Author: Quadri Idowu
Nigeria’s Super Falcons have South Africa as their Group C rivals in the 2022 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), as well as Botswana and Burundi. They were drawn in the same group at the official draw ceremony held at the Complex Mohamed VI in Rabat, Morocco on Friday. The Group A of the women football competition billed for July in Morocco has the hosts, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Uganda. Group B has Cameroon, Zambia, Tunisia and Togo. It was the first time 12 teams will be participating in the tournament with Togo, Burundi, Burkina Faso and Botswana as debutants.…
Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has said that it was not easy aspiring to be president while serving as a state governor at the same time. Mohammed said this while hosting leadership of the Nigerian Labour Union (NLC), media chiefs, and Traders Artisans Association to a Ramadan fast break (Iftar), on Friday at the Government House, Bauchi. He said that his move to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primaries ahead of the 2023 general election was to serve the best interest of Nigerians. The Northern PDP Elders Forum led by Prof. Ango Abdullahi, on April 23, endorsed…
Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Mr. Abiodun Alabi, has described as totally unprofessional, the shooting incident at a party that led to the death of two persons. He stated this when paid condolence visit to the families of the two men shot dead by a police officer on Sunday at a birthday ceremony. The deceased are Mr. Obieshi Chikere and Mr. Odinaka Igwe. Alabi, who sympathised with the deceased’s families expressed sadness over the unfortunately incident. “We came to condole and commiserate with the families, God will strengthen and uphold you, we heard about the incident and we are…
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Kaduna Sector Command, on Friday, decorated 50 newly promoted officers with their new ranks. Addressing the officers in Kaduna, the FRSC Sector Commander, Mr. Hafiz Mohammed, urged the newly promoted to do more, adding that much is expected from them. Out of the 50 personnel decorated, 11 are Senior Marshal Inspectors and 39 are Assistant Road Marshals. Mohammed told the promoted officers that discipline and dedication were the bedrock of growth in the service. He charged the promoted officers to put in their best while performing their constitutional duties. Mohammed urged the officers to…
There is unease in the camp of the All Progressive Congress as the party on Friday said it was yet to settle for any zone to produce the next president. The party’s National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, who stated this while speaking with State House correspondents shortly after he presented the party’s governorship candidate in Ekiti State, Biodun Oyebanji, to the President Muhammadu Buhari said such a decision was beyond the National Working Committee. He added it was the prerogative of the entire party, which he acknowledged, was bigger than the chairman Adamu said, “I am today privileged to be…
The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress, Senator Abdulahi Adamu has said that his party has no regrets with the cost of nomination forms. NPO Reports that the party had fixed its nomination forms for N100m. APC is also charging N50 million for governorship aspiration, N20 million for Senate, N10 million for House of Representatives, N2 million for House of Assembly. The party had drawn the ire of Nigerians who accused it of promoting corruption. But reacting on Friday after presenting the governorship candidate of the party in Ekiti State to the President, Adamu said, “On the issue…
Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for hiding 2.5 million pounds (3.14 million dollars) worth of assets and loans to avoid paying his debts. The 54-year-old former world number one was declared bankrupt on June 21 in 2017. He was owing creditors almost 50 million pounds, over an unpaid loan of more than three million dollars on his estate in Mallorca, Spain. Becker transferred almost 427,000 euro (450,400 dollars) from his business account to others, including those of his ex-wife Barbara and estranged wife Sharlely “Lilly” Becker. The father-of-four also failed to declare his share…
The South-West Zone of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called on the Federal Government to find lasting solutions to the increasing acts of violence and insecurity in the country. The Christian body made the call in a 9-point communique issued at the end of its quarterly meeting held at the Cathedral of Peace and Excellence, Methodist Church, Opebi, Lagos between March 30 and March 31. The communique, which was made available to newsmen on Friday in Ado-Ekiti, was signed by Rev. Fr. Raphael Osegboun, the Zonal Chairman and the Zonal Director of Legal and Public Affairs, Sir Steve…
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Friday picked the All Progressives Congress (APC) Gubernatorial Nomination and Expression of Interest forms ahead of the primaries for the 2023 elections. The forms were picked at the APC’s national secretariat in Abuja by a member of the House of Representatives, representing Ikeja Federal Constituency, Mr James Faleke. Faleke, who also picked presidential Expression of Interest and Nominations forms for APC Leader, Sen. Bola Tinubu, was accompanied by former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Babachir Lawal and members of the Tinubu Support Groups (TSG) to the party’s secretariat. The…
Seven persons died while five others sustained injuries on Friday in an accident involving a Mazda bus and a truck at Ogunmakin on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. FRSC’s Sector Commander in Ogun, Mr Ahmed Umar, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta. Umar said the Mazda bus has LSR 696 XS as its registration number, while the truck’s registration number is T-4889 LA. He blamed the accident on excessive speeding and loss of control by the bus driver which made him to ram into the moving truck ahead of him. “A total 16 persons, 15 of them male adults, were involved…