Senate to Investigate Failure of Super Eagles to Qualify for 2022 World Cup

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 Bliss Okperan Nigerian goal-poacher, who plies his football trade in Italy, Victor Osimhen, has expressed his frustration over the way his club, Napoli, treated his penalty miss over the weekend. The Italian club won a penalty in a match with Bologna on Sunday, but the striker could not put the ball in the back of the net, leaving his team with a goalless draw. On Tuesday, Napoli posted a video on its verified TikTok page. It was believed that the post was to mock the miss, sparking outrage from some fans, especially from Nigeria, the footballer’s home country. On

Premier boxing show, GOtv Boxing Night,  will make a return on Sunday, September 24, 2023, the organisers have announced. In a statement released on Thursday, Flykite Productions disclosed that the 29th edition of the Boxing show, licensed by the Nigerian Boxing Board of Control (NBB of C), will be held at the Molade Okoya-Thomas of the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos and feature six fights, including a national female cruiserweight title bout between Celina “Pretty Assasin” Agwu and Bolatito “Black Tito” Oluwole. The welterweight division will see a national challenge bout between the very tough Taiwo “Gentle Boy” Olowu and

By Dipo Olowookere Brazilian winger, Anthony, is now eligible to make the Manchester United squad again, a statement from the football club has disclosed. A few weeks ago, the footballer was suspended by the English sports outfit over allegations of assault in his home country. His former girlfriend, Rosilene Silva, accused the footballer of assaulting her, prompting the police in Brazil to launch an investigation into the claims. The police in the United Kingdom also took an interest in the matter, forcing the Old Trafford team to ask Anthony to stay away from the team. In an update on Friday,

By Dipo Olowookere Just when embattled telecommunications giant, 9mobile, is battling hard to get a new investor to take over the company because of its $1.2 billion syndicated loan saga, another trouble is rearing its ugly head. The firm is currently in a legal tussle over an alleged debt of N4.56 billion in statutory contributions to the Industrial Training Fund (ITF). According to reports, the crisis-ridden company formerly known as Etisalat is accused of skimping on its statutory contributions between 2011 and 2015 which, according to the calculations of the ITF, amounts to N4.56 billion. The tech giant is however

By Dipo Olowookere Acting President, Mr Yemi Osinbaji, has maintained that nobody can remove Mr Ibrahim Magu as the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as long as Mr Muhammadu Buhari remains President of Nigeria. Mr Osinbajo made this declaration on Thursday, July 6, 2017, while commissioning the Kaduna office of the anti-graft agency. The executive and the legislature have been at loggerheads in recent times over Mr Magu acting as Chairman of the Commission for several months. He has had his nomination rejected twice by the Senate. This week, the red chamber said it would

By Modupe Gbadeyanka An employee of First Bank Nigeria Limited, Mr Philips Orumade, has been apprehended by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). According to a statement issued by the anti-graft agency on Tuesday, Mr Orumade was picked up by its officials from the Benin Zonal Office in Lagos. The banker had been on the run after he allegedly stole over N18 million from the lender’s ATM gallery last year and disappeared into thin air. In the statement, the EFCC said the suspect precisely went away with about N18.9 million from the Aduwawa branch of First Bank

The football calendar has the privilege of opening with Copa São Paulo, the famous, prestigious and beloved “Copinha”. Clubs from all over Brazil come to São Paulo with their youth teams, to compete in a tournament that always ends up revealing an ace, always ends up delivering talented and very promising players to professional teams. Any site, as here at https://www.online-casinos.ng, will attest that many players will not reach the top teams this 2022 season, as well as many will appear on the national scene unexpectedly, without fulfilling the stages considered normal in the evolution of a player. Regardless of

By Modupe Gbadeyanka Poultry meat and products (including poultry eggs) from Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) have been banned from entering Hong Kong. The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department said this became necessary following notification from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) about outbreaks of high pathogenic H5 avian influenza in DR Congo. A CFS spokesman said that as Hong Kong has not established any protocol with DR Congo for imports of poultry meat and eggs, there is no import of such commodities from the country. “The CFS has contacted

By Adedapo Adesanya There is huge pressure on Nigeria to announce the restrictions of flights from the United Kingdom over fears of the spread of a new strain of COVID-19 in the country. Already, several European countries have banned flights from the UK, including the Netherlands, which was the first country to take this action. But Nigeria seems to be biding her time despite some citizens of Nigeria, the most populous in Africa, asking the government to quickly protect them by imposing a travel ban from the UK before things get out of control. Apart from the Netherlands, other nations

By Adedapo Adesanya Depreciation in the stock prices of Niger Delta Exploration and Production (NDEP) Plc, Central Securities Clearing Systems (CSCS) Plc, and FrieslandCampina Wamco Nigeria Plc weakened the NASD Over-the-Counter (OTC) Securities Exchange by 0.64 per cent on Wednesday, June 21. NDEP Plc lost N5.50 during the session to sell at N245.00 per share compared with the previous day’s N250.00 per share, CSCS Plc depreciated by N1.11 to finish at N16.50 per share, in contrast to the preceding day’s N17.65 per share, and FrieslandCampina Plc went down by 9 Kobo to close the day at N16.54 per share versus

By Modupe Gbadeyanka Massive sell pressure in the equities listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) continued on Monday, resulting in the market losing N235 billion at the close of trading activities. The weakness in investors’ confidence started last Friday when the stock market slumped for the first time in 11 days, depreciating by N80 billion. Investors had hoped this would be reversed today when market activities resume, but that was never the case. Business Post reports that a total of 40 equities declined on the floor of the NSE today, in contrast to 10 equities that moved up. Nestle