The Federal Government is yet to host the U-17 women’s national team, the Flamingos, 175 days after it pledged to receive the bronze-winning team at the 2022 U-17 Women’s World Cup in India, a News correspondent reports. The Flamingos claimed their first-ever bronze medal at the U-17 Women’s World Cup in India after defeating favorites Germany 3-2 on penalties. Having consistently failed to get past the last eight of the competition, Bankole Olowookere’s side overcame the free-scoring USA on penalties to book a place with Colombia in the semi-finals. The South Americans, however, ended the Flamingos’ dream of reaching the…
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The Labour Party has dissociated itself from a viral letter signed by the self-acclaimed factional national chairman of the party, Lamidi Apapa, asking the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to dismiss all cases by the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, against the emergence of the All Progressives Congress Bola Tinubu, in the February 25 general election. According to a statement made available to journalists on Tuesday by the party’s acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, on Tuesday, it partly read, “We urged the Tribunal in Abuja to disregard the antics by Apapa, who us a suspended Deputy National Chairman of our…
The Ondo State Police Command has arraigned five persons before the state Chief Magistrate’s Court, sitting in Akure, the state capital, over the death of a man, Temitope Olorunfemi, who was alleged to be a ‘yahoo boy’. Olorunfemi was lynched by people in the Ijoka Area of Akure after his Toyota Camry car crushed one person to death and injured several other people on Easter Monday. The vehicle was also set ablaze by the people, who said they found some fetish items inside the car, which made them believe that he was an internet fraudster. The state police arrested five…
Armed herdsmen have reportedly invaded Opaha Community in Edikwu Ward 2 of Apa Local Government Area of Benue State, killing 15 people including an army officer. Several people were reported missing as the whole village was said to have been sacked. Recall that the Igbobi community in the same Apa LGA was invaded by suspected armed herdsmen a few weeks ago, leaving five people killed and no fewer than 10,000 displaced and now taking refuge in Ugbokpo, the headquarters of the local government. Also, at the weekend, suspected armed herders killed the Edikwun Council Ward Chairman of the Labour Party…
✝️📗DAILY FOUNTAIN DEVOTIONAL Date: 2023-Apr-26 🎯TOPIC: REVEALED MYSTERY 📺 WATCH THE DEVOTION VIA THE LINK BELOW 👇 https://youtu.be/ow14pzX-khs ✝️ TEXT: Ephesians 3: 1-21(NKJV) 3:1. For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles — 3:2. if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you, 3:3. how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already, 3:4. by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ), 3:5. which in other ages was not…
The World Health Organisation has expressed grave concern over the rising cases of Malaria disease across the African continent. The world’s health authority stated that Africa in 2021 recorded 234 million cases and 593 000 deaths from malaria. It has attributed the situation to its discovery that a substantial population of the continent lack access to healthcare facilities and also incur huge expenditures to obtain healthcare. The global agency expressed the concern in a statement to commemorate World Malaria Day 2023. The theme of this year’s Malaria Day is Time to Deliver Zero Malaria: Invest, Innovate, Implement. It…
The founder of the Scottish youth football team, Celtic Boys Club, was on Tuesday jailed for three years after being found guilty of abusing a young boy more than 50 years ago. Jim Torbett, who is already serving a six-year sentence for abusing six teenage boys, was convicted of repeatedly indecently assaulting a 13-year-old boy in 1967. Sentencing him at a court in Inverness, northeast Scotland, judge Andrew Cubie told 75-year-old Torbett that the impact of the attacks had been “lifelong” on his victim. “You caused significant damage, incalculable harm and blighted his life,” the judge added, according to Scottish…
Fighters have occupied a national public laboratory in Sudan holding samples of diseases including polio and measles, creating an “extremely, extremely dangerous” situation, the World Health Organisation warned Tuesday. Fighters “kicked out all the technicians from the lab… which is completely under the control of one of the fighting parties as a military base,” said Nima Saeed Abid, the WHO’s representative in Sudan.He did not say which of the fighting parties had taken over the laboratory. Abid said he had received a call from the head of the national lab in Khartoum on Monday, a day before a US-brokered 72-hour…
A suspected motorcycle thief was burnt to death in the early hours of Sunday by commercial motorcyclists at the Dei-Dei area of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The incident took place around Bakusa Bridge in the community. The suspect’s remains were thrown on a refuse dump and set ablaze. A witness, Ibrahim Aliyu, who put the incident time at some minutes after 12am, said the deceased, who was suspected to have boarded the motorcycle from Karmo town in the FCT, reportedly ordered the rider to stop on getting close to the bridge He pretended that he wanted to vomit,…
Press Statement at the close of Gafcon The Most Rev. Dr. Stephen Samuel Kaziimba Mugalu Archbishop of Church of Uganda 21st April 2023 Thank you our Media Evangelists for joining us for this virtual press conference. Praise God from whom all blessings flow! We decided it would be best to give you an immediate update on the Gafcon conference. Since we are still in Kigali, we opted for this virtual press conference. We trust our friends in broadcast media will be able to pick the live feed for your purposes. First, I want to thank all our Bishops for mobilizing…