Day: December 16, 2022

Morocco To Host Club World Cup In February

Ganiyu Amodu

Morocco will host the next Club World Cup in February, FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced on Friday, while the planned expanded version of the competition is now set to start in 2025. The tournament will take place from February 1 to 11, 2023, Infantino told reporters at a press conference in Doha, as it returns to Morocco for the third time. An expanded Club World Cup has long been a pet project of Infantino’s. A 24-team event, featuring eight teams from Europe, had been due to take place in China…

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Nigeria Declares Public Holiday for Christmas, New Year

Precious Ibekwe

The Nigerian Government has declared Monday 26th, Tuesday 27th December 2022 and Monday, 2nd January 2023 as public holidays to mark Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day celebrations respectively. Platforms Africa reports that Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, Minister of Interior who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, felicitates with Christians and all Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora on this year’s Christmas and New Year celebrations. Ogbeni Aregbesola enjoins Christians to emulate the doctrines of Christ in faith, hope and love. “We must imbibe the life…

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Poland’s Szymon Marciniak To Referee World Cup Final

Ganiyu Amodu

A Polish referee, Szymon Marciniak, has been chosen to oversee the Qatar 2022 World Cup final between Argentina and France on Sunday. According to Sports Center, Fifa referee chairman Pierluigi Collina has picked Marciniak as the man for the tournament’s big match. That is after the 41-year-old’s strong performances refereeing both finalists in the World Cup’s earlier stages. The Polish ref officiated France’s 2-1 win over Denmark in the group stage. Marciniak also called Argentina’s 2-1 victory against Australia in the Last 16. His experience refereeing both competitors means he…

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Audiomack Names Asake 2022 ‘Artiste Of The Year’

ADEOLA YUSUF

Nigerian sensation and raving fuji-amapiano fusion artiste, Ahmed Ololade, popularly known as Asake has been named Audiomack’s 2022 Artiste of the year. The popular streaming platform said Asake earned the credit as a result of his wholesome preamble to the pack of hit songs delivered in 2022 and his excellent musical deliveries in featured tracks. A signee to legendary Nigerian rapper Olamide’s YBNL label in January, released the celebratory “Omo Ope,” featuring Olamide himself, which introduced Asake’s spirited persona to Nigerian listeners. His debut EP Ololade Asake arrived in February,…

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Meet Kareп Uhleпbeck, 1st Female To Win Nobel Prize In Mathematics

ADEOLA YUSUF

  How I received the news via text message, Kareп Uhleпbeck opens up on $700,000 award she bagged for laying foυпdatioпs of a braпch of mathematics.   Nobel Prize worths $700,000, oпe of the most prestigioυs mathematics prizes iп the world, has been awarded to a womaп for the first time in history. Kareп Uhleпbeck, a mathematiciaп aпd emeritυs professor at the Uпiversity of Texas at Αυstiп, is пow the first womaп to wiп the Αbel Prize for mathematics. READ ALSO: Nigerian Teenager Wins 7 Int’l Medals in Maths Meet…

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Abuja Train Mangles NTA Staff, Selimota Idowu

Aliyu Aliyu

Blow-by-blow account from eye-witness on how the heart-rending incident happened   An Abuja-bound train on Thursday crushed Principal Accountant with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Hajiya Selimota Idowu, to death along the Kubwa rail tracks. One of our correspondents, who visited Chikakore community, where the incident happened, observed as sympathisers lamented the incident. The Chairman, Chikakore Community Zone-E, Ismail Olakposoyosi, said the victim was driving out of the community before she met untimely death. READ ALSO: Nigeria’s Ambassador To Spain, Demola Seriki, Is Dead 128 print newspapers shut down, fire…

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Understanding Why Labour Party Campaign Rally Derailed in Lokoja, By Michael Abu

ADEOLA YUSUF

For a party that is increasingly turning itself into a third force in Nigeria, Wednesday December 14, 2022 appeared to be a day of reckoning for the Labour Party as it was forced to call a suspension on its presidential campaign rallies. The party in an announcement said the scheduled presidential campaign rallies in Ekiti and Ondo States had been put on hold. The suspension came after what many have described as the fiasco on Tuesday of the campaign rally in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital. Before the Lokoja fiasco,…

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Seriki: Adebule Condoles With Family, Buhari, Tinubu, Other

Abibat Babalola

The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Lagos West Senatorial District, Dr. Idiat Oluranti Adebule, has condoled with the family of the late Nigerian Ambassador to Spain, Chief Ademola Rasaq Seriki, who died on Thursday. She also commiserated with President Muhammadu Buhari, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Lagosians over the demise of the former minister. Adebule described Seriki’s death as shocking and unfortunate and that it occurred at a time his contribution to nation building is needed most. The former Deputy Governor of Lagos State said “the…

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