World record holder for the 100m hurdles, Tobi Amusan, has claimed her fourth consecutive national title in the women’s 100 metres hurdles event. The 27-year-old dipped at 12.78 seconds and was way ahead of her competitors in a one-sided final of the event on Monday at the national Olympic trials in Benin, Edo state. The…
The Kano State Police Command has expressed strong disapproval over the recent incident where Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II’s entourage was booed. This was conveyed in a statement by the command’s spokesman, SP Abdullahi Kiyawa, in Kano on Monday. Kiyawa reported that the incident occurred when the Emir took an alternative route as part of his…
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) will in the coming days charge the first choice striker of Super Eagles, Victor Osimhen for improper conduct over his verbal attack on the former coach of the senior national team of Nigeria, Finidi George. Finidi who was the coach of the team until Friday when he tendered his resignation…
Media personality, Toke Makinwa has strongly condemned the age-old custom of using tribal marks for identification, labelling it as a form of cruelty towards children without their consent. Makinwa made this known in a series of posts via her X account. The media personality recalled her recent meeting with an influencer who had tribal marks,…
The end to the quest for justice for late Nigerian musician, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly called Mohbad, may not be over, following his family’s rejection of the declaration of the toxicology test results as inconclusive by the pathologist. Therefore, the family has demanded that a re-examination be conducted with the utmost transparency and adherence to the…
Ace Nigerian rapper and songwriter Eedris Abdulkareem has released a song titled “Emilokan” to speak truth to power, addressing President Tinubu, Pastor E.A. Adeboye, and other notable figures on the current economic hardship in the country. The “Nigeria Jagajaga” coroner accused Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG),…
Babatunde Fashola, a former minister of works and housing, has said that the national assembly may have unconstitutionally legislated on salaries instead of minimum wage. In an article entitled ‘Minimum Wage Review – My Takeaway’, Fashola said what the constitution provides for to be legislated on in the exclusive-legislative list is the country’s minimum wage….
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has paid a visit to Oluremi Tinubu, the first lady, on the occasion of the Eid-el-Kabir celebration. Obasanjo visited the first lady in Lagos on Monday. Busola Kukoyi, media aide to the first lady, shared the picture of Oluremi and Obasanjo in a post published on X. “Former President of the…
Former Nigerian goalkeeper Idah Peterside has said that Nigerian footballer Victor Osimhen should be banned from the national team if he fails to apologise to embattled coach Finidi Goege for his outburst on social media on Friday. In a viral video on X (formerly Twitter), Peterside criticized Osimhen’s behavior, deeming it disrespectful and unacceptable. “I…
I really do not think that Osimhen should be shut up. Perhaps he should have toned down his protest, given that Finidi is his elder and senior in the profession, but he has a right to defend himself against the attempt by Finidi to put the blame of the Super Eagles looming failure to make…
