Author: Prince Ade ADe

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) have jointly issued a 14-day nationwide strike notice to the Federal Government. This move stems from the government’s failure to implement the 16-point agreement reached with organized labor on October 2, 2023. Expressing dismay, NLC and TUC leaders highlight the government’s apparent indifference to the widespread suffering and hardship in the country, despite organized labor’s efforts to maintain industrial peace. The October 2 agreement aimed to address the adverse socioeconomic impact of the IMF/World Bank-induced hike in the price of PMS and the devaluation of the naira.…

England has been drawn into League B for the 2024-25 Nations League, alongside the Republic of Ireland, Finland, and Greece. Scotland, in League A, is set to face Croatia, Poland, and Portugal, while Wales, also in League B, will compete with Iceland, Montenegro, and Turkey. Northern Ireland finds themselves in League C, slated to play against Belarus, Bulgaria, and Luxembourg. Each league comprises four groups of four teams, except for League D, which has two groups of three.England, relegated to League B after finishing bottom in the previous edition, last encountered the Republic of Ireland in a competitive match in…

The law making body of football, the International Football Association Board, IFAB will announce the trial of blue cards on Friday. A player who receives a blue card from the referee would spend 10 minutes in a place known as the sin-bin in the technical area. Sin-bins have been used at grassroots level for dissent but their use could be extended to cynical fouls as part of a trial. It is however not yet clear when the trial will start and which competitions it will involve. The English Premier League has already ruled out being part of the initial roll-out…

Super Eagles defender, Zaidu Sanusi trained separately from his teammates at the Police College Cocody, Abidjan on Thursday night as Nigeria prepared for the final of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations against hosts, Côte D’Ivoire on Sunday. Sanusi missed the semi-final victory over Bafana Bafana of South Africa on Wednesday because of injury. The FC Porto Left Back has just two days to prove his fitness before the final. Meanwhile, all the players who started the game against South Africa were exempted from the recovery training session on Thursday. Victor Osimhen, Ademola Lookman, Moses Simon, William Troost-Ekong and the…

A policeman, Rilwan Kasumu, has rejected a N4 million bribe offered by some drug peddlers in the Ilogbo area of Lagos State. Kasumu, a Superintendent of Police, is the officer in charge of Area K, Marogbo, Lagos State command. On Tuesday, the police team arrested Esther Newman Obiekezie at her residence in Ilogbo, where she sells illicit drugs. Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, saying Obiekezie was discovered to have been selling the illicit drug. Police officers raided her residence, and large quantities of drugs and some AK-47 live ammunition were said to…

As a temporary response to the nation’s growing food crisis and the rising cost of commodities, President Bola Tinubu has ordered the immediate release of more than 102,000 metric tons of various grain types from the National Food Reserve and the Rice Millers Association of Nigeria. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this to State House correspondents after the last leg of a series of three meetings of the Special Presidential Committee on Emergency Food Intervention at the Aso Rock Villa on Thursday. Idris said the first one is that the Ministry of Agriculture and Food…

Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin says he will not seek re-election in 2027. It comes after Uefa voted to change its rules, which would have allowed the 56-year-old Slovenian to run again and potentially stay at the helm of European football’s governing body until 2031. The English Football Association (FA) was the only nation to oppose the rule amendment at a Uefa congress in Paris. The FA said leaders should serve a “maximum” of three terms of four years. Previous rules allowed a president to serve three terms in office but the new ruling means Ceferin’s initial term, when he replaced…

Zaidu Sanusi trained separately as the Super Eagles started preparations for their final clash with the Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire. Sanusi missed the Super Eagles semi-final victory against the Bafana Bafana of South Africa due to injury. The FC Porto defender was replaced in the starting line-up by Bright Osayi-Samuel. Head coach Jose Peseiro refused to offer assurance on Sanusi’s availability for the game. Peseiro said during his interaction with the media, “I don’t know if he (Sanusi) can recover, I hope he can recover for the next match but he’s out now because of injury. He didn’t do any…

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Wednesday issued Certificates of Return to winners of Saturday’s rerun and by-elections. On February 3, 2024, INEC conducted legislative by-elections and re-run elections across the country in 26 states. Seven political parties won seats in both the National and State Houses of Assembly. They are the Action Democratic Party, All Progressives Congress, All Progressive Grand Alliance, Labour Party, New Nigeria Peoples Party, Peoples Democratic Party and the Young Progressives Party. Certificate presentations were done by INEC national commissioners representing each of the states where the rerun and bye-elections were conducted, and winners were declared…

Ali’s late strike helped Qatar reach the final of the Asian Cup and continue their title defence with victory over Iran. Hosts Qatar led after goals from Jassem Gaber and Akram Afif cancelled out Sardar Azmoun’s superb overhead opener. A controversial penalty decision helped level the scores, but Ali’s 82nd-minute strike and Shoja Khalilzadeh’s late red card were fatal to Iran’s final hopes. Qatar will play underdogs Jordan in Saturday’s final at Lusail Stadium. Jordan stunned two-time winners South Korea on Tuesday to reach their first Asian Cup final. Qatar are bidding to become the first team since Japan in…