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By Augustine Akhilomen Former head coach of the Super Eagles, Adegboye Onigbinde has disclosed that only the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) can explain why Bruno Labbadia was appointed to manage the senior national team.Recall that the German tactician was named to take over from Finidi George on Tuesday morning.Labbadia is a German football manager and former player. He played as a striker for several clubs, including Bayern Munich, Hamburg, and Cologne, and earned two caps for the Germany national team.As a manager, Labbadia has coached several clubs in Germany and Austria, including:However Onigbinde stated that the issue with Nigeria football…

By Augustine AkhilomenThe presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election has faulted the decision of the Federal Government to ban individuals below 18 from participating in the NECO and WAEC exams.Recall that the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, in a programme on Channels Television’s ‘ Sunday Politics’ program, had stated that candidate below the age bracket won’t be permitted to seat for WAEC or NECO.Reacting to the decision via his official Facebook account, Atiku said that the recent policy of the Federal Ministry of Education pegging age limits for entry to tertiary institutions is…

By Augustine AkhilomenThe Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has assured Nigerians that the police will comb every nook and cranny of the country in order to rescue every kidnapped victim.In a statement issued on Tuesday by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumiyiwa Adejobi, in Abuja, the IGP reflected on the ‘never say die’ spirit of the police after securing the release of the 20 medical students who were kidnapped in Benue State on the 15th of August 2024, and the other seven Nigerians who had been in the captivity of the heinous criminals.The IGP further advocated for citizen volunteerism…

Four people have been jailed after forging more than 2,000 marriage certificates to help people live in the UK illegally.Abraham Alade Olarotimi Onifade, 41, Abayomi Aderinsoye Shodipo, 38, Nosimot Mojisola Gbadamosi, 31, and Adekunle Kabir, 54, were all sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court in London on Tuesday.According to Sky News. the Home Office said the four were part of an organised criminal group that made fraudulent EU Settlement Scheme applications for Nigerian nationals.They carried out the enterprise between March 2019 and May last year, and were also found to have provided false Nigerian Customary Marriage Certificates and other fraudulent documentation…

Rotterdam mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb on Tuesday called off this weekend’s football match between arch-rivals Feyenoord and Ajax due to a police strike, saying public safety “cannot adequately be guaranteed”. The call comes after police unions Monday said they will not be present at the highly-charged game, which was scheduled to be played at Feyenoord’s De Kuip stadium in Rotterdam on Sunday. “The safety of players, as well as the public cannot be adequately guaranteed without the involvement of the police,” Aboutaleb said in a statement sent to AFP. “The decision was taken in consultation with safety and security officials and…

A former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro says the only time the Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had peace was when Chief Olabode George was in prison. In a trending video sighted by TheScrutiny, Obanikoro who granted an interview to TVC also said George has never won his polling unit for the party since 1999. Obanikoro who granted the interview after losing the governorship primaries to Jimi Agbaje also accused George of being undemocratic and using thugs to destabilise the peace in the party and the state. “Let me say this, because it…

Civilians are among the dozens of people killed in an attack by militants in Burkina Faso, local and security sources told AFP on Sunday. Jihadist rebels affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group have waged a grinding insurgency since 2015 in Burkina Faso that has killed thousands and displaced two million people. The latest attack was carried out by armed men in the village of Barsalogho in north-central Burkina Faso on Saturday, multiple sources said. Denouncing the “cowardly and barbaric attack”, Communications Minister Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo said it was carried out by “hordes of criminals”. The assailants targeted…

The Chairman of the All Progressive Congress in Kogi State, Abdulahi Bello, has urged the opposition to support the administration of Governor Usman Ododo in moving the start forward. He made the call while reacting to the Supreme Court judgement affirming the victory of Ododo during the November 11, 2023, governorship election. Bello, in a telephone chat with our correspondent shortly after the court judgement, said “I feel elated for the Supreme Court verdict of today. “It’s a demonstration of the court as the last hope of the common man. I will advise the opposition noise makers to put a…

The Supreme Court has affirmed the re-election of Senator Duoye Diri as the Governor of Bayelsa State after dismissing the appeal of Timipre Sylva, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the November 11, 2023 off-cycle election. A five-member panel of the Apex Court headed by Justice Lawal Garba, on Friday affirmed the Court of Appeal decision of July 15 which deemed Sylva’s appeal as an abuse of Court process for filing two notices of appeal. Citing a section of the 1999 Constitution, the Apex Court panel held that the APC Governorship candidate has only one right to appeal…

PIDOM NIGERIA, a prominent anonymous whistleblower, has gone missing, and his social media accounts have been compromised, this is according to David Hundeyin a close friend and colleague. Hundeyin said he received a suspicious message from PIDOM’s Twitter account, leading him to investigate the situation. In his latest tweets, he had accused the Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi of romance scam with one Ms Fagbule. He also accused him of swindling her of the sum of $180,000 with a promise of marriage through Facebook. The Ooni denied the allegations. In another tweet, he also accused Umara Zulum, son of…