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 […]
The Osun axis of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Joint Campus Committee, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of illegally abducting some students of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State. It was gathered that the EFCC operatives from the Ibadan Zonal office stormed Ede and arrested the students during a […]
The Nigerian Army says it has arrested a personnel for illegal possession of ammunition and explosives. The arrest was carried out during a routine search operation by the Military Police K9 Team, at the Borno Express Terminal in Maiduguri, Borno State. This was disclosed in a statement by Major General Onyema Nwachukwu, Director Army Public […]
American celebrity couple, Hailey and Justin Bieber have announced that they are expecting their first child together. The couple flaunted Hailey’s baby bump in matching Instagram posts on Thursday. They tagged each other in the Instagram caption, as the 27-year-old model, dressed in a long white lace dress with a veil-like scarf wrapped around her […]
