A total number of 22 teams have arrived in Benin City for the 2024 phase one of the Ardova Handball Premier League which begins on Monday (today). The top tier league, the biggest handball event in Nigeria, was initially scheduled for April 28 to May 11 but was shifted to afford the participating teams adequate […]
Super Eagles forward, Samuel Chukwueze, has emerged as a doubt for Nigeria’s World Cup qualifiers against South Africa and Benin Republic, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The Eagles are scheduled to host Bafana Bafana at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo on June 7 before travelling to Ivory Coast where they face the Squirrels four days later. […]
Nigerian Afrobeat singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has hinted at quitting music. He was reacting to the recent pictures and videos doctored against him by some blogs. In a post via X on Thursday night, the singer claimed that some persons desperately want him out of the music industry. Davido said he would […]
FIFA is facing the threat of legal action from domestic leagues and player unions if there is no rescheduling of the 2025 Club World Cup. A letter to FIFA president Gianni Infantino, seen by AFP, claims the sport’s worldwide schedule is now “beyond saturation”. It warns calendar changes including the new 32-team Club World Cup […]
Naomi Osaka continued her winning return to Rome by seeing off Marta Kostyuk in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2 on Thursday to set up a third-round clash with 10th-seed Daria Kasatkina. Japan’s Osaka beat Russian Kasatkina in the pair’s only other meeting, when Osaka won the 2018 Indian Wells final. Osaka breezed past Kostyuk to claim […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has exposed new rules on issuance and allotment by private companies securities declaring that any person who issues or allots securities without its prior approval or violates any provisions of its regulations will be liable to a penalty not less than N10 million in the first instance and a […]
Inevitable hunger looms in Apa and Agatu LGAs of Benue State as marauding Fulani herdsmen continue their deadly attacks unabated. Kidnappings and killings in the two local government areas have led to the abandonment of the communities in the two LGAs by the natives. As the rainy season sets in, their planned return to commence […]
Troops of the Operation Hadin Kai of the Nigerian Army have killed six fighters of the Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP, during a raid of a “notorious enclave” in Goniri, Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State. This was made known by Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert and security analyst in Lake Chad, […]
Winners of the last Obudu International Mountain race held 10 years ago, precisely in November 2014, have appealed to Governor Bassey Otu to intervene and pay them the cash prizes as announced by former Gov Liyel Imoke. Making the appeal in Calabar, their spokesman, Sylvester Ikpi said government was a continuum, meaning that succeeding governments […]
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Friday morning, arrived in Nigeria for their 72-hour tour. The couple arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport aboard a British Airways flight. The flight which arrived around 5am, was delayed because of a sick pilot. The Duchess of Sussex had flown into Heathrow yesterday to meet up with […]
