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The leadership of the Nigeria National League (NNL) will deploy secret assessors to all league venues starting from Matchday 1 fixtures. Revealing this in Abuja, the Chief Executive Officer of the League, Emmanuel Attah, said this is to ensure that the league is played in accordance with the international standard. Quoting his words, Attah who was the former FCT FA …

…Demand inclusion in N35, 000 palliatives The Federal Parastatals and Private Sector Pensioners Association (FEPPPAN) has applauded President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the organised Labour for recently reaching a truce over wage disputes . The group also appealed to the President to include the Defined Benefit Scheme pensioners in the approved N35,000 for workers as palliative to cushion the effect …

The Court of Appeal on Thursday granted the Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Delta, Ken Pela, approval to return to the Delta State Election Tribunal to continue his petition against Governor Sheriff Oborevwori. that the Tribunal had dismissed LP’s petition against Governor Sheriff on the ground that he abandoned his pre-hearing. Not satisfied by the ruling, Pela took the …

The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has suspended the state’s Chief Judge, Justice Adepele Ojo. The Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Olawale Rasheed, said in a statement on Thursday in Osogbo, that the suspension of the chief judge followed the recommendation of the state House of Assembly. Governor Adeleke had since appointed Justice Olayinka David Afolabi as the acting …

The Senate has rejected an option of military operations in the Nigeria’s neighbouring Niger Republic, however, calling on the ECOWAS Parliament and other leaders to condemn the coup d’etat in the country. According to the Nigerian Senate, the Niger political impasse should be addressed politically rather than using military action. Tinubu had written the Senate on Friday, seeking for the …

Police operatives in Anambra gave arrested a 31-year-old man, for allegedly defiling and impregnating a 14-year-old girl in the state. The state’s Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Mrs. Ify Obinabo, told journalists on Thursday in Awka, that the arrest of the suspect followed a report by the girl’s guardian. Obinabo, who was represented at the briefing by her Special …

Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, restrained the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, from going ahead with the planned impeachment of his deputy, Phillip Shaibu. The two men have been at loggerheads in recent times over irreconcilable differences. The judge gave the order while ruling on a motion on notice filed by the deputy governor. …

Cameroon’s captain, Vincent Aboubakar, has recovered from injury and is now available for selection ahead of Saturday’s AFCON 2023 round of 16 clash with Nigeria’s Super Eagles. Aboubakar, 32, did not feature for Cameroon throughout their group games due to an injury he picked during training just few days before the start of the tournament. According to Cameroon’s media outfit …

Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets lost 1-0 to Côte d’Ivoire in the semi-finals of the WAFU B U-17 tournament in Ghana on Saturday. With the defeat, the Eaglets will not be at the U-17 Africa Cup of Nations and also miss out on qualification to the World Cup. The hero for the Ivorians was Youbah Coulibaly as he got the only goal …

Former National Deputy Chairman (South-West) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has written an open letter to President Bola Tinubu, warning the Nigerian leader against the planned invasion of Niger Republic by armies drawn from the West African sub-region. The regional bloc has been mulling a military intervention as part of measures to restore democracy in the …