THE desire and commitment of Super Eagles players, who were born abroad have been questioned by Nigeria’s Sports Minister, John Enoh. The Minister said some players in the team are not good enough for the Super Eagles. Osun Defender reports…
(Published in The Guardian of Sunday, June 23rd, 2024) I write in response to an article on the politics page of your esteemed newspaper of June 9, 2024, titled ‘Dissecting Aregbesola’s political battles in APC’ written by your correspondent in…
BENIN Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, has announced a two-month power outage in Ondo and Ekiti states. BEDC, which disclosed this in a public notice, attributed the service interruption to critical maintenance work. The planned power interruption will commence on Monday,…
THE NNPC Retail Limited attention has been drawn to a recent video clip on social media concerning its fuel pump attendant coercing customers to purchase lubricants as a prerequisite for purchasing fuel. NNPC Retail Limited said it had launched an…
A Woman Techmaker Ambassador (WTA), Mrs Gbemisola Esho, on Sunday encouraged women to take advantage of the opportunities in Google’s Women Techmakers Programme. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) In Lagos, Esho said that the programme…
THE Reform UK party has dropped three of its candidates for making offensive or racist comments, including Edward Oakenfull, who posted derogatory comments about the IQ of sub-Saharan Africans on social media. The other two candidates disowned by the party…
The Democratic Front (TDF) has described the 3 million Technical Talent (3MTT) and Project 774 initiatives of the President Bola Tinubu’s administration as the strategic plan to achieve the two million digital jobs milestone. The TDF said this in a…
The candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in the last governorship election in Kogi State, Alhaji Murtala Yakubu Ajaka has mourned the death of a former Chief of Defence Staff, CDS Admiral Ibrahim Ogohi who died on Sunday This…
An Abuja-based businessman, Prince Chukwuemeka Okoye, has gifted Ibrahim Sini, a Superintendent of Police Ibrahim, a plot of land in Abuja for turning down a 150 million naira bribe allegedly offered to him by a defendant. Okoye, who is the…
By Inusa Ndahi, Maiduguri THE Director General of Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Mohammed Barkindo has condoled with the Nigerian Army over the lost of one of its personnel during a multiple suicide attacks in Gwoza local government area…
