Cole Palmer has been voted the EA SPORTS Player of the Month for September 2024. The announcement, made on Friday via the official EPL website, confirms that Palmer led the Premier League in both goals and goal involvement during September, scoring five times and providing one assist in just four appearances. Palmer’s most remarkable feat…
Libya’s captain, Feisal Al-Badri, has expressed the Mediterranean Knights’ determination to emerge victorious against the Super Eagles of Nigeria in Uyo. The Super Eagles are heavily favoured to win the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying Group D encounter. They are going into the match as the group leaders, while Nasser Al-Hadiri’s Libyan side are…
Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda, has declared his readiness to combat human trafficking, sexual and gender-based violence, and violence against persons in the state. He made the declaration on Thursday while hosting the State Taskforce Committee, led by the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Fadila Dikko, in his office. Radda commended the task force for…
The Federal Government has granted permission to petroleum marketers to lift petrol directly from the Dangote refinery without going through the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. This confirms the speculation that the NNPC will no longer be the sole off-taker of the Dangote fuel. In a statement on Friday, the Minister of Finance and Chairman…
Nobel Laureate. Professor Wole Soyinka, the first sub-Saharan African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, recently shared how the prestigious award has had unintended consequences, putting him at risk and intensifying his isolation. Soyinka, who was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986 for his profound cultural perspective and the “poetic overtones”…
The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Debo Ologunagba, has slammed the party over reports announcing his suspension. Naija News reports that this comes after PDP’s National Working Committee (NWC) said Ologunagba and the party’s National Legal Adviser, Kamaldeen Ajibade, were suspended over allegations of disloyalty and insubordination levelled against them. A…
The captain of the Argentina national football team, Lionel Messi, has expressed his dissatisfaction with the playing conditions at the Estadio Monumental de Maturín after their 1-1 draw against Venezuela in a 2026 World Cup qualifier. The match, which took place on a rain-soaked pitch at the Monumental Stadium of Maturin due to heavy rain…
The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Thursday, unveiled the sale of Federal Government subsidised rice in the state. The governor disclosed that his administration will soon begin implementing the sale of other subsidised foodstuffs across the 20 local governments of the state. Abiodun noted that the implementation of the scheme across the state would…
A former Governor of Bauchi State, Mohammed Abubakar, has stated that his generation, including himself, has failed Nigerians. Mohammed, who spoke on Tuesday at the First Bauchi SDGs Youth Summit 2024, urged Nigerian youths to salvage the economy. He stated that his generation has failed to provide Nigerians with the kind of leadership they deserve….
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has disclosed that becoming the first sub-Saharan African to win the Nobel Prize in literature exposed him to danger. The literary icon was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his “wide cultural perspective and… poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence”. But speaking in an interview with CNN’s Larry…