When Nigeria’s premier league season did not kick off as scheduled, I took more than a passing interest in the organisation of the league. After two postponements, I contacted my friends and colleagues who are sportswriters, asking them hard questions…
Gusau elected new NFF President
Ibrahim Musa Gusau on Friday becomes the 40th President of the Nigeria Football Federation. Gusau was elected as the new NFF President at NFF’s 78th Elective Congress in Benin, the Edo State capital. He polled 21 votes to defeat his…
*Lagos tragedy: ‘My daughter was to resume JSS I when school fence killed her’ (Vanguard)*5 injured, shops, houses destroyed in Jigawa gas explosion (DailyTrust)
Lagos tragedy: ‘My daughter was to resume JSS I when school fence killed her’ (Vanguard) The mother of one of the children killed by a school’s fence in Amukoko area of Lagos on Saturday, told Vanguard that her 10-year-old daughter,…
Pinnick’s alleged ‘secret romance’ with Dikko unsettles other candidates
An alleged ‘secret romance’ between incumbent president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, and the second Vice President of the body, Shehu Dikko, ahead of the NFF elective congress on September 30 in Benin City, Edo State, has…
Next NFF president will be elected based on ethnicity, bribery — Odegbami
Nigerian football icon, Segun Odegbami has stated that the next president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) will be elected based on ethnicity. ‘The Mathematician’ as he is fondly called made the revelation yesterday during an interview on TVC saying…
*Lekki Lynching: Police reveal identity of suspected killers of David Imoh (Guardian)*MC Oluomo hijacked Lagos NURTW from me, snatched my second wife –Adeshina, Lagos caretaker chairman (Punch)
Lekki Lynching: Police reveal identity of suspected killers of David Imoh (Guardian) The Lagos State Police Command, yesterday, paraded suspected killers of Sunday David Imoh, the 37-year-old sound engineer, who was murdered and burnt in Lekki, Lagos, May 12, 2022.…
LMC will support Martins’ burial, says Dikko
The Chairman Nigeria League Management Company (LMC), Shehu Dikko says the body would offer support to Nasarawa FC for the burial of late defender, Chineme Martins. He will be laid to rest on April 18. Dikko stated that the LMC…
*UNILAG boosts fight against COVID-19, donates hand sanitizers to LUTH (Guardian) *Man, 34, defiles neighbour’s one-year-old child in Lagos (Punch)
UNILAG boosts fight against COVID-19, donates hand sanitizers to LUTH (Guardian) As part of its support to the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic, the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has donated hand sanitizers to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Lagos.…
2019/2020 Nigeria Professional Football League to begin on Nov 3 (Vanguard)
The League Management Company (LMC), organisers of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL), have now picked Nov. 3 as a new kick-off date for the 2019/2020 NPFL season. The new date for the start of the Nigeria League is being…
Court vacates arrest warrant against Amaju Pinnick, others (Guardian)
An Abuja Chief Magistrate District Court 11 sitting at Wuse Zone 2, has put in abeyance the warrant of arrest it had issued previously to the Special Presidential Investigative Panel (SPIP) headed by Chief Okoi Obono-Obla against the president of…