Day: April 12, 2022

Amid Calls For Resignation From NFF, Pinnick gets new FIFA role

Abibat Babalola

The President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr Amaju Pinnick, has been given a new role within the Federation of International Football Association’s working group. This was announced in a statement by NFF’s spokesperson, Ademola Olajire, on Tuesday. Pinnick’s appointment came amid calls for his resignation as NFF boss after Nigeria failed to qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. READ ALSO:CAF Doctor’s Death: FIFA Sanction Looms On Nigeria SUSPENSION: FIFA Axes Kenya, Zimbabwe, Gives Reason In a letter dated 11th April and signed by Véron Mosengo-Omba, General Secretary…

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FirstBank Reduces Banking Time to 5 hours, Blames Energy Crisis

Tade Salako

Here, due to high diesel cost and heavy spending on electricity, are the new schedule for opening and closing of bramches the bank wants hundreds of thousands of its customers to note   First Bank of Nigeria has announced reduction in operation hours at most of its branches nationwide from eight to five hours due to the biting coat of operations. Platforms Africa reports that the bank made this known in a statement made available on its official website, where it said that the new development will take effect from…

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Nigeria Declares Two Days As Easter Public Holiday

Precious Ibekwe

  Nigerian Government has declared Friday 15th and Monday 18th April, 2022, which are Good Friday and Easter Monday, to be Public Holidays, to mark this year’s Easter celebration. Platforms Africa reports that the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, while making this declaration in Abuja urged Christians to emulate the attributes of sacrifice, togetherness, forgiveness, kindness, love, peace and patience, which were the attributes and practices of Jesus Christ, as exemplified by His ministry on earth. Aregbesola therefore called on Christians and all Nigerians alike to use the occasion…

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Man Kills Girlfriend, Sleeps With Decaying Corpse For Six Days

Tade Salako

Neighbours opened up on how stinking smell of the corpse exposed the alleged criminal    A young man, Ifeanyi Njoku, has been arrested for allegedly killing and having sex with the decaying corpse of his girlfriend, Precious Okeke, in an estate at Badore, in the Ajah area of Lagos State, Nigeria’s commercial capital. Platforms Africa reports that Njoku was the one that rented the apartment. The live-in lovers stayed in the apartment, where Njoku allegedly killed his girlfriend for ritual purposes. READ ALSO: Teenagers Behead Girlfriend for Money Rituals Nigerian…

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Global Energy Transition, An Opportunity for Nigerian Oil Industry- Wabote.

Abibat Babalola

The ongoing disruptions in the international energy industry present a unique opportunity for the Nigerian oil and gas industry to attract investments and serve as one of the leading hubs to meet global energy needs. The Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board, (NCDMB) Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote stated this recently in a lecture he delivered at the Society of Petroleum Engineers – Oloibiri Lecture Series and Energy Forum (SPE – OLEF) 2022 held in Abuja. He spoke on the theme, “Global Energy Transition: Implications on Future…

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Nigerian Varsity Students To Stay At Home For Additional 6 Weeks

Abibat Babalola

As Govt Asks For Six Weeks To Decide On ASUU Strike Barring unforeseen circumstances, the hundreds of thousands of students in Nigerian universities who are forced out of school due to strike are to stay at home for an additional six weeks. This cane as the Nigerian Government during a meeting with its Renegotiation Committee, has pleaded for the six weeks to allow the committee in charge of renegotiation concludes its task of redesigning a new agreement with ASUU. ASUU has vowed to remain on strike until its demands are…

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2022 guber: YAF storms Ekiti, Osun, sensitizes residents on peaceful elections

Abibat Babalola

As part of their continuous peaceful campaigns against groups agitating for violence in the Southwest, a coalition under the aegis of the Yoruba Appraisal Forum (YAF), on Monday and Tuesday, stormed Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State and Osogbo, Osun State capital, respectively, to sensitise the people of the two states on the need to maintain peace in the run-up to their governorship elections. YAF also took its sensitisation and enlightenment campaigns to other parts of the two states, urging the people to reject anyone promoting violence during the forthcoming governorship elections in…

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