Empower Amodu to help Oliseh, Laloko tells NFF
Allwell Okpi A former Technical Director of the Nigeria Football Federation Kashimawo Laloko has said the federation should empower the current Technical Director Shuaibu Amodu to help the national...
View ArticleDolphins, First Bank show dominance in Cotonou
Allwell Okpi Nigerian women’s basketball champions Dolphins and runners First Bank have shown dominance at the Africa Champions Cup Zone 3 Qualifier holding at the Palais des Sport du Stadede L’amitie...
View ArticleOsimhen equals U-17 World Cup record
Allwell Okpi Golden Eaglets striker Victor Osimhen has equalled the FIFA U-17 World Cup goal-scoring record set by Frenchman Florent Sinama Pongolle and Ivorian Souleymane Coulibaly, who were top...
View ArticleAfrica’s most valuable exports
For the sake of full disclosure, I am an Arsenal fan. I fell in love with the team in 1989 following their dramatic 2-0 win over Liverpool on the last day of the season, which clinched the title for...
View ArticleI dumped athletics for taekwondo –AAG gold medallist Otuadinma
Uzoamaka Otuadinma (arrowed), who won bronze at the 2014 Edinburgh Commonwealth Taekwondo Championships, got Nigeria’s only taekwondo gold at the 2015 All Africa Games. In this interview with ALLWELL...
View ArticleEagles fail to produce Africa’s best in 16 years
Allwell Okpi With the exclusion of the names of erstwhile captain of the Super Eagles Vincent Enyeama and the current skipper Ahmed Musa from the list of the top 10 nominees for the African Footballer...
View ArticleA’Ibom assures rural communities on electricity projects
Etim Ekpimah The Akwa Ibom State Government has assured rural communities in the state of its readiness to provide electricity to areas that have been left out in the first phase of its electricity...
View ArticleDon decries high rate of child abuse in sub-Saharan Africa
Gibson Achonu A Don in the Faculty of Law, Imo State University, Owerri Chigoziri Ojiaka, has raised the alarm over the escalating trend of exploitation, discrimination and sexual abuse of children in...
View ArticleAnambra community alleges land grabbing by government
Tony Okafor The Umuzocha community in Awka South Local Government Area, which owns the largest portion of Anambra State capital territory, on Thursday, rose against alleged improper acquisition of...
View ArticleCommunity kicks over judicial panel
Ihuoma Chiedozie The Greater Ibagwa-Nike General Assembly of Ibagwa-Nike, in Enugu East Local Government Area of Enugu State, has kicked against the composition of a Judicial Commission of Enquiry set...
View ArticleNSCDC denies demanding bribe from tanker driver
Alexander Okere The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps on Friday denied demanding bribe from the driver of a petroleum tanker in Ekpoma, Edo State. It was learnt that officials of the Edo State...
View ArticleAsaba flood victims kick over alleged shortage of food items
Nosa Akenzua Displaced victims of the recent flood disaster in Asaba, Delta State, on Thursday protested over alleged shortage of food and other items in bv the camp where they are currently being...
View ArticleErosion swallows 20 houses in Delta community
Nosa Akenzua The erosion ravaging Ika North-East Local Government Area of Delta State, especially Midomer Street in the community has so far destroyed no fewer than 20 houses. While residents of the...
View ArticleOne dies as pro-Biafra protests hold in Anambra, Delta
Tony Okafor and Nosa Akenzua One person was reportedly killed in Onitsha, Anambra State, on Friday during a protest march by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra over the continued detention of...
View ArticlePutin’s associate found dead in Washington hotel
ABC A prominent Russian millionaire with high-level ties to the Kremlin has been found dead inside a Washington hotel, a Russian official and a senior U.S. official told ABC News. Mikhail Lesin, the...
View ArticleOver 90,000 hit by Somalia floods – UN
AFP Over 90,000 people in war-torn southern Somalia have been hit by weeks of severe flooding, almost half of them forced from their homes, the United Nations has warned. “More than 90,000 people have...
View ArticleTroops clear nine more terrorist’s camps in Borno
NAN The Nigerian Army said on Friday that it had cleared nine more suspected Boko Haram terrorists camps in its operations in Borno. Col.Tukur Gusau, the Media Coordinator of Operation Lafiya Dole,...
View ArticleBuhari decries influx of foreign construction workers
NAN President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Federal Ministries of Works and Lands, Housing and Urban Development to urgently prepare action plan for speedy revitalisation of the nation’s vocational...
View ArticleBurundi leaders warned to stop inciting mass violence
Aljazeera The international community has condemned Burundi’s government for inciting violence amid a deteriorating security situation in the country and expressed alarm at a number of apparent summary...
View ArticleUS police officers arrested over boy’s fatal shooting
Aljazeera The head of Louisiana’s state police has announced that two law enforcement officers have been arrested over the fatal shooting of a six-year-old boy and the wounding of his father earlier...
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