Author: TheScrutinyNG

Former Super Eagles goalkeeper, Peter Fregene, has died after protracted illness. Chief Segun Odegbami made this known in a post on his WhatsApp.Odegbami wrote: “A few minutes ago, Peter ‘Apo’ Fregene, OLY, former goalkeeper for Nigeria’s Green Eagles, who has been on life-support for the past one week, passed on to meet his Creator. “He died quietly in the presence of two of his children and his devoted wife, Tina. “On behalf of all generations of Nigerian footballers, Olympians, sports persons, his family, friends, fans and a few incredible Nigerians that quietly rallied round and, with their support, prayers and…

Super Eagles players and officials are yet to leave the Al Abaq Airport in Libya over 13 hours after arriving the North African nation. The Eagles are in Libya for the second leg of their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Libya after winning the first leg 1-0 in Uyo on Friday. The team’s chartered flight which was initially scheduled to land in Benghazi, about 19km to Benani where the game was to be played was unexpectedly diverted to Al Abaq Airport, which is 240km from Benghazi. While Benghazi-based The Libya Observer had reported that the team had been…

The management of Air Peace Airline, on Sunday, said its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr. Allen Onyema, and Chief of Finance and Administration (CFA), Mrs. Ejiro Eghagha, remained innocent in the charges of fraud filed against them by the US Department of Justice (DOJ). Reacting to the report of the legal charges, which alleged fraud in financial transactions against the two top officers of the company, the Air Peace management stated that the charges stemmed from earlier accusations. It assured its customers that the court processes would not affect the airline’s operations. The additional charge against Onyema included…

The Presidency has refuted claims that Nigeria was snubbed in the recent United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council election. The clarification comes in response to viral reports suggesting Nigeria’s exclusion from the council. According to the Special Adviser to the President on Information & Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, “contrary to information circulating, Nigeria was not snubbed in this election, as some reports have falsely claimed.” He emphasized that “the country did not stand as a candidate for this cycle of elections.” Onanuga explained that the UN General Assembly elected 18 members to the Human Rights Council for the 2025-2027 term on…

Ahead of Tuesday’s match-day four of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier between the Super Eagles and the Mediterranean Knights of Libya in Benghazi, the president of Libyan Football Federation, Abdulhakim Alshelmani, has resigned. The resignation, it was gathered, is not unconnected with the national team’s poor run in the qualifiers, which also included their 0–1 loss to the Super Eagles in Uyo last Friday. The president of the federation resigned on Sunday morning following a pressure as a result of that loss to the Super Eagles. The news about Alshelmani, regarded by many as a failed president of…

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Bola Tinubu to instruct the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to reverse the recent increase in petrol prices, pending the outcome of a court case challenging the company’s authority to raise prices. Last month, SERAP filed a lawsuit against the president and NNPCL over their failure to reverse what it describes as an unlawful hike in petrol prices. The suit also seeks an investigation into allegations of corruption and mismanagement within the NNPCL. In a letter dated 12 October 2024, signed by SERAP’s deputy director, Kolawole Oluwadare, the…

The Super Eagles have undertaken a less stressful journey to Libya for Tuesday’s AFCON 2025 Qualifying reverse in Benina. The Nigerian team which beat their Libyan counterparts 1-0 on Friday, October 11, 2024, flew out of Uyo on Sunday morning with a stopover in Kano. According to ScoreNigeria the Eagles’ chartered flight will land in Benghazi. This will be a better arrangement for the traveling Nigerian contingent. The previous plan of landing in Tripoli and then undertaking a two-hour trip by road to Benghazi would have been a daunting task for the Eagles. Libya will welcome Nigeria to the 10,000-capacity…

The crisis rocking Rivers State has continued unabated as the admin block of Obio Akpor Local Government Area of the state which hitherto bored the name of Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the FCT, has been renamed after Dr Obi Wali by the chairman of the council area, Hon. Chijioke Ihunwo.    This was announced in a statement issued by Ihunwo, in a post shared via X on Sunday morning. The council chairman also attached a video showing the moment the facility was renamed Senator Dr Obi Wali. The chairman wrote: “We have changed Wike’s name in admin block of…

Mr. Taiwo Oyedele, Chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, has revealed a plan by the Federal Government to effect a major shift in the sharing of funds from the Federation Account Allocation Committer (FAAC). Mr. Oyedele revealed this in his X handle on Sunday, saying the Federal Government is set to take only 10 percent of the total FAAC allocations, while states and local governments would receive a combined 90 percent. This represents a drastic departure from the current sharing formula, which allocates 52.68 percent to the Federal Government, 26.72 percent to states, and 20.60 percent…

The Justice Department of the United States, in a press statement, indicted Mr Allen Onyema, the chairman/chief executive officer of Air Peace in a superseding indictment with obstruction of justice for submitting false documents to the government in an effort to end an investigation that resulted in earlier charges of bank fraud and money laundering. Ejiroghene Eghagha, the airline’s Chief of Administration and Finance, was also charged for participating in the obstruction scheme, as well as in the earlier bank fraud counts, the statement posted on Justice.gov claimed. “After allegedly using his airline company as a cover to commit fraud…