FT: Nigeria 🇳🇬 67-65 🇫🇷 France 🏀 D’Tigress stage a massive 20pts comeback to beat the World number 5 and the second best team in Europe. It is safe to that Africa’s Queens 🇳🇬 have a foot in Australia 🇦🇺. Having lost their first game 90-76 to China and finding themselves at the bottom of […]
Continue ReadingFIFA has approved Leicester City winger Ademola Lookman changing his nationality to represent Nigeria instead of England, world soccer’s governing body said Thursday. Lookman, who is on loan at Leicester from Leipzig, was part of England’s title win at the 2017 Under-20 World Cup. The 24-year-old London native, who was born to Nigerian parents, has […]
Continue ReadingBIG Ukraine news: @nickschifrin reports: The US believes Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to invade Ukraine, and communicated those plans to the Russian military. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Russia could invade in the next few days, but in the briefing, the White House denied they had told NATO partners the invasion […]
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The Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has promised that his administration will construct more roads to link communities in the state. Diri stated this on Thursday when his Oyo State counterpart, Engr. Seyi Makinde, inaugurated the 4.5km Igbedi community road in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area as part of activities marking his second anniversary in […]
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Former President of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has identified functional education as vital to the development of the manpower resources of any society. Dr. Jonathan, who was the keynote speaker, stated this on Monday at the maiden five-day Bayelsa State Education Summit, with the theme: “Optimising the delivery, performance and sustainability of outcomes in the […]
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OLOMORO community in Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, was yesterday thrown into tension as an elderly woman was reportedly macheted to death by a suspected ritualist. Advertisement It was gathered that the deceased, whose identity could not be ascertained at press time, was sleeping in her house in the Ukoli quarters of the […]
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The Delta State Police Command’s Raider’s Operatives have arrested twenty-five suspected cultists in Agbor. This was confirmed in a statement signed by DSP Bright Edafe, the Police Public Relations Officer. He said, “some of the suspects confessed being members of Black Axe Confraternity and Junior Supreme Aiye Confraternity. Advertisement While noting that “investigation is ongoing”, […]
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The Rivers police command has arrested three “fake healthcare workers” in Asarama, a community in Andoni LGA of the state. An official of the Rivers primary healthcare management board, Dagogo Theophilus who disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday said the suspects carried out appendectomy and hernia surgical operations on seven patients before they were apprehended. […]
Continue ReadingRivers State Executive Council on Wednesday gave approval for the State to access N15 billion (Fifteen billion Naira) facility from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Infrastructure Fund, in order to accelerate the completion of three critical projects. The three major projects are the Oyigbo -Okoloma Road; Chokocho-Igbodo Road and construction of the 10th flyover by Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike’s administration […]
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The apex socio-cultural organization of the Ijaw Nation, the Ijaw National Congress (INC) calls on Ijaw sons and daughters to stand firm and not to compromise the Ijaw position on the 2023 Delta State Governorship race. This was contained in a statement by the Publicity Secretary of the body, Ezonebi Oyakemeagbegha, against the backdrop of […]
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