With the 2023 Women’s World Cup just around the corner, players and teams have received a welcome boost from FIFA. After dishing out a record sum of prize money at the 2022 Men’s World Cup, football’s governing body has agreed…
Unopposed Infantino set for 3rd term as FIFA president
Gianni Infantino is set to be waved in for a third four-year term as FIFA president when world football’s governing body holds its annual congress in the Rwandan capital Kigali on Thursday. Delegates from the 211 member federations will have…
*Lagos-Ibadan highway: FRSC threatens one-way drivers (Punch)*NDLEA arrests 11 suspects, intercepts drug consignments in wooden statue, imported vehicle (Guardian)
Lagos-Ibadan highway: FRSC threatens one-way drivers (Punch) The Ogun Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps has warned motorists against route violations as construction work resumes on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Monday. The Ogun Sector Commander of the FRSC, Mr…
*Adegoke: Lodgers record doctored, says hotel receptionist (Punch)*NEMA evacuates 191 stranded Nigerians from India (Vanguard)
Adegoke: Lodgers record doctored, says hotel receptionist (Punch) Adesola Adedeji, the receptionist on duty at Hilton Hotels, Ile-Ife, on November 5, 2021, that the late Timothy Adegoke, a Master’s student of Obafemi Awolowo University, lodged at the facility, on Friday,…
World Cup: Group demands additional slots for Africa
A group, African Network For Peace And Good Governance, ANPG, has written to Federation of International Football Association, FIFA, President, Gianni Infantino, demanding for additional 4 slots to be given to Africa continent before 2026 World Cup. The Executive Director,…
World Cup without beer — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Nobody should expect to see me near Qatar in this period of the FIFA World Cup lasting from November 20 to December 18. It’s totally against my constitution to be a part of a so-called World Cup in which beer…
Infantino says criticism of Qatar “hypocritical”
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has accused the Western countries of “hypocrisy” and slammed the criticism towards World Cup hosts Qatar during his opening speech ahead of the tournament on Saturday. “For what we Europeans have been doing around the world…
*Lagos hoodlum caught selling phone to robbed victim’s wife (Punch)*2023: APC lambasts Ayu over comment that PDP will win Lagos, 24 other states (Independent)
Lagos hoodlum caught selling phone to robbed victim’s wife (Punch) A former bartender, Jones Adewoye, has narrated before a Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos State, how a hoodlum, Felix Ayeye, was arrested while attempting…
FIFA chief appeals for Russia, Ukraine ceasefire during World Cup
FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, has called on Russia and Ukraine to enter into a one month ceasefire during the World Cup in Qatar. Infantino told leaders at a summit of the G20 group of major economies in Indonesia the World…
FIFA pleads with Qatar World Cup participants to “focus on football”
FIFA has written to 2022 World Cup participating teams urging them to focus on the football in Qatar and not let the sport be dragged into ideological or political “battles”. The letter from FIFA president Gianni Infantino and the governing…
