– Stanley Nwabali has been excused from the team to attend to family matters in the aftermath of his father’s demise. – Ademola Lookman has been excused from today’s training session after suffering a knock in Thursday’s game against Benin Republic. – Ola Aina has returned to England on the request of his club, Nottingham Forest. The premier league side pleaded with Coach Austin Eguavoen to release the defender early for their big game vs Arsenal, since Nigeria’s AFCON ticket has been secured.
Author: Abimbola Ogunaike
The Black Stars of Ghana on Friday night, 15 November, 2024, crashed out of the 2025 edition of the Africa Nations Cup. After playing 1-1 draw wifh Angola, Ghana remain bottom of the table with three points in five games. Angola are group leaders with 13 points while Sudan are second with 7 points and Niger third with 4 points. If the Black Stars win their last match, a total of six ponts wont be enough for them to go through. It is the first time in 20 years that the Ghanians will be missing the continental football fiesta.
The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), has disclosed that it has rescued 13 Nigerian girls who were trafficked to Ghana It said the operation brought the total of people repatriated back into the country within five months to 163. The agency, in a statement by its Director of Media, Public Relations and Protocols, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, gave a breakdown of the rescued ladies. “Among the 163 included the 13 girls that were rescued and brought back to Nigeria over the weekend,” the statement said. According to NiDCOM, the rescue operation was orchestrated by combined and coordinated efforts of the Ghanaian Anti-Human…
A former councilor in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State, Mutiu Akinbami, has been killed by suspected cultists, reports TheGazelleNews.com He was murdered on Friday, 15 November, 2024. Akinbami, popularly known as Egor, was reportedly attacked at the Brewery area of Abeokuta around 6:00 p.m. and shot in the head while riding a motorcycle. The Ogun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, confirmed the sad incident through a statement issued to newsmen on Saturday, 16 November, 2024. “The Divisional Police Office of Lafenwa received a report at about 6:40 p.m. that Mutiu Akinbami, a resident of Olomore…
Six years after her abduction by Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State, a 42-year-old nurse, Alice Loksha, has regained her freedom. Speaking with newsmen in Maiduguri, the state capital, on Friday, 15 November, 2024 the Theatre Commander of the Joint Task Force, Operation Hadin Kai, North-East, Major General Wahdi Shuaibu, explained that Boko Haram captured Loksha in 2018, while she was working at a UNICEF office in Kala Balge. Represented by his deputy, Maj. Gen. Kenneth Chigbu, the commander also announced the escape of another abducted woman, Fayina Ali, captured by Boko Haram insurgents in 2020 while travelling from Kaduna…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have stormed some parts of Akure, the Ondo State capital, to prevent vote buying in the ongoing governorship election in the state. Some of the operatives were spotted at the Sacred Heart Primary School, Cathedral, Akure. Thegazellenews.com recalls that the election is taking place across 3,933 polling units in the 18 LGAs of Ondo State. Prior to the election, there were reports that some political parties were planning to influence voters’choices with cash. The election started at about 8:30 am in several polling units while some places experienced delays due to…
The Ondo State Governorship Election commenced at 8:30 am on Saturday, 16 November, 2024 in Akoko North-East and Akoko North-West LGAs of the state with large turnout of voters. Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) were seen at some of the polling units visited by NAN, attending to the electorate. At Iyometa Ward 1, Unit 1; Iyometa Ward 2, Unit 007 and Ikado Ward 2, Unit 5 in Ikare-Akoko and also at Ugbe Akoko, Ward 3, Unit 2, election commenced at 8:30 a Speaking with the NAN, Vincent Ugboma, the Presiding Officer (PO) at Ikado Ward 1, Unit 001,…
The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) has called for a balanced regulatory framework for digital content produced by Nigerian creatives.Deputy General Secretary of the Guild, Olumide Iyanda made the call on Thursday, 16 November, 2024 while delivering a goodwill message at the opening ceremony of the 4th Peace Anyiam-Osigwe Nigeria Digital Content Regulation Conference (NDCRC) organised by the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) in Lagos.The theme of the two-day conference is “Film and Video Regulation in the Digital Age, Balancing Creativity and Responsibility.”Iyanda conveyed GOCOP’s commendation to the Minister of Art, Culture and the Creative Economy, Hannatu…
Accugas Limited, a subsidiary of Savannah Energy, wishes to strongly deny the misinformation concerning its alleged involvement in the current power outage in Akwa Ibom State. The power cut in Akwa Ibom State is entirely due to the reported fault in the 132-KV Aba-Itu transmission line, which, unfortunately, is preventing power being transmitted from the National Grid into the State. It is imperative that the restoration of the Aba-Itu line is completed as soon as possible. Ibom Power Company (“IPC”) is one of 23 thermal power generation companies which channel power to the National Grid, which in turn disseminates all…
The ongoing local government polls in Ogun State got off to a good start on Saturday. This newspaper can exclusively report. Election into chairmanship and councillorship positions are currently ongoing in the 20 local government councils of the state, with the major political parties, including the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party (LP) and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) saying that they will have a good showing. In the polling units surveyed in major cities such as Abeokuta, the state capital; Ijebu Ode, Sagamu, Ota and Ilaro, election materials arrived on schedule even as…