Super Eagles of Nigeria quest for a seven appearance at the mundial will get underway in May 2021 after the World Football governing body FIFA confirmed that the Gernot Rohr led side will begin the second round of the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifiers on May 31, 2021. The second round of the qualifiers was initially scheduled for October 2020 Read More
US President Donald Trump says he will be released from hospital later on Monday, four days after being admitted with Covid-19. Just before a scheduled briefing from his doctors, Mr Trump tweeted he would be leaving at 18:30 (22:30 GMT), adding that he felt “really good”. But questions remain over the seriousness of Mr Trump’s illness after a weekend of Read More
The European Tour has scrapped plans to allow a limited number of fans to attend the Scottish Open at the Renaissance Club in East Lothian next month due to the tightening of Covid-19 restrictions in the country.The Tour planned to allow 650 spectators per day for the Rolex Series tournament, which has been rescheduled from its usual July date to Read More
The Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) Tuesday celebrated Nigeria’s polio- free status. The World Health Organisation (WHO) had in August certified Nigeria a polio–free country, after three consecutive years of not recording any outbreak. The celebration which took place at Ayuba Wabba House , MHWUN complex , plot 803, Cadasral Zone, Durumi , Abuja, witnessed presentation of awards to distinguished Nigerians who Read More
The United States reported a record high of more than 77,000 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections to 3,560,364, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. Meanwhile, the death toll rose by 974, taking the country’s total to 138,201. The state of Florida, which has emerged as the epicenter of Read More
The Coalition of Civil Societies Against COVID-19 has commended the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on its efforts in the fight against the pandemic in the country. A statement by the group in Abuja Thursday and signed by its national coordinator, Comrade James Okoronkwo, commended President Muhammadu Buhari for granting a two-month license waiver for terrestrial broadcast stations in Nigeria as Read More
The Ogun state government has expressed worry over the increasing rate of teenage pregnancy among school girls as a result of school closure, following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, who disclosed this in an interview with Blueprint in Abeokuta, the state capital, Wednesday, urged parents to encourage their children to visit the teenage Read More
Dele Alli will miss Tottenham’s return to Premier League action with Manchester United next week after the FA handed him a one-game suspension for a social media post. The 24-year-old has also been fined £50,000 and ordered to undertake a face-to-face education course following a breach of FA Rule E3. The incident relates to a video posted on the player’s Snapchat Read More
Amidst the COVID-19 outbreak across the nations of the earth, Engr Agada Sunday Ojonimi has produced an electronic voting machine to bring to an end rigging in election while practicing social distancing. BINTA SHAMA reports. Just recently, news had it that despite the COVID-19 pandemic, certain states were preparing for their gubernatorial elections which hopefully would take place at the Read More
The National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) on Monday said it will take at least six weeks to put out the raging fire at the Ororo oilfield of the Oil Mining Lease (OML) 95. The Director-General of NOSDRA, Musa Idris, who confirmed that the fire outbreak started at the weekend, said that a joint investigative visit to ascertain Read More
The National Institute of Marketing Nigeria (NIMN) has said due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it would go ahead to hold its Annual General Meeting through an online visual platform. The Institute in a statement by its President and Chairman of Council, Mr. Tony Agenmonmen, also disclosed that the 2020 election for the post of the first Vice President, second Vice President Read More
The federal government will next week, forward for approval by the National Assembly, drastically reduced proposals from the earlier passed N10.59trillion 2020 budget .This was disclosed Thursday, in Abuja by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed , during an interface with the leadership of the National Assembly. Both the National Assembly and the presidency, had Read More
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has confirmed that the house would in the next few weeks, hold a two-day public hearing on the controversial infectious diseases control Bill. No dates have been fixed though.Gbajabiamila has also assured that transparency and accountability would be upheld in the conduct of the public hearing stage, and that the planned hearing Read More
The Primary Health Care Development Agency (PHCDA) Thursday called on Nigerians to patronise the Primary Health Centers (PHC) located in different parts of the county.As part of activities to mark the 2020 Africa Vaccination Week (AVW), The Executive Director /CEO of NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, stated that the general public should be informed that PHCs remain open throughout the country, Read More
The federal government said Tuesday that it would not open schools in the face of growing cases of COVID-19 cases in order not to jeopardise the safety of pupils and students in the country.This was disclosed by the Minister of State for Education, Mr Emeka Nwajiuba, during the daily briefing by the Presidential Task Force on Control of COVID-19 pandemic.He Read More
Tokyo 2020 president Yoshiro Mori says the Olympic Games, already postponed to 2021, will be “scrapped” if it can not take place then. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Japanese government last month postponed the Games until July 2021 because of the impact of the coronavirus outbreak. With the epidemic’s worldwide infection rate climbing and experts suggesting a vaccine Read More
As Nigerians continue to grapple with the harsh effects of COVID-19, Gateway United FC have now extended its break indefinitely. It would be recalled that the Ogun State outfit proceeded on break March 19th, 2020 with a hopeful resumption on Friday 24th April, 2020. However with the ban on football activities in full swing, the management of the club led Read More
With COVID-19 showing no signs of slowing its spread across the globe, public debate is moving on from how to stop the virus in its tracks, to how we can adapt and live through this outbreak. Societies have been enormously altered by the efforts to control the epidemic, with long-lasting repercussions for the economy and for individuals. As a widely available vaccine for coronavirus is Read More
Prince Abudulsamad Badamosi, the chairman of Katsina United football club has reiterated that every staffs, players, backroom workers, technical crews will receive their salaries in full after some clubs resorted to pay half of thier staff salary to keep up with the economy in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. He said, “For this pandemic issue, we have not cut Read More
The Bundesliga are aiming to become the first major European league to resume action – with a return set for early May amid the coronavirus outbreak. All 18 teams in the German Bundesliga have recommenced training, while following health guidelines. And chief executive officer Christian of the Bundesliga Seifert told the New York Times that action is set to get back underway at all 36 stadiums in Germany’s top two Read More
Jigawa state gov’t is also not leaving any stone unturned in the fight against Covid-19. BAYO MUHAMMAD ALABIRA reports on efforts to checkmate the virus in the state.It is longer a question of doubt but the question of how to curtail the high speed in which the Coronavirus is spreading among countries and nations across the globe. At present, the Read More
Nigeria Professional League side, IfenyiUbah FC of Nnewi has postponed indefinitely the resumption date of the club till further notice The Nnewi giant had earlier fixed Saturday April 4th for their resumption for the remainder of the 2019/2020 football season. In a press statement the club stated that “recall that our players and officials had earlier embarked on a two-week Read More
Kwara state government has announced the immediate closure of its local and external borders to prevent the outbreak and spread of COVID-19 in the state. The government however, said the border closure excludes all categories of movement sanctioned in the broadcast of President Muhammadu Buhari, adding that the partial shutdowns within the state remained in force until further notice. “The Read More
Despite the postponement of the National Sports Festival and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics due to the outbreak of Coronavirus, the Minister of Youth and Sports Development Mr. Sunday Dare has revealed that the Ministry is very much in touch with each of the athletes. He disclosed this in an interview after the inspection of facilities being made available for use Read More
The Presiding Bishop of the Sword of the Spirit Ministries Ibadan and National Deputy President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) Bishop Francis Wale Oke on Wednesday urged Nigerians not to be panic with the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus. Bishop Wale Oke gave the charge in a statement issued by his media office and made available to Blueprint Read More
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