Arsenal started their 2022/2023 English Premier League campaign with a 2-nil win against Crystal Palace. The London side put up brilliant performance, dominating the game from the blast of the whistle at Selhurst Park. Brazilian striker Gabriel Martinelli netted Arsenal’s and English Premier League’s first goal of the season, giving the Gunners a deserved lead 20 minutes into the game. A brilliant save by Ramsdale in the 42nd minutes, denied Edouard an equaliser for Crystal Palace, seeing the home side go into first half break behind the Gunners. Crystal Palace came into the second half stronger. They came close to…
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Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has disclosed that the President Muhammadu Buhari regime has neither resources nor intention to halt the ongoing industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Speaking on a Channels Television program on Friday, Mr Keyamo said his advice to parents of stranded university students is to plead with ASUU to return to the classrooms. “I will tell parents and everybody; go and beg ASUU,” he said. The minister said ASUU’s demand for its rightly earned wages amounted to blackmail and that schools will not be opened at the expense…
Some retired police officers and family members have described the late former Inspection-General of Police (I-GP), Tafa Balogun, as one of the best cops Nigeria ever produced. The retired officers paid glowing tributes to the late Mr Balogun in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday at his Ikoyi, Lagos residence. Many said Mr Balogun, who was convicted for stealing and money laundering during his tenure as IGP, was one Inspector-General of Police that brought great reforms to the force. Tunde Alapinni, a retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) and one-time Force Spokesperson, said the impact…
The Super Falcons are still waiting for the country’s football federation (NFF) and Sports Ministry to settle outstanding debts from last month’s Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) and other training camps. The team had boycotted training before their third-place play-off against Zambia, on 22 July, over the non-payment of both bonuses and allowances. Each player is owed over $10,000, which includes win bonuses for their three victories en route to the semi-finals in Morocco. The NFF insists the money will be paid soon, but one member of the squad said the players have been “told different lies”. “They said…
Minister of States for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) has tried to ensure the prices of food items do not go beyond what it is now. The legal practitioner said Buhari and the APC must not be judged by the sharp increase in prices of food and other commodities. Keyamo insisted that it would be a lazy way to campaign if the opposition parties tried to judge the APC government by comparing the prices of food items in 2022 and what they used to be seven years ago when the…
Bola Tinubu will run on the template of President Muhammadu Buhari if elected president in 2023, his campaign spokesman Festus Keyamo clarified on Friday. Presidential Candidate Tinubu is seeking to succeed his partyman in the next dispensation but there have been concerns about the direction his government would run given the woeful performance of the incumbent. Mr Tinubu’s associate and former party chairman Adams Oshiomhole had on Thursday sought to extricate Mr Tinubu from the failure of the Buhari regime, claiming his man has not been part of the government. But Mr Keyamo, a serving junior minister for Labour…
Troops of Operations Whirl Stroke and Safe Haven have captured seven terrorists and bandits and also rescued two kidnapped victims in different operations across Nasarawa, Kaduna and Plateau States. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Bernard Onyeuko, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. Onyeuko reported that the troops had, on July 29, carried out a clearance operation at Tse-Ibor, Tse-Igbakyor, Akwana and Ayinbe villages in Logo Local Government Area of Nasarawa State and made contact with terrorists. According to him, troops engaged the terrorists with superior firepower, forcing them to run away while two of them, Usman Yau…
ODUNAYO Adekuoroye and Blessing Oborududu set Commonwealth Games records after winning their third consecutive gold medals in their third appearances in Birmingham. At the wrestling event which took place at the Coventry Arena, it was Adekuoroye who won the first gold after she showed her class against India’s Anshu Malik with a 7-3 victory by points (VPO1) in the Women’s Freestyle 57 kg. To seal her place in the final, she defeated Uganda 2-0 in the round of 16 and beat Kenya’s Sophia Ayieta 10-0 in the quarterfinal. In the semifinal, she humbled Canada’s Hannah Taylor 10-0. Also, yesterday, Oborududu…
Okaland in Akoko Southwest Local Government, Ondo State has joined the league of communities across the state that parade two monarchs. They are the Olubaka of Okaland, Oba Yusuf Adeleye, and the Asin of Okaland, Iwaro-Oka, Oba Pius Omiyeloja Akande. In Ikare, Akoko Northwest Local Government Area, the community is ruled by the Olukare of Ikare, HRM Oba Akadri Momoh, and Owa Ale of Ikare, Oba Adeleke Adegbite-Adedoyin II. In Owo, there is the Olowo of Owo, Oba Oba Ajibade Gbadegesin Ogunoye III and the Olijebu of Ijebu-Owo, Oba Kofoworola Oladoyinbo Ojomo. In Akure kingdom, monarchs in Akure North Local…
WORLD champion 100m hurdles, Tobi Amusan, on Friday qualified for the final of the women’s 100m hurdles at the ongoing Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Amusan raced to a massive 12.40s to dominate Round 1 Heat 3 to qualify for Sunday’s final. The world champion has the chance to defend her Commonwealth Games title, which she won in 2018 in Gold Coast, Australia. Still, she will have to fend off competition from Jamaican duo Danielle Williams, Megan Tapper, England’s Cindy Sembre, Michelle Jenneke of Australia, and Devynne Charlton of Bahamas. Amusan began the 2022 season in fine form, winning the 2022…