Tag: Nigeria

Super Falcons midfielder Ayinde is keen to play Australia at the 2023 World Cup.

 Halimat Ayinde is keen to taste action at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. The talented midfielder missed Nigeria’s opening fixture against Canada due to…

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Senate probes alleged bribery of IPPIS executives

The Senate is investigating allegations of bribery and corruption by staff of Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) officials at various universities. The alleged action by the officials had…

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Nigeria loses N150 billion in four months to gas flaring, according to NOSDRA

Between January and April 2023, oil and gas companies doing business in Nigeria flared 92.3 million standard cubic feet of gas, or mscf, estimated to be worth N150.8 billion. The…

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Nigeria tops the list of nations with the highest unemployment rate.

There is a ranking of the nations with the highest unemployment rates. Nigeria was rated highly in the World of Statistics' most recent release on Sunday via its verified Twitter…

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U-20 AFCON: Agbalaka’s header hands Nigeria crucial win over Egypt

Nigeria’s Flying Eagles yesterday recorded the first and most significant win at the ongoing U-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Egypt 2023 after Solomon Agbalaka’s 71st minute handed the former…

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Boko Haram designed to destroy Nigeria — Buhari

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Wednesday, described the Boko Haram group and its attendant ideology — which abhors Western education — as a “fraudulent plot” designed to…

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MAY NIGERIA NEVER HAPPEN TO YOU

Nigeria is the most populated African country with more than one-seventh of the continent’s people. The people belong to many different ethnic groups. These groups give the country a rich culture, but…

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Journalism in the season of rising insecurity and mounting national tension

Over time, it has been empirically established that the media play a huge role in times of insecurity and tension. The fourth estate of the realm as it is popularly…

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Secessionist calls in Nigerian: Maybe “we” should all “go”

Right from the commencement of President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term, war fronts for the battle to secure Nigeria’s presidency were opened. “Wither Nigeria” is from one of the many battlefronts. Many…

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2019: Atiku Takes Campaign To North-Central, South-West

  Alhaji Atiku Abubakar The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, will on Wednesday (today) take his campaign to the North-Central. A Punch correspondent learnt on…

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