FC Barcelona defender Gerard Pique says radical changes are needed from top to bottom after his side were annihilated 8-2 by Bayern Munich on Friday. The loss meant they made their exit from the 2019/2020 UEFA Champions League in one of the Catalan side’s darkest ever nights. “We feel devastated, although ‘shame’ is the real word I’m looking for. “We cannot afford to compete like this because it’s not the first, the second or the third time that something like this has happened,” a tearful Pique told reporters after the quarter-final drubbing, their worst-ever result in Europe. “This is very…
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Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, at a meeting on Friday (August 14) with the Deputy Head of Delegation of the European Union (EU) in Nigeria, Mr Alexandre Borges Gomes, to discuss environmental issues and possible areas of collaboration between Nigeria and the EU. Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, at a meeting on Friday (August 14) with the Deputy Head of Delegation of the European Union (EU) in Nigeria, Mr Alexandre Borges Gomes (left) and Political Officer ( Politics, Press and zinfirmation Section), Paulo Barroso Simoes, to…
The Edo State House of Assembly and the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Francis Okiye, have obtained an order of substituted service on members-elect to halt the unlawful take over of the Anthony Enahoro Assembly Complex and the House’s legislative activities. The order was given following the suit filed by Okiye and the House; FHC/PH/CS/100/2020, at the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, seeking to restrain the Attorney General of the Federation, the Inspector General of Police and the 14 members-elect from proceeding to unlawfully take control of the legislative activities of the Edo State House of Assembly.…
Dr. Wale Babalakin, pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of University of Lagos, has dismissed insinuation that there is crisis at the institution. The pro-chancellor spoke on Friday, at the Murtala Muhammed Airport terminal two (MMA2), Lagos, on arrival from Abuja, where he attended the Council meeting during which Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe was removed as Vice Chancellor. On the stance of staff unions in the University rejecting the removal, Babalakin said “If you go to the campus now and do a secret ballot of how popular Ogundipe administration is, you would see that he is unpopular. “Only a tiny…
Adamawa Government recorded over 50 Tuberculosis (TB) Drug Resistance cases in 2019,Dr Boniface Gundiri, the Programme Manager, Adamawa TB and Leprosy Control, said. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Yola that in 2019, the programme was worried over the number of casesrecorded in 2019, describing the situation as “alarming”. “Based on statistics in the year under review, we detected and diagnosed a total of 3,156 drug sensitive TB cases.“We also diagnosed 52 per cent TB cases and 48 per cent remain undetectable.”Gundiri said that when the statistics was presented to the state’s Commissioner for Health,…
Wife of Ekiti Governor, Mrs Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, has promised that the state government would continue to partner and cooperate with the media in the discharge of their duties for the benefit of the society. The governor’s wife said this in Ado-Ekiti on Friday during the official inauguration of Fresh 106.9 FM, a private radio station owned by renowned gospel musician, Yinka Ayefele. Adeleye-Fayemi noted that the new radio station was a welcome development which came when the state government was making frantic efforts to attract more investments to the state. According to her, media organizations in any clime are instruments…
The Department of State Services (DSS) on Friday cautioned against the use of inciting and unguarded statements capable of causing a ‘breakdown of law and order’. The Public Relations Officer of the Service, Dr Peter Afunanya, gave the warning in a statement in Abuja. He said the service, had on June 27, alerted the nation about desperate efforts by some notable personalities to use their exalted positions to achieve the selfish goal. Afunanya said the DSS had revealed that part of the orchestrations was to engage in divisive acts as well as use inciting statements to pit one group against…
A 20-year-old motorcyclist, Saminu Saidu, appeared before a Grade I Area Court, Lugbe in FCT on Friday for allegedly stealing a motorcycle belonging to one Murtar Garba. The Police charged Saidu of Tundu-Wada village, Lugbe, with a two-count charge of criminal joint act and theft. The Prosecution Counsel, Jibrin Seidu, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on July 31 and was reported on same date by Garba. He alleged that the nominal complainant’s brother, Usman Garba, parked his red boxed Bajaj motorcycle with Engine number DU WKE 74942 and chassis number XMD 2A18AYIKWE97089 at the tipper garage…
The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) has seized and destroyed pornographic and other unapproved films and video works worth N3.5 billion in three years. Mr Adedayo Thomas, Executive Director/CEO of the NFVCB, disclosed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) on Friday on the sidelines of the NFVCB’s Stakeholders Forum holding from Aug. 11 to 14 in Asaba, Delta. Thomas said that the items were seized from markets across the country during raid by the board officers, adding that their destruction will serve as deterrent. He explained that the items seized included production equipment, DVDs, CD…
The Federal Government has called for social dialogue between the employers and the employees in the Aviation industry to prevent job losses. Sen. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, made the call in a statement, signed by Mr Charles Akpan, Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations in the ministry on Friday in Abuja. Ngige made the call during a conciliatory meeting with airline operators and the trade unions in the aviation industry to discuss contentious issues, especially pay cut and laying off of workers. The Minister appealed to them to join hands to make sure there…