Day: May 18, 2022
Nigeria’s U-20 national football team, the Flying Eagles, booked its place in the final of the WAFU Zone B regional tournament with a 2-1 win against Ivory Coast after extra time in Niamey, Niger Republic, thereby qualifying for the 2023 U20 Africa Cup…
The Head Coach of Nigeria’s women’s senior football team, Randy Waldrum, has invited 32 players to the camp of the Super Falcons as the Cup holders prepare for a two-week training camp in Morocco ahead of the 2022 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON)…
Nigeria’s Sports Minister Sunday Dare has commended the country’s Under-20 football team, the Flying Eagles, for qualifying for the final of the WAFU B Under-20 Championship in Niamey, Niger Republic.The Flying Eagles beat the Young Elephants of Côte d…
A Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria, has refused to grant bail to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, pending the determination of the treasonable felony charged against him by the Nigerian Government.Justice …
The Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has concluded arrangements to hold the maiden edition of the Nigeria U-18 Basketball Championships in the country, with a view to ensuring more youth participation in sports especially in the game of…
The Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, was joined by the Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, to flag off the construction of the 76.67-kilometre Ogbomoso-Fapote-Iseyin Road, in Oyo State, South-West Nigeria.The project, which is said to be of …
The new Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Muhammad Fadah, has assumed office in Abuja, Nigeria’s capitalDuring the formal handing/taking over ceremony from the outgoing Director-General, Major General Shuaib…
The Nigerian Army Women’s Corps (NAWC) has completed its maiden 2022 Inter-Battalion Obstacle Crossing Competition with the Troops of Admin Battalion emerging the overall winners at the event after crossing about 19 apparatus.During the closing ceremon…
The World Health Organization says authorities in Mozambique have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after confirming that a child in the country’s northeastern Tete province has contracted the disease. It becomes the second case of wild po…
The NEMA head in Kano, Nura Abdullahi, told VOA that the rescue operations came to an end Tuesday evening.”It has been concluded, the search and rescue has come to an end with nine bodies recovered and ten people injured.”Abdullahi said injured were ho…