlanta ’96…
Shinnosuke Oka’s fairytale debut Olympics got even better on Monday as the Japanese gymnast added horizontal bar gold to his team and all-around titles. Oka, brimming with confidence after he won gold in the team and all-around events as well as a bronze on the parallel bars earlier in the day, stuck his landing for…
Team Nigeria’s Blessing Oborodudu is out of the contest for the women’s wrestling 68kg gold at Paris Olympics after losing her semi-final bout to Kyrgyzstan’s Meerim Zhumanazarova Monday’s night. The Bayelsa-born wrestler, who won a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games, secured her place in the semifinals after beating Canada’s Linda Morais 8-2 and…
A Delta State High Court sitting in Kwale has sentenced two men to 10 years imprisonment each, for illegally possessing a cut-to-size single-barrel gun. The convicts include 25-year-old Joshua Anamali and Nelson Adoh, 30, who have now been sent to the Custodial Centre in Kwale to serve their terms. The defendants were arrested by policemen…
The ongoing nationwide hunger protest in Nigeria took a dramatic turn on Monday as some demonstrators in Osun State stripped naked to emphasise their demands As usual, the demonstrators gathered at Freedom Park and marched through the city, chanting that they would not stop until President Bola Tinubu intervened to lessen Nigerians’ suffering. On Monday…
.Commiserates with victims’ families over the death of their loved ones. *States are receiving record high monies ever.
Strategically, the failure of President Bola Tinubu to address any of the demands of the nationwide protesters in his national broadcast yesterday is wrong and fraught with serious political consequences within our democratic milieu; whatever reasons that may have informed the decision. These consequences are nine and severe, and mainly political. First, granted the president…
Denounces link to protesters carraying Russian flags In the aftermath of troubling incidents that disrupted a peaceful protest in Kano, the Governor of Kano State Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf set to establish a Judicial Commission of Inquiry to investigate the vandalism, injuries, and tragic loss of lives that occurred during the recent protest in the…
