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Manchester City have condemned the “offensive” chants sang about the late Sir Bobby Charlton during their clash against Brighton and Hove Albion. The England and Manchester United legend passed away on Saturday, aged 86, with clubs across the English Football League paying their respects during the latest round of fixtures. However, a group of City fans were heard singing offensive …

Google has celebrated legendary Super Eagles all-time top goal scorer, Rashidi Yekini with a special doodle on his 60th posthumous birthday. Yekini won the title of African Player of the Year in 1993, making him the first player from Nigeria to do so. He led the scoring at the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) held in Senegal in 1992 and …

On a freezing morning of the 28th of August in 2023, the dawn embraces the earth, on this day time, the campus of Usmanu Danfodiyo University in Sokoto (UDUS) reflects an atmosphere showing that the semester has come to an end. Some students bundled their luggage as they moved through pathways that led to motor parks in hundreds and thousands …

PANDEF, the Pan Niger Delta Forum, and the Middle Belt Forum have all issued statements denouncing what they have described as a systematic campaign of slander against Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, by Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, an Islamic cleric based in Kaduna. PANDEF denounced recent remarks by Gumi on the person and office of the …

The Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Blessing Agbebaku, has dismissed rumours about the planned impeachment of the state deputy governor, Philip Shaibu. Governor Godwin Obaseki and his deputy are currently at loggerheads over irreconcilable differences. Shaibu had earlier this month approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, to restrain the governor from going ahead with the plan to …

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has signed a landmark Memorandum of understanding with Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals Limited on gas supply in a bid to promote the use of natural gas by large-scale gas utilization industries. According to the company, on September 2023, Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) said …

A former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Olisa Agbakoba has come down hard on the current Supreme Court of Nigeria, describing it as the “worst” in his 45 years of legal practice. Agbakoba said this on Friday in Abuja at a colloquium to mark the 61st birthday of the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio. The colloquium was attended by …

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has concluded its series of train-the-trainers’ workshops for staff members of 206 universities in the country The training programme was to ensure effective delivery of the new curriculum – the Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS) developed by the Commission for Nigerian universities. The coordinator of a segment of the exercise, Prof Emeritus Peter …

Ethiopian runners have claimed the top honours in the half marathon men’s and women’s categories of the 2023 ECOWAS Abuja International Marathon on Saturday. Though it was the East Africans that carried the day, Nigerian athletes represented the sub-region meritoriously; shining brightly across the podium. In the men’s half marathon, Gebresilase Abadi Haftamu of Ethiopia stormed to victory, securing a …

President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative (PCNGI). The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Ajuri Ngelale, who confirmed the development in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said the establishment of the PCNGI was a demonstration of the president’s readiness to ease the pain caused by the removal of …