Eguavoen drops five NPFL players for Mexico friendly
…team depart for US Tuesday Stand-in Super Eagles B team coach, Austin Eguavoen, has dropped five players ahead of next weekend’s international friendly against Mexico, billed for the Los Angeles...
View ArticleEnglish champions City target €30m Sadiq
English Premier League champions Manchester City have joined a host of other top European clubs in the race to sign Almeria €30m rated striker, Sadiq Umar, ahead of the 2021/22 season. The 24-year-old...
View ArticleWorkplace abuse: How we ran ridiculous errands during service year –Ex-corpers
Percy Ani writes on the absurd errands corps members were sent by bosses at their places of primary assignment during their one-year mandatory service Many Nigerian graduates mobilised for the one-year...
View ArticleKwara donates patrol vehicles, others to security agencies
Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State on Thursday presented 20 new patrol vehicles and dozens of bulletproof vests to security agencies in the state as the state steps up efforts to strengthen...
View ArticleHow NCAA regulation hampers accident investigation, by AIB
The Accident Investigation Bureau has said its work of hindering air accident investigation is being hampered by the no-fly-zone regulation of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority. According to the...
View ArticleWorld Bank, CBN fully funding six million meters – FG
The World Bank and the Central Bank of Nigeria are fully providing funds for the estimated six million electricity meters required to close the metering gap in the Nigerian power sector, the Federal...
View ArticleDefiled by randy men, parents, victims of Gombe rape epidemic cry for justice
Chima Azubuike writes about the agonies of defiled minors in Gombe seeking a new lease of life Fourteen-year-old Aminat Sabo appeared worried that Wednesday when our correspondent met her. Her looks...
View ArticleSeun Shobo elected to global voice and speech professionals’ board
A voice-over talent and speech coach, Seun Shobo, has become the first African to be elected to the Board of Directors of the international professional body, Voice and Speech Trainers Association....
View ArticleDoing weird things for fame leads to destruction –Ayo Adesanya
Popular actress, Ayo Adesanya, has advised celebrities not to do bizarre things in pursuit of fame. She said doing that could lead to the person’s destruction. In an interview with Saturday Beats, she...
View ArticleNigerian IT engineer indicted for defrauding 17 US states
A federal grand jury in Seattle, Washington, United States, has indicted one Chukwuemeka Onyegbula, for alleged conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Tessa Gorman, acting US...
View ArticlePolice begin probe as robbers kill Oyo ex-commissioner’s wife
Gunmen suspected to be robbers have shot dead Mrs Olayemi Odetomi, wife of a former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in Oyo State, Peter Oderomi. Our correspondent gathered...
View ArticleInsecurity: Varsity workers to write National Assembly on gun license for...
•We’re worried over incessant kidnapping of lecturers, students-ASUU In the wake of abductions of staff and students on university campuses, varsity workers under the aegis of the Senior Staff...
View ArticleFG meets doctors Tuesday to avert strike, Buhari postpones UK checkup
London protesters storm Nigerian House ahead of president’s arrival PDP, activists knock PMB, link postponement to UK demonstration The Federal Government has reached out to the National Association of...
View ArticleN322m fraud: EFCC to appeal Nwaoboshi’s victory as Buhari welcomes him to APC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says it will challenge the victory of Delta North Senator, Peter Nwaoboshi, who was recently discharged and acquitted of alleged fraud to the tune of N322m...
View ArticleAuditor-General queries multibillion-naira irregularities in NPA accounts
The Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation has issued seven queries on the audited accounts of the Nigerian Ports Authority in 2017. The queries include standalone financial statements,...
View ArticleAPC begins search for consensus national chairman
Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress have begun a search for a consensus candidate for the position of National Chairman, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. It was gathered in Abuja, on Friday, that...
View ArticleInside the neighbourhood of suspected Super TV CEO’s killer
“Who are you looking for?’’ a gateman howled as he partly opened a gate to peep at our correspondent on Thursday. Seeing that the ‘intruder’ was not one of the tenants in the building, he firmly bolted...
View ArticleSuper TV CEO: Police release Lekki apartment operator on bail
Following the arrest and confession of Chidinma Ojukwu for allegedly stabbing Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga, to death at a service apartment in the Lekki area of Lagos State, the state Commissioner of...
View ArticleCourt, not social media’ll determine Baba Ijesa’s fate –Counsel
Bisi Oridate, one of the lawyers representing embattled actor, James Omiyinka, aka Baba Ijesa, has said that the court, not social media would eventually decide whether the actor is innocent or guilty...
View ArticleCarjackers stab Abuja driver to death, steal car
Suspected carjackers have killed a cab-haling driver identified as Mathew Okafor in Abuja, City Round has learnt. Our correspondent learnt that the driver was stabbed many times before his car was...
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