The Nigeria Football Federation has named former Head Coach of the U-17 Women’s National Team, Peter Dedevbo as Head Coach of the U-20 Women’s Team, nicknamed Falconets. Dedevbo was an Assistant Coach of the first-ever U-17 Women’s Team, which featured at the inaugural FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup finals inNew Zealand in 2008. He was later appointed Head Coach of the team, and led the girls to quarter final berths in Trinidad and Tobago in 2010 and Azerbaijan in 2012. He will be assisted by Toyin Ayinla, a former Captain and defensive stalwart of Abiola Babes FC of Abeokuta, at…
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President of the Senate David Mark will on Sunday lead Nigerian Parliamentarians to participate in the 129th Inter- Parliamentary Union (IPU) meetings holding in Geneva, Switzerland. The 129th IPU will deliberate on the topics; “Towards a nuclear -weapon free world : The role of the Parliament”, under its standing committee on peace and security as well as “towards risk-resilient development: Taking into consideration demographic trends and natural constraints” under its standing committee on Sustainable Development, finance and trade . The conference will also debate on “the role of Parliaments in protecting the rights of children, in particular unaccompanied migrant children…
Several persons, including engineers of the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, were injured on Saturday when a pipeline on which they were carrying out repairs exploded. The pipeline, owned by the PPMC, a subsidiary of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, exploded around Adeje in Okpe Local Government Area of Delta State. The pipeline supplies products to adjoining states, especially the PPMC depot in Benin, the capital of Edo State. Though no one was confirmed dead as at press time, scored were said to be injured. The injured were taken to the Delta State University teaching Hospital, Oghara, Ethiope West Local…
President Goodluck Jonathan has called on Teachers to act as agents of positive change and transformation for the nation to achieve its education goals. The President, who was speaking on Saturday, while declaring open the 2013 World Teachers’ Day in Abuja, said he was making the call in his dual capacity as President and a teacher himself. Represented by Vice-President Namadi Sambo, the President further challenged the teachers to work harder in imparting useful knowledge, discipline and patriotism to the younger generation. ‘’On this important Teachers’ Day, we are making a call for teachers to give their utmost in achieving…
The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu returned to the country on Saturday after a successful knee surgery in the United States. He arrived aboard a chartered jet marked CS-DPF at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, around 1.35pm in company of his wife, Remi Tinubu, a member of the Nigerian Senate. As expected, Tinubu did not shy away from answering question bothering on national issue even though he was returning after three months absence from the political scene. When asked if his party, the APC would participate in the proposed national dialogue, the former…
Following Thursday crash that killed about 14 people, the aviation regulatory body, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has suspended the operations of Associated Airlines. The Director-General, NCAA, Fola Akinkuotu, made the announcement when he paid a visit to injured passengers who are receiving treatment at the Ikeja General Hospital, Lagos. “Associated Airlines operations have been suspended by the NCAA. Let me say for the purpose of clarity, I said their operations, I mean all the operations of Associated Airlines have been suspend by the NCAA,” he said. The Akure-bound plane was carrying the remains of a former Governor of Ondo…
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) on Saturday marked the 2013 World Teacher’s Day in Abuja, conferring Excellence Awards on three state Governors- Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara, Ibrahim Geidam of Yobe and Enugu’s Sulivan Chime for their invaluable contributions to education sector. However, the Union used the opportunity to remind the Federal Government that it will embark on solidarity strike with the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) at the expiration of its ultimatum. The lecturers have been on strike for over three month now over non-implementation of the 2009 agreements by the federal government. About ten…
Niger state is in the news again barely a week after no fewer than 50 people lost their lives in a boat mishap in Malale village, Borgu Local Government Area of the state. Another boat mishap occurred on the River Niger on Friday evening leaving about 18 people dead. The boat was said to be conveying no fewer than 80 people from the weekly Thursday market in Kokoli to Ulakami. According to a survivor identified as Umar Ibrahim, “We were in the middle of the 10 kilometers journey when the boat split into two, throwing all of us into the…
By Gracious Akujobi Super Eagles head coach, Steve Keshi is optimistic his boys will get the job of qualifying for the 2014 world cup done in the first-leg of the game against Ethiopia in Addis Ababa. He says the team knows that it will be tough in Addis; hence the players are determined to win the first leg so as make the second leg easy in Calabar. Keshi says his boys will rise up to the challenge. Keshi says, “We are going there with a game plan and by the grace of God we would get a result there. I…
Barely 48 hours after an Associated Airlines plane crashed few minutes after takeoff from the Muritala International Airport, Lagos killing about 16 people, tragedy was averted in Sokoto this weekend when a Kabo Air plane made emergency landing. The Saudi Arabia-bound Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet was carrying about 400 prospective pilgrims to the Holy Land to perform this year’s Hajj. The tyres of the aircraft were said to have exploded shortly after takeoff from Aminu Kano International Airport, compelling it to make emergency landing at the nearby Sir Abubakar 111 International Airport, Sokoto.