Day: December 1, 2018

  Three Nigerian players, Ahmed Musa, Odion Ighalo and Alex Iwobi were among the 34 African players nominated to vie for CAF’s flagship award, Player of the Year. Mohamed Salah of Liverpool leads Egypt’s three nominees that included, Ahmed Gomaa…

  Founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) Dr Frederick Fasehun is dead. He was aged 83. Senior Special Adviser on Media, to Fasehun, Mr Adeoye Jolaosho, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, on Saturday….

  A Nigerian man was sentenced to death by the High Court in KualaLumpur, Malaysia, on Friday, November 30,  after he was found guilty of trafficking more than 700g of drugs into the country in May 2017. Judge Datuk Azman…

  On Friday, a  7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Anchorage, Alaska largest city violently shaking homes and businesses and knocking out power to some residents. The quake was located about eight miles (13 kilometers) north of Anchorage and struck at 8:29 am local…

  Two estate agents who klled six people after deceiving them into giving up their homes have been executed. The “evil” gang consisting of three men and one woman buried their victims alive. As a result two of the men were sentenced to death,…

  The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has seized nine 40ft containers of tramadol and other controlled drugs with duty paid value of N3.06 billion at Onne Port, Rivers. Mr Augustine Chidi, the Deputy Comptroller General of Customs in-charge of Enforcement,…

  The Nigerian Army has re-appointed Brig.-Gen. Sani Kukasheka Usman as its spokesman, replacing Brig. General Texas Chukwu. In a statement posted on its Whatsapp platform on Friday, the army said Usman’s re-appointment followed his completion of the “Strategic course…

  Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, who presided over the end of the Cold War and routed Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi army died on Friday night at the age of 94, a family spokesman said. Bush, the 41st president of…