The new Super Eagles gaffer has picked five assistants which include; three foreign-based who will join Daniel Amokachi while Olatunji Baruwa will serve as goalkeeper trainer, This was revealed on Monday by the former Real Betis, Ajax Amsterdam winger shortly after his unveiling in Abuja. The former Enyimba gaffer led the Super Eagles as a caretaker coach for the friendlies against Black Stars of Ghana and Eagles of Mali in March. His first game in charge of the three-time African champions will be against the Bafana Bafana of South Africa in June. The 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying fixture will…
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Super Eagles head coach, Finidi George has demanded total commitment from his players as they aim to secure a place at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Finidi,53, was presented to the media by the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, on Monday. He has signed a year’s contract with an option for an additional year. The gaffer’s immediate challenge is to ensure the Super Eagles a berth at the 2026 World Cup finals. The Super Eagles will take on South Africa and Benin in a make or mar qualifiers next month. The West Africans are winless in Group C after recording draws…
Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State has declared that intimidation has a time frame and it expires at the right time. Fubara’s declaration comes amid his continued face-off with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike. Since October 30, 2023, Rivers State has been embroiled in a political crisis. The crisis became public knowledge following an explosion that shook the hallowed chamber of the State Assembly complex on the night of October 29, 2023. Following the fire incident, the state lawmakers initiated an impeachment process against Fubara and suspended four lawmakers. This incident has left the state…
The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, has shut down the headquarters of Jos Electricity Distribution Company, JEDC, in Plateau State over the electricity tariff hike. It was gathered that the labour union blocked the main gate of the company, leaving the staff of DisCo stranded outside the main building. NLC and Trade Union Congress, TUC, had announced that they would shut down offices of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and Distribution Companies (DisCos) nationwide as a result of their failure to comply with their demand of total reversal of the electricity tariff hike.
The Catholic Bishop of Yola, Stephen Mamza, has taken a swipe at mushroom churches springing up with no apparent spiritual intent but for a commercial quest. The Bishop who is the immediate Adamawa State Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, said during a special Mass in Yola that, “Even the holy spirit will find it difficult to count the churches in Yola. Churches are set up today just for business.” He said in Nigeria today, people just want to become general overseers and own private jets, asserting that Nigerian general overseers today have more jets than all the…
The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Olawale Edun, has visited the JET Motor Company Assembly Plant in Lagos, where Compressed Natural Gas, CNG, buses are being assembled under the Presidential CNG Initiative. While disclosing this in a statement, Temitope Ajayi, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Bola Tinubu, said JET, which is located in Lagos, is one of the four assembly plants picked by the PCNGi to assemble semi-knocked-down components of climate-friendly CNG and electric buses and tricycles, which will soon be rolled out to cut down transportation costs. According to him,…
Good news from Kogi State! The uncertainties and trauma of 14 of the abducted students of the Confluence University of Science and Technology, Osara, Okene, Kogi State, have come to an end sending their families and friends into a rapture of joy. The good news was broken, Sunday, by the Kogi State Police Command, and corroborated by the state Commissioner of Information and Communications, Mr. Kingsley Fanwo. The students’ vicissitudes ended as they were rescued from captivity by the Kogi State Police Command, working in tandem with other security agencies and local hunters. Dare-devil gunmen had invaded the Confluence University…
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has stated that Plateau State will experience everlasting peace and regain its lost glory, saying that darkness cannot comprehend the light. Pastor Adeboye stated this on Sunday during a special combined interdenominational service with the theme “Promoted for a Purpose” held at the Redemption Camp of the RCCG in Kassa Barakin-Ladi local government area of Plateau State. The revered clergyman, who has not been in Plateau State in the past seven years, said the devil had a rough idea of the revival that was about…
The world witnessed the first-ever patient with a transplanted pig kidney, Rick Slayman, who passed away nearly two months after undergoing the groundbreaking operation. Massachusetts General Hospital conducted the historic transplant in March, implanting a genetically-edited pig kidney into 62-year-old Rick Slayman, who was battling end-stage kidney disease. This procedure marked a significant milestone in xenotransplantation, offering hope as a potential solution to the global organ shortage, as highlighted by the hospital. Slayman’s death was not linked to the transplant, the hospital reported. “Our family is deeply saddened about the sudden passing of our beloved Rick but take great comfort knowing he…
Date: 2024-May -13 🎯TOPIC: WHATEVER HAPPENS 📺 WATCH THE DEVOTION VIA THE LINK BELOW 👇 https://youtu.be/DMAdQgh4NYc?si=1RlzIRKr19UOumK1 ✝️ TEXT: Philippians 1: 27-30(NKJV) 1:27. Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel, 1:28. and not in any way terrified by your adversaries, which is to them a proof of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that from God. 1:29. For to you it has…