Nigeria’s Super Eagles Wednesday night arrived at Garoua, Cameroon, four days ahead of 2021 Africa Cup of Nations aboard an Air Peace chartered flight. Twenty-five players, coaches and other officials left through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Odion Ighalo of Al-Shabab (Saudi Arabia), Jamilu Collins of SC Padeborn 07 (Germany) and Tyrone Ebuehi of Venezia FC (Italy) are the three that did not make the camp and are expected to join the team in Cameroon. The Austin Eguavoen-tutored team had their last training session in Abuja on Wednesday morning before departing Nigeria. The Super Eagles who are in Group…
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The police is investigating an incident that occurred on January 1 in Jos where a young lady was killed and her mutilated corpse was abandoned in a hotel. The spokesperson of the Plateau State Police Command, ASP Ubah Ogaba said on Wednesday. “The Command is aware of the ugly incident which took place on January 1, at the Domus Pacis lodge. The suspect, who is at large, went away with all means to identify the victim. “The Commissioner of Police has ordered a discrete investigation to unravel the circumstances surrounding the incident and to arrest the perpetrators of that dastardly…
The Minister of Finance, Budget and Planning, Zainab Ahmed says the Federal Government will review the number of its agencies to save costs and have more revenue for capital projects. Ahmed made this known during in interview monitored through the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). She, however, assured that such a review would not result to job losses in the public sector. She said that the country was faced with a revenue challenge and needed to take steps to improve revenue generation and cut wastes. She, however, explained that the revenue generation was gradually improving due to a number of steps…
The Nigerian equities market continued trading with positive sentiments on Wednesday with a growth of 1.05 per cent due to gains posted by Airtel Africa and 20 others. Thus, the All-Share Index advanced by 1.05 per cent to close at 43,476.75 from 43,026.23 posted on Tuesday. Accordingly, the year-to-date return rose to 1.8 per cent. Also, the market capitalisation which opened at N23.183 trillion inched higher by N243 billion or 1.05 per cent to close at N23.426 trillion. The upturn was impacted by gains recorded in large and medium capitalised stocks, amongst which are: Airtel Africa, Seplat Energy, Ardova, Nigerian…
BUA Foods on Wednesday joined the league of listed companies on the Nigerian Exchange Ltd (NGX) with the listing of 18 billion ordinary shares at N40 per share. The company listed by its introduction under the Consumer Goods sector of the NGX. Accordingly, the listing of BUA Foods’ shares added N720 billion to the market capitalisation of the NGX, further boosting liquidity in the Nigerian capital market and providing opportunities for wealth creation. It is expected that this listing would also increase the visibility of the food manufacturing, processing, and distribution company, BUA Foods, to investors on the African continent…
Nigerian government has officially declared bandits as terrorists. The gazette signed on November 25, 2021 by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, was unveiled on Wednesday proscribing bandit groups in the North as terrorists. With the unveiling of the gazette, bandits will now face trial under the Terrorism (Prevention) Act 2011. “Notice is hereby given that by the order of the Federal High Court, Abuja in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1370/2021 dated 25th November, 2021 as per the schedule to this Notice and Activities of Yan Bindiga Group, Yan Ta`addan Group and other similar groups in…
President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that he will not order the release of leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The President, who stated this in an exclusive interview with ChannelsTV, said this is because he would not interfere with the judiciary. “There is one institution that I wouldn’t interfere with; that is the judiciary. Kanu’s case is with the judiciary but what I wonder is when Kanu was safely in Europe, abusing this administration and mentioning too many things, I thought he wants to come and defend himself on the accusations. “So, we are giving…
The Police in Zamfara said on Wednesday they neutralised two bandits along Funtua-Gusau road in Tsafe local government area. The spokesperson of the Command, SP Mohammed Shehu disclosed this while briefing reporters in Gusau. Shehu said the Police Special Forces neutralised two armed men while repelling an attempted attack on Tofa Community in Tsafe local government on January 4. According to him, the bandits stormed the highway in seven boxer motorcycles and blocked the road to abduct innocent travellers. “A brand new boxer motorcycle, live ammunition and mobile phones were recovered from the bandits,” he said. Shehu explained that the…
German pharmaceutical company BioNTech and its U.S. partner Pfizer want to jointly develop a vaccine against shingles. Shingles, which is also known as herpes zoster, is triggered by a virus which normally causes chickenpox in childhood, after that has cleared up, however, the virus remains in the nerve cells for life, and can cause shingles at a later stage. Typical symptoms of this include burning pain, followed by a spread of blisters on the skin. In rare cases nerve pain can persist for long periods after the rash has cleared up. It is to be the first such vaccine based…
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has approved the adjustment of its timetable and schedule of activities for the primary election, for the June 18 Ekiti governorship poll. The party disclosed this in a statement by its National Organising Secretary, Umar Bature in Abuja on Wednesday. Bature said that the state congress to elect the governorship candidate earlier scheduled for Friday, January 28 has been rescheduled for Wednesday, January 26. He said that under the adjusted schedule, the ward congress to elect 3-man ad hoc ward delegates earlier slated for Friday, January 7 to Saturday,…