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Kwara United appoint new coaches, eye continental qualification
The Board of Kwara United Football Club of Ilorin on Friday relieved two coaches of their jobs and appointed two new ones to beef up the chances of the club’s qualification for Continental game in 2023. Punchsports gathered that the board sacked Messrs Ashifat Sulaiman and Taofeek Babatunde for the rest of the ongoing season….
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Shinkafi, Afikuyomi, others head panels as APC inaugurates screening committees
The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress announced on Saturday that it will inaugurate chairmen and secretaries of respective Screening Committees for the House of Representatives, Senate and Governorship candidates in Abuja today. The inauguration, which is expected to take place at 12.00 noon and 10.00 am on Sunday, will hold at Fraser…
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Korra Obidi, estranged husband disagree over domestic violence, cheating claims
America-based Nigerian dancer, Korra Obidi, and her estranged husband, Justin Dean, are at social media war again, following claims of cheating and domestic violence. Korra Obidi had recently accused her husband of physically assaulting her amid their messy divorce battle. But Dean, in a Facebook live late Friday maintained that he never physically assaulted his…
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Ikpeazu reacts to Abia varsity medical faculty accreditation withdrawal
The withdrawal of accreditation of the Faculty of Medicine of the Abia State University is only a momentary setback which can be corrected in a matter of months, said the state governor, Okezie Ikpeazu. This was the conclusion of a meeting the governor held with some select medical professionals on the issue of the withdrawal…
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Ex-IGP’s son defends killing of blasphemers
Captain Jamil Abubakar, the son of a former Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has defended the killing of blasphemers. Jamil, who is an experienced pilot and President of JMD Foundation, a non-profit organisation, said this in a tweet on Friday night. Jamil, who is a son-in-law to Africa’s wealthiest man, Aliko Dangote, said this amid…
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How Edo vigilante shot us while playing football –Victims
Isaac Ikumese, Osamede Ehikioya and Jolly Likeness, who were wounded when a suspected member of a vigilance group opened fire on nine youths playing football on Enabulele Street, Benin City, Edo State, on April 23, 2022, talk to ADEYINKA ADEDIPE about the incident I feel bad waking up to discover I’d become an amputee –Ikumese…
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Blasphemy: Killings’ll continue without actions from Islamic, political leaders – Catholic bishop
The Catholic Bishop of Kafanchan Diocese, Kaduna State, Most Rev Julius Kundi, talks to ALEXANDER OKERE about the lynching of a student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, identified as Deborah, by a mob suspected to be students of the institutions, as well as the unending attacks in Southern Kaduna and its environs…
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Kaduna councillor nabbed over arms delivery to terrorists
The Kaduna State Police Command has arrested a serving councillor allegedly supplying guns to terrorists at Galadimawa in the Giwa Local Government Area of the state. Items recovered from the suspect were an AK47 loaded with six rounds of live ammunition. The state police spokesperson, Mohammed Jalige, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday,…
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How ex-dictator, Babangida, became consultant to desperate politicians
OLUWAFEMI MORGAN writes about the constant visits by politicians to the Niger State home of ex-military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida, who frustrated the return to democracy in the country Every election season, politicians troop to Minna, Niger State, en route the Hilltop Mansion of former military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida, for what they describe as…
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AfDB chief, Adesina, may shun APC presidential screening today
Barring any last-minute changes, the President of the African Development Bank, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, will be absent from today’s screening exercise of All Progressives Congress for presidential aspirants, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. According to impeccable sources close to the former Agric Minister, there are still controversies about his candidacy, especially as regards to his acceptance…
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