Premier League Agrees £5bn TV Broadcast Deal Extension

By Precious Olisa The era of Nigerian athletes being treated by beggars may soon be over if the assurance given by the federal government is to be taken seriously. Earlier this week, the Minister of Sports Development, Mr John Enoh, during an interactive session with the Presidents and Secretaries of National Sports Federations, said efforts are being made to prioritise the welfare of athletes in the country. For several years, those who represent the country in different sporting activities across the globe have been abandoned even before and after tournaments, resulting in some of them switching allegiance to another country

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Another round of league matches will take place in the Premier League, Serie A, and Laliga this weekend. The biggest match of the lot will be in the Premier League, where treble winners, Manchester City will face Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium. All the weekend action will be available to customers on DStv Compact and GOtv Supa+. Arsenal are yet to defeat Manchester City in a league match since Pep Guardiola came to England seven seasons ago. The gunners ran out of steam to finish second behind City last season, having topped the table for the majority of the campaign.

By Adedapo Adesanya The Premier League has deducted 10 points from Everton after it found the club guilty of breaching Premier League financial fair play rules. The deduction is the biggest points deduction in the competition’s history and will see the Merseyside club drop 19th position, two points from safety. Everton, who had denied wrongdoing, believe a sporting punishment for an accountancy matter is disproportionate and inappropriate and have told the league they intend to appeal. Leeds, Leicester and Burnley have previously written to Everton’s prospective new owners, 777 Partners, warning they intended to sue for damages in the event

By Dipo Olowookere The Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Limited appreciated by 0.75 per cent on Friday as the local demand for FBN Holdings Plc stocks was sustained during the final trading day of the week. This raised the All-Share Index (ASI) by 308.17 points to 41,438.15 points from 41,129.98 points and as for the market capitalisation, the listing of 1.964 billion shares of NGX Group Plc shares on the exchange yesterday expanded it by N193 billion to N21.625 trillion from N21.432 trillion. The market breadth closed positive yesterday with eight declining stocks and 30 appreciating equities led by SCOA Nigeria, which

By Adedapo Adesanya The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) sees a positive capital market outlook for the year 2020, according to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr Oscar Onyema. Mr Onyema, while addressing the investing communication comprising the media, investors, analysts and others, at an interactive session on Monday, noted that the domestic environment was favourable and looking at the global market trends, there was high possibility of a positive outcome for the capital market this year. In his recap of the stock market’s performance last year, the NSE chief said the All Share Index (ASI) depreciated by 14.60 percent, but

By Dipo Olowookere Leader in cloud-connected medical devices and out-of-hospital software-as-a-service (SaaS) business solutions, ResMed, has completed its acquisition of Propeller Health, a digital therapeutics company providing connected health solutions for people living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma. The deal was said to have cost RedMed $225 million, but despite the completion of the acquisition, Propeller will continue to operate as a standalone business out of its Madison, Wisc., and San Francisco offices, working with leading pharmaceutical partners and other healthcare organizations to provide digital therapeutics and actionable insights to people who use inhalers, helping improve their

By Adedapo Adesanya The Minister of State for Petroleum (Oil), Mr Heineken Lokpobiri, has expressed appreciation to the management of Tantita Security Services Limited for their efforts in pipeline protection in the Niger Delta region. The Minister gave this commendation on Saturday while fielding questions from reporters during his tour of oil facilities in the Niger Delta. Mr Lokpobiri, who was accompanied on the tour by the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mr Mele Kyari, among other government officials, said the President Bola Tinubu-led administration is determined to stop all forms of pipeline vandalism

By Dipo Olowookere On Monday, the Ivoirian government, through the Ministry of Planning and Development (MPD) and the Sub-Regional Office for West Africa of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), launched the support project to strengthen development planning in Côte d’Ivoire. This project forms part of the fundamental mission of the ECA to provide assistance to African countries and aims at supporting the renewal of development planning in Côte d’Ivoire. It consists of developing a Guide to the Project Cycle (GPC) and of strengthening the capacities of the Ivoirian public sector executives in project monitoring and evaluation. The

By Adedapo Adesanya ** Ranks FIRS 10th, Nigeria Police 35th The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) has ranked the Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMD) first out of the 36 ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) of the federal government in its Overall EO1 Performance Results for January – December 2022 report. “From the 2022 EO1 Compliance Report, the top 5 MDAs achieved an average score of 71.44 per cent on the efficiency and transparency matrix with the overall winner – Nigerian Content Development Management Board (NCDMB) achieving a score of 81.11%,” PEBEC said in the report. The Standard Organisation

By Modupe Gbadeyanka No fewer than 48 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have completed a thorough training at the Nigeria Institute of Leather and Science Technology (NILEST). The initiative was in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the European Union, which funded the trainees as a step towards the successful implementation of the Executive Order 5 and a platform for the actualization of the change agenda of the federal government. Director-General of NILEST, Dr Euphoria Ngozi Okpara, stated at the graduation ceremony that the training was a boost to unlocking the enormous potentials existing in leather sector for

By Dipo Olowookere Teachers in public secondary schools in Lagos State have commenced an online digital literacy training programme. The training is part of efforts of the state government to enhance the skills of its teaching workforce towards transformation of the education sector. The teachers are undergoing the programme through a collaborative effort of the Lagos State government, Microsoft and ATB Techsoft Solutions Limited. At the virtual flag-off of the first batch of participants in the free training programme for teachers on Grade Level 08-13, Chairman of the Lagos State Teaching Service Commission, Mrs Olabisi Ariyo, said, “Since it is