By Akeem Busari Ajuwa Football club, a non-league Lagos based football club, which has established a football management and development deal with top Spanish side, Real Oviedo, has announced the appointment of experienced grassroots football administrator, Kelvin Etemike, as its new General Manager. While announcing the appointment from his Spain base, the Chairman of Ajuwa FC, Bina Ajuwa, urged the new General Manager to bring his wealth of experience in football administration to bear on his new assignment, by improving the club’s fortunes and taking them to the next level in no distant time. Ajuwa, a former Nigeria International player,…
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The Chairman of the National Campaign Council for Kogi State Governorship Election, Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, on Saturday, 2 September, 2023, assured the All Progressives Congress’ supporters that the national leaders of the party across the country would work together and provide all the necessary support to ensure overwhelming victory for the APC Governorship Candidate, Usman Ododo, on November 11, 2023. Describing Kogi as an APC state, he said, from the reality on the ground, it was clear that there was no vacancy for any other party in Lord Lugard House. Gov. Abiodun spoke at the inauguration of…
Canvasses Support For The Elderly, Widows The First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Senator Oluremi Tinubu has participated at the 2023 Imo Women August Meeting. At the event which was well attended by women from all over Imo state, Senator Oluremi Tinubu lauded the efforts of women in shaping the society saying they must not relent in giving directions to younger women. She emphasized the need to acknowledge the accomplishments of younger women which are undoubtedly inspiring and the fact that the role the elderly women play in shaping society cannot be done away with. “At this year’s…
President Bola Tinubu on Friday, 1 September, 2023, approved the appointment of Khalil Suleiman Halilu as the new Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI). By this appointment, Khalil Suleiman Halilu will serve for an initial term of five years in accordance with the relevant sections of the NASENI Act, 2014. Halilu, 32, is expected to bring his significant experience as an innovator and technology expert to bear in this important new national assignment. According to a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity,…
English Premier League (EPL) giants, Liverpool have out rightly rejected a £150m offer for their prized most prized asset, Mohamed Salah from Saudi Pro League side Al-Ittihad. The bid for the 31-year-old Egyptian born winger was for in excess of £100m, with add-ons taking it up to £150m. But Reds insist the player is not for sale at that prize, and that is final as far as they are concerned. Recall that Salah, who joined the Reds from Italian side Roma in 2017, signed a new three-year contract last summer. The player’s agent has previously dismissed talk of a move…
The Minister of Interior, Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has told the personnel of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) to take their job seriously or be shown the way out. The Minister equally warned them against sabotage, insisting that no act of sabotage would be allowed from any of them. He issued the warning during an assessment tour of the National Headquarters of NCoS in Abuja on Wednesday. The Minister was speaking against the backdrop of series of attacks on custodial centres across the country in the last few years, even as solution has not be found to the perennial problem of…
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Wednesday, inaugurated a vocational training centre in Biu town, headquarters of Biu Local Government Area. Named Borno State Vocational Training Enterprise, Biu, the centre consists of 15 workshops equipped with modern training facilities. The 15 workshops are for trades such as tailoring and fashion design, hairdressing and cosmetology, welding, plumbing and pipe-fitting, carpentry and joinery, building technology, electrical works, solar panel and installation, automobile and mechatronics, agricultural technology, knitting and crocheting, aluminium fabrication, and ICT training facilities. Speaking during the ceremony, Zulum noted that about five Vocational Training Institutes were constructed alongside 19…
The Director General, Institute of Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), Dr. Joseph Ochogwu has said compassion and good mediation skill are important to making a great leader. Ochogwu gave the verdict on Wednesday at the closing ceremony of the Strategic Legislative Course on Negotiation and Mediation with Taraba State House of Assembly by the National Peace Academy of the IPCR. He said a compassionate leader would see things from the angle of his subjects and would be able to carry them along in all his decisions and programme which would subsequently limit crisis and whenever there is crisis a leader…
Respected Human Rights Activist, Femi Falana has called on Nigerians not to leave violation of their fundamental human rights to God to judge, but insisted that they should approach the court to file a case. Speaking in Abuja at a programme: “A strategic dialogue on accessing remedies for human rights violation in Nigeria,” organized by the National Human Rights Commission, Falana said: “God wants you to fight tyranny. When your rights have been violated don’t keep quiet about it.” Falana advised that instead of leaving human rights violators to God, “Run to the office of your lawyer to file a…