By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Super Falcons of Nigeria have been billed to face Sao Tome and Principe in the first round of the qualifiers for the 2023 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations. Should the Super Falcons scale through the hurdle, the former champions will face the winner between Cape Verde and Liberia in the second round and the winners will seal a place in Morocco 2024. The qualifiers will start next month with first round matches. The Super Falcons finished fourth at the last edition of the WAFCON also hosted by Morocco. It was the second time Nigeria failed to…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
((Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, July 7, 2023) The impact of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s eight-year rule on Nigeria is directly proportional to the impact a white crayon makes on a white chalkboard. Worth. Less. By the way, jàmbá is a synonym for evil in Yoruba. When contemplating this article, a lyric of the world-famous Juju superstar, King Sunny Ade, “Gbogbo igi t’elégbèdè ba fi owo ba se, didun lo n dun,” came to mind. So, I ran a comb through my brain for the meaning of elégbèdè. The comb picked elégédé (pumpkin) and Elégbédé, a Yoruba name meaning…
Prime Video has announced its first unscripted African Original, LOL: Last One Laughing Naija, comedy competition which is set to take the Nigerian entertainment industry by storm. According to the foremost entertainment company, the event would be hosted by one of Nigeria’s most accomplished comedian, Basketmouth. At a press conference which took place on Thursday, 6 July, 2023, Basketmouth was unveiled as the host of the competition which attracts a whopping N40 million cash prize for winner which will in turn be donated to a charity organisation of the winner’s choice. The competition is expected to kick off on Friday,…
Nigeria’s Small and Medium Enterprises, SME, are set to get a boost through an innovative all-in-one technology application, called Ayoba, with a partnership from Adanian Labs. Ayoba is a revolutionizing communication, entertainment & e-commerce, application, for SME Accelerator program aimed at empowering and accelerating the growth of small businesses in Nigeria. This initiative comes at a crucial time, as Nigerian SMEs play a vital role in driving economic growth and job creation in the country. According to recent statistics, small and medium enterprises account for over 90% of businesses in Africa, contributing approximately 50% of employment and 33% of the…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Kwara State Government has reversed the directive which reduced workdays for civil servants from five days to three days. The state government had on June 5, 2023, took the temporary measure to ease the burden of public workers in the state in the face of hardship brought about by fuel subsidy removal. However, in a letter to the Heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in the state on June 26, the Head of Service, Modupe Oluwole reversed the directive. The letter signed by Okedare Adeyinka for the Head of Service said the decision was taken in…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) informed the Presidential Election Petition Court on Wednesday, 5 July, 2023, that it would not partake in the exercise of flogging dead horses. The party has declined to present a defense in the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Abubakar Atiku, challenging the conduct and outcome of the February 25 presidential election. Prince Lateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi SAN, the lead counsel for APC, stated that there was nothing to defend in the separate petitions of the Labour Party and the PDP. This newspaper learned that the decision to abstain from…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Delta State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of one Augustine Gola Ejowo, 50, by its operative in Ovwian/Aladja Division in Udu Local Government Area of the state for the alleged murder of his forty-five-year-old girlfriend, Felicia Catibekpe. After Ojowo committed the heinous crime, he went to nearby police station to report himself and he was arrested. The State Commissioner of Police (CP), Wale Abass, confirmed the arrest at a press briefing held in Asaba, the state capital on Wednesday, 5 July, 2023.According to Abbas, the suspect was arrested on 21/6/2023 when he reported himself at…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A 32-year-old resident of Dogon Rywa village in Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State identified as Auwal Usman, has sentenced to two years imprisonment for cutting the two hands of his friend with a machete. The Police arraigned the convict, Auwal Usman, before a Bauchi State Chief Magistrate’s Court for the crime. The prosecutor, Inspector Yusuf Musa, told the court that Usman had a misunderstanding with his friend, Sabo Abduwa, which led to a fisticuff between them. According to Musa, it was in the process that Usman macheted his friend in his two hands, leading to…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A Nigerian graduate, Achunike Okafor, has been honoured in the United States for his extraordinary academic performance, just as he was also offered over 40 scholarships for his academic feat, TapIntoNewark, an online newspaper reports. Okafor received an International Baccalaureate diploma with a record-shattering 4.625.grade-point average from his school, Science Park High School at Newark in New Jersey, U,S. His GPA is the highest among Newark’s 2,649 graduates in the Class of 2023, and highest-ever for the city public school district. It earned him more than 40 scholarship offers, many from the nation’s top universities: Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth,…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Paris Saint-Germain have categorically told Kylian Mbappe that must sign a new contract or risk being sold this summer. Last month, Mbappe wrote a letter to the Ligue 1 champions, making it clear he won’t extend his deal beyond June 2024. This means that if PSG don’t sell him before next season, they risk losing the France forward on a free transfer. But the club’s president, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, speaking on Wednesday,5 June, 2023 stated that Mbappe will not be allowed to run down his deal. “We do not want him to leave for free in 2024. Our…