The road to next year’s Women’s Olympic Football Tournament for nine-time African champions Nigeria is haunted by Ghana and Cameroon, following the draw conducted in Cairo on Tuesday afternoon. After a probable meeting with Ethiopia in the second round of the campaign in October this year, the Falcons will have to confront the winner of the ties Uganda/Rwanda and Cameroon. Once they cross the Cameroonian hurdle, the Nigerian girls will be up against the winner of the Guinea Bissau/Benin Republic against Guinea/Ghana. Cameroon stopped Nigeria from qualifying for the London 2012 Olympics, when they edged a two-leg encounter on…
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Hosts and six-time champions Argentina will fancy being the favourites in their FIFA U20 World Cup Round of 16 duel with Nigeria in San Juan on Wednesday night, but Head Coach Ladan Bosso says his team will not be intimidated by the physicality of the opponents and the capacity crowd expected at the venue. The indigenes of the Land of Pampas barnstormed through their group stage, winning all their three matches against Uzbekistan, Guatemala and New Zealand, scoring 10 goals and conceding only one. They are already among the favourites for the title, by both pedigree and current form. Despite winning their…
By Fred Edoreh While as President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), successive leaderships of our sports establishment orchestrated multifarious attacks and media propaganda to frustrate and de-market Amaju Melvin Pinnick and had a section of football stakeholders constantly vilifying him. The attacks ranged from various unfounded allegations, arranged harassment by several agencies, attempts to frustrate his bid into CAF and FIFA positions, to twice forcefully seizing the NFF secretariat to truncate and usurp his administration. But, with his characteristic resilience and focus on vision, he kept on his mission of repositioning Nigerian football. Did he deliver one 100 percent?…
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau Amidst uproar over the announcement by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that fuel subsidy has gone for good, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) Mele Kyari, on Tuesday met with Tinubu behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. But Kyari who did not disclose the outcome of the meeting however, told State House Correspondents afterwards that the federal government is owing NNPCL the sum of N2.8 trillion that it had already paid on petrol subsidy. He affirmed that the subsidy is no longer sustainable as it has made…
President Bola Tinubu has directed the Department of State Security Service to immediately vacate the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Ikoyi, Lagos. The President gave the directive when reports that DSS officials stormed the EFCC office located on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos on Tuesday, preventing officials of the anti-graft agency from accessing their work place, was brought to his attention. The President said if there were issues between the two important agencies of government, they would be resolved amicably. Prompt News reports that operatives of the DSS earlier in the day stormed the EFCC office and…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja The Bureau of public Enterprises (BPE) has announced a change in dates for the verification of ex-staff of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and the certified Next-of-Kin (NOK) of the deceased ex-staff who were in service between July1, 2012 and October 31, 2013. This was contained in a statement by BPE Head of Public Communications, Mrs Amina Othman Tukur in Abuja on Tuesday. The BPE said that phase two of the exercise earlier scheduled for Monday, June 19, 2023, would now take place on Monday, June12, 2023 to Saturday, June 24, 2023, in Jos,…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja The Management of Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) has congratulated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and Alhaji Kashim Shettima on their inauguration as democratically elected President and Vice President respectively of Nigeria. In a message signed by the Director General of ICRC Mr Michael Ohiani, the Management said their victory at the polls demonstrates their determination to take Nigeria to greater heights; which is a victory for democracy, for Nigeria and for the continuation of infrastructure development in Nigeria. “Mr President, going by your antecedents as governor of Lagos State, we recall how you revolutionised the infrastructure…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja The outgoing Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi (rtd) has handed over the leadership of the Ministry to the Permanent Secretary, Dr Ibrahim Abubakar Kana. In a statement by the Director of Press & Public Relations in the Ministry, Mrs Victoria Agba- Attah, documents containing details of the Minister’s stewardship, from the day he assumed office to date were formally signed and handed over at the Ministry of Defence, Ship House Abuja. According to the statement, the brief handing over ceremony was witnessed by Management Staff, the Military and Civilian aides of the Minister.…
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has officially assumed duty at the President’s Office of the Presidential Villa, Abuja just as the Vice President, Kashim Shetima was the first to be in his new office on Tuesday morning. Tinubu who arrived the forecourt of the Presidential Villa, Abuja at exactly 2:30 pm, a day after he was Sworn-in as the 16th President of Federal Republic of Nigeria was received after emerging from the German-made black Mercedes Benz May Bach Sedan car by Shettima in the company of State House Permanent Secretary Mallam Tijjani Idris Umar and…
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau The federal government has conferred the Managing Director / CEO Nigerian Ports Authority, Mohammed Bello Koko with the National Productivity Order of Merit (NPOM) Award in recognition of his repositioning of the NPA for improved trade facilitation, revenue generation and unprecedented remittances to the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF). It would be recalled that an evaluation of the reforms initiated by the Mohammed Bello Koko- led management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) undertaken by the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) had classified the NPA as a level 5 “Platinum Level” Organisation. BPSR Self-Assessment…