The 2020/2021 English Premier League (EPL) season will begin on Sept. 12 and the final round of matches will be held on May 23, the league announced on Friday. The EPL new season, originally scheduled to begin on Aug. 8, has been delayed this year after the Premier League suspended the 2019/2020 season for three months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The current season will end with a final round of fixtures on Sunday, giving teams about seven weeks to prepare for the next campaign. However, teams still competing in the UEFA Champions League and Europa League will have less…
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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), on Friday, officially handed over to the Nigeria Police the three suspects, Mr Nehemiah Adejoh, Mr Igbekele Folorunsho and Mr Festus Gbayegun, involved in the incident that led to the death of late Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile. This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen, in Abuja, late Friday, by the Director of Public Relations and Information of the Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola. According to the statement, “Giving brief highlights during the handover at the NAF Base Kaduna, the Commander 453 Base Services Group (453 BSG), Group Captain Hadi Ahmed,…
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Bauchi State has stated former House of Representatives Speaker, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, is yet to inform the party of his defection. Chairman of the party, Alhaji Hamza Akuyam, while reacting to reports of Dogara’s defection, told The Nation on phone the PDP was awaiting formal notification to that effect from the ex-Speaker. ”We have not received any letter of him leaving our party and when you see him with the President, it’s normal because he was a former Speaker of the House of Representatives. “Maybe there are some issues he want to call his…
Seyitan Babatayo, who accused star musician, Oladapo Oyebanjo, popularly known D’Banj, of rape has withdrawn charges against him. She wrote to the police to drop the case, citing personal reasons. The Police also said it was unable to prove a case of rape and cleared the musician. In a letter dated July 17, 2020 addressed to the Inspector-General of Police through her lawyer, Olamide Omileye, Babatayo urged the police to also drop investigation of the case. The letter reads: “We hereby officially notify you of our client’s intention to withdraw and discontinue her petition against Mr. Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo aka…
Nigeria has recorded 591 new cases of COVID-19. According to a tweet from the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC on Friday night, the total number of infections in the country is now 39, 539 The tweet revealed that Oyo State had the highest number of infections on Friday with 191 cases, with Lagos State following with 168 cases. Other states read as follows: FCT-61 Ondo-29 Osun-26 Ebonyi-24 Edo-23 Ogun-14 Rivers-13 Akwa Ibom-12 Kaduna-10 Katsina-6 Borno-4 Ekiti-3 Delta-3 Imo-3 Niger-1 So far, 16,559 patients have been discharged with 845 deaths recorded.
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara has returned to the All Progressive Congress (APC). Dogara, who defected to the People’s Democratic Party(PDP) shortly before the 2019 general elections, was led to meet President Muhmmadu Buhari at the State House on Friday by chairman of the party’s Caretaker/National Planning Committee Governor Mai Mala Buni. The former Speaker did not speak with State House correspondents after the meeting but Buni confirmed he had rejoined the APC. Details shortly…
The first runner up in the Ondo State All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial primary election, Chief Olusola Oke, has said he has no plans to leave the party for any other party as being insinuated. Oke who made this declaration after a meeting with the leadership of the Unity forum group within the Ondo APC dismissed as mischief the insinuation that he planned to defect to any other party over political developments in the state. Oke who lost the APC governorship primary election to the Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, acknowledged and commended the overtures towards him and the unity group by…
The People’s Democratic Party(PDP) has demanded resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari over alleged cases of corruption in federal agencies. National chairman of the opposition party, Prince Uche Secondus, made the call in an ongoing media parley in Abuja. He cited ongoing corruption investigations of the NDDC, MIC, NEDC, NSITF, EFCC and others, stating Nigeria, under Buhari’s watch, was on ventilator gasping for breath. Secondus said corruption has become a way of life among Nigerians while Buhari plays the ostrich. He accused Buhari of abandoning his promise to fight corruption during electioneering campaigns in 2015 and 2019. Details shortly…
Ondo state government is set to reopen for academic activities since the closure of schools on March 20, 2020, due to coronavirus pandemic. The State government has released guidelines, as well as conditions for the reopening of schools across the State. The guidelines were announced by the state’s Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology during a meeting with the executives of All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools, ANCOPSS, held at Fiwasaye Girls’ Grammar School, Akure. According to the Commissioner for the Ministry, Femi Agagu, the meeting was called with the view of involving stakeholders within the education sector…
Alhaji Adekunle Saliu has emerged as the governorship candidate of Ondo State chapter of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) ahead of the October 10, 2020 gubernatorial election. Alhaji Saliu was elected on Thursday, July 23, 2020 by 360 delegates of SDP at Motel Place in Ondo town during a special affirmative indirect primary election of the party. The affirmative primary election was conducted by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Alfa Mohammed. The electoral event began with accreditation of all delegates after which two other aspirants, Otunba Olorunfemi Adeniyi and Barrister Abiola Olawole announced their withdrawal from…