Frank Sanchez defeated Efe Ajagba to hand the Nigerian his first professional career defaet in the early hours of Sunday. Ajagba who survived the whole duration of the fight to the tenth round lost to Sanchez who proved to be a stronger fighter. According to the commentators, it was a one-sided fight where “Sanchez gave Ajagba a boxing lesson. It was a teacher-student fight.” By unanimous decision, Frank Sanchez, the Cuban Flash, was declared the winner.
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The Federal Government plans to spend N400m as working capital on its proposed national carrier which has failed to begin operations and has remained on the discussion table since 2015. It disclosed this in the 2022 appropriation bill that was submitted to the National Assembly on Thursday by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). In the bill, the Federal Ministry of Aviation provided a budget of N400m as working capital for the national carrier, describing it as an ongoing project. Since three years after the Federal Government unveiled the branding and livery for the proposed airline, named Nigeria Air,…
RESIDENTS of Lagos and Ogun states are lamenting as the price of 12.5kg of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), otherwise known as cooking gas rose from N3,800 in October 2020 to N7,500 in October 2021. This represents 97.37 percentage increase in the 12 months. Investigations showed that except urgent steps are taken to ease bottlenecks affecting the supply of LPG to consumers, the price of 12.5kg gas cylinder may hit N10,000 before December 2021. Findings further showed that a 12.5kg cooking gas cylinder was sold in Lagos for N3,800 in October 2020, N4,500 in June and July 2021, N6,000 in September,…
Media mogul and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Raymond Dokpesi speaks on the performance of the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, why a Southern candidate can’t win the 2023 presidential election for the PDP, his corruption trial, among others. He also tipped former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to emerge as the candidate of the PDP ahead of the presidential election. The PDP is in a leadership crisis at the moment. As a chieftain of the party and someone that had sought to lead the party in the past, what is happening with the PDP and what is the way…
The Federal Government has disclosed that it has generated N3.93 trillion so far this year, which is 73% of its targeted N7.9 trillion revenue for 2021. It was also stated that from the 2022 budget, critical sectors including education are expected to get 7.9% of the budget at N1.290 trillion while healthcare is to receive 5% of the total budget at N820.2 billion. This was disclosed by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed at the Public Presentation and Breakdown of the Federal Government’s 2022 Appropriation Bill, on Friday in Abuja. This comes after President Buhari…
Federal lawmaker Shina Peller has stated that the next president of Nigeria should not be chosen based on personality cult or subjective feelings. Reacting to a question on whether former Lagos governor, Bola Tinubu should be president of Nigeria in 2023, Mr Peller says that the president’s office should be based on strong institution rather than individuals. He said criteria should be set, leaving whoever meets the criteria to occupy the office. “We need to build an institution now, we do not need to take any single person and be saying we want to now rally around that person. I…
The Federal Government as part of its advocacy against fake news, hate speech, and banditry has allocated the sum of N104,532,705 to its cause. This was contained in the 2022 appropriation budget obtained on the website of the budget office of Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed had over time said that the country has constantly been in the war against perpetrators of fake news and hate speech. The minister in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria had also stated that Nigeria had graduated from ordinary fake news to “deep” fake news which according to…
His Excellency, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu returned to the country, landing in Lagos Friday evening, October 8. He arrived from London, United Kingdom. During his trip abroad, he underwent surgery on his right knee as well as rigorous post-surgery physiotherapy on the said knee. Contrary to unfounded rumour, he underwent no other surgical procedures and contemplates none in the future. His recuperation has been without complication and ahead of the schedule by the attending surgeon. He has returned fully healed from the knee surgery and fully committed to doing his modest part of advancing the cause of…
The State Security Service, Nigeria’s brutal regime security enforcer, has arrested Chiwetalu Agu, a prominent Nigerian actor. The arrest came hours after Mr Agu was released by the Nigerian Army following his arrest, torture and overnight detention by soldiers. Mr Agu said he was distributing bread to the poor in Onitsha when he was arrested by soldiers and brutalised for wearing a dress that symbolises the rising sun, which is also the emblem of the defunct Biafra nation. Mr Agu was taken into custody by the SSS shortly after his release by the army, his friends said, amidst…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is recommending widespread use of the world’s first malaria vaccine for the decades-long battle against the deadly disease for children at risk. The vaccine is geared towards children, in sub-Saharan Africa and other regions with moderate to high transmission. The recommendation to begin using the RTS,S vaccine, is based an ongoing pilot programme set up by WHO and partners in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi, that has reached more than 800,000 children since 2019. “The long-awaited malaria vaccine for children is a breakthrough for science, child health and malaria control,” WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, said at…