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A 26-man delegation of the senior national male football team of Zimbabwe, known as the Warriors, will arrive in Nigeria on Thursday night aboard a South African Airways flight. The Director of Communications at Nigeria Football Federation, Ademola Olajire, said in a statement on Wednesday that the team was being …

Francis Atanomeyovwi, former National Treasurer of the Urhobo Progress Union has warned those planning protest against Senator Ovie Omo-Agege’s Deputy Senate President’s bid to drop their ‘evil agenda’ in their own interest, noting that taking such protest to Abuja may be a dangerous misadventure that will yield no benefits. Addressing …

Lennart Johansson, who was president of European football body UEFA from 1990 to 2007, has died at the age of 89, the Swedish football federation said on Wednesday. “Swedish football is in mourning. Lennart Johansson has died. He passed away on the evening of June 4 aged 89 after a …

Sixty people have been killed in a two-day crackdown on Sudanese protesters carried out by security forces, a doctors’ committee close to the demonstrators said . A previous toll given by the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors had counted 40 dead since the bloody dispersal of a weeks-long sit-in outside …

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has ordered public office holders to relocate for the development of their respective council areas in tandem with the spirit and letter of his second term inaugural speech. He reinstated his stance at the Government House, Enugu when he met with councils’ stakeholders, including …

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has disclosed that the State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board was dissolved because of division and the illegal sale of pilgrimage slots. Wike, however, assured Muslims in the state that his administration would continue to carry all groups along, irrespective of their religious and ethnic background. …

Former Governor Rashidi Ladoja of Oyo State has said that nobody can Islamise Nigeria, saying doing so will be difficult. Ladoja stated this while addressing journalists at his Ondo Street, Bodija, Ibadan home as his Sallah message. He said: “In Nigeria, we should be thanking God because religion is not …

Ekiti State House of Assembly has ordered the 16 suspended council chairmen to refund N3.6 billion to the state’s coffers. The lawmakers said the order was predicated on the report of a panel, which indicted the chairmen of mismanagement. Making the declaration at the valedictory session of the fifth assembly …

The United Nations General Assembly yesterday in New York, United States elected Nigeria’s Prof. Tijjani Mohammad-Bande as president of the 74th Session of the body. As the sole candidate for the position, he emerged victorious through acclamation at the 87th plenary meeting of the Assembly. He is the second Nigerian …

Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) has announced that resident doctors and house officers will commence total and indefinite strike on Friday, June 7. In a communiqué issued after an emergency general meeting on Monday, the proposed day for the commencement of the strike, ARD …