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Female cruiserweight boxer, Bolatito ‘Black Tito’ Oluwole, has declared that her ultimate aim at GOtv Boxing Night 29 is to be the first female winner of the best boxer prize. The overall best boxer on the night will take home the Mojisola Ogunsanya Memorial Trophy and N1m cash prize. Black Tito will face Celina ‘Pretty Assassin’ Agwu, in a national cruiserweight title challenge bout at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Indoor Sports Hall of  Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos on September 24. The bout is one of the six lined up for the night. “My ultimate aim on the night is to make

By Adedapo Adesanya Nigeria and its neighbour, Benin Republic, will not jointly host the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) as the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has favoured the trio of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania for the continental football tournament. The apex football governing body in Africa on Wednesday also announced Morocco as the host of the biennial competition in 2025. Morocco last hosted the AFCON in 1988 and was chosen in 2015 but asked for the tournament to be postponed because of the Ebola virus, although CAF later decided to strip the North African nation of the hosting

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By Modupe Gbadeyanka Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted to reports that Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has ‘appointed’ Mr Tonye Dele Cole, as the governorship candidate for the party for the 2019 elections. The APC, in a statement signed and made available to journalists last Saturday by the party’s spokesman, Mr Warisenibo Chris Finebone, stated that it is grossly preposterous and far from the truth as there is no provision for the appointing of a governorship candidate or indeed any candidate whatsoever in the constitution of the APC or in the guideline for

By Modupe Gbadeyanka A student-centred organisation, Global Interns Nigeria, has concluded plans on its first phase of career guidance workshop dubbed ‘The Career Connect Series’ for students in high schools and universities. It will hold on Tuesday, August 22 at Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. The workshop, which is aimed at enhancing the perception of students on the right career path and prospects associated with them, will feature facilitators from various professions to address critical issues students encounter when making career choices. Chief Executive Officer of Global Interns Nigeria, Mrs Olufunmilayo Modupe said there is need to groom

By Dipo Olowookere Following the success of Merck Cancer Access Program to empower women in oncology field where they are underrepresented, comes another successful initiative for MERCK to empower African women in research to offer better health care to women. After receiving his ‘African Alliances HE for SHE’ award for women empowerment, Prof Frank Stangenberg-Haverkamp has successfully achieved another commitment to empower women in research in an effort to bridging the gap in gender inequality in STEM Africa. UNESCO and Merck celebrate outstanding African Women Researchers as a historical first. Kenya, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Uganda, Ethiopia ranked in the

By Adedapo Adesanya The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned that amid rising digital adoption, youths should be mindful of fraudulent investments that are Ponzi schemes and make conscious efforts to invest in legitimate capital market products. Speaking on the sidelines of the Global Money Week 2023, the Director of the Market Development Department of the commission, Mr Nestor Ikeagu, said partaking in illegal investments could affect the growth of their financial future. Global Money Week (GMW) is an annual awareness-raising campaign on the importance of ensuring that young people from, an early age, are financially aware and are

By Adedapo Adesanya The oil market climbed by almost 3 per cent on Wednesday as the second straight weekly draw from crude stockpiles in the United States was bigger than expected. This development raised the price of Brent by 2.5 per cent or $1.77 to $74.03 a barrel, as the price of US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) appreciated by 2.8 per cent or $1.86 to $69.56 a barrel. Crude oil prices moved higher after the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported an inventory draw of 9.6 million barrels for the week to June 23, compared with an inventory decline of

By Dipo Olowookere Nigeria’s food safety agency, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has denied claims by the Minister of Health, Mr Isaac Adewole, that it has cleared the reported ‘plastic’ rice. A senior official at the agency told BBC in Lagos that the Minister’s Twitter statement “is not their position.” Mr Adewole had tweeted that tests by the agency found “no evidence” of plastic material. About 2.5 tonnes of the “plastic” rice has been confiscated. Rice is Nigeria’s staple food and it is a tradition for people to give bags of rice as a

By Dipo Olowookere The presidency has reacted to the call made by the present Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, that President Muhammadu Buhari should resign from office over insecurity in the country, describing this as “foolish.” In a statement issued on Wednesday by Mr Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, the presidency asked on what basis should President Buhari resign? “President Buhari is working hard to keep Nigeria and Nigerians out of the harm terrorists have unleashed in the entire Sahel and Sub-Saharan Africa with the support of Nigerians and our foreign

By Adedapo Adesanya The Naira finished weaker against the US Dollar at the parallel market on Monday, October 12 by N3 or 0.66 per cent, Business Post reports. During the trading session, the value of the Nigerian currency against its American counterpart depreciated to N460/$1 from the previous session’s N457/$1. But at the same segment of the foreign exchange (forex) market yesterday, the value of the domestic currency over the British Pound Sterling was strengthened by N5, closing at N590/£1 compared with N595/£1 of the previous day and lost N1 on the Euro to settle at N538/€1 as against the