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Daily Archives: July 17, 2019
Herdsmen: Igbos ready to tackle Arewa youths over Ruga threat – IPOB
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Wednesday said Igbo youths were ready face the youth wing of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) after the expiration ...
Read More »CAF increases women’s teams at AWCON, adopts one-leg final for Champions League, Confed Cup
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) executive committee on Wednesday made decisions regarding the management of some football competitions across the continent. The number of teams ...
Read More »CCB awaits directives to verify Gov. Makinde’s N48bn assets
The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) in Oyo State said it was awaiting directives to verify the declared assets of Governor Seyi Makinde and those ...
Read More »AFCON: NFF won’t sack Rohr, says Pinnick
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President, Amaju Pinnick, has ruled out sacking Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, despite his failure to lead the team to the ...
Read More »Tribunal orders INEC Chair, Zamfara REC to produce documents for Atiku, PDP
The five-man Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja on Wednesday directed the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, and the ...
Read More »Ruga: Yoruba youths warn South-West governors, monarchs against selling land to herdsmen
The Yoruba Youths Forum (YYF) has warned the South-West governors and the geopolitical zone’s traditional rulers against ceding Yoruba land to Fulani herdsmen. The YYF ...
Read More »U.S Court hands life sentence to drug kingpin, El Chapo
The Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been given life jail in the United States. A federal judge in Brooklyn handed down the ...
Read More »Abbo: Senate panel seeks more time investigate assault case
The Senate Ad hoc Committee investigating the allegation of assault brought against Sen. Ishiaku Abbo, has requested for more time to complete its assignment. Chairman ...
Read More »Couple falls from 9th floor while having sex, woman dies
Russian police said they have opened a murder investigation into the death of a woman after falling from the ninth floor of a block of ...
Read More »El-Zakzaky seeks court permission for medical treatment in India
A Kaduna State High Court will tomorrow hear the application of the leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and wife, Zeenah, seeking ...
Read More »Former ECOWAS President, De Souza, dies at 65
The former president of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, Alain Marcel de Souza, died on Tuesday in Paris after suffering a ...
Read More »Okowa appoints Abang as Special Assistant on New Media
Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has appointed Miss Veronica Abang as his Special Assistant on New Media with immediate effect. Abang who was a ...
Read More »Senate confirms Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad as CJN
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed the appointment of Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). The red chamber had, on ...
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