Nigerian forward Ademola Lookman became the first player to score a hat-trick in a UEFA Europa League final as Atalanta stunned Bayer Leverkusen 3-0, dramatically halting the Bundesliga champions’ 51-match unbeaten run in all competitions. It’s Atalanta’s first-ever UEFA Europa League title — their first major title win since 1963 – thus inflicting a first […]
The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria has called for the restoration of government funding. TRCN branch chairman, under the Senior Staff Association of Universities, Teaching Hospitals, Research Institutes, and Associated Institutions, Ihionu Chukwuemeka, made the call on Tuesday in Abuja. He spoke at the official inauguration of the TRCN branch of the SSAUTHRIAI. The integration […]
A new trend has swept across Nigeria in recent days, with people of all ages tapping on their phone screens in pursuit of financial gain. Tapswap, a popular clicker app, has taken the country by storm as users tap repeatedly on the icon in the centre of the Telegram Tapswap bot screen to mine coins. […]
General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, who has led Chad’s junta for the last three years, is to be sworn in Thursday after an election victory hotly contested by opposition parties in the north-central African nation. Deby officially won 61 per cent of the May 6 vote international NGOs said was neither credible nor free, and […]
The Defence Headquarters, on Wednesday, urged the Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda, to come forward and substantiate his allegations against the military. According to the military high command, Radda, while featuring on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television on April 5, 2024, accused the military of aiding and profiting from terrorism in his state. […]
A group of Nigerian students have been thrown off university courses and ordered to leave the United Kingdom after they struggled to pay tuition fees on time, BBC reports. The Teesside University students have said the devaluation of the naira has made it difficult for them to pay their tuition fees, leading to a breach […]
The Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) organizers have revealed the dates for the remaining games of the season, which is scheduled to conclude on June 23 with Matchday 38 fixtures. It will be recalled the current season commenced on 30 September 30, 2023 after initial delays. This season saw the league body entering into a […]
The Minnesota Timberwolves knocked defending NBA champions, the Denver Nuggets out of the playoffs by beating them 98-90 in the deciding game of their Western Conference semi-final series. he Timberwolves were trailing by 20 points at one stage in the third quarter but staged a comeback to win game seven and take the series 4-3. […]
Liverpool have appointed Feyenoord’s Arne Slot as manager to replace departing coach Juergen Klopp next season, the Premier League club said Monday. Slot has been in charge of the Dutch club since 2021, and won the Eredivisie league title in 2022-23 along with the KNVB Cup this season, while Feyenoord also reached the Europa Conference […]
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called on the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and the Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, to resolve their differences to prevent the political crisis in the state from escalating into a larger regional and national issue. Speaking at the flag-off of the multi-billion-naira Trans-Kalabari Road project […]
