Eight persons have reportedly died and many others injured in a stampede at Olembe Stadium during a match between Cameroon and Comoros in Yaounde, at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations on Monday. A viral video that surfaced online, showed football fans struggling to get access to the stadium. Also a Cameroon-based television, CRTV, reported “half a dozen deaths and dozens have been injured”. A statement issued by Confederation of African Football confirmed the incident, saying that investigation is on-going. “CAF is aware of the incident that took place at Olembe Stadium during the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations fixture…
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Aliko Dangote has retained his position as the richest man in Africa, with a net worth of $12.1 billion, according to the 2022 edition of the Forbes’ Top 10 Africa’s billionaires List. According to Forbes on its Twitter handle @Forbes, for 11th year in a row, Aliko Dangote of Nigeria is the continent’s richest person, worth an estimated $13.9 billion, up from $12.1 billion in 2021. This according to the magazine, followed a 30 per cent increase in the stock price of Dangote Cement, his most valuable asset. A surge in housing developments in Nigeria and growth in government infrastructure…
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Babagana Monguno has described the outbreak of COVID-19 as one of the emerging biological threats to national security. Munguno disclosed this at a five-day training on Biorisk Management and Public Health Emergency Preparedness, organised by the Office of NSA in collaboration with the World Health Organisation and other technical partners on Monday, in Abuja. The NSA represented by the Director, Policy and Strategy, Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), Amb. Aminu Lawal, said the outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019 had brought the world to a standstill. He said that 340,543,962 confirmed cases of…
By Busola Samuel Nigerian youth have indicated their support for Modu Sheriff to be the next national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), soared Sunday with more Nigerians now coming out on the social and mainstream media to associate with him. Recall that some politicians within the All Progressives party (APC) had alleged that the two-term governor and senator was a sponsor of Boko Haram terrorists when he left for Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). However, Sheriff in an interview with AIT on why he failed to respond to the allegation, said the wisdom in his silence was to enable…
Nigeria’s Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva has assured that the country would not remove fuel subsidy at the moment. He gave the assurance at a meeting of stakeholders in the oil and gas sector on Monday, which was at the instance of the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan. According to him, it is clear to the blind and audible to the deaf that the timing for removal of fuel subsidy is wrong. Earlier, the Senate President laid the foundation for the stakeholders’ gathering after his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on the possible removal of petroleum subsidy. Sylva said…
The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Major General Shuaibu Ibrahim has called on the federal government to approve NYSC Trust Fund for the benefit of corps members. ASHENEWS reports that the bill on the proposed NYSC Trust Fund has passed the second reading at Nigeria’s House of Representatives. The DG made the appeal on Sunday when he appeared on TVC live programme, “Journalists’ Hangout”. According to him, if the fund is actualized, it would help to reinvigorate the NYSC skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development programme by empowering more corps members with start-up capitals for their business initiatives…
A former senator, Grace Bent has dragged Precious Chikwendu, estranged wife of former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode to the Federal High Court, Abuja over alleged defamation of character. When the matter was called on Monday, however, Chikwendu was absent in court and there was no legal representation on her behalf. Joseph Offor who announced his appearance for the prosecution said that he was holding the brief o Victor Okoye who was away in Lagos. Offor told the court that he had little information about the case and so could not explain why Chikwendu and her legal team were absent in…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has announced the date for the commencement of the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination as well as the Direct Entry examination, DE registration. JAMB’s Director of Public Relations, Dr Fabian Benjamin made the announcement on Monday, in its weekly bulletin. According to the bulletin, the registration exercise would commence in February 2022. The Board said the UTME/DE registration would commence on February 12, 2022, and end on March 19.
UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has ordered an investigation into conservative lawmaker, Nusrat Ghani claims that she was sacked as a junior minister in 2020 over concerns that she was a Muslim. A Downing Street spokesperson announced on Monday in a brief statement to reporters that “the Prime Minister has asked the Cabinet Office to conduct an inquiry into the allegations made by Nusrat Ghani MP.’’ In an interview published by the Sunday Times, Ghani said that she was dismissed as a junior transport minister in February 2020. She said following her dismissal a senior Conservative lawmaker told her that…
The National Vice-Chairman, South South of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dan Orbih has advised the federal government to make bold and informed decisions that would put an end to insecurity in Nigeria. In an interview in Benin on Monday, he noted that that the challenge of insecurity still persisted in the country not because of a lack of security personnel or equipment but because government had yet to “take the bull by the horn” in addressing the issues. According to him, it is clear that failure in addressing the challenges of insecurity in the country is not as a…