Day: June 6, 2023

Nigeria’s Chukwueze Wins Best African Player In La Liga

Ganiyu Amodu

Samuel Chukwueze has won the La Liga Best African Player for the 2022/2023 season following a great campaign with Villarreal. Chukwueze played 37 matches this season, starting 27 of them, and scored six league goals with a brace against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on April 8, 2023. “Samu is now enjoying his well-deserved award, after being voted by more than 30,000 fans and 26 journalists from the continent, ahead of other top African players such as Yassine Bono, Iñaki Williams, and Youssef En-Nesyri, among others,” Villarreal wrote…

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UNILAG Confirms Student’s Killing, Condoles With Family

Ganiyu Amodu

The University of Lagos on Tuesday morning confirmed the killing of a 200-level student of the Department of Metallurgical and Material Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Adekunle Agboola, who was shot outside the University premises on Saturday while trying to retrieve his mate’s phone from robbers. In a condolence message to the bereaved signed by the UNILAG Principal Assistant Registrar, Communication Unit, Adejoke Alaga-Ibraheem, the institution expressed sadness over the incident, stating that the police are investigating the case. The release read, “It was with heavy heart, that the Management of…

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Pastor Sentenced to Death for Killing Choir Mistress He Impregnated

Abibat Babalola

General Overseer of Altar of Solution and Healing Assembly also found guilty of killing her choir mistress’ friend and her daughter, Court rules   A State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt. South-South Nigeria, has sentenced the General Overseer, Altar of Solution and Healing Assembly in Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state, Pastor Chidiebere Okoroafor, to death for killing three persons, including his choir mistress, who he impregnated. Trial judge, Justice S. Benson, in his judgment in the murder trial delivered on Monday, said the evidence and confessional statement…

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UNILAG Undergraduate Shot Dead By Robbers Over Stolen Phone

Ganiyu Amodu

A 23-year-old undergraduate of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, identified as Adekunle, has shot dead while trying to recover a stolen phone from a armed robber. According to reports, the UNILAG undergraduate was shot dead by some unknown gunmen at Harvey Road, Moore Road Junction, in the Yaba area of the state on Saturday. It was gathered that Adekunle and his school mate identified as Opeyemi boarded a shuttle bus from Yaba to UNILAG and while in the vehicle, a man, who was hanging at the back of the bus,…

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BREAKING: We’re Not Doing Again, NLC Suspends Planned Strike

Aliyu Aliyu

Why we did it, agreed to resume talk with Tinubu June 19 – Ajaero   The Nigerian Labour Congress, on Monday, confirmed that it will no longer proceed with its nationwide strike planned for Wednesday. The decision was part of resolutions announced by the Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila and confirmed by the President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, after a nearly six-hour meeting between the Federal Government and the organised labour at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Monday’s engagement is the third in a series of meetings…

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