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Tanzania unveiled former Nigeria international Emmanuel Amunike as their new head coach on Monday. The Tanzania Football Federation confirmed the appointment on their official Twitter handle, with Amunike being unveiled by TFF President Wallace Karia in Dar es Salaam. Rais wa Shirikisho la Mpira wa Miguu Tanzania (TFF) Wallace Karia amemtangaza kocha Emmanuel Amunike kutoka Nigeria kuwa kocha Mkuu wa Timu ya Taifa ya Tanzania “Taifa Stars” inayodhaminiwa na bia ya Serengeti kwa mkataba wa miaka 2. pic.twitter.com/At1pcBjSw8 – TFF TANZANIA (@Tanfootball) August 6, 2018 The 47-year-old, who has been without a job since leaving Sudan’s Al Khartoum SC in…

A Nigerian writer, who emerged the winner of 2018 McKitterick Prize, is invited to speak at the Marlborough Literature Festival in the United Kingdom, in September this year. The McKitterick Prize is awarded for a first novel by a writer over 40, the Society of Authors said. Anietie Isong, the author of a debut novel- Radio Sunrise, is the first Nigerian to win the award since its institution in 1990. “I wrote Radio Sunrise to help draw attention to a myriad of issues in Nigeria, and I am thrilled that this resonated with the judges,” Isong said. Speaking at the…

Senator Godswill Akpabio’s planned departure from Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to All Progressives Congress, APC, has rattled political permutations, generated serious ripples and divided Nigerians across the different strata of the society. Akpabio who is Senate Minority leader visited President Muhammadu Buhari in London on Sunday probably to seal plan to defect to the party this week and some Nigerians mostly cynics and critics have woken with sharpened writing knives to exact pounds of flesh from the APC’s new bride. In a published article, Femi Fani-Kayode, a one-time Minister of Aviation reacted with rhetorical questions ‘’Does Akpabio honestly see any…

Reports making rounds in some media organisations in the country on the purported resignation of Moses Ekpo as Akwa Ibom State Deputy Governor are seen by his chief press secretary as ‘’a poorly concocted piece of a malicious hatchet job and a pack of lies, and should be appropriately ignored.’’ Nairaland, Daily Post, News Agency and Naija.com, Monday, published that the deputy governor of Akwa Ibom State, Pa Moses Ekpo has reportedly resigned his position as the state’s number two citizen to join Senator Godswill Akpabio, immediate past governor of the state, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, this week.…

After weeks of speculations, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the overall best candidate in the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. Before now, it was rumoured that Ape Moses, a candidate from Benue State has the highest score in the 2018 examination. JAMB said Galadima Zakari who sat for the examination in Ogun State scored 364. On Tuesday, June 29, 2018, The Sun Newspaper reported that Ape Moses, a student of New Covenant Christian College International, Makurdi, Benue State, was the best candidate in the just-concluded UTME with a total score of 354. Clearing air on this, JAMB…

President Muhammadu Buhari, Sunday, saluted editor-in-chief of the defunct Newswatch magazine, Mr. Ray Ekpu, who turns 70 on August 6, and works 45 years as a journalist and as an administrator. In a statement by Mr. Femi Adesina, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, the President joined the media world, family and friends of the renowned columnist and activist in celebrating what he called his ‘many years of exceptional contribution to national development’ through his writings, speaking engagements and leadership roles.’’ Buhari praised Ekpu’s consistency and forthrightness in speaking and writing the truth to authorities, especially the many times…

Like unscripted play, 22 members of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, serving in Taraba State went for a picnic party in Mayo-Selbe River in Gashaka local government area. The corps members never had premonition of the impending disaster otherwise they would have cancelled the trip that turned ghastly. As they were swimming, the river suddenly increased the volume of water and 13 corps members escaped the angst of the raging river. Like a film trick, nine who were also swimming drowned in the river. The Taraba Police Command’s spokesman, ASP David Missal, who confirmed the incident which occurred on Saturday…

The planned defection of Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio to All Progressives Congress, APC, has unsettled the hierarchy and members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Akwa Ibom State. PDP has ruled the state since 1999, a year that marked a political watershed in the advent of democracy in the country. The exit of Akpabio who was seen as a fulcrum of the party may bring the party to its knees as soon as he returns to Nigeria Sunday night after his visit to President Buhari in London, in one of the presidential aircrafts. An unconfirmed source told Straightnews that about…

Ahead of his planned defection to All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Godswill O. Akpabio, Sunday, had tete a tete with President Muhammadu Buhari who is in London on a 10-day holiday. Tolu Ogunlesi, a presidential aide made this known in a post on Twitter, confirmed that Akpabio met with the President on Sunday, August 5, 2018. Akpabio who is a minority leader in the Senate is leaving PDP after about 17 years’ sojourn in the party is representing Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District in the Senate. Already, Senator Ita Enang, a Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters…

The Federal Government may shut down the 106 radio and television stations in the country over indebtedness. The National Broadcasting Commission, which issued the threat on behalf of the Federal Government, accused the stations of owing the commission the sum of N4,517,535,961. The Head of Public Affairs in the commission, Mrs. Maimuna Jimada, who spoke in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja on Friday, said the commission has notified the affected radio and television stations. She, however, refused to release the names of the indebted stations. Jimada said that the affected stations were given three weeks to pay their debts,…