After concluding the zonal qualifiers of the maiden edition of the Nigeria Volleyball League, the Nigeria Volleyball Federation (NVBF) is set to host zone 3 of the African Volleyball Club Championship. The championship is billed to take place between 15th – 22nd of April in Lagos; according to the Chairman Media and Publicity of the NVBF, Kehinde Lamidi. Male and Read More
Aware of long term preparation which guarantees medal success, Korea Cultural Centre (KCC) has already began bid to queue behind Nigeria’s charge for medals harvest in taekwondo at the 2024 Olympic Games. To this end, the centre has stepped up training sessions for kids, aged between three and 10 years old, alongside in-house poomsae and Kyrougi championships. The latest Read More
An economist, Mr. Bode Augusto has called on the federal government to sell some assets in the oil and gas sector to finance power infrastructure. Augusto, gave the advice in his keynote address at the 2018 Vanguard Economic Discourse yesterday in Lagos, maintained that money realised from the assets sales should be invested in the sector to improve the National Read More
In law, homicide is not a crime when committed in self-defence. This law derives its legitimacy from the natural reaction of man to fight back when attacked. It does not really matter if the attacker is doing so from a position of superior strength, bearing gun, sword and spear. Self-preservation, as we all know, is the first law of survival. Read More
The federal government is to establish science centres in the six geo political zones of the country to stimulate the interest of young people in science related disciplines. Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, who disclosed this while commissioning the chemistry pavilion block of the Assumpta Science Centre recently in Ofekata, Owerri, Imo state, said the centre Read More
Popular FIFA licensed agent and Football Administrator Makanjuola Nureni has urged Nigerians to glue to support for Super Eagles despite shocking defeat they suffered against Serbia in one of the recently decided friendly matches ahead of 2018 World Cup. Nureni who was in London and Poland for the two friendlies affirmed that coach Gernot Rohr has been doing great Read More
Plateau United forward Joshua Obaje has been ruled out of Saturday’s CAF Confederation Cup Play-off Round, first leg tie against Algeria’s USM Alger. Obaje, has been struggling with a knee injury and won’t be part of the team that will face the Algerians. He sat out training earlier this week and didn’t travel with his teammates to Lagos for the Read More
Nigeria’s poor outing in the weightlifting event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, continued on Friday following Fatima Yakubu’s disappointing finish. Competing in the women’s 53kg category, Yakubu got a verdict of “did not finish” and was not ranked among the 14 contestants in the final standings. India’s Sanita Chanu Khumukcham won the gold medal with a Read More
Worried by the soaring rate of unemployment, economic deficits, failing businesses and poverty in the country, a summit to train Nigerian entrepreneurs on leading business ideas is underway. The Summit is also intended to serve as a veritable tool for nation building and economic recovery is being organised by the Godwin Uwubamwen coaching platform and Discover You International, a leadership Read More
My dear fellow northerners, I greet you in the spirit of love and mutual respect. It is less than 14 months to the 2019 general elections. Looking how time flies, because it was just like a year or month, that 2015 has speedily come and gone, therefore, I hope in 2019 electioneering, it would be a year of revival Read More
The term media is a plural of a Latin word medium that stand for “an intervening agency, means or instrument”. Media is defined as a communication channel through which news, entertainment, education, data or promotional messages are disseminated. The means of communications include the newspapers, magazines, television, radio, billboard, direct mail, telephone, facsimile (fax) and internet. Wikipedia describes new Read More
Benue state Governor, Samuel Ortom, has expressed worries over increasing number of children and elderly in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps and calls on Nigerians as well corporate organisations to assist the State Government in managing the humanitarian crisis. Ortom, in his Easter message, signed by his Chief Press Secretary Terver Akase and made available to newsmen in Read More
Commonwealth Champion, Shola Olowookere has won a Bronze medal in the Male -68kg category at the on-going African Taekwondo Championships in Agadir, Morocco. In his first international since winning the Commonwealth Taekwondo Championships in 2014, the 21-year old Olowookere defeated Ethiopia’s Musa Hassen 28 to 10 points in the Round of 16, Cote D’Ivoire’s Peken Logbo 16 to 2 points Read More
A friendly match scheduled between Nigeria’s Super Falcons and France senior National Women team may have hit the rock after France embassy in Abuja reportedly refused to grant local-based Nigerian players and officials visas, few days to the encounter. The test match between one of Europeans’ powerhouses in football and Africa’s best Women team was scheduled for next weekend. Read More
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s missive to President Muhammadu Buhari is one bombshell that was long expected. The wordings were deliberately chosen to make it as damning and provocative as possible. And Obasanjo was, perhaps, hoping for a repeat of what transpired between him and former President Goodluck Jonathan, after his similarly critical comments about his regime in the run-up to Read More
According to a United Nations’ Report, over 19 million rural inhabitants living without safe water supply close to their houses, trek long distances to collect unsafe water from lakes, streams and rivers. They also have to cope with the health impacts of using contaminated water. AJUMA EDWINA OGIRI writes on the importance of safe water and how it improves personal Read More
Exactly 33 days after they were abducted, 110 students of Government Girls Science and Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi, located in Bulabulin, Yunusari Local Government area of Yobe State, were Wednesday morning returned. However, THISDAY exclusively gathered that out of the 110 students returned, five were dead already. Speaking to THISDAY on the condition of anonymity, a senior army officer currently Read More
How many Americans living and doing businesses in the US have off-shore accounts elsewhere naming their American Banks as affiliate banks only. The Nigerian business elite is so undisciplined that they maintain off-shore accounts for businesses done within Nigeria and list our banks as affiliate banks for record purpose only. Need we look further to understand why there is capital Read More
When I relocated from London to Liverpool in 2008 it took my family and I a little time to settle down and one of the first few Nigerians we met was Alhaji Abdullahi Abubakar. He was an amazing elderly man who had a successful career with a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Shipping Line. On the surface he looked quiet Read More
Nigeria as a country has no single data that can be said to be genuine, original, reliable or dependable, particularly if they come from government, local, state or federal. In most cases, they are either recycled, concocted, distorted, stale, fraudulent or non-existent. This makes it the more difficult to ascertain the volume and magnitude of expenditure incurred for all Read More
As the world marks the international Women’s Day, the African Union Economic, Social a d Cultural Council (AU-ECOSOCC Nigeria) has called on the federal government of Nigeria to implement strategies that would empower the rural Nigerian Woman. The Council in a statement by the Nigeria representative Dr. Tunji Asaolu and the special adviser, diaspora, Mrs Chinwe Maduike, Thursday said the Read More
The Defence Headquarters has described the statement by the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu cautioning a military take over as “derogatory to the Army and the Armed Forces of Nigeria.” Senator Ike Ekweremadu on Wednesday 7 March 2018, while contributing to a debate on a motion sponsored by Senator Ahmed Ogembe, representing Kogi Central stated “The Problem in Nigeria is Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Accra, the capital of Ghana, said with the right leadership and implementation of public policies, Africa’s drive to eradicate poverty and entrench democracy is on course. Speaking as a special guest of honour at Ghana’s 61st independence anniversary celebration at the Black Star Square in Accra, the President said Nigeria and Ghana were benefitting Read More
President George Weah of Liberia said on Monday that the estimated $5 million current trade volume between Nigeria and Liberia is too low considering the relationship of the two countries. Speaking during a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Weah said Liberia’s economy was dwindling and needs the support of Nigeria’s private sector to remain Read More
President George Weah of Liberia said on Monday that early preparations, conducive camp environment and prompt payment of incentives to players are some of the elements that would spur the Super Eagles to win the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Weah, the only African player to win the Ballon d’Or in 1995 and Liberia’s 25th President, said this while fielding questions from Read More
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