The close friendship between Frances’s Kylian Mbappe and Morocco’s Achraf Hakimi will be set aside Wednesday evening as both friends are set to clash in the second semi-finals between France and Morocco. Mbappe and Hakimi have enjoyed a close friendship since Hakimi arrived at Paris Saint-Germain FC in 2021,...

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested three suspected kidnappers, Abubakar Umaru, Nasiru Umaru, and Haruna Sulu, all male residents of Niger State, in connection with the kidnapping incident at Kasanki village in the Gwagwalada area of Abuja. Our correspondent gathered that the arrest followed an intelligence-led...

The Head of Department, Voter Education and Publicity of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Achumie Rex, on Wednesday, alleged that some politicians were making frantic efforts to manufacture the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machine and hack into the commission’s server ahead of the 2023 general election. This was as he...

Bola Tinubu abandoned his prepared speech in Minna on Wednesday as a mammoth crowd of supporters converged on the Trade Fair Complex, Minna, the venue of the All Progressives Congress Presidential campaign rally. The electrifying crowd was too ecstatic to see Tinubu shortly after he was in Minna when...

In the latest rankings released by FIBA, basketball governing body, after the FIBA 2022 Youths Events, Nigerian girls fail to make the top 100 teams in the world, reports. The new system for the FIBA World Ranking Youth was launched earlier this year and it calculates the...

The National Association of the Blind has threatened to embark on a protest over what it termed discriminatory policies of the Central Bank of Nigeria and other related issues debilitating the progress of the visually-impaired Nigerians. The association laments that despite the passage of the Disability Act in 1999,...

The Federal government through the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has barred heavy-duty trucks and trailers from using the 2nd Niger Bridge. This is contained in a statement issued by its Sector Commander, Delta Command, Bassey Esiet, on Wednesday. Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, earlier announced that...

Gunmen, on Wednesday, invaded the Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo community, in the Ikwo Local Government Area of the state and attacked the popular Nwakpu Market in the area, shot a motorcyclist in the head, and set a vehicle ablaze. A community source, who spoke to our correspondent on condition of...

The Federal Executive Council, on Wednesday, approved N9.24bn for 2022/2023 Group Life Insurance Cover for civil servants for 2022 and 2023. This includes government officials in all ministries departments and agencies, paramilitary and intelligence agencies. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Dr Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this to State House...

  The newly inaugurated Minister of Women Affairs, Barrister Uju Kennedy yesterday embarked on a series of impactful engagements demonstrating her dedication to the empowerment and well-being of women and children across Nigeria. The Minister after her inauguration, had a productive meeting at the Ministry of Women Affairs headquarters with key...

By Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Stakeholders have charged the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to entrench collaboration and partnership in the development of the Niger Delta Region by holding quarterly Partners for Sustainable Development, PSD, forum for the various stages of its budgeting. This was part of the resolutions contained...

women’s 100m hurdles champion and record holder, Tobi Amusan, returned to the tracks with a bang and is on course to successfully defending her title, after easing into the semi-finals of the event at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary on Tuesday, reports. In what was her first...

Demola Odulaja, the estranged husband of the Chief Executive Officer of House of Phreedah Body Care, Farida Abdulkabir popularly known as Farida Sobowale, has explained the reasons why he dumped the Lagos socialite after about two months of their elaborate wedding. Odulaja in an interview with a Yoruba social...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested 13 suspected railway vandals with large quantities of long rails and sleepers worth 800 million naira. According to the statement signed by the Corps spokesman, Babawale Afolabi, the suspects were arrested by the Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad. The suspects were paraded...