 The Minister of Defence, Muhammad Badaru, says no fewer than seven top terrorists commanders were killed by security forces in the last few months. The Minister who disclosed this on Tuesday during a tour of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College in Jaji, Kaduna State, said there is improvement in the fight against insurgency…
 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has intercepted 21 food trucks heading to neighbouring countries. Announcing the seizure in a statement on its X handle on Tuesday, the anti-graft agency said the items were heading towards N’djamena, Chad Republic, Central African Republic, and Cameroon. The seizure was made by operatives of the EFCC Maiduguri…
Ahead of Wednesday night Champions League second leg fixture against Danish side FC Copenhagen, Manchester City talisman Erling Haaland says he can still improve despite having scored 80 goals in 84 appearances for the Treble winners. Last week the 23-year-old Norway international scored five in City’s FA Cup fifth-round win at Luton. He won last…
Championship Leaders Leicester City returned to winning ways as a Jamie Vardy’s first-half header gave them a crucial win against Sunderland to keep their title bid on track. The Foxes went into the game on the back of three consecutive league defeats, which cut their lead at the top of the table from 12 points…
Kylian Mbappe continued where he left off when these two teams met in their first fixture on that night he scored as PSG ran away with a convincing 2- 0 win. Last night, the French captain was the tormentor- in -chief as he scored twice to help Paris St-Germain comfortably moved into the quarter-finals of…
Bayern Munich put behind them their domestic woes to dispatch Italian side Lazio in their champions League round of sixteen fixture Harry Kane scored two to help Bayern Munich cancel a first-leg deficit against Lazio and advance to the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Trailing 1-0 from the first leg in Rome, Bayern looked set…
 Former world number one Simona Halep has been cleared to resume her tennis career on Tuesday after her four-year doping ban was reduced to nine months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). The 32-year-old, who was suspended last September by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) after two separate doping infractions the previous…
Players in the Super Eagles squad are in support of Jose Peseiro continuing as head coach of the team. Peseiro is currently out of contract with the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, since February 29. However, there is no official announcement from the NFF, despite the Portuguese tactician taking to his social media to confirm the…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the last general election, Mr Peter Obi, on Tuesday, insisted that he was not desperate to be Nigeria’s President, but that he desired the country to work. Obi spoke in Abuja while reacting to his award as the ‘Leadership Politician of the Year 2023’ at the…
The United Arab Emirates, UAE, has announced the resumption of visa services for Nigerian citizens wishing to visit the country. This comes two years after UAE imposed a visa ban on Nigerians and automatically rejected pending visa applications. A joint announcement by the governments of Nigeria and the UAE entitled, ‘Resumption of Visa Services for…
