•Super Falcons celebrate goal In what is becoming an African classic, the Super Falcons of Nigeria and South Africa’s Bayana Bayana will square off in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games qualifiers later today. The second leg of the last phase of qualification for the Games is billed for Pretoria in South Africa, reports AFP. Nigeria […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will, today, arraign Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, two top officials of Binance Holdings Ltd on five counts of money laundering charge. It was reliably gathered yesterday that Binance, Gambaryan and Anjarwalla, who escaped from lawful custody on March 22 and fled Nigeria, will be ar...
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) have begun a nationwide strike over what they described as unfair treatment and disparity in the payment of withheld salaries by the federal government. “Definitely, it (the strike) has already started,” SSANU President, Mohammed Ibrahim, decl...
•Late Olubadan of Ibadanland The body of Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Lekan Balogun, will be interred today at 4:00 pm. His remains will be committed to Mother Earth at his Aliwo family compound according to Islamic rites, report Channels TV. The prayers will be led by the Chief Imam of Ibadanland, Sheikh Ajigbotomokekere and […]
•Sultan of Sokoto The President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) and Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has said this year’s Ramadan fasting will commence today. This is contained in a statement by a member of the National Moon Sighting Committee (NMSC), Mallam Yahaya Muhammad Boyi. “Th...
•Tinubu Lagos State governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday, said the much-anticipated Red Line Mass transit train is now ready and will be commissioned today, Thursday, February 29, 2024. Sanwo-Olu made the disclosure while speaking at the Lagos State Parking Authority (LASPA) Stakeholders Forum 2024, which took place at GRA, Ikeja, saying...
President Bola Tinubu will depart Lagos State and embark on a two-day official visit to the State of Qatar today. The media aide to the President, Ajuri Ngelale, in a statement yesterday, said the visit which is on invitation of His Highness, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar, is […]
•Third Mainland Bridge There will be no vehicular movement on the dual carriage Third Mainland Bridge for 24 hours beginning from noon today, the Federal Ministry of Works has announced. The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mrs. Olukorede Kesha, who dropped the hint in a statement, said that the total closure was in continuation […...
Last-minute troubleshooting efforts by the federal government to avert a two-day warning strike and national protests against economic hardship in the country failed last night, following insistence by the Nigeria Labour Congress NLC to go ahead with its activities. Speaking after a closed-door meeting hosted by the Secretary to the Government...
•Nnamdi Kanu in court The trial of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) Mister Nnamdi Kanu has resumed at the Federal High Court in Abuja before Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako. The federal government had filed an amended 15-count charge of terrorism and treasonable felony against Mister Kanu in 2021. He was arraigned [...

