CWG Day 10: Long jump, 100m final… guide to Team Nigeria’s events
On Day 9, Team Nigeria claimed their 30th medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games (CWG) in Birmingham. Iyiazi Eucharia Njideka and Ugochi Constance Alam won gold and bronze medals respectively in the women’s F55-57 shot. Genesis Miesinnei Mercy also won gold in women’s wrestling while Favour Ofili took silver in the women’s […]
Keyamo: Buhari has done well on rail, agriculture… Tinubu will improve on them
Festus Keyamo, minister of state for labour and employment, says President Muhammadu Buhari has done exceedingly well in areas of infrastructure, rail and agriculture. In a series of tweets on Saturday, Keyamo said if elected, Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) would improve on these “revolutionary strides”. The […]
Gbagbo, ex-Ivoirian leader convicted of fund misappropriation, gets presidential pardon
Laurent Gbagbo, former president of Cote d’Ivoire who was sentenced to prison for misappropriating public funds, has been granted presidential pardon. Alassane Ouattara, president of Cote d’Ivoire, announced the development on Saturday in his address ahead of the country’s 62nd independence anniversary. Cote d’Ivoire got its independence on August 7, 1960. […]
Newspaper Headlines: FG misinforming Nigerians on strike, says ASUU
Reports of gunmen attack in Imo, Kogi and Ekiti dominate the paper. Source: Top Stories
Questions presidential candidates must answer
Next month, campaigns for the 2023 elections will kick off officially. I used the word “officially” advisedly: campaign has practically taken off on TV and Twitter. Many presidential candidates are already marketing themselves. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, his All Progressives Congress (APC) opponent, […]
CWG: Ofili claims Nigeria’s 30th medal
Favour Ofili has won the silver medal in the women’s 200 meters race at the 2022 Commonwealth Games (CWG) in Birmingham. The 19-year-old sprinter, who became the third Nigerian athlete to feature in the women’s 200m final at the Commonwealth Games, clocked 22.51 seconds to finish behind Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah at the Alexander […]
CWG: Genesis wins gold in wrestling as Nigeria bags 26th medal
Nigeria’s Genesis Miesinnei Mercy has defeated Canada’s Parks Madison to clinch the gold medal in the women’s wrestling at the 2022 Commonwealth Games (CWG). Mercy won the encounter 9-0 at the Coventry Arena on Saturday evening. The Nigerian had a 3-1 VFA (victory by fall) to easily win Parks. Mercy’s gold […]
Join FG to beg ASUU to end strike, Garba Shehu tells parents
Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, says parents should join the federal government in begging the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to end its ongoing strike. The presidential spokesman said this on Saturday on the sidelines of the 11th graduation ceremony of Glisten International Academy, in Abuja. Shehu’s comments come hours after Festus […]
Train attack: I’m still strong supporter of Buhari, says passenger freed from captivity
Hassan Usman, a lawyer and one of the victims of Abuja-Kaduna train attack, says he is still a strong supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari. On March 28, a Kaduna-bound train was attacked by gunmen, with several persons killed, injured and abducted. Hassan was among four passengers that were released from captivity on […]
Presidential nomination: Lawyer sues INEC over delay in releasing documents on Tinubu
Mike Enahoro-Ebah, an Abuja-based lawyer, has sued the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over its refusal to provide the certified true copies (CTCs) of documents relating to Bola Tinubu’s presidential nomination. The lawyer is also seeking an order asking INEC to release Tinubu’s nomination forms submitted when he contested the Lagos governorship election […]