BRITAIN'S high commissioner to Nigeria Paul Arkwright has warned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) against bias ahead of the 2019 general elections.
SENEGAL'S national football team the Lions of Teranga have continued the African tradition started by the Super Eagles by also arriving for the 2018 World Cup in Russia donning native attires.
FEDERAL government officials have announced plans to launch a new Nigerian national carrier in December this year to finally replace the defunct Nigeria Airways which folded in 2003.
Founded in 1958, Nigeria Airways eventually collapsed having accumulated significant debts that outstripped its revenues from the mid-1980s. Since then, Nigeria has been without a national carrier and repeated attempts by successive governments to float another one over recent years have failed.
FORMER Plateau State governor Senator Joshua Dariye pleaded for a light sentence before being a federal high court in Abuja yesterday just before being sentenced to 14 years imprisonment after being found guilty of corruption and embezzlement.
SPAIN have sacked their national team coach Julen Lopetegui just two days before they start their World Cup campaign in anger at the fact that he took on the job of becoming Real Madrid's next coach without informing the football association.
RUSSIAN football fans have been mobbing Nigeria's Super Eagles over the last 24 hours pleading with team members to pose for selfies with them as the squad set the tournament alight with its flashy kit described as the best of all the 32 participants.
NORTH America has been accorded the rights to host the 2026 World Cup after Fifa voted by 134 to 65 in favour of a joint bid that will see the continent's big three hosting an enlarged tournament feat6uring 48 teams.
PRESIDENT Donald Trump and North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong have held their long-awaited bilateral summit aimed at ending the tense stand-off that has existed between the two nations over the last year.
GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom of Benue State has wadded into the ongoing debate over the recognition of June 12 as Democracy Day by stating that just as Chief MKO Abiola got recognised as an election victor so too shall ranching be accepted by all Nigerians.
RUSSIA'S city of Kaliningrad has displayed a piece of artwork featuring a Nigerian footballer as part of its package to welcome Nigeria’s national football team the Super Eagles to the World Cup.
BRITAIN'S high commissioner to Nigeria Paul Arkwright has warned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) against bias ahead of the 2019 general elections.
FEDERAL government officials have announced plans to launch a new Nigerian national carrier in December this year to finally replace the defunct Nigeria Airways which folded in 2003.
FORMER Plateau State governor Senator Joshua Dariye pleaded for a light sentence before being a federal high court in Abuja yesterday just before being sentenced to 14 years imprisonment after being found guilty of corruption and embezzlement.
SPAIN have sacked their national team coach Julen Lopetegui just two days before they start their World Cup campaign in anger at the fact that he took on the job of becoming Real Madrid's next coach without informing the football association.
NORTH America has been accorded the rights to host the 2026 World Cup after Fifa voted by 134 to 65 in favour of a joint bid that will see the continent's big three hosting an enlarged tournament feat6uring 48 teams.
PRESIDENT Donald Trump and North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong have held their long-awaited bilateral summit aimed at ending the tense stand-off that has existed between the two nations over the last year.
GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom of Benue State has wadded into the ongoing debate over the recognition of June 12 as Democracy Day by stating that just as Chief MKO Abiola got recognised as an election victor so too shall ranching be accepted by all Nigerians.
RUSSIA'S city of Kaliningrad has displayed a piece of artwork featuring a Nigerian footballer as part of its package to welcome Nigeria’s national football team the Super Eagles to the World Cup.
