FIFA to fund construction of Technical Centre in Mali

The International Football Federation will finance the construction of a technical centre, at Kabala, near the Malian capital, Bamako, a sports source told PANA on Monday. FIFA will also implement…

Lagos plans takeover of Apapa presidential task force operations

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Monday said the Lagos State Government had started the process of taking over the operations of the Presidential Task Force on Port Decongestion that had been…

Reps back Trump, increase COVID-19 stimulus to $2,000

In a 275-134 vote on Monday, the US House of Representatives backed President Donald Trump’s demand for 2,000 dollars (N776,000) coronavirus stimulus cheque for American workers. The vote came barely…

Second wave: South Africa imposes fresh restrictions

South Africa banned alcohol sales and made masks mandatory in public from Tuesday after a surge in coronavirus cases, as the World Health Organization warned that pandemics far more deadly…

US police officer fired after killing unarmed Black man

A white police officer who shot dead a Black man in Columbus, Ohio, last week was fired on Monday, city officials said. The death of Andre Maurice Hill triggered outrage…

Transporting containers in Lagos equals shipping cost from China – Report

The congestion at the Apapa port in Lagos has become so bad that trucking a container from the port to the mainland which is just about 20km, now costs about…

COVID-19 second wave: FG, National Assembly consider UK, US flights’ ban next week

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Aviation, Senator Smart Adeyemi, on Monday said the National Assembly and the Ministry of Aviation were considering banning flights from the United Kingdom,…

Oshiomhole can’t subvert people’s will through judiciary– Shaibu

Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, has urged a former Governor of the state, Adams Oshiomhole, not to subvert the will of the people and jettison the plan to overturn…

SERAP demands 2021 security votes’ details

An anti-corruption group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, says it has sent a Freedom of Information requests to the President, Major Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and the governors of the 36…

Police promotions not based on ethnic considerations, PSC replies Ohanaeze

The Police Service Commission has refuted allegations of marginalisation of the South-East in the latest promotions of senior police officers made by the Ohanaeze Ndigbo. It said that promotion in…