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Torsten Frank Spittler, the coach of Amavubi of Rwanda, has tipped the Super Eagles to finish top of Group D of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. Group D has the quartet of Nigeria, Benin Republic, Rwanda and Libya. The three-time African champions are currently leading the group with four points while Benin, Rwanda and Libya occupy the 2nd to 4th spots respectively. The German coach, over the weekend, made it clear that he believed Super Eagles would top the group. “It’s a difficult group but in the end, Nigeria will win the group. “It will be Benin and…

Tito Jackson, an original member of the iconic Jackson 5 and brother of the late Michael Jackson, has died at 70. Known for his timeless hits like ABC and I Want You Back, Tito’s death was confirmed by his sons in a heartfelt Instagram post on Monday. An official cause of death is yet to be revealed. The Jackson family mourns the loss of another music legend. Tito performed in the iconic ensemble with brothers Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael, who died in 2009. Steve Manning, a long-time Jackson family friend and former Jackson family manager, told Entertainment Tonight that…

US media named Ryan Wesley Routh, whom AFP interviewed in Kyiv in 2022 where he had traveled to support the war effort, as the suspected would-be assassin of Donald Trump. US media said it was Routh, 58, who was arrested after US Secret Service agents “opened fire on a gunman” carrying an AK-47 style rifle near the boundary of Trump’s Florida golf course where the former president was golfing on Sunday. The suspect had bolted out of the shrubbery he had been hiding in and escaped in a black car before he was tracked down by authorities. CNN and CBS…

In its drive to ensure conversion of vehicles from petrol and diesel to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), the Federal Government has announced the delivery of 1.200 conversion kits to five states of the federation. This was disclosed by Engr. Michael Oluwagbemi, the Director/CEO of Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative, this in Abuja, where he revealed the Federal Government’s determination to increase the number of vehicles using CNG, as part of efforts to reduce dependence on petrol and diesel for transportation. Oluwagbemi pointed out that Nigeria’s long dependency on petrol and diesel had proven to be too costly, with the country spending…

Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 general election, has been released following his detention at Lagos airport. The activist, in a post on Sunday, had earlier disclosed in a post on his personal X handle that he was detained and his passport seized by officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), upon arrival in Nigeria. He said his detention at the airport was not unexpected following his involvement in the recent nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest in the country and the subsequent one in October.We 

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Abia State, Chief Sunday Okoro, has charged Nigerians on the need to have positive mindsets towards the current economic hardship in the country. The chieftain, in a press statement he personally signed and made available to the media, acknowledged the present situation and economic downturn in the country as a result of the policies of government, however, noting that the country would rise again, saying the collective responsibility of the citizenry would be to make the country great again through sacrifice, resilience and unity of purpose. The press statement read in…

Vice President Kashim Shettima, Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, will, on Tuesday, lead the party’s campaign flag-off for the October 5 local government election in Akwa Ibom State. This was disclosed by Obong Stephen Ntukekpo, the state chairman of the party, on Sunday, where he also noted that other dignitaries including Cross River state governor, Bassey Otu, will join Senate President, Godswill Akpabio as chief host to stage the event at the Ikot Ekpene Township Stadium. Ntukekpo equally listed Ekperikpe Ekpo, Minister of State, Petroleum Resources (Gas), Sen…

In the aftermath of the current economic hardship bedeviling the country and the citizenry, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu, requesting a reduction in the petrol price from N845 per litre to N600 per litre. The rights group, in a suit numbered FHC/ABJ/CS/1361/2024, filed last Friday by SERAP’s lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, at the Federal High Court in Abuja, is challenging the president over “the failure to direct the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited to reverse the apparently unlawful increase in the pump price of petrol.” The lawsuit also addresses the “failure”…

The various governors of the northern states should be blamed for the of-of-school children scourge in the region. This is the position of prominent northern leaders who accused the state and local governments in the north of failures to make sufficient investments in basic education, Punch reports. The leaders, who spoke in separate interviews with Sunday PUNCH, also identified indoctrination and insurgency as some of the factors responsible for the millions of out-of-school children in Nigeria particularly in the northern region. According to 2023 statistics from the United Nations Children’s Fund, there are 10.2 million and 8.1 out-of-school children at…

A former governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, has publicly sought forgiveness from the Esama of Benin, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, for any past wrongs during his tenure as governor. During a goodwill message at the banquet celebrating Igbinedion’s 90th birthday on Saturday in Benin, Oshiomhole described Igbinedion as a good father He praised the elder statesman’s contributions to the society and took the opportunity to seek atonement. He said, “You brought together people from all parts of the country; North, South, East, and West and across political and religious divides.” Oshiomhole publicly recognised the crucial support he received from Igbinedion…