The Godswill Akpabio United Football Club on Wednesday officially unveiled 35 new players to prosecute the 2024/2025 Nigeria National League (NNL) season.Speaking at the unveiling in Uyo, Chairman of the club, Ekaete Akpabio, charged the players of the club, to remain dedicated, resilient, and focused on excellence to achieve success.Akpabio urged the players and team managers to show commitment to their duties, so as to make the state proud.She urged them to see the opportunity as golden and to do their best to project the club as a world class football club.“Our mission is to create a world class football…
Author: Ayo Oye
Read More
The Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (KADSUBEB), has launched a capacity building workshop for teachers in nine Local Government Areas in the state to enhance learning among pupils. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the workshop, Teaching at The Right Level (TaRL), is a foundational literacy and numeracy teaching methodology that helps pupils learn how to read and write with ease. It classifies the pupils according to level of their literacy and numeracy understanding such as alphabet identification, words formation and reading of phrases or sentences. NAN recalls that in 2022, UNICEF provided funding to support KADSUBEB…
Residents of Mali’s northern town of Tinzaouaten, who were caught in the crossfire battle between Tuareg rebels and the army backed by Russian mercenaries, now face disease outbreaks and drone attacks. This situation has prompted many people to move to Algeria. Tuareg rebels are in control of the town in Mali’s vast northern desert, and security-related roadblocks have hampered access to supplies such as bed nets and medicines needed to combat outbreaks of diphtheria and malaria. “In Tinzaouaten, here, we lack almost everything. Almost everything is closed on us. ”The medicines have not arrived in Tinzaouaten and now that the…
The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, restrained Chief Edozie Njoku from parading himself as national chairman, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).A five-member panel of justices, led by Justice Stephen Adah, affirmed the emergence of Sly Ezeokenwa as the authentic national chairman of APGA.The apex court, in two unanimous judgments, held that Njoku was wrongly laying claim to the party’s chairmanship position.Justice Adah held that the earlier judgment on the appeal marked: SC/CV/687/2021, delivered on Oct. 14, 2021, which was corrected on March 24, 2023, and on which Njoku purportedly paraded to lay claim to APGA leadership, did not confer on him…
The Ondo State Government, Wednesday, said that the Gov. Lucky Aiyedatiwa led administration would fulfil its campaign promises of execution of transformative projects that would be people oriented.Pastor Ayo Babalola, the Special Adviser to Ondo State Governor on Infrastructure, Lands and Housing, gave the assurance while speaking with newsmen in Akure on Wednesday.He said that paperwork had begun for the commencement of some new projects, while work had resumed fully at all ongoing project sites.“Concerning the overhead bridge at Shagari Estate, we’ve mounted the beams; remaining the one that will cross the road,” he said.Babalola said that the variations in…
India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday urged resident to be fully prepared as cyclone Fengal approaches amid heavy rainfall over the past 24 hours Southern India. In anticipation of heavy rainfall across many parts of Tamil Nadu, several districts have declared a holiday for schools and colleges. IMD said very heavy rainfall was observed during the past 24 hours till 8:30 a.m. (local time) in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal. Reports said continuous heavy rainfall that persisted overnight has damaged standing paddy crops in the Cauvery Delta region, southern India. This is the second cyclone in the post-monsoon season to…
US and British authorities says one of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists was arrested in Wales after more than 20 years on the run on Tuesday. Daniel Andreas San Diego, who has ties to animal rights extremist groups, is wanted by US authorities for his alleged involvement in two 2003 bombings in the San Francisco area. Britain’s National Crime Agency said on X that the 46-year-old was detained on Monday in an operation supported by UK counterterrorism police and North Wales police. He now faces extradition to the US to face charges. FBI Director, Christopher Wray in a brief statement…
The party of Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday called off a protest in the capital Islamabad after a crackdown by security forces. This brought about the tragic loss of hundreds of supporters and the rest arrested and forced to flee. Thousands of Khan’s supporters led by his wife converged on Islamabad on Monday from his stronghold province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in the north-west, vowing to force the government to release him. The protesters turned violent and killed at least six members of the security forces as they headed to camp outside the country’s parliament. Thousands of police…
Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Osun on Wednesday said his administration has paid N12bn pension debt in his two years as governor of the state. Adeleke made this known during his state broadcast to mark the two years anniversary of his administration. While reeling out the achievements of his administration, Adeleke said his government has been able to settle pension debts, and also constructed numerous roads as well as upgraded health centres. “In line with norms of accountability and responsibility to the electorate, I am obligated to render my stewardship midway into the life of our administration. “For the public service…
A woman, Wuraola Surajudeen, on Wednesday prayed an Area Court in Ilorin, to grant her divorce two weeks after her marriage to husband, Surajudeen Iya-Onitasi on grounds of “lack of love and affection”. She told the court that she was once married before her wedding to Iya-Onitasi. ”I divorced my former husband due to pressure from my mother. “My former husband became a religious fanatics after our marriage and my parents were against him. “I was introduced to my present husband and we got along smoothly, but immediately after the marriage, I developed hatred for him,”she said. The defendant, had…