Author: TheScrutinyNG

The Super Eagles were on Monday pegged 2-1 by 2026 World Cup qualifying rivals Rwanda in a final 2025 AFCON qualifier in Uyo. It was the first win by Rwanda over Nigeria at full international level. Despite the disappointing home loss, the Super Eagles won Group D with 11 points from six matches. Rwanda finished on eight points, but failed to qualify after Benin held hosts Libya to a goalless draw in Tripoli to go through to Morocco 2025 on better goals difference. The Super Eagles opened scoring in the 59th minute courtesy of the individual brilliance of substitute Samuel Chukwueze.…

Three members of the Community Vigilante Services (AVS) were on Monday killed by gunmen suspected to be enforcing Sit-At-Home in Ukpo, Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State and set their vehicle ablaze. Seven others, SaharaReporters reports, were injured during the attack. The attackers also stormed Abatete community in Idemili North, resulting in one reported death. However, one man suspected to be the President General of Ukpo town and a vigilante narrowly escaped death. They, however, sustained varying degrees of bullet wounds. Seven others were injured during the attack. The attackers also stormed Abatete community in Idemili North, resulting in…

In its desire to exceed a membership size of 20 million before the 2027 general election, the opposition Labour Party (LP)  has launched an online membership registration and revalidation application. The party also announced the release of its timetable for the congresses starting with the ward up to state levels which will commence immediately with membership revalidation. According to a communique issued at the end of its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held virtually on Saturdayand signed by Obiora Ifoh, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, the LP also approved the restructuring of the Directorate of Mobilization and Integration while it…

The United Nations Special Committee that investigated Israeli practices against rights of Palestinians and other Arabs of occupied territories, in its report, found Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including the use of starvation as a weapon of war. However, the United States disagreed with the UN committee’s findings. The United Nations Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories was established by the UN General Assembly in December 1968 to examine the human rights situation in the occupied Syrian Golan, the West Bank, including…

An Officer of Department of State Service (DSS( attached to Kebbi State Command (names witheld), has assaulted a Correspondent of Authority newspaper, Mallam Shuaibu Zubair, when the journalist asked him to pay up his electricity bill. VANGUARD reports that the DSS officer, who got angry because his co-tenants reminded him that he only paid N4,000 out of N5,000 he ought to have paid, suddenly got angry, assaulted Mallam Zubair, who led other tenants to confront him six times and bragged that he could kill Zubair and nothing would happen. Briefing newsmen about his ordeal, Mallam Zubair explained that the DSS…

A chieftain of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Mr Kole Omololu, has said the short stay of President Bola Tinubu in office has shown signs of outperforming former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s record. Omololu said in a statement on Sunday that the emerging gains of the president’s recent economic reforms gave hope that the country indicated a trajectory of recovery, growth, and development. Reacting to the claim by Obasanjo at the weekend that Nigeria had become a failing state under President Tinubu, Omololu said the former president was incorrect given the increasing gains being made under the president. Delivering a keynote…

Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that the level of corruption in the country has passed the alarming and entered the fatal stage. He said this in his keynote address on the topic, ‘Leadership Failure and State Capture in Nigeria,’ delivered at the Chinua Achebe Leadership Forum, Yale University, New Haven, in the United States of America. The former president noted that the country will go into extinction “if we keep pretending that she is only slightly indisposed.” Obasanjo hinted that corruption continues to rank among the most important problems affecting Nigerians. He said: “More than N700 billion in…

The reinstated Labour Party governorship candidate in Ondo State, Ayodele Olorunfemi, has bemoaned his failure to win Saturday’s election, blaming former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) for his predicament. Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission after sweeping the 18 local government areas in Ondo. In the final declaration of the result by the State Returning Officer, Prof Olayemi Akinwumi, he said APC’s Ayedatiwa polled a total of 366,781 votes to defeat Agboola Ajayi of the PDP, who got 117,845 votes.…

The organised labour has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to reverse the fuel pump price and and also the floating of the naira as Nigerians are  suffering, noting that there was no justification for the increase in the first place. Under the aegis of the National Union of Shop and Distributive Employees, NUSDE, Organised Labour noted this in Ibadan, Oyo State, saying  Nigerians and businesses are passing through very difficult times and that the federal government needs to address the issues urgently before things get out of hand. President of NUSDE, Aminu Megbontowon, who spoke while addressing guests and members…

The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election and leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has accused Lagos of plotting to “colonise” the northern region. Speaking during the convocation ceremony at Skyline University in Kano, the former Kano State governor alleged that Lagos played a significant role in the ongoing emirate tussle in the state. “Let me note our situation here in Kano and indeed northern Nigeria,” Kwankwaso said. “The emir is just being a stooge at this very difficult time, especially in this part of the country (northern Nigeria). “Today, we can…