NBBF expands Zenith Bank Women’s League
The Nigeria Basketball Federation is planning big for the 2023 edition of the National Women’s Basketball League sponsored by Zenith Bank, NBBF president Musa Ahmadu-Kida has stated. Already, the federation has concluded plans to expand the women’s league with a view to improving the quality of the teams that would compete in the elite women’s […]
Tinubu did not remove subsidy – Keyamo
The Chief Spokesman for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign, Festus Keyamo, has said President Bola Tinubu did not remove fuel subsidy. According to him, a section of the media is “mischievously twisting the narrative to read that Tinubu’s government has removed subsidy,” despite President Tinubu proclaiming that subsidy was gone while giving his inaugural […]
UNICEF plans new model to tackle Nigeria’s out-of-school children challenge
The United Nations Children Emergency Fund is expected to develop a model to tackle the out-of-school menace in Nigeria by 2027, The PUNCH reports. Though the number of out-of-school children as of May 2023 cannot officially be verified by our correspondent at the time of filing this report, a 2022 report by UNESCO estimated that […]
NAHCON warns pilgrims against patronising unapproved food vendors
The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria has warned pilgrims against patronising unapproved food vendors. The Nigerian pilgrims are currently undergoing the Islamic religious rites for the 2023 Hajj in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The commission’s Coordinator in Madina, Alhaji Ibrahim Mahmud, gave the warning in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, on […]
Atiku presents 118 exhibits in case against Tinubu
A total of 118 exhibits have been presented before the five-member panel of the Presidential Election Petition Court by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, in his case against President Bola Tinubu. Atiku and the PDP approached the tribunal to challenge the Independent National Electoral Commission’s declaration of Tinubu, who contested under […]
OAU postgraduate student: Memory of the slain comes alive, hotelier bags death sentence
Finally, justice on Tuesday came the way of the family of a Master’s student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke, who was murdered in November 2021. An Osun State High Court passed a death sentence on an Ile-Ife hotelier, Ramon Adedoyin, and two of his staff, BOLA BAMIGBOLA writes The already tense atmosphere […]
Telcos phase out old USSD codes
Telecommunication firms have begun to phase out old Unstructured Supplementary Service Data shortcodes for new harmonised ones as directed by the Nigerian Communications Commission. With this move, famous USSD codes such as *556# are now outdated. Customers of MTN Nigeria told The PUNCH that old USSD prompts now redirect them to a message that reads, […]
North Korea launches ‘spy satellite’
North Korea launched its purported spy satellite Wednesday, the South’s military said, prompting confusion in Seoul as the city briefly issued an evacuation warning in error. South Korea’s military detected the launch of what Pyongyang has described as a military reconnaissance satellite “from Tongchang County area of North Pyongan Province in North Korea, at around […]
Former Man Utd star Nani departs Melbourne Victory
Former Manchester United and Portugal winger Nani has left Melbourne Victory after just 10 league appearances, the Australian club said on Wednesday. The 36-year-old was hailed as one of the A-League’s biggest coups in years when he signed last year but, he did not live up to the hype, failing to score before a serious […]
Ajegunle boy crowned football king in Saudi
ANTHONY NLEBEM chronicles Odion Ighalo’s childhood from a Lagos ghetto, after the striker recently added the Saudi King’s Cup gold medal to his silverware Who would have thought that a kid born and raised in Lagos ghetto Ajegunle, would one day become one of Africa’s biggest footballers globally? Well, that’s the case of Odion Ighalo, one […]