Nigeria’s manager Augustine Eguavoen says he expects a tough duel between his Super Eagles and the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia in Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations Round of 16 encounter in Garoua. Tunisia’s campaign has been somewhat ravaged by positive COVID tests and the team only qualified for the... Read more
Super Eagles Begin 19th AFCON Campaign With Pharaohs Test
Sports January 10, 2022
Coach Augustine Eguavoen and his Super Eagles’ wards face a stern examination of their credentials when Nigeria and seven-time champions Egypt go for each other’s jugular in the opening match of Group D of the 33rd Africa Cup of Nations finals on Tuesday. Venue is the 30,000 –capacity Stade Roumdé... Read more
Coach Christopher Danjuma has invited 31 players to the camp of Nigeria’s U20 girls, Falconets for the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup third round fixture against Congo, with the first leg taking place in Brazzaville on 5th December. Nigeria will host the return leg at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Lagos... Read more
…disowns purported UEFA coaching course The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed delight with the successful conclusion of the first-ever Coaches’ Instructors Course which took place in Abuja last week with 32 top coaches in attendance. NFF’s General Secretary, Mohammed Sanusi, himself a qualified coach and one of the... Read more
Rivers State goversnor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, says the Federal Government must stop using security agencies to intimidate and influence judges if it truly believes in independence of the judiciary. The governor accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government of using the issue of financial autonomy to ingratiate... Read more
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has urged Nigerian lawyers to engage in judicial activism as a deliberate measure to addressing the slow dispensation of justice, and attempts to stifle the rights of the citizenry. The governor gave the charge on Monday at the 61st Annual General Conference... Read more
Court Grants Bail To Teenage Girl Facing Trial For Circulating Nude Video Of Retired Bayelsa Permanent Secretary
News October 21, 2021
A Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa on Thursday granted bail to a teenage girl facing trial for cybercrime by the Department of State Services (DSS). The DSS on Monday arraigned the teenager before the court for circulating the nude video of a retired Bayelsa permanent secretary on... Read more
The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed shock and sadness over the death on Monday of former Nigeria international striker Sunny Oyarekhua. Oyarekhua, who retired as an Assistant Commissioner of Police, was top scorer of the men’s football event of the 2nd All-Africa Games that Nigeria hosted in 1973, as... Read more
Captain Ahmed Musa and 16 other players were being expected at the Super Eagles’ Eko Hotel & Suites abode on Monday evening, even as 11 early birds sweated out in gym sessions ahead of Tuesday’s first training of the group. The players are expected for the opening of FIFA... Read more
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers has signed bills on Value Added Tax (VAT) collection, Open Grazing Prohibition in the State into law. He also maintained that the judgement of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt had sufficiently addressed the illegality perpetrated by the Federal Inland Revenue Services... Read more
