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Cyril Desser scored on his return to the Super Eagles while Ademola Lookman continues his scoring form for the Super Eagles as Nigeria beat 10-man Ghana 2-1 in Marakech on Friday, 22 March, 2024, in international friendly March, reports thegazellenews.com Interim coach Finidi George’s decision to start Rangers of Scotland hitman, Desser paid off as he scored the first goal from the spot in the first half after a Ghanaian defender handled the ball in the box. Lookman came in the second half and scored the goal in the 84th minute. Ghana scored its consolation goal in added time via…

The Nigerian boxing team at the current 13th All African Games going in Ghana has recorded impressive performance at the boxing ring, reports thegazellenews.com As at the time of writing this report this morning, Friday, 22 March, 2024, nine Nigerian boxers have qualified for the final of their various weight categories. Among the nine qualifiers were six female boxers and three male boxers. Those who have qualified for the final in their various weight categories are: Adesina Zainab, Ojo Nene, Patricia Mbata, Shukura Kareem, Ogunsemilore Cynthia and Oraekwe Blessing, all females. The three male boxers who have qualified for the…

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Some concerned members in the Kogi State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have cautioned the national leadership of the party to pull the brakes on process of picking the APC candidate for the governorship poll coming up later in the year. The members, under the auspices of Kogi APC Integrity Group (KAIG), warned of the consequences of the Adhoc panel allegedly raised for a delegate congress for governorship primary election billed for Tuesday, 7 February, 2023. It was learnt that national secretariat of the APC had on Friday, 3 February, 2023 announced the composition of an Electoral Panel…

The Coalition of United Political Parties has said it stands firmly by its letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, asking him to investigate certain politicians in Kogi State over an alleged attempt to cause mayhem in a bid to disrupt the forthcoming elections. The CUPP, in a statement jointly signed by 19 of it’s leaders, said,  arising from a crucial meeting of Steering Committee members in Abuja, on Thursday, members passed a resolution to distance the Coalition from a statement said to have been signed by one of its spokespersons against collective decision. The leaders of the Coalition frowned at what…

A pastor in Ondo State, Paul Oyewole, has been accused of publishing and posting his own obituary on social media platform, WhatsApp, in a bid to avoid repaying a ₦3 million debt owed a church member. The 43-year-old pastor was arraigned at the Chief Magistrate Court, Ondo Town, Ondo on charges of fraudulently obtaining ₦3 million from one Boyede Emmanuel, with the promise to pay back the money within seven days, a promise he failed to fulfil, reports Vanguard on Wednesday, 1 February, 2023. Police Prosecutor, Akao Moremi, informed the court that the defendant falsely published his obituary on WhatsApp…

Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Thursday, 2 February, 2023, led APC candidates and leaders on the party’s campaign stops to Asa Local Government Area, with locals acknowledging the modest strides of the government in the area and pledging huge support for candidates of the party in the 2023 ballot. On the campaign stops with the Governor were the National and House of Assembly candidates in the central and cabinet members, such as Turaki Salihu Mustapha (Senate); Mukhtar Shagaya (House of Representatives for Ilorin West/Asa); Rukayyat Shittu; and Hajia Arinola Lawal; Commissioner for Agriculture Abdullateef Alakawa; and SUBEB Chairman…

The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, on Thursday, 2 February, 2023, flagged off the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC) National Women and Youths Sensitization Summit on peaceful, free and fair 2023 General Elections with the theme ‘Ensuring Secured and Safe Atmosphere for Nigerian Women and Youths during Election Process’. The Summit which dissected the roles of the electorates, particularly women and youths, urged cooperation with personnel of the Nigeria Police and other security agencies engaged in election security management for robust security before, during, and after the 2023 General Elections. The IGP commended the initiative of…

All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, took his message of Renewed Hope to Osun State on Thursday where he assured the people and party supporters of his commitment to create jobs for the unemployed and make credit available for business owners. Speaking in Yoruba to a mammoth crowd of people who thronged the venue of the campaign rally at Freedom Park Osogbo, Tinubu said his administration would empower the people with the skill that will make them employable while ensuring that the youth will no longer spend years in university due to lecturers’ strike action, stating that…

In what appears as a carnival-like entry of the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to Osogbo, the capital city of Osun on Thursday, 2 February, 2023, other candidates of the party and the national leaders of the party stormed the state in a branded motorcade acknowledging sheers from the ecstatic  residents at strategic places in Osogbo. The arrival of the APC Presidential Candidate turned the atmosphere into jubilation as major parts of the ancient city, particularly Ogo-Oluwa, Olaiya, Okefia, Alekuwodo and Old Garage, stood-still for hours due to the influx of the people…

A Lagos High Court has awarded N5 million damages against Nigerian singer and songwriter, Ikuforijimi Olaitan Abdulrahman, popularly known as Oxlade over a leaked explicit sex tape with a woman on social media app, Snapchat. A sex tape of the singer had surfaced online in February 2022, without the knowledge and consent of the woman involved in the video. The leaked video sparked public outrage, forcing Oxlade to issue an apology to his fans and to the woman in the video. In a judgement dated 24th January 2023, Justice O.A Oresanya described the action of the singer in secretly recording…

The National Crime Agency (NCA), UK, has written a pre-action notice to the Labour Party in Nigeria over a fake document that emanated from the Party and falsely attributed to the NCA. Reports said the NCA used the IP address of the mobile device where the false document emanated from to trace it to the National Headquarters of the Labour Party in Nigeria. There are speculations that the said document is designed to spread fake news in the few weeks leading to the 2023 presidential election against the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed…

On January 28, 2023, Texas death row prisoner Terence Andrus hanged himself at the age of 34, a little more than 6 months after the U.S. Supreme Court denied review of his case for a second time. His lawyer, Gretchen Sween, told the Los Angeles Times that “he’d been careening toward the abyss,” since their decision. “He was broken.” In 2008, at the age of 20, Andrus killed two people during an attempted carjacking while high on PCP-laced marijuana. He was sentenced to death in 2012 by a jury that was unaware of his diagnosis of affective psychosis – a…