Arsenal continued their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns. Defender Kieran Tierney’s excellent solo run and curling finish put the Gunners in front in the first half, before the impressive Bukayo Saka…
NPFL: Rangers target Akwa United scalp
Seven-time Nigeria Professional Football League champions, Rangers International F.C have set their eyes on the maximum three points when they host Akwa United in their second league match today. Rangers lost 1-2 in their league opening game against Rivers United…
Paternity scandal: Over 1,927 demand FCMB MD’s sacking, bank begins probe
At least 1,927 persons have called for the sacking of the First City Monument Bank Managing Director, Adam Nuru, over alleged infidelity with a former worker with the bank, Moyo Thomas. The petition is requesting the Central Bank of Nigeria…
Boko Haram kidnaps aid worker, 50 passengers along Maiduguri-Damaturu highway
More than 50 motorists, passengers including a United Nations Humanitarian Worker (Abubakar Garba Idris) have been abducted by suspected terrorists along the deadly Maiduguri- Jakana- Damaturu 135km federal highway. This latest incident is coming barely two weeks when 35 passengers…
Akeredolu Commiserates With Family Of His Chief Protocol Officer
Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has condoled with the family of Tosin Ogunbodede, his Chief of Protocol (COP), who died on Saturday, Jan.2, after an auto crash on Ilesa-Akure Road. Mr Donald Ojogo, the state’s Commissioner for Information and…
Balogun market shifts resumption to Jan 11 for security reasons
The Caretaker Management Committee of Balogun market, Lagos Trade Fair Complex, has shifted its resumption, earlier scheduled for Jan. 4, to Jan. 11, for security reasons, the Secretary of the committee, Mr Leonard Ogbonnia has said. Ogbonnia said in a…
Shaky Before the Goal Post: Business lessons from Austin Avuru’s biography
One evening in 2009, Austin Avuru, then CEO of Platform Petroleum, received a call from Nasir Ado Bayero during which the latter asked if Platform would be interested in purchasing Shell’s stake in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 38, in the…
Nigeria reports 576 new COVID-19 cases, as infections inch close to 90k
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported 576 new infections of COVID-19 Saturday. In a Twitter update via its verified handle, the government agency said there are now 89,163 confirmed cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus…