Author: TheScrutinyNG

Nigeria’s Folashade Oluwafemiayo has just broken her World Record in the women’s over 86kg Para-Powerlifting, becoming the first Para-athlete in history to lift 166kg. Oluwafemiayo, Team Nigeria’s captain, set a world record by becoming the first para-powerlifter to lift 167kg at the Games. China’s Deng Xuemei secured the silver medal with a 155kg lift, while Egypt’s Nadia Ali earned the bronze after lifting 145kg. Her win comes on the heels of the Super Eagles’s AFCON qualifier match against Benin Republic. They defeated their opponents 3-0 at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium in Uyo on Saturday. Goals by Amina Bello, Chiamaka Okwuchukwu,…

Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President of Nigeria, has warned the Federal Government on the implication of VAT and petroleum pump price increases, saying this is insensitive on the part of the government. The former Vice President, in a statement on Sunday via his X handle, said he needn’t be an economist to understand the import of polices of the Federal Government. Atiku tweeted, “The increase in VAT is set to become the blazing inferno that will consume the very essence of our people… Tinubu’s actions reflect a profound insensitivity to the plight of the less fortunate as he indulges in…

Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, a chieftain of the All Progress Congress (APC) in Osogbo, Osun State, has charged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to quickly come up with and implement strategies in order to save Nigerians from hardship and hunger. Oyintiloye, through a press statement on Sunday, highlighted the suffering that many Nigerians are currently enduring, noting that the situation makes it imperative for the President to act quickly and implement strategies that provide immediate relief. Although the lawmaker expressed confidence in President Tinubu’s ability to ease the suffering of the masses, he suggested that faster approaches should be adopted, particularly given the…

Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has said the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) is ready to win the 2027 presidential election. The party’s national leader who was the standard bearer of NNPP in the last election said he would win the 2027 poll. Kwankwaso made the outburst on Saturday when he inaugurated the NNPP Secretariat, along IBB Way, Katsina. He was in Katsina for a condolence visit to the Yar’adua’s family over the death of their matriarch, Hajiya Dada. According to him, the party is ready to take over the presidency, states and other positions across the country come 2027. He…

While the increase in the price of petroleum pump by the Federal Government has continued to generate discussions, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to use his “leadership position and good offices to direct the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to immediately reverse the apparently illegal and unconstitutional increase in the pump price of premium motor spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, across its retail outlets.” SERAP urged him to “direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, and appropriate anti-corruption agencies “to probe the allegations…

Following the comprehensive defeat they suffered in the hands of the Super Eagles, the head coach of Benin Republic, Gernot Rohr, has explained the difference between both teams. The Super Eagles in Uyo on Saturday, it would be recalled, thrashed Benin 3-0 to go top of their group in the 2025 African Cup of Nations qualifier. While speaking after the game, Rohr said Nigeria has better players who play regularly for their clubs. “What didn’t work was that we didn’t have the same resources as this Nigeria team. “When you look at the Nigerian squad, they have high-level players who…

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has urged the  Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Dangore Refinery to close the widening gap between them towards lowering the price of fuel and making the product readily available.  Reacting to the  rejoinder issued by the NNPC in which the latter denied being the sole marketer of products of the new Dangote Refinery contrary to MURIC’s allegation,the Islamic Humanrights group  said the two entities can still work together in the overall interest of the Nigerian masses. MURIC’s Executive Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, said the organisation’s statement  was issued in good faith and actually…

Mr. James Huang, the chairman of Taiwan External Trade Development Council, has said that in ease of doing business, Nigeria has improved tremendously. Huang was speaking at the closing ceremony of Taiwan Technology Day in Victoria Island, Lagos, Friday, where he noted that Nigeria and Taiwan were set to witness a significant boost in industrial cooperation.  According to Huang, this renewed commitment to collaboration which is expected to unlock fresh opportunities for economic growth, trade expansion, and industrial development, was a result of a huge improvement in the ease of doing business in Nigeria. Huang said there is a great…

Reactions have continued to trail the death of a 300-level undergraduate of computer science of Federal University Oye, Ekiti State (FUOYE) in the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital Complex, Akure (UNIMETH) due to alleged negligence of the consultant doctor assigned to take charge of his treatment. The 19-year-old Adedotun Adebobola was admitted into UNIMEDTH on August 3, 2024 for the treatment of malaria and body pains and treatment assigned to Dr. (Mrs.) Bolanle Yemisi Alabi, a consultant doctor attached to the Haematology Department of the hospital, according to the father, Prince (Engr.) Bola Adebobola. “The incessant neglect of our…

In order to enhance quality education in the state, the Abia State Government has warned private school owners against compromising education standard. The warning was handed down by Professor Eme Uche Eme, the Commissioner for Tertiary Education in the state at the Stakeholders’ Forum of Amadeus University, Amizi in Ikwuano Local Government Area, where he also threatened sanction against defaulters. The commissioner tasked Amadeus University, billed to take off soon, to key into the ongoing transformation of the Alex Otti-led administration which has for the first time, since the history of the state, met the 25% budgetary threshold for Education.…