The management of Heartland FC of Owerri has read the riot act to the team’s Technical Adviser Christian Obi. Rising from a management meeting with the Technical Crew and the Supporters Club.The Management frowned at the poor run of results which had seen the team record three points from four games. The management was dissatisfied with the present state of Read More
Rafael Nadal will make his return to Grand Slam tennis following hip surgery at the 2024 Australian Open, says tournament CEO Craig Tiley. Spain’s 22-time Grand Slam champion has been out of action since January and underwent surgery in June. Nadal, 37, has said he plans to retire at the end of the 2024 season. According to Tiley, former women’s Read More
A-yet-to-be identified Nigerian man has begun 100-hour cry-a-thon. He aims to break a World Record for the longest crying marathon by any Individual. In a viral video, the man who could be seen weeping has done two hours out of the one hundred hours he plans to cry for.
TAJBank Limited, Nigeria’s fast-growing and technology-driven non-interest banking services provider, has set a new record in the nation’s banking system with the payment of dividend to its shareholders just three years of its operations. Available data on banking industry’s audited financial reports indicated that no bank had achieved such a remarkable feat in the over 100 years of the sector’s Read More
Video has captured moment Nigerian chef, Hilda Bassey Effiongfondly called Hilda Baci, broke the Guinness World Record (GWR) for the longest cooking marathon by an individual.
Nigerian chef, Hilda Effiong Bassey, popularly known as Hilda Baci, has broken the Guinness World cooking record. Hilda surpassed the current Guinness World Record holder after hitting the 87 hours 50 minutes mark. Blueprint had reported that the chef began the competition on Thursday after she turned on her cooker at 4pm and surpassed the current world record holder on Read More
Middlesbrough manager Michael Carrick has described as “a terrific achievement” by Chuba Akpom after he netted his 21st league goal this season to equal a record first set 33 years ago. Akpom scored twice in a 5-0 thrashing of Reading to match Bernie Slaven’s record of 1990. “It’s a terrific achievement,” saluted Carrick. “It’s not easy to score that many goals. Read More
Former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, has been appointed the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) Africa’s Ambassador for Agricultural Technology. Making the announcement after meeting with the former President in Yenagoa, Bayelsa South-South Nigeria during the week, the AATF Executive Director, Dr Canisius Kanangire said the appointment was informed by the former President’s record of championing agricultural transformation on the continent. Dr Kanangire Read More
Sokoto State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Mallam Saidu Umar FCNA, has urged the Igbo community in Sokoto to continue to support the PDP and entrust the party with another mandate to consolidate on the successes recorded. He made the remark at the 2022 Igbo Day Celebration and Endowment Fund Raising organised by the Igbo Community in Sokoto at Immigration Read More
As a way of addressing spate of cases’ congestion in Nigeria’s courts, the National Judicial Council, (NJC) Monday in Abuja, made delivery of a fully retrofitted courtroom to the Supreme Court of Nigeria. The move was to further the apex court’s quest for quick delivery of justice to the populace. The retrofitted courtroom is designed to ease the challenges militating against the Read More
Despite a challenging year for the Nigerian.oil and gas industry, Seplat Energy Plc has recorded revenue of $733.2 million for the 2021 financial year. The amount represents a growth of 38 per cent against $530.5 million reported the previous year. Operating cash flow grew from $329.4 million to N394.3 million while production cost rose by $8.9 million in 2020 to Read More
Shares in Siemens Energy have hit a record low as a sell-off triggered by problems at its wind power division Siemens Gamesa continued following a HSBC downgrade. Siemens Energy’s stock fell as much as 6.9% to 17.805 euros per share, its lowest since the company was spun off from former parent Siemens AG and listed separately in September 2020. On Read More
MTN Nigeria, Dangote Cement, Flour Mills, Nigeria Breweries Nestle, Total, Julius Berger and some other companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange brushed aside rising inflation rate and exchange rate crisis to record a surge in revenues and profits. Financial statements of 32 of the most capitalized companies on the stock exchange, excluding commercial banks, revealed the companies recorded aggregate Read More
Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey smashed the women’s half marathon world record on Sunday, finishing in one hour, two minutes and 52 seconds at the Valencia Half Marathon Trinidad Alfonso EDP. The 23-year-old Gidey, who is also the world 5,000 metres (14:06.62) and 10,000 metres (29:01.03) record-holder, shaved more than a minute off the previous half marathon mark of 1:04:02 set by Read More
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed confidence that it will win the forthcoming Anambra governorship election and later win the 2023 general elections with its membership strength of over 40 million. The ruling party has boasted that governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states will be in their favour. Secretary of the party’s Caretaker Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee Read More
Not less than 888 people have been killed and 2,553 others kidnapped in Kaduna state between January and September 2021. Seven hundred and twenty people were also injured within the period, Kaduna state security report has disclosed. The third quarter security report presented by Kaduna state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, Wednesday, said 220 Read More
Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) Salihu Moh Lukman, has called for a new orientation in the management of political parties to address issues of membership recruitment and management, party funding and administration. Lukman, who is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said unless these issues are addressed Nigerians will continue to experience all the familiar Read More
In the face of declining demand for crude oil globally, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is taking solace in the fact that soaring gas prices could mitigate impact of global demand for oil products as end users switch. Further more the Organization has trimmed down its world oil demand growth forecast for 2021 while maintaining its 2022 view, Read More
The Director General of the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC), Lanre Gbajabiamila has said the country would soon witness a boom in lottery business as the transformation process of the industry commenced in 2017 has started yielding positive results. Speaking with newsmen in his office, Wednesday in Abuja, Gbajabiamila said the boom would lead to significant rise in the nation’s Read More
Tyson Fury delivered a thrilling 11th-round knockout against Deontay Wilder to retain his WBC heavyweight crown as their trilogy bout produced another classic on an electric night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Twenty months since Fury dethroned the American, the 33-year-old had to show all his resolve and resilience to extend his undefeated professional record to 32 fights Read More
Osun state governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has denied the alleged ownership of a property in London, United Kingdom. He also denied the purported link with the owner of the property, Mr Kolawole Aluko. In a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Ismail Omipidan, and made available to newsmen in Osogbo, Sayurday, Oyetola described as ‘unfounded and untrue,’ the report linking him to the Read More
An Abuja based lawyer, Dr. Kayode Ajulo, has confirmed that a Court of Appeal sitting in Ado Ekiti Judicial Division has discharged and acquitted a teenager Adeolu Bamiteko, who was sentenced to death by a High Court for stealing phone. Bamiteko with one Ayobami Ojo were arraigned in Charge No. HAD/15C/2014 before the High Court presided over by Justice J.O Read More
On October 4, 2021, one of the fastest growing financial service providers in Nigeria, Titan Trust Bank Limited, celebrated two years of its existence. Established with a mission to take advantage of the identified gaps in the banking sector and address the unmet needs of the retail mass market, SMEs and corporates, Titan Trust Bank, has continued to provide seamless Read More
Minister of special duties and inter-governmental affairs, Senator George Akume, has commended the current leadership of All the Progressives Congress (APC), Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee under governor Mai Mala Buni. The former governor said Buni’s unassuming leadership has reunited the party and also responsible for the recent massive defection into the APC from opposition party. In a congratulatory Read More
The claim by Osun State’s former Commissioner for Local and Chieftaincy Affairs, Hon. Kolapo Alimi, that Governor Adegboyega Oyetola failed to nominate his predecessor for a ministerial slot is not only untrue but also wicked, illogical and mischievous, Ismail Omipidan, Chief Press Secretary to Oyetola, has said. He was reacting to the claim by Alimi in a newspaper interview that Read More
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