The Deputy Zonal Commander of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Effa Okim, has endorsed that the Nigeria Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, NIESV, should partner with the government and other relevant stakeholders, including the EFCC to finance a bill in the National Assembly that will ensure that all public servants and politicians,…
President Bola Tinubu has addressed with the Shell Global Upstream Director Ms Zoë Yujnovich at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari was also in attendance at the meeting. The meeting was Tinubu’s first official attention after the Sallah festivities and his…
Russian council and oil governing body plans to cut oil exports by 500,000BPD in August. The energy official said on Monday that Moscow will voluntarily cut oil exports by 500,000 barrels per day, building on previously announced production cuts. “As part of efforts to ensure that the oil market remains balanced, Russia will voluntarily reduce…
World champion and Nigeria’s world record holder Tobi Amusan displayed her class on Sunday at the 2023 Diamond League athletics series in Stockholm, Sweden, to win the 100m hurdles in a time of 12.52 seconds despite the rainy atmospheric conditions on the track. Amusan outran Pia Skrzyszowska rival from Poland who gave her a tough…
Sopurum Hotel, situated in the Nkwelle community, Onitsha, Anambra State, has been gutted by fire. It was reported that the incident which occurred early hours of Monday, led to the burning of a substantial part of the hotel structure. Fire fighters of the fire service from Delta and Anambra states are currently at the scene…
Legendary Italian and former Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon has received an huge contract offer from a Saudi Arabian club. The offer was made public by Corriere dello Sport, an Italian media outfit Buffon who still does well in the beautiful game and does his trade in Serie B, having returned to Parma in the summer…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday in Abuja began its defence of the February 25 presidential election with none of its three witnesses present at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPEC). In adverse to the planned activities of the Court, INEC, which conducted the disputed election and billed to open defence, came to…
Some gunmen assaulted the Redeemed Christian Church of God at Abule-Ori in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State on Saturday, killing the pastor and abducting seven worshippers. Our journalist gathered that the incident occurred around midnight during the vigil. Confirming the incident, the State So-Safe Corps Commander, Soji Ganzallo, said his officers rescued…
Residents of Ojokoro Low Cost Housing Estate in Meran, Lagos, have sent an SOS to the Federal Government over deaths resulted in by one-way driving due to failed portions of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. The inhabitants made the appeal on Sunday alongside many other road users who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in…
Intense fighting between the forces of rival generals shook the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Sunday as disease and malnutrition frightened the rising number of displaced. A Khartoum resident said he was shaken from sleep by “violent fighting in which various weapons were used”. Another said he was aroused by warplanes. Battles since mid-April between forces…
Workers unions at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, (OAUTH), Ile-Ife, Osun state have blamed Medical and Council Association of Nigeria in the hospital, as well as the Federal Ministry of Health for the leadership crisis quaking the hospital. The federations under the aegis of Joint Action Committee (JAC) OAUTHC, while speaking with newsmen in…
The Wife of the President of Nigeria, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, has admonished the Super Falcons to bring back home the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup trophy and makes Nigerians home and abroad proud. The first lady said this on Saturday when she hosted the team to a dinner ahead of its departure today for the…
American singer Selena Gomez has expressed gratitude for the discovery of the talent she believed holds her joy alongside the rare opportunity to feature in his viral hit Calm Down. Selena, on her Instagram page, shared two photos of her and Rema from the song Calm Down, and thanked him for changing her life forever….
The Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, Osun division Command has made public that two bodies have been recovered by tactical divers from a river in Eti-Oni, Osun State The FRSC division Commander, Henry Benamaisia made this public in a statement signed by Agnes Ogungbemi, Sector Public Education Officer in Osun State Benamaisia said that the…
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter Elon Musk on Saturday 1st July, introduced ‘temporary’ limits on the social media platform to help work on “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation”. With the new reforms, Verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, Musk said, stating that the unverified accounts and new…
Chelsea have introduced the signing of young Portuguese forward Diego Moreira from Benfica. The Blues announced the signing on their website on Saturday for an undisclosed fee. “The winger, whose father Almami was a Guinea-Bissau international, joined Benfica from Standard Liege in 2020 and played an important role in the club’s 2022 UEFA Youth League…
The President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló visits Nigeria to meet with President Bola Tinubu Tinubu received his Guinea-Bissau counterpart who is also the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS at his Lagos residence on Saturday. Report of the discussion cannot be ascertained as at the time of filing this report….
A chef, Adeyeye Adeola, has assembled the contest to supersede Hilda Baci and set a new Guinness World Record for the longest cooking marathon (individual). Adeola’s cook-a-thon began on Friday, June 30, 2023, in Ondo State and is slated to assume on Thursday, July 6, 2023. Baci who only formerly got her plaque from the…
CHELSEA starlet Levi Colwill wants to communicate to Mauricio Pochettino before dedicating to a new contract, according to reports. The highly-rated defender has two years remaining on his recent Blues deal. Colwill, 20, spent last season on loan at Brighton, and the Seagulls have had two continual bids rejected by the West Londoners. Chelsea have tabled a…
At least 25 people were killed and eight others injured in western India when a vehicle crashed and caught fire on an expressway early Saturday. The bus was travelling to the city of Pune when it slam a pole and capsized after midnight, causing its diesel tank to catch fire, senior police officer Baburao Mahamuni…
British Supermodel and public figure Naomi Campbell has welcomed another boy child at the age of 53. The model announced the arrival of her son online on Thursday, two yeasrs after she welcomed her first child saying ‘it’s never too late”. She had not released any update on her expectations of a second child to…
The Super Eagles of Nigeria have been fixed up in Pot one ahead of the African draws for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The competition will be co-hosted by Canada, Mexico and the United States of America in 2026. Also in Pot one are; Morocco, Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia, Cameroon, Mali and Egypt. The countries will…
The Anambra State government on Friday ordered the arrest of a woman, Eneh Ogechukwu for allegedly using a 10-year-old sick child to beg for alms, despite repeated strict warnings to desist from the bad act. The arrest order was called for by the Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Ify Obinabo who arrested and handed…
The body established for football in Africa, Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Friday made public the venue for the draw ceremony of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. The draw will hold at the Parc Des Expositions, Abidjan, on October 12. Nigeria’s Super Eagles of Nigeria are among the 14 teams that have already…
The Abia State Governor, and flagbearer of Labour Party in Abia State, Alex Otti, has named 19 individuals for appointment as commissioners in the state. The Commissioner list has been submitted to the Abia State House of Assembly for screening and confirmation. The list of those nominated by Governor Otti holds Mr Chaka Chukwumerije, one…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Mr Peter Obi has recently deleted a tweet tagging Bola Tinubu as Mr President. Mr Peter Obi, who is challenging the INEC declaration of Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, as the emerging winner of the February 25th election, had earlier,…
The Erudition growth devoid of delay being enjoyed in the Nigeria’s university system may be affected as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has officially stood against a decision by the National Universities Commission to recheck and review 70 percent of the Core Curriculum Minimum Academic Standards. The Academic union expressed its unhappiness in…
Argentine forward Lionel Messi has won the 2022/23 UEFA Champions League goal of the season award. Lionel’s goal he scored against Portuguese club Benfica in the first leg of Paris Saint-Germain’s Group H encounter was revealed to be the best goal of the tournament in a Tweet by UEFA governing body. Messi drazzled the ball…
Retired Executive Secretary of the Nigeria’s recognized educational body, National Universities Commission NUC, Prof. Abdulrasheed Abubakar has handed over the leadership to the Deputy Executive Secretary, Chris Maiyaki to take on as the Executive secretary. The event was made possible as handing-over ceremony took place on Friday, at the headquarters of the Commission. Prof. Abubakar…
Nigeria’s first lady Oluremi Tinubu will attend the farewell dinner organised for the Super Falcons before your departure for the Women’s World Cup. The farewell dinner for the World Cup bound Super Falcons will hold at the prestigious Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja on Saturday. Nigeria Footballs h stakeholders and other important dignitaries will also grace…
In a recent incident, the Managing Director and seven employees of an oil company in Lagos were abducted while traveling by boat to the upscale Lekki area. Just two days after the kidnapping, concerned family members gathered at the company’s premises in Apapa, demanding information about the fate of their loved ones. According to eyewitnesses,…
