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The Super Eagles of Nigeria have dropped by one spot in the FIFA World ranking for June to become the world’s 31st and fourth-placed team in Africa. According to the ranking table published on FIFA’S website Thursday, the Jose Peseiro-tutored players garnered 1,504.7 points in the month under review. On the continental level, they are placed fourth behind Senegal (18), Morocco (22) and Tunisia (30). The Eagles played four matches in the month under review and they suffered two defeats in their international friendlies to Mexico (1-2) and Ecuador (0-1). Read also: Super Eagles slip off two spots in FIFA’s rankings…

The UK Magistrate Court on Thursday denied the Nigerian couple bail over alleged conspiracy of plotting to harvest organs of a minor in the United Kingdom, Straightnews has gathered from agency reports. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, a People’s Democratic Party politician for 19 years who was once Deputy President of the nation’s Senate, was held with Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, in Britain this month. Mr Ekweremadu has been an elected senator at the Abuja-based parliament since 2003 after moving into politics after years as a lawyer. His wife, five years his junior, is an academic and doctor and also a major public figure in Nigeria. They…

Israel Umoh The Akwa Ibom resident Electoral Commissioner, Mike Igini, recently dropped verbal grenade in the political field that shook the actors and spectators and reverberated across the globe. And since then, the affected and the political arena are still dazed by the boomerang effect of the verbiage. Igini bluntly told All Progressives Congress (APC) that it has no governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom State to fly the party’s flag in the 2023 general elections. According to him, the party did not invite Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state to monitor its primary in line with the provisions…

Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall arrived in Rwanda on Tuesday ahead of the opening ceremony for Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) meeting, Tuesday. The royal couple travelled to Kigali ahead of a summit of Commonwealth leaders, a first-ever royal visit to the African country, BBC reports. Charles has been anointed as the next head of the Commonwealth when he becomes king, but there is increased discussion about a move away from the royal family as its ceremonial head. The Prince of Wales will represent Queen Elizabeth, the head of the Commonwealth, at the event,…

At least, 920 people were killed and hundreds injured when earthquake struck a remote border region of Afghanistan overnight, officials said Wednesday. The toll is expected to rise as rescuers dug through collapsed dwellings. The 5.9 magnitude quake struck hardest in the rugged terrain of the east, where people already live hardscrabble lives in a country in the grip of a humanitarian disaster made worse by the Taliban takeover in August. The death toll has climbed steadily all day as news of casualties filtered in from hard-to-reach areas in the mountains, and the country’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, warned it…

Prices of selected food items in Nigeria have risen as Akwa Ibom recorded the highest in yam tuber in May, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said. It made the declaration in its Selected Food Prices Watch Report for May released in Abuja on Wednesday. It stated that the average price of 1kg of white beans rose on a year-on-year basis by 37.22 per cent from N382.37 in May 2021 to N524.70 in May 2022. Read also: Food Prices Jacked Up Nigeria’s Inflation Rate To 11.85% In Nov “Also, on a month-on-month basis, this increased by 1.09 per cent from N519.05…

The Nigerian Senate has waded into the feud between the Chief Justice of the Nigeria, Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed and the 14 Supreme Court Justices over welfare issues. At the resumed sitting, Senator Ahmad Lawan, President of the Senate, mandated the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters to, as a matter of urgency, move to resolve the crisis rocking the Judicial arm of government. Lawan, who gave the directive on Wednesday, moments before the chamber adjourned plenary for the day, said, “We may recall that there were some issues coming out of the Judiciary. “We must have interest…

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Tanko Muhammad and14 Justices of the Supreme Court face-off on issues affecting the welfare of the latter may deepen. The Supreme Court Justices had lamented the CJN’s failure to address issues raised at a meeting held in March this year over the operational challenges affecting the adjudication of cases. The Justices alleged that the CJN received and ignored the letter since March 24, 2022, after a welfare committee was set up to aggregate the issues. Some of the issues raised by the aggrieved Justices led by the second most senior judge of the Supreme…

Among the seven new Ministerial nominees sent by President Muhammadu Buhari to National Assembly for screening and approval is Umana Okon Umana from Akwa Ibom State. Until his new appointment, Umana was the Managing Director at Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority (OGFZA) and the 2015 Akwa Ibom All Progressives Congress governorship candidate. He will replace Senator Godswill Akpabio, immediate past Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, who resigned and contested the APC Presidential primary. Straightnews gathered from anonymous source that Umana’s nomination is linked to Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, the immediate past Minister of Transportation and APC Presidential candidate who came…

Nigerian teen based in Alabama,  Rotimi Kukoyi, has been offered $2 million scholarships by 15 United States prestigious universities. The teen who was selected to appear on the “Jeopardy!” Teen Tournament back in 2018 got into Harvard, Stanford, Yale, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Virginia. Others are Vanderbilt, Emory, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Duke, the University of Alabama, Case Western Reserve University, UAB, Auburn University, and Washington University in St. Louis. Read also: USA, West Accuse China Of Stealing Intellectual Property Worth Billions of Dollars Kukoyi decided to attend The University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill…