Sunshine Stars Football Club of Akure scored through substitute Sadeeq Yusuf in the 90th minute on Sunday for a 1-0 win over visiting Warri Wolves. Yusuf scored with a powerful header to a pass from another substitute, Stephen Begbaji, in the Match Day 5 game played at the Ondo State Sports Complex in Akure. Sunshine Stars made five substitutions in the second half of the 2020/2021 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) match. But their best chance of the game was in the 61st minute, when forward Chinedu Udechuckwu’s shot was deflected off target. Also, in the 81st minute, Sunshine Stars’ had another…
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The President, Aviation Roundtable (ART), Dr Gabriel Olowo has called on domestic airlines to consider merger due to the present rise in the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Olowo gave the advice in a communique issued by the General Manager, Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB), Mr Tunji Oketumbi in Lagos on Sunday. “Looking at the sector, our airlines are not too strong. We have said it enough that they should merge. “I hope the sense in merger will come to play with the new ones. “Otherwise they will continue to parasite one another and at the end of the day, none…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it recorded a trading surplus of ₦28.38 billion in September 2020. The Corporation disclosed this in its Monthly Financial and Operation Report (MFOR) for the month of September, released in Abuja, on Sunday. It said that the amount was slightly lower than the ₦29.60 billion surplus in August 2020. The marginal reduction in surplus, according to the report, was as a result of lower contribution from the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) which recorded zero crude oil lifting from the Okono Okpoho facility during the month under review The situation, it further attributed…
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will issue a slew of executive orders in his first hours in office, in both substantive and symbolic measures to reverse policies instituted during the Trump administration, U.S. media outlets reported. Rejoining the Paris climate accord, reversing the ban on immigration from several Muslim-majority countries, and issuing a mandate on wearing masks while engaging in inter-state travel are among the top priorities. According to a memo from incoming chief of staff Ronald Klain cited by The New York Times, CNN and other outlets, Biden will also try to speed up the reunification of families, after children were…
Those familiar with novels, especially before the advent of the internet, can remember a famous novel recalled in my headline. The book, The Way The Cookie Crumbles, first published in 1965, is one of the ninety or so thrillers written by Rene Lodge Brabazon Raymond, better known as James Hadley Chase. Ordinarily, a cookie represents many things ranging from the inanimate to the animate but The Way The Cookie Crumbles in Chase’s novel means “how things worked or panned out”. It is a plot in the author’s imaginary millionaire’s playground called Paradise City. A sinister criminal called Ticky Edris was…
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami has explained why it is mandatory for foreign diplomats to have National Identity Number, NIN. is mandatory for foreign diplomats who will reside in Nigeria for a continuous period of at least two years. He said in a statement by his Technical Assistant, Dr Femi Adeluyi on Sunday that an enrolment centre at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has been established for foreign diplomats, who will reside in Nigeria at a stretch of at least two years. “The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami,…
The Defence Headquarters says the Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole, has destroyed additional seven gun trucks, and eliminated scores of terrorists who attempted to reinforce attack at Marte, in Borno. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Sunday, said the success came after the earlier destruction of seven gun trucks by combined ground and air operations. Enenche said the troops had successfully repelled a Boko Haram/Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), terrorists’ attack on Marte on the night of Jan. 15, into early hours of Jan.16. He said the Nigerian Air Force…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has asked the National Assembly, NASS, to stop President Muhammadu Buhari from selling government properties to fund 2021 budget. In a statement issued on Sunday by its deputy director, Kolawole Oluwadare, SERAP appealed to the leaders of NASS Ahmad Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila, in a letter on January 16, to bar Buhari from carrying out such moves. SERAP wants the leadership of the National Assembly to “urgently review the 2021 appropriation legislation to stop the government of President Muhammadu Buhari from selling public properties to fund the 2021 budget, and to identify areas…
A top aide of president-elect, Joe Biden has said that the incoming president would sign 12 executive orders on his first day in office. This is coming as the US police, in fear of violence from Trump supporters, staged a nationwide security operation ahead of the inauguration. Authorities in Washington had reported an arrest of a man with a loaded handgun and more than 500 rounds of ammunition at a security checkpoint. Biden’s incoming chief of staff, Ron Klain said in a memo to new White House senior staff that the executive orders would address the pandemic, the ailing US…
Nigerian government says it will inaugurate a COVID-19 Rapid Response Register (RRR), for the urban poor made poorer by the pandemic. Mr Joe Abuku, Communications Manager, National Social Safety Nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO), in an interview on Sunday, disclosed that the register is an emergency intervention database. According to him, the register would identify Nigerians who had sunk deeper into poverty as a result of the economic shocks caused by the pandemic. “This register is being built by NASSCO as an expansion of the existing National Social Safety Nets Project (NASSP). It targets small businesses owners, street vendors, petty traders,…