French champions Paris Saint-Germain are very close to sealing an agreement for Zinedine Zidane to replace Mauricio Pochettino as a coach in the coming days according to multiple reports.
According to radio station Europe 1, an agreement in principle is in place between the club and 49-year-old Zidane for the former Real Madrid boss to join ahead of the new season.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that Pochettino who has a year left on his contract and led the Qatari-backed side to the Ligue 1 title last term but they were knocked out of the Champions League by Real …
Former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai (rtd), on Saturday in Kaduna asserted that insecurity can only be solved by adopting both kinetic and non-kinetic measures like dialogue and local manufacturing of military equipment.
Gen. Buratai, while delivering a lecture titled, ‘Politics and Insecurity In Nigeria: Way Forward‘ at a one-day symposium on national security at the Arewa House, Kaduna, further pointed out that non-kinetic approaches should include negotiation, dialogue are integrated approaches that can end insecurity through involving traditional and religious leaders, media, security, and intelligence agencies.
He said the public needs to …
On the celebration of this year’s Democracy Day, President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday in Abuja promised to facilitate a ‘free, fair, and transparent electoral process’ in next year’s general elections.
This, he pointed out, would be the best way to honour the memory of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late MKO Abiola.
Buhari made the pledge on Saturday in his 2022 Democracy Day speech.
The President called on political parties, candidates, and the electorate not to regard the elections as a do-or-die affair, adding that democracy is about the will of the majority and …
In preparation for the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that it would be deploying an additional 209 voter enrolment machines to suit the machine imbalance in the five South-Eastern States, Lagos and Kano.
This is contained in a statement by Okoye, its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee on Friday.
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Okoye said that the commission received reports from states indicating an unprecedented surge in the number of citizens that wished to register as voters and the challenges they faced …
Controversial socialite who is currently embroilled in a tussle with the EFCC, Ismaila Mustapha, also known as Mompha has reportedly breached the terms of his bail by procuring a new passport and travelling to Dubai on 11 April.
The EFCC’s prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo has told the Ikeja High Court.
Oyedepo made the startling information known on Friday to Justice Mojisola Dada, in whose court, Mompha, with his company Ismalob Global Investment Limited, was standing trial.
The Instagram celebrity and businessman was arraigned by the Lagos Command of the Economic and …
The Nigerian Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo has reiterated that he remains committed to the dream of materializing a new Nigeria and he is doing this despite the outcome of the just-concluded All Progressives Congress (APC) Special Convention where he lost to Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said the vice president spoke during his visit to the campaign office of The Progressive Project (TPP), a coalition of support groups that backed him for the presidency.
The vice president also said that he would support Sen. Bola Tinubu, winner and flag bearer of the …
Popular Nobel Laureate, renowned playwright and social critic, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, where many worshippers were killed, as vendetta killing which was meant to send a message to the entire people of South-West.
Soyinka made his view known on Friday while paying a condolence visit to Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu over the terror attack last Sunday.
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He described the attack as a message and said it was targeted at the governor who has been showing leadership in terms of …
As the strike action by the umbrella body of the Nigerian Univesities trudges on into months, some students of Nigerian public universities have expressed their displeasures and frustration over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Some of the students in an interview with Newsmen in Port Harcourt on Friday appealed to the Federal Government to meet at least 50 per cent of ASUU demands to end the strike.
Greatness Nnamdi-Ikpo, a third-year student of the University of Port Harcourt, who is studying gas engineering, said that the ongoing strike was impacting negatively on the future
In response to the fresh court ruling on the agency’s operations, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has promised to abide by the new court ruling which would be bordering on the tenure of the six area council chairmen, which has been generating a lot of controversies lately.
Recall that the Court has overturned an earlier judgment issued on Friday, May 13, 2022, which would be granting a one-year extension to the outgoing Chairmen and Councilors of the 6 FCT Area Councils.
To this end, the administration has received the Certified True Copy of the revised judgment of the FCT …
In response to the nabbing and detainment of some of the suspects linked to the Owo Church massacre, the State Police in Ondo State have debunked the widespread rumours making rounds that the suspected terrorists, who attacked Owo Catholic Church, have actually been apprehended.
Rumours filtered into town on Thursday evening that the perpetrators of the terror attack were nabbed by the combined team of the Nigerian Army, Amotekun Corps and other security agents.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that on June 5, terrorists attacked St. Francis Catholic Church, Owaluwa Street, Owo, during church service.
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The Lagos State Police Command is reiterating its efforts in continuing the enforcement of the strong ban which was slammed on commercial motorcycles (Okada).
The Lagos government prohibited okada operations on highways and in six local government areas.
The affected LGAs are Apapa, Eti Osa, Ikeja, Lagos Island, Surulere, and Lagos Mainland.
On Saturday, Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin narrated how policemen were, Friday night, attacked in Ikorodu. The spokesman said the personnel were fought by hoodlums and riders who tried to stop them.
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Hundeyin noted that …
Every now and then, you will stumble on tweets, memes and posts about how much regret people feel when they recall that they solved binomials, simultaneous, quadratic, and other mathematical equations which they ignorantly assume have no practical application. A couple of years ago, I was one of them. I quibbled about how many of my Chemistry classes were a total waste of time.
In fact, it was one decade after I carried out my first titration under the supervision of my Chemistry teacher, that I discovered why there is so …
