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Brazilian defender, Marcelo who previously played for Lyon was demoted to the club’s reserve team for ‘farting in the dressing room and laughing about it with his teammates’, according to reports. The fallout with the club’s hierachy over the incident led to his exit from the club as he now plies his trade with Ligue […]
A 74-year old man, Bassey Inyang, has been handed over to the police for alleged sexual abuse of a 12-year old girl in Calabar. The suspect, who resides at 14 Waddell Street, Mbukpa in Calabar, was whisked away by men of the Anti-Cult and Kidnapping Squad of the Cross River Police Command following an alarm […]
The lead Counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, on Tuesday said the next court outing of the detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, will be on 18 May, 2022 at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Ejiofor disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri, after the IPOB legal team had visited the […]
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected the presidential form of the All Progressives Congress purchased for him on Monday by a group of his supporters from the north. Dr Jonathan’s Media Adviser, Ikechukwu Eze, said in a statement hours after the news that the group had bought the form for him broke that the former […]
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has picked the expression of interest and nomination forms to contest the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the… Former President Goodluck Jonathan has picked the expression of interest and nomination forms to contest the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress. (APC). A northern group […]
Mixed reactions have continued to trail the comment made by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), on the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, on Friday. The PUNCH reported that Buhari, who was on a two-day official visit to Ebonyi State, on Friday, said it was only the court that […]
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emiefele has told a Federal High Court in Abuja that he can run for the post of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria without vacating his position as the CBN Governor. The CBN Governor through his Counsel, Mike Ozekhome, told the court that […]
Ten persons have been reported dead in an explosion which occurred at an illegal oil refinery in Uzuaku community in Ukwa West local government area of Abia State. Three of the victims were said to have died at the scene of the blast which occurred last Friday evening while the other seven passed on in […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has assured residents of Abuja against panic buying of fuel, assuring that the agency has adequate supply despite the resurgence of queues in the city. This is according to a series of tweets on the NNPC handle late Sunday. “We assure all residents of the FCT, and indeed all […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended the ongoing strike by twelve weeks, the president of the union, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke said on Monday. In a statement he issued after an emergency National Executive Committee meeting of the association at the University of Abuja on Sunday, the ASUU president said the decision was […]
