Author: TheScrutinyNG

Inter Miami, the Major League Soccer (MLS) club co-owned by David Beckham, has been announced as the latest addition to the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup. This expanded tournament will feature 32 teams from across the globe, with matches scheduled to take place in the United States from June 15 to July 3, 2025. The revamped Club World Cup will include 12 teams from Europe, six from South America, and 12 from Asia, Africa, and North America. The final two spots will be allocated to a club from Oceania and one from the host nation, the United States. Inter Miami…

One person has died after a gas explosion that rocked SPA axis of Orokeonuoha, Abakaliki in Ebonyi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State has passed away. DAILY SUN reports that Miss Mary Cynthia Ikelegu died on Saturday evening at the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki (AE-FUTHA) where she was being treated alongside nine other victims of the explosion who were also severely burnt during the disaster. The explosion occurred in the kitchen section of Good Shepherd Catering School in the state. The victims are all students of the catering school. The incident…

Former general Prabowo Subianto was sworn in on Sunday as President of Indonesia, seeking a more prominent position on the global stage for the world’s fourth most populous nation. The 73-year-old fiery nationalist—accused of human rights abuses during his time in the military—took the oath in parliament to officially succeed outgoing leader Joko Widodo. “I swear that I will fulfil the duties of the President of the Republic of Indonesia as best as possible and as fairly as possible,” he said. Prabowo has committed to Indonesia’s non-aligned foreign policy but has indicated he will be bolder on the world stage.…

The Central Bank of Nigeria released $547.7m (N823.19bn at the official exchange rate of N1,503.3/$1, as of June 30, 2024) to Nigerians for the importation of food items in the second quarter of 2024. The amount is a reduction of $142.48m or 20.6 per cent from $689.88m recorded in the first three months of 2024 and N80.76bn or 8.93 per cent from N903.95bn recorded in Q1 when converted to naira. This implies that the CBN released a total of N1.73tn for food items importation in six months, according to data from the bank’s quarterly statistics bulletin. An analysis of the…

Nyesom Wike, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) minister, has said he would continue to be problem to Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi groups if they continue to accuse him of being the issues. This is as the former Rivers State governor said he had no regret supporting President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2023 general election. The FCT Minister made the declaration at a luncheon he organized in honour of the members of the 10th Rivers State House of Assembly in Port Harcourt, the state capital on Saturday led by the factional speaker, Martins Amaewhule.  Responding to a comment credited…

According to a post on X by a user, Last Man, with a handle, @Crownprince.com, one Chikwado Eze who was buried alive for one hour thirty minutes for fortification could not make it out of the grave alive. The tweet has it that Eze got a visa to travel abroad and his father took him for a fortification at the herbalist’s place where burying alive for 90 minutes was recommended. The tweet read; “Chikwado Eze was bùrièd alive for fortification, and he d!ed in the process. “Chikwado’s visa was out, and he went to his village Ugbaike in Igbo-Eze north…

The leadership of Labour Party has demanded the release of its National Vice Chairman, South-East, Mr Ceekay Igara, who arrested by the police allegedly on the order of Abia Governor, Alex Otti. The party made this demand in a statement by its Deputy National Chairman, Ayo Olorunfemi, on Saturday in Abuja. Olorunfemi said Igara was arrested in Aba while holding a meeting with some party leaders when they were surrounded by policemen and whisked away without any warrant of arrest. “Labour Party leadership is totally in shock over this development, particularly as it is coming on the orders of the…

Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara State has directed the payment of the new minimum wage starting from October 2024. According to a statement by the state government, the governor approved the payment of the N70,000 new minimum wage as announced by the Federal Government over the weekend. The statement, signed by the state Commissioner for Finance, Hauwa Nuru, said the approved minimum wage would be implemented across the state’s public service, effective from October 2024. “This decision, which includes consequential adjustments to the relevant salary structures, was made after a successful tripartite meeting between government representatives, the leadership of the…

The Nigerian Army headquarters has played down the heightened anxiety over the current health condition of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja. This is as indications emerged that some Generals are already lobbying for the position following a revelation that Lagbaja is currently incapacitated and is is on admission at a foreign hospital undergoing treatment for a yet-to-be-disclosed health issue. Army Headquarters (AHQ), through the spokesman, Major General Onyema Nwachukwu, responded to the reports, saying Lagbaja is on leave and that arrangements were in place to ensure there is no vacuum in his absence. An online…

President Bola Tinubu has returned to Abuja after taking a two-week working leave in the United Kingdom (UK). Tinubu, who arrived the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, around 7:20pm, was received by senior members of the administration. The President had departed for the two-week working vacation on Wednesday, October 2 as part of his annual leave, according to a statement by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga. But on October 11, Tinubu left the UK for Paris in France for an undisclosed engagement, according to his Senior Special Assistant on Political and Other…