Day: January 27, 2024

AFCON 2023: Super Eagles Defeat Cameroon 2-0 To Reach Quarter-finals

Ganiyu Amodu

Ademola Lookman was the star of the show, scoring twice as the Super Eagles devoured fierce rivals Cameroon in a 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) round of 16 game late Saturday. The Atalanta man scored one goal in each half to send the Super Eagles to the competition’s quarter-final with a 2-0 win. READ ALSO Why Nigerian Referees Are Not Officiating At AFCON — CAF BREAKING: Angola Defeat Namibia 3-0 To Reach AFCON Quarter-finals NNPC Rakes In N8.8trn Revenue, Releases 2022 Financial Report Lagos Teacher Allegedly Flogs Pupil To…

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Why Nigerian Referees Are Not Officiating At AFCON — CAF

Ganiyu Amodu

The Confederation of African Football has revealed why Nigerian referees are not selected to officiate at the Africa Cup of Nations and other football tournaments on the continent. Head of Refereeing at the CAF, Noumandiez Doue, while speaking on Thursday during a CAF referees training session at Sol Beni (ASEC Mimosas Training Centre) in Abidjan, said Nigerian referees are good but need to do more. No Nigerian referee has been selected among the officials for the biennial competition for 18 years, this decision has, however, been debated among football stakeholders…

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BREAKING: Angola Defeat Namibia 3-0 To Reach AFCON Quarter-finals

Ganiyu Amodu

Gelson Dala scored twice as Angola beat Namibia 3-0 to reach the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations. Both sides were reduced to ten men before half-time, with Angola’s goalkeeper Neblu shown an early red card for handling the ball outside his area and Namibia then losing Lubeni Haukongo to a second yellow card. Dala netted either side of that Haukongo sending off, with those goals leaving Namibia with a mountain to climb in their first ever AFCON knockout match. A second-half comeback did not materialise, as Mabululu’s finish…

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NNPC Rakes In N8.8trn Revenue, Releases 2022 Financial Report

Abibat Babalola

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. (NNPC Ltd.) says its revenue increased to N.81 trillion in 2022. The NNPC Ltd. said this in its audited 2022 financial statements for the 16-month period ending December 2022 published on its website. The report showed that its total assets increased by 260.48 per cent, from N16.27 trillion in 2021 to N58.65 trillion. READ ALSO: Lagos Teacher Allegedly Flogs Pupil To Death, Stirs Controversy Money Ritual They Gave Him Failed, Angry Yahoo Boy Stabs Parents Abba Kyari Fought Me Till Death, Femi Adesina Reveals In…

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Lagos Teacher Allegedly Flogs Pupil To Death, Stirs Controversy

Abibat Babalola

There was pandemonium at a secondary school in Lagos State after protests broke out concerning the death of a colleague. Students of Araromi Ilogbo Secondary School in Oko Afo, Lagos, have alleged that the deceased student, David Babadipo, was flogged to death by a teacher. The incident was said to have occurred on Thursday when Babadipo was beaten by a teacher at the school, whose name was given as Oluwale. READ ALSO: Money Ritual They Gave Him Failed, Angry Yahoo Boy Stabs Parents Abba Kyari Fought Me Till Death, Femi…

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Money Ritual They Gave Him Failed, Angry Yahoo Boy Stabs Parents

Abibat Babalola

A 20-year-old man, identified as Daniel Bamidele, was arrested on January 25 after allegedly stabbing his parents in Ibadan, Oyo State. According to reports, Daniel’s mother, Titilayo, managed to escape from their home with serious injuries, seeking help from neighbors. It is said that Daniel attacked both his parents with a machete. Bystanders rushed to the scene and managed to disarm Daniel, holding him down until the authorities arrived. READ ALSO: Abba Kyari Fought Me Till Death, Femi Adesina Reveals In His New Book Some Parents Are The Enemy! By Chukwuneta…

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Abba Kyari Fought Me Till Death, Femi Adesina Reveals In His New Book

Abibat Babalola

Femi Adesina, former presidential media adviser, has revealed the behind the scene intrigues that set him up against the late Abba Kyari, indicating that they had a strained relationship from the point he was appointed the first Chief of Staff (CoS) to former President Muhammadu Buhari. Writing in his new book, “Working with Buhari: reflections of a Special Adviser, Media and Publicity (2015-2023),” Adesina disclosed that Kyari objected to his direct relationship with the president even though he was merely obeying Buhari’s advice upon becoming his spokesman. He wrote in…

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Some Parents Are The Enemy! By Chukwuneta Oby

ADEOLA YUSUF

The video that a popular Instagram female comedian shared on her birthday showed her mum praying for her (as she knelt) and some of the woman’s words were, “You have been carrying this family since you were 14 years old.” Yes,14! The woman can even pass for her daughter’s sister. That’s how young she looks. One of the stories that a popular Lagos boutique owner narrated sometime back was a scene she witnessed in her shop. A young woman walked in with an elderly Oyibo man (white man) and a…

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My Mummy Is Getting Married, By Funke Egbemode

ADEOLA YUSUF

“And for those who think that sex and companionship are the same thing, shame on you! Sex is on every street corner. Any man who can get an erection can service a waist.” Lola is 59 and getting married again. She has been single for 27 years and had, with the grace and help of God, raised four children all by herself. She made the announcement at New Year dinner with her children in Canada and all four of them dropped their cutleries. Their eyebrows simultaneously shot up. That was…

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1st SUG President to Become Prof Is Caleb Varsity’s Deputy VC

ADEOLA YUSUF

Time keeper in primary school, food prefect in secondary, here is the zero-to-hero profile of Sunday Adewale, the globally acclaimed professor of mathematics   Caleb University Imota, Lagos, has announced the appointment of Prof. Sunday Olumuyiwa Adewale as the new Deputy Vice Chancellor (DVC) in charge of Academics. Platforms Africa reports that Prof. Adewale made history on 1st October 2016 by emerging *the first Student Union Government (SUG) President to become a Professor in Nigeria , when LAUTECH appointed him a Professor of Applied Mathematics. He extended the record by…

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