2022 World Cup Qualifiers: Egypt beat Angola, Libya snatch late winner against Gabon

2022 World Cup Qualifiers: Egypt beat Angola, Libya snatch late winner against Gabon

Egypt and Libya recorded home wins on Wednesday night in Group F Matchday 1 of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup African qualifiers. The Pharaohs scored early to beat Angola 1-0 in Cairo, while the Mediterranean Knights needed a stoppage-time goal to beat Gabon 2-1 in Benghazi. At the June 30 Stadium in Cairo, Egypt […]
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Long vacation: How to protect children from paedophiles — Ronke Adeniyi

Long vacation: How to protect children from paedophiles — Ronke Adeniyi

By Elizabeth Osayande THE Director, Le Posh School, Ikoyi Lagos, Mrs Ronke Adeniyi, has stated that parents have a great role to play in protecting their children from paedophiles.  She called schools not to be found wanting in the discharge of their duties too. Her words: “We have to tackle paedophilia head on from all […]

[Opinion] Why Ndigbo should put on their thinking cap

[Opinion] Why Ndigbo should put on their thinking cap

By Chidi Nkwopara THIS issue was not into reckoning until after the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Imo State, Professor Francis Ezeonu, finished addressing the press recently, in Owerri. Although Professor Ezeonu’s address centred on “the roll-out of the online registration portal for the resumption of the Continuous Voter Registration, CVR”, by the Independent National Electoral […]

APC LATEST: Court stops Buni, other caretaker excos

APC LATEST: Court stops Buni, other caretaker excos

A Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba, yesterday, restrained Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State along with other members from acting or parading themselves as the All Progressives Congress, APC, Caretaker/ Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, CECPC, members until the determination of a substantive suit before the court.

Conflicting court orders: Sanction judges, lawyers involved  —Agbakoba, Quakers, Candide-Johnson, Erugo, Fashanu, Alliyu, others

Conflicting court orders: Sanction judges, lawyers involved —Agbakoba, Quakers, Candide-Johnson, Erugo, Fashanu, Alliyu, others

THE era of conflicting orders by courts of coordinate jurisdictions has reappeared recently, mostly over political party power tussle, as seen in the cases of Mr Uche Secondus, stopped from parading as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Anambra State governorship candidate in the November 6, 2021, poll, Charles Soludo

How COVID-19 widens barriers to quality non-formal education — Commission

How COVID-19 widens barriers to quality non-formal education — Commission

By Joseph Erunke The National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult And Non-Formal Education has said non-formal education declined in 2020 compared to 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The development, according to the commission, created barriers to learning opportunities for children and out-of-school youths, dropouts and non-literate people of all ages in accessing knowledge and […]

The way out for the South [opinion]

The way out for the South [opinion]

By Sunny Ikhioya The world has gone beyond conquest of smaller nations by bigger nations based on size and population; technology and intelligence have taken care of that. And that is the direction the world is moving, with reference to countries like Israel, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Finland, Sweden and some others in Europe. If […]

Question on Buhari’s legacy

Question on Buhari’s legacy

By Ikechukwu Amaechi PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari never ceases to confound. Even his most strident supporters are gradually but inexorably coming to the inevitable reality: he is a study in hypocrisy. His claim to higher standards is a ruse. Too often, he fails to follow his own expressed moral rules and principles. I will come back […]

IBB @80 and the future republic of Nigeria

IBB @80 and the future republic of Nigeria

By Segun Ige PRECISELY 10 days before his 80th birthday, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida spoke expressly regarding the nature and structure of the present pristine conditions of the presidency vis-a-vis what was obtainable during the military era. On the Arise TV interview aired on Friday, August 6, IBB offered his forthright perceptiveness, especially within the […]

Establishing peace in Mali: Ways and prospects

Establishing peace in Mali: Ways and prospects

Ali Djawad  We talked to Grégoire Cyrille Dongobada, a military observer and political studies researcher, based in Central Africa, about the current situation in Mali in wake of constantly declining security situation in the region. The greatest concern with no doubt is the fact that the pace of deterioration of the security situation in Mali, […]