Professional Game Match Officials Board (PGMOL) has admitted that the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) incidents at Chelsea and Newcastle on Saturday were mistakes, according to Sky Sports. This comes after the Premier League asked the officiating board to investigate the referees’ body. Saturday’s Premier League action was marred by a couple of decisions that were either overturned, thanks to the …
The Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu East, Princess Ada Ogbu has blamed the current crisis rocking the party on some of the stakeholders. Ogbu, who spoke to journalists in Enugu on Sunday, said the party chieftains who visited the national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu were actually the ones manufacturing a non-existent crisis in the party. It …
Nigeria’s house of representatives is considering a bill that proposes 20-year jail term and N40 million fine for anyone who causes people to vote on the basis of religion, community, tribe, language or territorial region in the 2023 general elections. The bill also provides that any candidate who distills a piece of information that undermines the independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, …
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has announced 14 deaths in 10 states from suspected cases of yellow fever between January and July. The affected states included Abia (one), Bayelsa (one), Benue (one), Imo (one), Kaduna (one), Katsina (two), Kebbi (one), Taraba (two), Yobe (one) and Zamfara (three). The NCDC stated this via its official website on …
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Dr Peter Mbah has named the former State Chairman of the party, Chief Ikeje Asogwa as the Director General his campaign organization. Mbah in a statement issued by the Head, Peter Mbah Media Office said that Asogwa will coordinate, oversee and drive all aspects of the PDP electioneering for the 2023 …
Suspected gunmen who shot dead an operative of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Segun Ayebulu, and kidnapped three other persons on Saturday had demanded a sum of N30million ransom on those being held hostage. The NSCDC officer was gunned down along Oke Ako-Irele Ekiti road while traveling to his town in Ogbe, Kogi State , while three other …
Terrorists suspected to be members of the Boko Haram fighters have attacked a Mosque in Borno State, killing the Chief Imam and three other worshipers. It was learnt that the incident occured on Friday during the Fajr prayers in the Ngulde community of Askira-Uba Local Government Area of the state. According to reports, the terrorists, numbering about 20, invaded the …
Police operatives in Bauchi state have rescued three kidnapped persons. The victims included Alh. Alhassan Gambo (60) of Unguwan Bawa in Kaduna State, Badamasi Saadu and Abdullahi Sani. SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, the Bauchi Police Public Relations Officer, in a statement, stated that the victims were rescued unhurt and reunited with their families after undergoing proper medical examination. He explained, …
NNPC Ltd has reacted to allegations of Nigeria spending way too much on litres of subsidized fuel, stating that it will offer itself for a forensic audit of fuel supply and subsidy management, insisting that daily fuel supply is 68 million litres. This was disclosed in a statement on Sunday by Malam Garba Muhammad, Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs …
Members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State, on Sunday, rejected any form of campaign fund from the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. It was reported that this formed part of the resolutions reached during a stakeholders’ meeting at the South-East Secretariat of the party. The governorship candidate of the party, Chief Uche Nnaji, who …
Police in Ogun have arrested a pastor for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old choir member at Agbado area. Police spokesman in the state, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, stated on Sunday that the 38-year-old pastor is the General Overseer of the church. His arrest followed a complaint lodged at the Agbado Divisional Headquarters of the police by the mother of the victim. Mr …
A Director in the civil service of Ondo State who had been missing since last Thursday has been found dead. The body top civil servant identified as Mr. Gbenga Olofingboyegun was discovered on Sunday with his head already cut off. Olofingboyegun, who was the Director of the Department of Research and Statistics, Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), was declared missing on …
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted 32 travellers around Ifon in Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State. The victims were said to be returning from a burial ceremony in Edo State on Saturday when the incident happened. It is not yet established whether the kidnappers have reached out to the families of the victims for payment of ransom …
Troops of 1 Division, Nigerian Army, on anti-banditry operations in the Northwestern part of the country, have killed three bandits and recovered two AK 47 rifles. The soldiers also recovered nine magazines, seven Baofeng communication radios, one Tecno mobile phone, 120 rounds of 7.62 mm special ammunition, one power generator, and one motorcycle from the criminals. Director, army public relations, …
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) says premium motor spirit (PMS) will cost consumers N462 per litre without the Federal Government’s subsidy. This is according to a statement by the NNPCL Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division Mr. Garba Deen Muhammad on Sunday. “The NNPC Ltd notes the average daily evacuation (Depot truck out) from January to August …
Child health experts have urged mothers to breastfeed their newborns within the first 30 minutes to one hour after delivery, noting that doing so is of great health benefit to the baby. According to them, not breastfeeding early can give room for newborns to develop irreversible health complications and infections. The experts, Idi-Araba Prof. Edamisan Temiye, a Consultant Paediatric Haematologist …
So, I’ve been thinking about the government-ASUU standoff that resulted in the closure of Nigerian universities for more than six months. This is not a new phenomenon; anyone who has graduated from a Nigerian university has experienced the ‘ritualistic festivity’ known as the ASUU strike. What exactly is the problem with Nigeria’s education sector, and why does ASUU enjoy keeping …
Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Works and Housing, will deliver the keynote address on the 2023 elections at a democracy lecture organised by TheNiche, an online news platform, on Thursday. TheNiche Annual Lecture 2022 will be held at the Agip Recital Hall of the Musical Society of Nigeria Centre in Onikan, Lagos. This was revealed in a statement made public. Fashola, …
President Muhammadu Buhari’s former media assistant and member, House of Representatives, Shaaban Ibrahim Sharada, on Saturday declared his interest in the governorship election in Kano. Sharada, who used a street campaign strategy to formally announce his candidature under the platform of the Action Democratic Party, ADP, moved from his Maiduguri Road campaign office to the Main Sani Abacha Youth Center. …
As the 2023 election draws near, Daniel Bwala, a spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign, on Saturday warned Peter Obi that “the thin line” between his speaking charges in his US tours and “fellowshipping with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI” is not far. It was reported that Bwala’s caution comes as Nigerians in the U.S. host Obi, the …
