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France’s Les Bleues beat Nigeria’s Super Falcons 1-0 during the France 2019 Women’s World Cup Group A football match on Monday to reach round of 16. Wendie Renard confirmed top spot for France after downing Nigeria with a spot-kick of her own. France will take on one of the four best third-placed finishers following their 1-0 win, but face the prospect of tackling defending champions the USA in the quarter-finals should the Americans as expected top Group F and win their subsequent last 16 tie. The French needed a point to take first place in the group but Renard gave…

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Monday in Abuja, inaugurated three committees entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring the smooth take-off of proceedings in the House. The committees, constituted on June 13, are the Selection Committee headed by the Speaker, and ad-hoc committees on Welfare and Media chaired by Wale Raji (APC-Lagos) and Khadijat Abbah-Ibrahim (APC-Yobe), respectively. The welfare committee is expected to allocate offices and make sitting arraignments for members while the ad hoc committee on media will interface with the public on behalf of the house. The selection committee will decide on selections of members…

This is to inform the general public that Mr. Lanre Usanga, whose photograph appears above, is a fraudster. Usanga, who uses a pseudo name- Joseph Smart- operated at 267, Oron Road, Mbiabong, opposite Customs Quarters, Uyo, under the business name: Marita Int’l Company, has ingeniously defrauded unsuspecting members of the public.  He is an indigene of Etinan local government area of Akwa Ibom state while his mother is of the Yoruba tribe. He is fluent in Yoruba and English languages. On January 2, 2018, Usanga signed a contract with Straightnews, an online newspaper with office in Uyo, to make certain…

With the menace of the Apapa traffic gridlock still unyielding to intense pressure, activities at the largely abandoned Calabar, Delta and Rivers’ ports will soon come alive as the Management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) is bent on breaking the backbone of the embarrassing traffic gridlock. NPA management has approved a 10 per cent discount on harbour dues at ports in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, Delta State (Warri and Koko), and at those in Onne and Port Harcourt in Rivers State. The latest move by the NPA is coming as the Federal Government extended by two weeks,…

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has reportedly rejected a €170m switch to Juventus – but could revisit the situation next summer. According to The Mirror, which runs the story as an exclusive, Juve and Real Madrid were preparing £150m (€170m) bids for Salah. The newspaper assures the Egyptian will stay as ‘the timing is wrong’ for a departure now but warns he will consider his options next year, with his sights set on ‘one big final pay day’. The 27-year-old has scored 71 goals in 104 appearances for Liverpool since arriving from Roma in 2017, winning a Champions League.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) which measured inflation increased to 11.40 per cent (year-on-year) in May from 11.37 per cent recorded in April, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), said. The NBS made this known in its “CPI and Inflation Report’’ for May released in Abuja on Monday on its website. The bureau said the figure was 0.03 per cent points higher than the 11.37 recorded in April in the period under review. It said the increases were recorded in all Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose (COICOP) divisions that yielded the headline index. On a month-on-month basis, it said…

Over the years, floods have continued to pose negative but disturbing pictures to many people living in flood-prone areas in the world. In Nigeria, the story is not different particularly during dry season as some households in parts of the North are worst off and in the South, it is worsening as many engage in battle with flooding during the rainy season in desperate attempts to protect their property, families and life. In Akwa Ibom State, the story is rather sad but worrying. As soon as the rainy season sets in, some people wish the nightmarish experience is a moonlight…

Development experts in the country have been tasked to pay more attention to human rights education and training of people to achieving a productive and better future devoid of chaos and conflicts. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of education, Mrs. Helen Ante stated this in Uruan at the celebration of the Int’l day of the African Child organised by Friends of the Needy Organisation, FONO, at the weekend. Ante stressed the importance of the human rights education to include providing the citizenry with knowledge and skills, developing their attitudes and behaviours towards enjoying and exercising their rights as well as respecting the…

The Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporations and Government Owned Companies, SSASCGOC, has rejected planned sale of Nigeria Communication Satellite Company, NIGCOMSAT by the Federal Government. In a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari, the union expressed shock over the plan to sell off NIGCOMSAT to private individuals, and called on the Bureau of Public Enterprise, BPE, to halt all process in the interest of the nation. In the petition, entitled “The proposed sale of Nigeria Communications Satellite Company: A call for caution,” the union contended that the NIGCOMSAT, a government company created via the Company and Allied Matters Act, was…

Nigeria is the 16th least peaceful country in the world, according to the 2019 edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI).  At 148 of 163 countries, the most populous black nation retained its position in the previous year—even though its score rose by 0.025, from 2.873 in 2018 to 2.898 in 2019. The report released on Wednesday, “measures the state of peace using three thematic domains: the level of Societal Safety and Security; the extent of Ongoing Domestic and International Conflict; and the degree of Militarisation. “The GPI covers 99.7 per cent of the world’s population, using 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators…