Coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria, Gernot Rohr By Rasheed Sobowale Nigeria’s national football team head coach, Gernot Rohr ranked 19th among the top 20 world national coach. The ranking list which was released on 26th of November by the German(Bonn)-based organisation International Federation of Football History & Statistics ranked the Portuguese Head Coach,…

By Prince Okafor The board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved the Transmission Company of Nigeria’s, TCN’s, NTEP -1 projects in a board resolution in Abidjan. The NTEP is one of the projects under TREP financed by AfDB that is targeted at rehabilitating and expanding parts of the transmission grid in the North…

By Harris Emanuel, Uyo An Akwa Ibom monarch, Etebom Samuel Efik has advised Local Government Councils to look into other areas of the economy to expand their Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) base rather than depending solely on the monthly allocations from the Federal purse. Besides, he advised them to establish mechanized farming schemes in their…

Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, on Thursday said existing laws on defamation and libel are grossly inadequate to tackle hate speech in its form. Abdullahi stated this against the backdrop of pockets of protests and reactions to the introduction of the Hate Speech Bill by the National Assembly, including a…

By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta The Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun on Thursday vowed to severely deal with operators of illegal toll points in the State. Abiodun, who made this known while receiving in audience a three-man team from the Ogun- Guangdong Free Trade Zone, at his office in Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, said those behind…

Veteran Nollywood actress, Kate Henshaw has condemned the act of slay mamas using breaching cream on their babies. The ace actress, who frowned at such act, took to her Instagram page @k8henshaw to express how bad she felt, adding that there was nothing to glow in babies’ bodies, cautioning parents not to destroy children’s future…

Executive Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Abuja The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, on Thursday, upheld the election of Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State. The appellate court, in a unanimous judgement by a five-man panel of Justices, dismissed a joint appeal the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its…

By Henry Umoru, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Senate, presenting again request for External loan of $29.96 billion to execute key infrastructural projects across the country. President Buhari in a letter read at Plenary Thursday by the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan is representing the request for an external loan…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday urged the Federal High Court, Abuja, not to grant the bail variation application filed by a British national, James Nolan. The EFCC Counsel, Bala Sanga, who made the request, told Justice Okon Abang that the Commission would file a counter-affidavit on the matter. Sanga said Nolan’s…

Court dissolves 9-year-old marriage As husband rape, abuse stepdaughters Chief Ademola Odunade, the President of a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, on Thursday dissolved a nine-year-old marriage between one Mary Dickson and John Dickson for persistently raping the two daughters she had before marrying him. Odunade pronounced the union dissolved, adding that the court might…