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Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President, Amaju Pinnick has admitted that he could not sleep since Nigeria lost to Central African Republic in Lagos. Pinnick who bared his mind was addressing the Super Eagles squad ahead of their second leg must win World Cup qualifying match against the Central African Republic. On Thursday, October 7, CAR Substitute Karl Namnganda’s 90th-minute goal at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos put an end to Nigeria’s perfect start to the World Cup qualifying campaign as Raoul Savoy’s men earned their first maximum points of Group C. The defeat was Nigeria’s first loss at home…

Popular Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage has vowed not to give a dime to her blackmailers over the leaked s3x tape with the guy she is currently dating. During an interview with American radio host Angie Martinez of Power 105.1 in New York, the Afrobeats singer revealed that the video features her and her current partner. “Yesterday, I was leaving a radio station and I was in my car when my road manager sent me a message. She said I should check my phone. I checked it and there was a video, and I was just like ‘Wow!,” Savage told Martinez.…

Two journalists – Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia – have won 2021 Nobel Prize for their fight for freedom of expression. The winners were announced Friday by Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Last year’s prize went to the World Food Program, which was established in 1961 at the behest of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower to fight hunger around the globe. The Rome-based U.N. agency was lauded for seeking to end starvation as “a weapon of war and conflict.” The prestigious award is accompanied by a gold medal and 10 million Swedish kronor (over…

The National President, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Chris Isiguzo, has returned unopposed for a second term in the office. The announcement was made at the 7th triennial delegates’ conference 2021 held at Dr. Michael Okpara Auditorium, Umuahia, Abia State after his main contender, Yusuf Iliyasu, withdrew from the race. Isiguzo who was first elected at the 6th triennial delegates conference of the union in Abeokuta in 2018 re-emerged as the President of the union for another three years in office. Isiguzo scored 665 votes from 704 voters accredited for the election, while his opponent, Yusuf Idris polled 15 votes,…

Nigerian Afrobeat singer, Innocent Idibia fondly known as 2baba, has threatened to slam a N1 billion defamation suit on his colleague if he fails to apologise to him. About three days ago, Brymo, in a long Twitter thread alleged that 2baba accused him of sleeping with his wife, and alleged that 2baba sent thugs to beat him up.  While the Implication singer has kept mum about the allegation, he has sent his lawyers to Brymo instructing the singer to either apologise on all his social media accounts within the next 48 hours or he will be slammed with a N1billion…

Nigerians have berated Nigerian Army for arresting veteran Nollywood actor, Chiwetala Agu on allegation of identifying with Indigenous Peoples of Biafra. Agu was arrested by the Nigerian Army at Upper Iweka, Onitsha, Anambra State for putting on Biafra regalia to solicit support for IPOB, and was reportedly taken to 82 Division Enugu. Actor Ugezu Ugezu has condemned the arrest of veteran actor and claimed that Nigerian authorities are senselessly pushing people to the wall with their so glaring double standard in the application of rule of justice. Reacting to the viral video, the actor wrote ”The authorities in Nigeria are so…

Fear of epidemic has gripped Usung Atiat, an agrarian community in Ukanafun Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State following the desecration and public disposal of the remains of one of their kinsmen. The corpse of one Aniefiok Daniel Bassey was said to have been exhumed on the orders of the village council Chairman, Chief Aniedu Thompson Okon, on allegation that the deceased failed to pay the fine imposed on him for the offence he committed while alive. It was gathered, the late Bassey, 61, allegedly committed a crime against the community before his death, forcing the traditional authorities of…

The National Executive Committee of Peoples Democratic Party has approved the recommendation of its committee to zone national chairmanship to the North. The NEC took the decision at its meeting held at PDP Headquarters in Abuja Thursday, October 7. Based on the decision, all positions in the party currently occupied by people from the South will go to the North and those occupied by people from the North will go to the South. The PDP NEC also confirmed that the party’s national convention will hold on October 30 and 31. Reacting, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who was also present at the…

Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel prize in Literature after Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian won the prize in 1986. He was given the award for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.” Gurnah, who grew up on one of the islands of Zanzibar and arrived in England as a refugee in the 1960s, has published 10 novels as well as a number of short stories. Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel committee, said that the Tanzanian writer’s novels, from his debut…

The Chief Justice of the Federation is earning paltry monthly salary, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Judiciary, Onofiok Luke, has said. Luke stated this on Wednesday, October 6, while moving a motion on the floor of the House said Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad earns N279,497 monthly salary, emphasising the need to increase the earnings of the judicial officers. The representative of Etinan/Nsit Ubium/Nsit Ibom Federal Constituency stated that low salaries paid to judicial officers can make them vulnerable to corruption. The former speaker of Akwa Ibom house of Assembly added that the President of the Court of Appeals…