Super Falcons captain, Onome Ebi has promised that the team will not disappoint Nigerians again at the forthcoming Women’s World Cup. Ebi said this in an interview with the CAF media team on Tuesday. The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup will be hosted by Australia and New Zealand from July 20 to August 20. The Falcons are billed to commence their campaign in the competition against Canada on July 21 before facing Australia six days later. The team will play Ireland in their last group game on July 31. Speaking on the team’s target heading into the tournament, Ebi said…
Author: Victor Fola
Nigeria’s Super Eagles have maintained its position as the world’s 39th team in the July edition of the FIFA Coca-Cola Men’s Ranking. In the ranking table published on the website of the world football governing body on Thursday, Nigeria still maintained the 1486.48 points it had in June. The stagnancy on a spot was also seen at the continental level as the Nigerian side still maintained the sixth spot behind Morroco, Senegal, Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt respectively. On the global scene, a total of 62 matches have been played since the last edition of the World Ranking in June, with…
Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Governor Hope Uzodimma has said it is working with the federal government to address the current hardship Nigerians face following the removal of fuel subsidy and the increase in petroleum pump prices. Uzodinma said this while addressing journalists at the end of its closed-door meeting, which ended last Wednesday night in Abuja. The PGF is an umbrella body of state governors elected on the All Progressives Congress (APC) platform. Mr Uzodinma described the meeting as successful, saying it discussed ongoings in the party and other national issues. “The current hardship occasioned by the…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP are back in the news for yet another wrong reason with Nigerians coming hard at them for their ‘ridiculous’ and ‘misinformed’ reaction to the recent hike in fuel price. The PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunbaba on Wednesday released a statement that ignited widespread dissatisfaction with its inaccuracies and ill-thoughts. In the statement, Ologunbaba described the N617 per liter price of fuel endorsed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) maladministration as a provocative exhibition of extreme insensitivity and callousness towards Nigerians. Expressing their discontent on social media, Nigerians claimed the statement from the PDP…
The Naira on Tuesday gained about 6.58 percent to close at N742.93/$ at the investors and exporters (I&E) window. This represents the biggest daily gain since Nigeria began the unification of the exchange rate windows in the country on July 14, 2023 as much as it is also the highest daily gain since 2019. The upswing fortune of the naira comes two sessions after it plummeted to an all-time low of N803.9/$ last Friday. Data from FMDQ Securities Exchange, a platform that oversees foreign exchange (FX) trading in Nigeria, showed that the local currency hit an intra-day trading high of…
President Bola Tinubu, also the chair of the ECOWAS authority of heads of state and government, has declared that West African leaders are fully committed to putting an end to terrorism and insecurity in the region. Tinubu made this statement on Tuesday after a meeting in Abuja with Presidents Patrice Talon of Benin Republic, Umaru Sissoco Embalo of Guinea-Bissau, and Mohamed Bazoum of Niger. During the meeting, Tinubu emphasized that the security challenges along the west coast were thoroughly assessed, and a well-funded strategy to combat terrorism would be implemented. He further noted that each country within the region would…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has taken decisive action in response to public feedback on the post-subsidy relief plan, ordering the immediate release of grains and fertilizers to 50 million farmers and households The President also instructed a thorough review of the N8,000 conditional cash transfer program proposed for 12 million poor households for a six-month period to alleviate the hardships caused by the fuel subsidy removal. The government’s palliative and relief package, aimed at ameliorating the effects of the subsidy removal, will be fully unveiled, as disclosed in a statement signed by Dele Alake, the Special Adviser on Special Duties,…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been widely commended for listening to the views of Nigeria as regards the proposed N8,000 cash transfer to indigent Nigerians to ameliorate the hardship caused by the removal of the fuel subsidy. In a statement signed by Dele Alake, Special Adviser to the President, Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, Tinubu ordered that the N8,000 conditional cash transfer programme envisaged to bring succour to most vulnerable households be reviewed immediately. The President also announced that the imminent unveiling of the whole spectrum of palliative package to alleviate the present sufferings of Nigeria occasioned by the “painful”…
Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have seen their case against President Bola Tinubu at the presidential election tribunal take a major nosedive as not even one of the 27 witnesses called to testify against the President could produce a single convincing evidence to substantiate their case. According to the legal counsel to the president, Wole Olanipekun, the testimonies of all 27 witnesses that closed the case of the PDP on June 23 are “a panoply of hearsay, admissions against interest, and irrelevancies”. Olanipekun praised Tinubu’s sole witness, Opeyemi Bamidele, the Senate Majority Leader, asserting that he discredited…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has clarified that the sudden spike in the price of premium motor spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol, was a direct result of market forces. Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of NNPCL, made this known while addressing journalists at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday. In the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, petrol pump prices had surged from N540 to N617 per litre as of Tuesday morning. Shedding light on the observed escalation at fuel stations, he emphasized that the price surge was a natural consequence of the market’s self-regulating…