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The Golden Eaglets of Nigeria will face the Black starlets of Ghana in the final of the 2018 WAFU Zone B U-17 AFCON. The final will hold on Saturday, September 15 with the winners of the WAFU Zone B representing the zone at the 2019 U-17 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) scheduled to hold in Tanzania. The Eaglets booked their place after Olakunle Olusegun doubled the lead for the Golden Eaglets when he curled a brilliant effort past the Niger goalkeeper in the 58 minute. The Niger side brought themselves back into contention with a late goal before extra time…

Power companies, under the aegis of Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, ANED, Wednesday, rejected the reprimand by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC that it should not interfere with policy directives made by it and the Minister of Work, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola. ANED, which opposed the decision of the regulatory body in a statement issued by its Chief Executive Officer, Azu Obiaya, in Abuja, said its activities were guaranteed by Section 40 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under the right of association. ANED noted that remarks by NERC discouraging its activities, was…

Adams Oshiomhole, the national chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC has come under heat for his recent claim on a live television programme that the incidence of vote buying started during ex-President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan administration. Jonathan in response via a statement signed by Ikechukwu Eze, his media aide, Wednesday, questioned Oshiomhole’s state of mind, who he said lauded his democratic credentials when he won his re-election bid a few years ago on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party. He said, “It may be that Oshiomhole’s false accusations against Jonathan stem from his own guilty conscience arising from the unenviable…

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has blasted reports of The Economist Magazine and HSBC on the 2019 general elections which predicted electoral defeat of President Muhammadu Buhari. In similar reports, The Economist Intelligence Unit, EIU, the research unit of The Economist Magazine and HSBC, a multinational banking and financial services company, stated that a second term for President Buhari would greatly stunt the economic development of the country, among other predictions on the Nigerian nation. In a statement Wednesday in Abuja, Yekini Nabena, acting National Publicity Secretary of the APC, queried the rationale behind the reports, urging the two bodies…

Two Nigerian students have won third position at the just-concluded Stockholm Junior Water Prize Competition in Sweden. The students who represented Nigeria occupied the position out of 42 countries that participated in the competition. The winners-Blessing Umoukpong and Iniso Edward from Northern Annang Secondary Commercial School, NASCO in Etim Ekpo local government area of Akwa Ibom State won prize on Water Purification Using Natural Plant Fiber. The students who took in the competition for the first time bagged Stockholm Junior Water Prize Diploma Certificate. The Akwa Ibom Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Charles Udoh, who broke the news to the…

‘’Weep no more! Go and get your PVC. That’s your power, that’s your strength,’’ were the terse message as Nsima Ekere, Akwa Ibom All Progressives Congress, APC governorship aspirant addressed his teeming supporters and partymen in Eket town. Ekere, who is also the Managing Director of Niger Delta Developing Commission, NDDC spoke this at APC rally organised by the Eket senatorial district to show solidarity with President Muhammadu Buhari’s ambition to run for a second term in office and to officially receive him by the party in the district. The NDDC chief who was presented with APC governorship form by…

The Akwa Ibom House of Assembly is set to proffer solution to persistent wastes that some days dot many parts of Uyo, the state capital including local government headquarters and villages in the state. Realising the enormity of the wastes, the newly inaugurated chairman of the state Waste Mangement Committee, Akpan Ikim and his team swung into action during the weekend, mopping up and clearing the wastes from some parts of the state municipality. To this end, Akwa Ibom House of Assembly Bill No. 206, (HAB 206) entitled: The Environmental Protection and Waste Management Law 2000(Amendment) Bill, 2017 has caled…

The US 39-year-old  John Legend Monday night made history as the first black man and the youngest person to attain the coveted EGOT status. The EGOT status attained when a person has won four awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. Legend, the actor, songwriter and actor won his Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday for producing best variety special winner Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert. Mashable said that Legend also played the role of Jesus in NBC’s production of the 1970 concept album-turned-Broadway musical, and so could also be up for the Emmy for outstanding actor…

Edwin Clark, a one-time Federal Minister of Information has condemned what he described as the continuing marginalization of the Ijaw people in the oil sector, especially in the area of appointments in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. Clark whose house was invaded by the police last week said “NNPC is the engine room of the oil industry, you (Federal Government) appointed nine people, six of them from the North, one from the West, one from the South South. Also 36 senior managers of NNPC and 17 from the South, and you don’t want me to talk about it. That…

Nigerian government has flayed Switzerland for being accessory to keeping Abacha loot and making the process of repatriation of the assets strenuous, describing the action by Swiss authorities as “daylight robbery.” The Abacha loot refers to monies believed to have been stolen and stashed in countries and tax havens around the world by Sani Abacha, the late Head of State. Switzerland recently agreed to repatriate a fresh $350 million as part of the Abacha loot in that country. Geoffrey Onyeama, Foreign Affairs Minister said he was also shocked and angry by the chunk of the money retained by…