The Court of Arbitration for Sport has thorn out an appeal from the International Boxing Association (IBA) after it was stripped of its rights to organise boxing events at the Paris Olympics. The International Olympic Committee withdrew its recognition of boxing’s governing body, the IBA, last year due to longstanding concerns over governance issues. In…
Resident Doctors at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, in Ondo State, have commenced a 14-day warning strike. The striking doctors have downed tools because of the non-payment of seven months’ salaries to their new members. At a rally to press home their demands, the doctors vowed not to return to work until all…
Some top lawyers and retired judges have called on the Nigeria police to take over investigations into the recent murder of 17 soldiers, and an unconfirmed number of villagers at Okuama in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. The legal luminaries, who faulted the handing over of the traditional ruler of Ewu Kingdom,…
Nigerian Police authorities say they are still searching for six of their men who went missing in Delta State. According to Force spokesman Muyiwa Adejobi, the six police officers were gruesomely murdered in Ohoro Forest, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State and the same number declared missing after they were ambushed during a…
A Man has divorced his wife 48 hours after their marriage after finding out the supposed wife is actually a man According to reports his wife was previously a man who underwent surgery to turn into a woman. The man who pleaded to be anonymous disclosed that he met his wife online Facebook to be…
The winner of the Big Brother Naija ‘Level Up’ Season, Ijeoma Josephina Otabor, popularly known as Phyna, has dragged organisers of the reality Tv show for not giving her some of her winning prizes and money. Phyna was a housemate in Season 7 of the 2022 reality show. The 26-year-old media personality disclosed that the…
Veteran Nigerian actor Jimi Solanke who died in February will be buried on Friday, April 5, at a private cemetery. The arrangement for his interment was confirmed by his family on Tuesday. The funeral service will take place at the Methodist Church Nigeria in Ipara-Remo, Ogun State. The week-long activities will commence with a choral…
The Lower legislative chamber, House of Representatives Committee on Disabilities has summoned the management of Kentucky Fried Chicken, KFC, over allegations of discriminatory treatment towards Mr Adebola Daniel, a person living with a disability and son of former Ogun State Governor, Gbenga Daniel. Chairman of the committee, Bashiru Ayinla, said this while briefing newsmen at…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has uncovered 1,665 fake A-level results during the 2023 Direct Entry (DE) registration. The registrar of the Exam body Ishaq Oloyede said this in a weekly bulletin of the agency released on Tuesday He said in Abuja when he received the leadership of the National Association…
Following the swearing of 44-year-old Bassirou Diomaye Faye as the Senegalese president, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 election Omoyele Sowore has faulted the attitude of young Nigerians to politics. Faye was sworn in at an event attended by several African leaders in Dakar on Tuesday. While this has elicited…
