Day: March 26, 2022

Nigeria Get U-20 Women’s World Cup Ticket, Thrash Senegal 4-1

Abibat Babalola

Nigeria’s U-20 girls, Falconets, on Saturday, in Benin City earned a ticket to the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup after a comfortable 4-1 win over their counterparts from Senegal, for a 7-2 aggregate victory. First leg heroine, Flourish Sebastine, was again the cynosure of all eyes, scoring a brace, in the eighth and 19th minutes to denude the visitors of any hope of a dramatic comeback at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium. Sebastine cruised to a hat-trick at the Stade Lat-Dior in Thies two weeks ago and was not to…

Read More

S’Africa’s Veteran Broadcaster Advocates All-Inclusive Campaign for Africa’s Indigenous Language

Nureni Aremu Bakenne

Broadcaster South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa shifted his time of national broadcast by 30 minutes in order to honour, commends ILMA for promoting African Indigenous languages     It was a convergence of media practitioners, communication scholars, staff and students on the Mafikeng campus of the North-West University as the legengary broadcaster and famous isiXhosa language news anchor, Dr. Noxolo Grootboom delivered the 2022 edition of the Indigenous Language Media in Africa (ILMA) Research Entity’s symposium tagged “Indigenous Language Broadcasting”. The media guru, who moved from grass to grace; from…

Read More

Caleb Varsity’s Architecture Programmes Get ARCON Accreditation

Abibat Babalola

The Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON) has accredited the Bachelors and Masters degree Programmes of Caleb University Imota, Lagos. Platforms Africa reports that the approval was communicated in a letter signed by the Registrar of ARCON, Arch. Umar Murnai, ARCON, fnia; based on a report of the Professional ( Visitation between 12th and 16th April, 2022. “We refer to the professional accreditation visitation to the Department of Architecture, Caleb University, Imota Lagos, held between 12th and16th April 2021, and would hereby inform you that, in line with Section 9…

Read More

Four Soldiers Hospitalised, 21 Others Injured As Army Truck Crashes

Amodu Ganiyu

Four soldiers are currently in critical conditions at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH as a truck carrying them crashed in Calabar. The truck which reportedly left the 34 Nigerian Army Brigade headquarters in Calabar at about 4:00 pm was said to be moving to the Brigadier Ally Army Cantonment in Ogoja with a unit of troops headed by a Major for operations duty in the northern part of Cross River State. The remaining twenty one soldiers including five females sustained various degrees of injuries. READ ALSO: Tributes As…

Read More

VC Tussle: OAU Declares Two-Week Break

Abibat Babalola

The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile -Ife, has announced a two-week mid-semester break, beginning from March 28, 2022. This was contained in a release made on Saturday, signed by the university’s registrar, Mrs Magaret Idowu Omosule. Platforms Africa recalls that the university had since been rocked with series of protests by a group of Ife indigenes who decried the non-appointment of Ife indigene as the Vice Chancellor of the university. READ ALSO: Tributes As Nigeria’s Ist Female VC, Grace Alele-Williams, Dies +BIOGRAPHY JUST IN: Terrorists Attack Nigeria’s Kaduna Airport,…

Read More

JUST IN: Terrorists Attack Nigeria’s Kaduna Airport, Kill NAMA Staff

Aliyu Aliyu

AZMAN aircraft, scheduled to take off to Lagos at about 12.30pm, could not because of the presence of the terrorists by the runways of the airport Terrorists on Saturday reportedly attacked tha Kaduna International Airport, preventing an AZMAN aircraft from taking off at the facility. The terrorists also, according to reports, killed a staff of the Nigerian Aviation Management Agency (NAMA) at the runway area of the airport. Quoring sources, a report by Solacebase,noted that the AZMAN aircraft, scheduled to take off to Lagos at about 12.30pm, could not because…

Read More

Tributes As Nigeria’s Ist Female VC, Grace Alele-Williams, Dies +BIOGRAPHY

Rofeequr Adeola-Yusuf

The Nigeria’s first female professor of Mathematics Education was born on December 16, 1932, in Delta to an Itsekiri mother and Owan father from Sobe, Edo State. Here is the biography of the Record Breaker   Professor Grace Alele-Williams, first female Vice-Chancellor and first female of Mathematics Education in Nigeria’s history, is dead. Platforms Africa reports that Alele-Williams, breathed her last in Lagis at the age of 89 years. The Nigeria’s first female professor of Mathematics Education was born on December 16, 1932, in Delta to an Itsekiri mother and…

Read More

JUST IN: Pregnant Woman, 25 Others Injured In Stampede At APC Convention

ADEOLA YUSUF

No fewer than 26 people including a pregnant woman and an elderly man were injured at the ongoing national convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at Eagles Square, Abuja, following a stampede. Delegates waiting at the entrance gate for clearance for the event were caught in an ugly stampede following the slow pace of clearance from the security agents. They had besieged the venue waiting for clearance when suddenly people broke free from the security, who were forced to retreat. READ ALSO: APC convention: Tinubu visits Buhari’s Anointed…

Read More

APC convention: Tinubu visits Buhari’s Anointed candidate, Adamu, at night +PHOTO

Ayobami Adedinni

An All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, reportedly with Senator Abdullahi Adamu, ahead of the party’s national convention. Tinubu paid Adamu a solidarity visit in his Abuja residence, on Friday night. READ ALSO Tinubu Asked Me To Make Him Vice President – Atiku He started to think he is our god, Aregbesola Bombs Tinubu + Full Speech Ango Abdullahi to Tinubu- The North has always been the Kingmaker Why EFCC Is Yet To Arrest Tinubu — Bawa Opens Up on Trial of Top Politician A Twitter user @cbngov_Akin1,…

Read More