. Executive Council also endorses mandatory registration of residents Rivers State Executive Council has approved the proposed bill that will give legal backing to the ban on open rearing and grazing of livestock in the State. The endorsement was made at its meeting at Government House, Port Harcourt, which... Read more
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers has declared that the money his administration is spending on the Dr. Peter Odili Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease Diagnostic and Treatment Centre in the State is not a misplaced priority. The governor made this known on Thursday when he visited the project site at Rumuokuta... Read more
• NEDC treats 100 VVF cases in Borno • Bagudu approves renovation of 35 PHCs in Kebbi Barmo Community in Wamba Local Council of Nasarawa State has appealed to governments at all levels to come to their rescue from the hands of Fulani herdsmen. The appeal followed Monday’s murder... Read more
The Nigeria Football Federation says it is working at a pace to ensure the payment of outstanding bonuses and allowances of the coaches and players of the senior men national team, Super Eagles, as well as salaries owed the coaches of the team. NFF General Secretary, Dr Mohammed Sanusi,... Read more
Egypt’s Omar Assar has equaled Quadri Aruna’s Olympic Games record as the second African player to reach the quarterfinal stage of the men’s singles table tennis event at Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Nigeria’s Aruna became the first African to reach the quarterfinal after his quarterfinal finish at Rio 2016... Read more
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has challenged the Federal Government on the need to strengthen the combat capability of the nation’s Army. The governor said the goal of such investment should be to make the Nigerian Army the strongest and the best in Africa. Governor Wike gave... Read more
Rivers United Football Club has officially approached the League Management Company (LMC) to protest the use of an ineligible player in the club’s Match Day 34 encounter with Jigawa Golden Stars in Kaduna. The State’s Commissioner for Sports, Boma Iyaye, made this known to Sports Writers in a statement by... Read more
Justice Gideon Kurada of the Kaduna State High Court has acquitted and discharged the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibraheem El- Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat Ibrahim who have been standing trial in the court for the past four years. Delivering the judgement earlier today,... Read more
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum has requested the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to deploy appropriate technologies necessary to ensure that the votes of every Nigerian is counted and made to count. Similarly, the forum has also tasked the Nigerian Communications... Read more
Former African champion Olufunke Oshonaike has been inducted by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) into the exclusive club of seven time Olympian known as the ‘Club 7’. Oshonaike who is the first table tennis player in the world and the first female athlete in Africa to attend seven... Read more
