The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested three suspects for allegedly vandalising and stealing transformer cables at Wuro Dole in the Girei Local Government Area of the state. The command’s spokesperson, SP Suleiman Nguroje, disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday in Yola, the state capital. He said the arrest followed credible information from…
The World Health Organisation launched on Tuesday a new platform providing cost-free cancer medicines for thousands of children living in low- and middle-income countries, in a bid to improve lagging survival rates. The first medicines were being delivered to Mongolia and Uzbekistan, the WHO said, with further shipments planned for Ecuador, Jordan, Nepal and Zambia,…
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Policy, Daniel Bwala, on Tuesday said he criticised President Bola Tinubu’s administration in the past because he was in the opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party. Bwala made this disclosure while speaking on Arise TV’s The Morning Show. “I criticised Tinubu’e election and administration in the past…
The Jigawa State Police Command has welcomed 448 newly passed-out police constables who underwent six months of rigorous training at the Police College Kaduna. According to the Commissioner of Police in the state, Ahmad Abdullahi, while welcoming the new constables in a statement made available to newsmen in Dutse on Tuesday by the Command’s Public…
Cameroon’s 1988 AFCON-winning coach Claude Le Roy has tipped the Super Eagles as well as hosts Morocco, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Egypt and Algeria as the favourites to contend for the title in December. The 2025 tournament will be played from December 21 to January 18, 2026, across six cities in Morocco. Nigeria finished as runners-up…
The 11 home-based players invited for the D’Tigers’ next phase of the 2025 FIBA AfroBasket qualifiers will open Nigeria’s camp in Abuja on Monday (today), with their foreign counterparts scheduled to join them later, the Nigeria Basketball Federation has announced. The NBBF on Sunday released a preliminary 24-man roster for the third phase of the…
Nigeria’s table tennis sensation, Matthew Kuti, has been penned by the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation to make his debut at the 2025 African Cup which will be played from February 25 to 27 in Tunisia. Kuti, who has demonstrated why he is one of the continent’s rising stars, will join a star-studded cast for the…
Newcastle United are among the clubs monitoring Victor Osimhen’s situation, with Napoli ready to offload the Nigerian striker this summer. Osimhen, 26, remains one of Europe’s most in-demand forwards and is expected to seek a new challenge once his season-long loan at Galatasaray ends. The Super Eagles star has been in prolific form in Turkey, scoring…
An 88th-minute header from Timothy Zechariah provided a reprieve for ex-international and Rivers United coach Finidi George as they ended an unwanted run of five games without a win, beating Lobi Stars 1-0 in Port Harcourt on Sunday, Sports Extra reports. Zechariah broke the bottom-placed Lobi’s resilience in the closing stages of the game and…
Nigeria’s head boxing coach Anthony Konyagwachie talks about his journey from Olympic boxer to record-breaking coach and more in this interview with PETER AKINBO How did you get into boxing? I picked up boxing in 1984, right after the Olympics. My brother had just won silver at the Los Angeles Olympics, and that inspired me to try….
Dele-Bashiru also on target for Lazio Super Falcons duo Gift Monday and Rinsola Babajide can’t stop scoring in the Spanish Women’s top division, headlining another weekend of actions for Nigerian stars abroad, ABIODUN ADEWALE writes SPAIN MONDAY, BABAJIDE (TENERIFE) Super Falcons duo Gift Monday and Rinsola Babajide can’t stop scoring. The players were on target for…
American-based teenage fencer Peluola Akinbamiro has pledged her allegiance to Nigeria on the international stage, becoming the second fencer to pick the country after Folayemi Akinyosoye switched his allegiance from Great Britain to Nigeria last year. The 13-year-old student from Fort Bend Fencing Academy in Houston expressed that her love for Nigeria inspired her decision to…
