Nigeria’s Super Falcons players have refused to leave the team hotel after their exit from the women’s World Cup on Saturday, demanding that the country’s soccer federation clears all of their outstanding bonus payments, ESPN reported. The players staged a sit-in protest shortly after Nigeria were beaten 3-0 by doubleContinue Reading
Many people have been reportedly injured after a one-storey building collapsed in Lagos state. The collapsed building is located at 35, Adesanya Street, Mafoluku area of Oshodi. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, via its Twitter page, confirmed that the building collapsed with two people trapped. It said theContinue Reading
Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has explained why it terminated the services of Intels Nigeria Limited from the eastern ports of Calabar, Delta and Port Harcourt. The company, co-owned by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, provides comprehensive integrated logistics services for the Nigerian oil and gas industry and has 30 yearsContinue Reading
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State on Saturday, rejected his indictment by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, for the crisis in the State House of Assembly. Obaseki, who succeeded Oshiomhole as governor of the state, accused the APC chair of showing bias withContinue Reading
Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and human rights activist, Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has told President Muhammadu Buhari to divide the country into eight regional structures. Agbakoba, one of the greatest heroes of democracy in Nigeria, noted that there are so many unclear issues in Nigeria about howContinue Reading
Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has arrived in New York on a four-day visit to the United States. Osinbajo on his arrival with members of his entourage at the Sheltair wing of the John F. Kennedy International Aiport at 12.38 a.m. local time (5:38 a.m. Nigeria’s time) was received byContinue Reading
The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, is far from surviving the plot to ease him out of office, Sunday Tribune can authoritatively reveal. There is a fresh move to kick him out of the party’s national secretariat coming on the eve of his one yearContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with people and government of Rivers following the death of some workers in gas pipeline tragedy in the state. The president, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu in Abuja on Saturday, also condoled with the familiesContinue Reading
The chief of staff of the army in Ethiopia, Gen Seare Mekonnen, has been shot dead by his own bodyguard in the capital, Addis Ababa. He and another officer died trying to prevent a coup attempt against the administration in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region, PM Abiy Ahmed said. In AmharaContinue Reading
A passenger on the Jet2 plane which returned to Stansted Airport after RAF Typhoons intercepted it on its way to Dalaman, Turkey, said one woman was drunk and “tried to open the aircraft door” Dramatic footage captures police swoop on a young Jet2 passenger who allegedly tried to open the aircraft door mid-flight. TheContinue Reading
