Tomaz Zorec, a fitness trainer from Slovenia, will help caretaker coach, Augustine Eguavoen to drill Super Eagles players for the upcoming 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Benin Republic and Rwanda. The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) announced the composition of the caretaker technical crew on Monday. Fidelis Ilechukwu and Daniel Ogunmodede will work as assistants to head coach, Augustine Eguavoen. Abiodun Baruwa will continue his role as goalkeeper trainer, while Eboboritse Uwejamomere will serve as match analyst. Seven players have already arrived the team’s camp in Uyo. The three-time African champions will take on Benin Republic on Saturday. The…
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The African Men Entertainment Kings, AFRIMEK, has suspended actor Adeniyi Johnson. The actor was suspended for gross misconduct and breach of the club’s constitution. The club made the announcement at the weekend on its official Instagram page. Captioning the post, AFRIMEK wrote, “ADENIYI JOHNSON is hereby suspended indefinitely from the club (AFRIMEK). He has no right to portray himself as a member and stopped from the club activities. “This decision is borne out of gross misconduct and breach of the club’s constitution.” DAILY POST reports that AFRIMEK is a club known for its influential members in Nigeria’s entertainment industry. Prior…
The Nigerian Defence Headquarters, DHQ, on Monday reacted to videos of bandit leader, Bello Turji and his gangs seizing two Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles, MRAPs, during an operation. The Director of Defence Media Operations Maj-Gen Edward Buba, said the two MRAPs were demobilized due to the inability of troops to use them after they got stuck in swampy terrain during operations against bandits in Zamfara State. Over the weekend, videos had emerged of Turji and his gangs taking over some MRAPs while burning down another. In the footage, the bandits had boasted of taking over the Army vehicles as…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adamu Garba, has said that the country will continue to experience disappointment if it depends on the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, for its energy supply. Garba also suggested that the nation’s economy will continue to dwindle as long as politicians continue to make budgetary provisions from oil proceeds. He made the assertion in a post on his X handle on Sunday. Garba said Nigeria should join the BRICS as it offers better for the future for the country’s stability and peace. BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China,…
Operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command have arrested two persons over suspected involvement in drug trafficking in the state. ASP Timfon John, the command’s Public Relations Officer, who disclosed this in a statement in Uyo on Monday, said that some weapons were recovered in the process. John said that operatives from the command raided the residence of the suspects at Ring Road 3, Uyo, on Saturday. “We recovered one Nitro Air rifle affixed with a detachable telescope, one SID Sauer American pistol, one Power-line Japanese pistol, and one Phantom American pistol,” she said She said the police also…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has summoned the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, to appear before a disciplinary committee over alleged anti-party activities. The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Ibrahim Abdullahi, disclosed in an interview with Channels TV on Monday. According to him, the disciplinary committee has written Wike a letter inviting him to appear over his recent comments about the party. Abdullahi said the FCT minister’s statement about “putting fire in their states” about PDP governors is unacceptable. According to him, “Wike should be able to manage his words carefully; that was a…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Monday dismissed reports that the Nigerian Army killed 27 Eastern Security Network (ESN) operatives in August. IPOB accused the Nigerian Army of spreading falsehoods against the Biafran movement. It was reported that the Nigerian Army’s “Operation Udo-Ka” in the Southeast killed 27 ESN operatives and arrested over 51 civilians in August. Emma Powerful, the spokesman of IPOB, said one of those arrested, Sunday Afordimnze Asika aka Aboy Ekwensu, whom the Nigerian Army claimed to have arrested in Ezinifite in Aguata LGA of Anambra State, has never been an ESN member. A statement by…
Students of Adamawa State Polytechnic went wild Monday, protesting days of a blackout that also meant a lack of water. The male and female students in hostels on the main campus in Yola staged the protest, condemning the lack of power and water, which they said they had endured for over a week. The students, wielding sticks and green leaves, also complained about a lack of access to the management to lay their complaints. The students gathered in front of the main gate of the polytechnic, which lies by the major road linking Jimeta, headquarters of Yola North LGA, with…
Popular socio-political activist, Aisha Yesufu, has questioned the rationale behind the arrest of investigative journalists in the country. Aisha, who was reacting to the recent arrest of an investigative journalist and whistle-blower @PIDOMNIGERIA by the Nigeria Police Force, asked President Bola Tinubu to reveal what he is hiding from Nigerians. DAILY POST reports that the whistleblower, who had uncovered and leaked several secret memos from both the government and private establishments, was arrested in Rivers State on August 5. The arrest, which was confirmed by the police on August 24, has been raising dust, particularly on social media, with Nigerians…
Casemiro’s wife, Anna Mariana, has hit back at critics of the Manchester United midfielder by posting his stunning trophy collection. The Brazil international was taken off by manager Erik ten Hag during the half time of their 3-0 defeat to Liverpool on Sunday. Casemiro was directly at fault for the first two goals United conceded in the first half. Ten Hag replaced the former Real Madrid man with academy graduate, Toby Collyer. Before he was hooked off, however, angry supporters turned on Casemiro, with jeers ringing out around Old Trafford. The criticisms continued on social media and in response, Anna…