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Kuwait Sporting Club Unveil Former Super Eagles Captain Mikel
Former Super Eagles captain, John Obi Mikel, has been unveiled by Kuwait Sporting Club. The club shared the video of his unveiling on social media, confirming that the 34-year-old will wear his preferred number 12 shirt. Mikel Obi joins the Kuwait team on a one-year deal from English Championship side, Stoke City. READ ALSO: Chelsea Confirm Livramento Exit Ahead Of Villarreal Clash “I’m...
Katsina To Consider Anti Open Grazing Law, Says Masari
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, has hinted that his administration is considering banning open grazing in the state. Masari who spoke during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, faulted the movement of herders from one part of the country to another. He explained that before the state would create a law banning the open grazing of livestock, the...
Hushpuppi: Kyari May Face Disciplinary Action As PSC, AGF Receive Panel Report
The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has dispatched the Special Investigation Panel report on Abba Kyari’s alleged roles in the $1.1m fraud perpetrated by an Instagram influencer, Abbas Ramon, commonly known as Hushpuppi and four others, to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and the Police Service Commission. The report, which indicted Kyari, a Deputy...
Buhari Writes Senate, To Borrow Fresh $4bn And €710m
President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the National Assembly, seeking approval to borrow the sum of $4,054,476,863 billion and €710 million. The request was made known in a letter read by Senate President Ahmad Lawan at plenary on Tuesday. In the letter titled Addendum to Request For Senate’s Concurrent Approval Of Multilateral Fund Projects Under the 2018-2021 Federal Government External Borrowing...
North West Afflicted By Highest School Dropout, Poverty Rate In Nigeria — Nasir el-Rufai
Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, yesterday in Abuja, said the North- West geo-political zone of the country had human development indices closer to those of the Afghanistan, saying region was afflicted with the highest number of out-of-school children and the highest poverty rate in Nigeria. Governor el-Rufai, who spoke at the Human Capital Development Communication Strategy meeting organized by...
We’re Witnessing Destruction Not Liberation, Ohanaeze Tells IPOB
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, on Monday, called on the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra and other secessionist agitators in the South-East region to stop all forms of “anarchy” in the land and explore dialogue. The President-General of Ohanaeza Ndigbo, Prof George Obiozor, on the occasion of the annual celebration of Igbo Day, appealed for a return...
Mark Zuckerberg Loses $7 Billion In Hours As Facebook Plunges
Stock slide knocks his net worth down to $120.9 billion Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by nearly $7 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.’s flagship products offline. A selloff sent the social-media giant’s stock plummeting around 5% on...
Igbo Community To Mark 2021 New Yam Festival With Award Of Excellence On Chief Apollos
All is now set for the 2021 Nnoko Ndigbo and iriji (new yam festival) of Igbo speaking community in Lagos. This is even as the community announces that illustrious sons and daughters who have left an indelible footprint in the service of humanity will be honoured with an award of excellence. Among those found worthy for this recognition is Chief Apollos...
The Last Two Years Most Productive In Buhari’s Govt, Says Boss Mustapha
Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, says the last two years of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has been the most productive. Mr Mustapha disclosed this on Monday during the opening ceremony of the Mid-Term Ministerial Performance Review Retreat in Abuja. “In terms of the performance of the Federal Executive Council, let me acknowledge that the last...
