Famous Nigerian music sensation, Ayodeji Balogun, popularly addressed as Wizkid, has paid tributes to his late mother, Morayo, on her first posthumous birthday. Taking to social media on Thursday, 4 July, 2024 Wizkid celebrated her life, highlighting how much he missed her. “Happy birthday, love of my life! I miss you every day. The first one without you here feels unreal. Nothing makes sense without you, Mama! Life is empty without you,” Whizkid wrote “Continue to watch over us! My heart is broken forever! love you love love you, Morayo mi. Your smile is a memory I will never forget.…
Author: Abimbola Ogunaike
Ahead of the Under 19 youth league which is scheduled to run from Saturday, 13 July to Saturday, 27 July, 2024, the Nationwide League One has approved 14 venues for the football event. The Stadia are the Legacy Pitch/Maracas Stadium in Lagos; FC Ebedei Stadium, Sagamu; Kayode Oluyemi Stadium, Ado-Ekiti; Samson Siasia Stadium, Yenagoa; Ginger Sam Stadium, Umuahia; Awka City Stadium, Awka; and Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano. Others are: Pantami Stadium, Gombe; Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium, Bauchi; Bwari Stadium, Abuja; Lafia City Stadium, Lafia; Giginya Memorial Stadium, Sokoto; Bako Kontagora Stadium, Niger; and Karkanda Stadium, Katsina. Over 200 teams will…
African Football ruling body, Confederation of African Football (CAF) unveiled on Thursday, 4 July, 2024 pitched Nigeria with Benin, Libya and Rwanda in Group D of the qualifiers for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON qualifiers) in Morocco. The draw for the qualifiers took place in Johannesburg, South Africa. The 2025 AFCON will be played from December 21, 2025 to January 18, 2026 following the decision of the football governing body to adjust the schedule of the tournament for the congested FIFA calendar. It will be the first time in Nations Cup history that the tournament will kick off…
The European Union (EU) has offered postgraduate scholarships to 142 young Nigerians in top European universities in the 2024-25 academic session, under its flagship educational programme, Erasmus+. Nigeria with this number, retains its number one spot among beneficiaries of the EU postgraduate scholarships in Africa for the 6th year, as well as a place among the top five recipient countries globally. At a pre-departure orientation organised for the scholarship awardees in Abuja on Thursday, the EU Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Ms Samuela Isopi, underlined the significance of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) programme, now in its 20th…
Several families affected by floods in Sierra Leone in 2022 have received humanitarian assistance from the ECOWAS Commission worth the sum of $690,719.00 The humanitarian assistance to affected households was launched by the Government of Sierra Leone with the ECOWAS Resident Representative in Sierra Leone, Amb. Harouna Moussa in attendance. Sierra Leone’s Minister of Planning and Economic Development, Honourable Kenya Ballay stressed the importance of the ECOWAS humanitarian assistance which will benefit affected persons in eight districts in the country. The items including bags of food, financial assistance as well as water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) essentials are being distributed…
Rivers Government has confirmed that the recent cholera outbreak in parts of the state claimed the lives of two persons while 16 people reportedly survived. A statement by the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Adaeze Oreh, confirmed the development in a statement issued in Port Harcourt, the state capital. According to Oreh, the incident in the state was recorded in three communities within the Andoni Local Government Area, stressing that the two persons died with symptoms suspected to be cholera. The Commissioner said that all the cases were recorded within the past four weeks while the ailment was ravaging other states of…
The Nigerian Federal Government has announced that the disbursement of N150 billion in loans to micro, small and medium enterprises and manufacturers would commence by the end of July 2024. The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Doris Uzoka-Anite, disclosed this in a statement through her official X handle on Thursday, 27 June, 2024. According to Uzoka-Anite said that 60 percent of the proposed one million beneficiaries of the Presidential Conditional Grant had received a financial grant of N50,000 without repayment obligations in the 774 local government areas of the country. “To all applicants of the Presidential Conditional Grant Scheme…
A 38-year-old man, Saheed Adisa,has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment by an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court in Isabo, Ogun State for stealing cooking pots. The defendant, who resides at No 25 Temidire Street, Sabo area in Abeokuta pleaded not guilty to the one-count charge of stealing. The Magistrate, Mrs V.B Williams, who handed down the judgment on Friday, 28 June, 2024 explained that the prosecution counsel had proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt, adding that the convict was guilty as charged. Williams, however, sentenced Adisa to one year in prison for the first count as well as the second count…
Tears flows like river on Friday, 28 June, 2024 as John Okafor, late comic actor popularly known as Mr Ibu, laid to rest. Okafor was buried on Friday, 28 June, 2024, in his hometown of Amuri, Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State. Videos circulating on social media earlier revealed the arrival of his body as family, friends, and colleagues gathered to bid him a final farewell. Recall that the actor died on 2 March, 2024, after a prolonged sickness. In October 2023, Mr Ibu shared a video announcing to his fans that he was diagnosed with an illness…
Sokoto State Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Barrister Nasiru Binji, on Friday, 28 June, 2024 stated that no courts reinstated deposed Sokoto district heads. Binji added that the deposed district heads in the state have lost their royal and traditional status indefinitely, as the court order on them has been vacated. According to him, the district heads remain deposed because the court order had ceased to exist seven days after it was granted. “The deposed district heads have not been reinstated, as the court order granted by the court has abated,” he added. The state attorney general cited Order 13…