Lazio, already deprived of several players, announced on Saturday (Oct 31) that it had put their entire squad in quarantine after positive coronavirus tests. Lazio fielded a depleted team in Brugge in the Champions League on Wednesday and drew 1-1 without last season’s top European scorer Ciro Immobile and midfielders Luis Alberto, Manuel Lazzari, Lucas Leiva and Djavan Anderson. The Read More
Chelsea kept a fourth clean sheet in a row as Frank Lampard’s side blew away Burnley 3-0 with Hakim Ziyech scoring on his first Premier League start. The arrival of Edouard Mendy, who has conceded just one goal in six appearances, seems to have settled Lampard’s team down defensively, although the goalkeeper wasn’t tested at Turf Moor from the moment Read More
Former Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo and the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar have urged Nigerian leaders and the led, particularly the youth, to work assiduously towards the unity of Nigeria as the panacea to its underdevelopment. Speaking separately at the Arewa House at 50 celebration with the theme: ‘Unfinished Greatness: Towards a More Perfect Union in Nigeria’ Read More
Ahead of the 2020/21 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season, Ahmadu Bello Stadium (ABS) Kaduna and 12 other stadiums across the country have been certified by the League Management Company (LMC) to have met minimum requirements to host matches. The certification by the LMC is part of the club licensing regime for the upcoming season. But 11 stadiums were recommended Read More
More than 1million people have now caught coronavirus in the UK after 21,915 more positive test results were confirmed Saturday, theSun reports. Another 326 deaths have been recorded, meaning 46,555 have now died from the bug in Britain. In the last few weeks both Spain and France have surpassed 1million positive cases, with France announcing national lockdown restrictions earlier this week. England Read More
The Global Network for Human Rights (GNHR) has vowed to drag instigators of violence that led to the killing of policemen and destruction of properties during the EndSARS protests to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The group, at a press conference on Friday in Abuja, said the individuals must be brought to justice for their roles in inciting “massive terror Read More
A three-day free entrepreneurship training sponsored by the Minister of Youth and Sports Development in Nigeria, Sunday Dare, has kicked off in Ogbomoso, Oyo state, with registration of prospective beneficiaries, drawn from different youth groups in the area. According to a statement, the prospective trainees, came with evidences of text messages received, and were duly registered after proper confirmation of Read More
An American citizen held hostage in northern Nigeria has been successfully rescued by the United States forces, CNN is reporting. This was revealed in a statement by the Pentagon Spokesman, Jonathan Hoffman, on Saturday. Part of the statement reads, “U.S. forces conducted a hostage rescue operation during the early hours of October 31 in Northern Nigeria to recover an American Read More
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli was re-elected for a second, five-year term on Friday, securing a huge victory in a contest that has been dismissed by the opposition as a “travesty” due to widespread irregularities. Magufuli got 12.5 million votes in Wednesday’s vote, or 84%, according to a Reuters calculation, more than 10 million more votes than his main challenger, Tundu Read More
…As troops arrest 16 cultists in Plateau Personnel of the Nigerian Navy (NN) destroyed scores of illegal refineries Tangolo Susu, Oputumbi and Promise Land, Edeoha Community, and Oghara in Bonny and Edeoha Local Government Areas of Rivers state and Ethiope West of Delta state. Coordinator Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. John Enenche disclosed this during a press briefing at the Read More
Sir Sean Connery has died at the age of 90, his family has said. The Scottish actor was best known for his portrayal of James Bond, being the first to bring the role to the big screen and appearing in seven of the spy thrillers. His acting career spanned decades and his many awards included an Oscar, two Bafta awards Read More
The Defence Headquarters has said that troops of Special Task Force (STF) of Operation Safe Haven acted professionally within the laws to stop looting at the resident of Former Speaker of House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, in Jos Plateau state, and described allegations of killing of four persons by the troops by the media as “malicious and mischievous.” In the Read More
A number of top matches are on the cards this weekend, as the Premier League goes into the seventh week of action. We expect that a compact table occasioned by the fast start to the season will start opening up in Round 7. At the end of the Round 7 matches, any side in the top nine can ascend to Read More
In less than two weeks of its inauguration, the Ogun state Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up to investigate complaints and petitions of victims of police brutality and abuse of human rights by security operatives have received no fewer than 20 petitions. The Chairman of the panel, Hon. Justice Solomon Olugbemi (Rtd), made this known after a meeting with the Read More
The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) and the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) of Nigeria Limited have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the registration and certification of the Shell Graduate Programme (SGP) and Shell Advanced Technical Programme (SATP) graduates. The COREN’s Public Relations Officer, Ms Ocheh Faith, in a statement sent to Blueprint online Read More
The Taraba state University (TSU), Jalingo, on Friday disclosed that the institution’s Skills Acquisition Centre lost over N700 million worth of machines to looters in the wake of the #ENDSARS protests. The university’s chief security officer, Col. A.N. Adamu (retd.), made the disclosure in Jalingo while conducting our correspondent round the Centre located outside the main campus of the university. Read More
The Gombe state governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, has charged the state’s representatives in the National Assembly to push for the take-off of the newly established police training institute in the state. According to him, the security situation in the state has become very tasking and overwhelming due to the state of the affairs in the North-east. The governor said the Read More
The Taraba state deputy governor, Haruna Manu, has urged Tarabans not to relent in their quest to always supply security agencies with useful information on how to nab criminal elements terrorising the state. Manu, in a press statement signed by his senior special assistant on new media, Musleem Aruwa, in Jalingo, said the criminals involved in the recent looting should Read More
For us in Kogi state, this season is not the best of times given the magnitude of devastations caused by flood disasters across communities in the Confluence State. Thousands of people have been displaced from their homes by the floods that have been ravaging many parts of the state. No fewer than nine local government areas in the state have Read More
The town hall meeting initiative by the the Minister of Youth and Sports Development Mr Sunday Dare is already yielding results as youths have resolved to partner with the ministry to create new platforms for information dissemination. Speaking during the third edition of the town hall meeting, Ambassador David Ibrahim said, “We are are grateful to the Minister of Youth Read More
The Obong of Calabar, His Eminence Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi Otu V has laid the blame of the vandalism, looting and destruction of public and private buildings/business concerns in Calabar and environs at the doorsteps of the government of Cross River state. Speaking in Calabar, Friday, when former Governor Liyel Imoke led a delegation to his palace, the monarch expressed Read More
Minister of Youth and Sports Development Mr. Sunday Dare alongside Ministers from selected countries on Friday had virtual meeting with the top brass of the world Football Governimg body, Fifa where it was agreed that a new course must be taken to ensure youth football development. Speaking during the third edition of the Town Hall with Nigerian Youths, Mr. Dare Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the gruesome vehicle accident in Mgbowu, Awgu local government area of Enugu state, in which scores of people died, most of them school pupils. In a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Friday, Buhari condoled with families and relatives of the victims. He prayed that God would grant them Read More
National Hajj Commission (NAHCON) has inaugurated a coordinating committee that will ensure smooth implementation of the Makkah Route Initiative (MRI) in Nigeria. According to a statement by the Commission’s head of public affairs, Fatima Sanda Usara, the initiative is a partnership between NAHCON, Nigerian and Saudi Arabian immigration departments to enable screening of Nigerian pilgrims by Saudi Arabian immigration in Read More
The immediate past NDDC chairman, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, has decried the destruction of his personal residence in Calabar by hoodlums last weekend, saying the intruders broke into his house “and looted it to the ground leaving only the bare floor.” In a statement he personally signed and made available to our reporter on Friday, the former Senate Leader expressed shock Read More
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