Anthony Joshua returned to winning ways with a unanimous points-decision victory over Jermaine Franklin in their heavyweight boxing bout at London’s O2 Arena on Saturday. After 12 rounds, Joshua was given the win by 118-111, 117-111, 117-111 on the scorecards of the three judges. There were ugly scenes at the end...
As NYSC boss visits NDLEA, wants more collaboration Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has asked that youth corps members undergo drug test as they report for their mandatory one year national service at the various orientation camps across...
President Bola Tinubu said Friday in Abuja that disciplined focus and diligence would be the benchmarks for implementing the historic "2025 Budget of Restoration." He said the N54.99 trillion budget, which he signed into law, is based on projected revenues. Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen...
The Director-General of the Citizenship and Leadership Training Centre, Rinsola Abiola, has called for a deliberate and systemic overhaul of youth leadership development in Nigeria, stressing that it must be treated as a central pillar of education rather than a secondary concern. Abiola made this known following her participation in...
The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the convictions of two serial internet fraudsters before Justice Adenike Akinpelu and Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin, the state capital. One of the convicts, Hammed Tope, 27 was prosecuted on two-count...
Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday withdrew from the fundamental rights enforcement suit instituted by the ‘RevolutionNow’ protests convener, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, seeking an order for his release from custody of the Department of State Service. There have been no fresh charges instituted against...
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, on Thursday, assented to the 2022 appropriation bill of N186,635,135,582.00 (One Hundred and Eighty Six Billion, Six Hundred and Thirty Five Million, One Hundred and Thirty Five Thousand, Five Hundred and Eighty Two Naira) passed by the State House of Assembly on Wednesday,...
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Wednesday in Ibadan signed the state’s Anti Corruption Bill 2019 into law. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Mr Makinde had upon assumption of office said that the state under his watch would establish its own anti-corruption agency to ensure probity,...
urges them to pray for Allah's mercy, end to Covid 19 pandemic Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde has felicitated with Muslims in the state for witnessing the commencement of yet another Ramadan fasting. The governor, in a statement issued in Ibadan on Thursday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr...
Kwara State Government hereby announces the death of a COVID-19 case. The fellow had recently arrived Kwara from Lagos with his wife and a child shortly after he suffered stroke at his Lagos base. Before his death, the government had treated him, his wife and their child as suspected...