Premier League referees have been given another round of guidance on how to interpret one of football’s most controversial laws, following an outcry over a player winning the ball while apparently offside. Changes are to be made following the buildup to Bernardo Silva’s opening goal for Manchester City against Aston Villa last week. The alterations again bring […]
Babatope Okeowo, Akure Afenifere, the Pan Yoruba socio-political group, has described as belated the appointment of new Service Chiefs. The spokesperson of the organisation, Mr Yinka Odumakin in his reaction to the rejig in the security sector saidBuhari’s administration has not divorced itself of nepotism in appointment of key officers of the government. Odumakin’s […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has accepted the immediate resignation of the Service Chiefs, and their retirement from service. Those involved are the Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin; Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas; and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar. Buhari […]
Police PRO: We’ve commenced investigations Sola Adeyemo, Ibadan The embattled Yoruba rights activist and warlord, Chief Sunday Adeyemo (a.k.a Sunday Igboho) whose house at Soka area of Ibadan, Oyo State capital was torched by some suspected arsonists, has revealed that the deed was carried out by Fulani herdsmen and bandits. According to report […]
Babatope Okeowo, Akure The Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), in Ondo State Tuesday challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to dissociate himself from criminal elements using Fulani herdsmen as cover to unleash terror on innocent travellers and farmers in the state and the Southwest region as a whole. The Chairman of the party, Chief Joseph Akinlaja said […]
Cephas Iorhemen, Makurdi The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue State Tuesday expressed optimism that Nigerians will witness great improvement in security across the nation following the declaration by state governors that open grazing of livestock be banned in the country. The Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) and the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) […]
Regina Otokpa, Abuja The National Examinations Council (NECO), has fixed new dates for its 2020 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for external candidates. A statement released by NECO’s Head, Information and Public Relations Division, Azeez Sani on Tuesday in Abuja, noted that candidates were given more time to complete their registration process for the 2020 external […]
The Oyo State Police Command says hoodlums are responsible for burning the house of Sunday Adeyemo, a youth leader better known as Sunday Igboho. Igboyo’s house in Soka area of Ibadan, Oyo State capital, was gutted by fire in the early hours of Tuesday. In a statement, Olugbenga Fadeyi, command spokesperson said the hoodlums arrived at […]
Nigeria has recorded a 48 percent increase in the number of COVID-19 infections confirmed within 24 hours. On Sunday, after three weeks of recording a minimum of 1,000 new positive samples daily, Nigeria’s single-day count had dropped to 964 new cases. But on Monday, there had been a 48 percent rise in this figure […]
Armed and ready to go, Taiwan air force jets screamed into the sky on Tuesday in a drill to simulate a war scenario, showing its fleet’s battle readiness after dozens of Chinese warplanes flew into the island’s air defence zone over the weekend. Taiwan, claimed by China as its territory, has been on edge […]