Super Falcons coach, Justine Madugu, has insisted that Nigeria’s focus as the nine-time African champions face hosts Morocco in the final of the 13th Women Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday is to win the trophy for the 10th time. The Super Falcons, one of only seven teams to have played at every single edition of the FIFA Women’s World Cup finals since the competition was launched in 1991, saw off the challenge of gutsy Cup-holders Banyana Banyana of South Africa in Tuesday’s second semi final, thanks to an eye-widening cross-cum-floater goal by defender Michelle Alozie in added time. Speaking…
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The Chairman of the Forum of State Chairmen of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Femi Olaniyi Ferrari, has dissociated his members from what he called fake meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC), in Abuja Friday, accusing the former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, of masterminding the purported meeting. Noting that the meeting took place without the knowledge of the chairmen’s forum or the summons of the SDP’s National Working Committee (NWC), he accused El-Rufai of plotting to destabilize the party and stressed that members of the forum, who attended the meeting, were misled and lured to the…
The Presidency has dismissed claims by the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, that the North has been neglected under President Bola Tinubu’s administration. The presidency also stated that several critical projects and programmes are currently underway in the region. Kwankwaso, during a stakeholders’ dialogue on the 2025 constitutional amendment in Kano on Thursday, warned that national resources are increasingly tilted towards the southern region, resulting in deepening poverty and insecurity across the North. He lamented the deplorable condition of federal roads in the northern states, recounting how a cancelled flight forced him to…
Oleksandr Usyk has been ordered by the WBO to face Joseph Parker in a mandatory heavyweight title defence. The Ukrainian was crowned undisputed world heavyweight champion on Saturday after beating Daniel Dubois in a fifth-round stoppage at Wembley Stadium. The victory, sealed when he left the Briton on the canvas with a left-handed punch, secured a 24th professional win for the undefeated 38-year-old, who won back his IBF belt and added it to WBA, WBC and WBO titles. After becoming undisputed world heavyweight champion for a second time, Usyk mentioned Parker as a possible future opponent. On Thursday, a letter…
No fewer than 50 Nigerians were arrested on Thursday by the Ghana Immigration Service for alleged involvement in cyberfraud and human trafficking. The suspects and the landlord of the property where the arrests took place were apprehended during a coordinated security operation at McCarthy Hills in the Ga South Municipality of Accra. Information gathered from local Ghanaian media and a statement by the GIS stated that the raid followed intelligence reports about foreign nationals unlawfully residing in the area, many of whom were allegedly trafficked into the country and forced into online criminal activities. Confirming the operation, the Head of…
The Federal Government, in collaboration with the Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project (L-PRES) and other stakeholders, have adopted climate-smart technologies to improve pasture management and enhance national food security. The move is part of a broader strategy to modernise the livestock sector and promote sustainable practices amid growing environmental and resource challenges.Best restaurants near me The Minister of Livestock Development,Mr. Idi Maiha made the disclosure during a stakeholders’ workshop themed, “Technologies for Sustainable Pasture Production and Management in Nigeria,” in Abuja. Maiha who was represented by his Special Assistant on Livestock Entrepreneurship, Mr. Ishaq Bello, described the initiative as…
President Bola Tinubu, has said Nigeria’s economy is now stable after two years of wallowing in stormy waters. Speaking at the 14th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Banquet Hall of State House, Abuja, Tinubu told governors of his party that Nigerians were still complaining about lack of development at the grassroots, and urged them to do more. The president, who stressed the need for increased community engagement and greater responsiveness to citizens’ concerns, described the opposition parties as a coalition of confusion, just as he lauded former National Chairman of the…
A passenger plane carrying nearly 50 people has crashed in a remote area of Russia’s far eastern Amur region yesterday, killing everyone on board, authorities said. The aircraft, a Soviet-made twin-propeller Antonov-24, went down in thickly forested terrain, leaving a column of smoke rising from the crash site and no signs of survivors, according to state media and videos released by investigators. The Angara Airlines flight was enroute Tynda from the city of Blagoveshchensk when it disappeared from radar around 1:00 p.m. local time (0400 GMT). A rescue helicopter later spotted the burning fuselage on a forested mountain slope about…
The Federal Government has unveiled a state-of-the-art oncology centre at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Katsina, to tackle cancer cases in northern Nigeria. The oncology centre, inaugurated through the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, will focus on the study, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cancer. Speaking at the event, the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, said the oncology centre was among the three centres to be inaugurated on Thursday in Katsina, Enugu and Edo States. He said Nigeria accounts for 127,000 cases of cancer, with 80,000 deaths annually, hence the construction and equipping of…
Wrestling legend Terry Gene Bollea, popularly known as Hulk Hogan, has died at the age of 71. According to TMZ, medics responded to his Clearwater, Florida home early Thursday after being called for a cardiac arrest. Hogan was then placed on a stretcher and taken to an ambulance. Despite recent concerns over his health—including a neck procedure earlier this year, his wife Sky had previously stated his heart remained “strong”. Hogan was a transformative figure in professional wrestling, hailed for bringing the sport into mainstream, family-friendly entertainment. He debuted in 1977 and rose to superstardom in the 1980s with the…