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It was good Wednesday as the visiting Akwa United FC triumphed over Adamawa United 1-0 in the ongoing 2020/2021 Nigerian Professional Football League. Unlucky Dakkada FC also lost scandalously to Enugu Rangers 3-0 at away match played at Enugu Stadium on Wednesday. Similarly, Abia Warriors mercilessly beat Sunshine Stars 4-1 at home to pack home three points. This was as Kano Pillars consolidated their position in the league after thrashing Jigawa Golden Stars 2-0.  

A Nigerian man, who escaped the ravaging COVID-19 in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States of America flew home to meet untimely death in the kidnappers’ den. Prince Eloniyo Dennis Abuda who came into the country for the Christmas celebration was abducted alongside some family members on Saturday, January 30, 2021, along the Benin-Akure road on his way to Lagos from Fugar, Etsako Central Local Government Area near Agbanikaka. A woman who was travelling with Abuda to Lagos to catch a flight back to the United States was also kidnapped.  A family source said that the realtor and president of Fugar America Foundation was…

Topfaith University, Mkpatak in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State and 19 private universities in Nigeria have gotten the Federal Government’s nod to operate officially. The Federal Executive Council (FEC), Wednesday, approved the establishment of 20 new private universities in Nigeria at the meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. This brings to three the number of officially recognised private universities in Akwa Ibom State. Others are Obong University in Etim Ekpo Local Government Area and Ritman University, Ikot Ekpene. Dr. Emmanuel Abraham, an educationist and a retired bank manager, is the proprietor of Topfaith university.…

Concerned about the rising spate of insecurity in the country, Taraba State governor, Darius Ishaku has urged the Federal government to allow Nigerians to carry licensed guns to defend themselves against criminals elements. Ishaku stated this when he received 15 local government chairmen of the state in his office on Tuesday, February 2. The local government chairmen had paid him a condolence visit in his office after the burial of one of them who was kidnapped and subsequently killed by unknown gunmen. Expressing his worry over the ebbing insecurity in the country, the Governor said “The security in this country…

A 97-year-old bed-ridden woman suffered serious burns, but a neighbour carried her to safety through the flames as her home was razed in Ban Kruat district on Wednesday afternoon. Grandma Lub Lapromma was alone in the house at Moo 10 village in tambon Nong Mai Ngam in Thailand when the fire began. She lived there with her son, but he was away at the time. Bangkok Post reports that Thot Tasimma, 50, the neighbour who saved her life, said he was at his house nearby and heard people crying that Grandma Lub’s home was on fire. Many villagers pitched in…

With flowers and lights, Britain paid tribute on Wednesday to Captain Tom Moore, 100, who touched the hearts of millions by offering a simple message of hope and self-sacrifice during the COVID-19 lockdown. Moore, who raised tens of millions of pounds for the National Health Service by walking up and down his garden, leaning on a frame, died on Tuesday in Bedford Hospital after suffering pneumonia and COVID-19. He had been fighting cancer for five years. Raised in Yorkshire, northern England, Moore served in India, Burma and Sumatra during World War Two. Always polite and dapper in public, Moore had…

US President Joe Biden has appointed a Nigerian-born lawyer as the acting director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA). From 2004 to 2019, Eno Titilayo Ebong had served in USTDA in a variety of roles, most recently as the Agency’s General Counsel, and Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer. “As Acting Director, Ms. Ebong leads an agency that partners with the U.S. private sector to develop sustainable infrastructure and foster economic growth in emerging economies while supporting U.S. jobs through the export of U.S. goods and services. ”Before her appointment, Ebong had served as the head of strategic…

https://twitter.com/i/status/1356919755920318466 Women Protest In Uromi, Edo State Against Fulani herdsmen (Video)

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has rebutted rumour that it was planning to field former President Goodluck Jonathan as its candidate in the 2023 Presidential election. This was some APC governors paid a solidarity visit to Jonathan during his birthday in his country home last year. Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni who is interim committee chair of the APC, told the BBC Hausa service that there was nothing like courtship in the matter as politics is all about actual talking. “Those peddling such information, they are afraid. But for now, there is nothing in the APC which has…

“At least not in my lifetime [there will be no World Cup in Africa] because everybody wants to organise the World Cup,” said Sepp Blatter. Former Fifa president Blatter does not see Africa hosting the Fifa World Cup anytime soon, and claimed that his support for the continent’s 2010 tournament hosting rights led to him being forced out of the Zurich-based organisation. After 17 years at the helm of Fifa, the Swiss football administrator was removed from his post in December 2015 amid a corruption storm, but he believes some other forces were at play in his removal. A “friend of Africa,”…