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By Amosu Adeboye Lionel Messi was happy to win the Best FIFA Men’s Player award, but the superstar’s focus is now on helping Barcelona respond to a slow start to the La Liga season. The Argentinian wizard claimed the prize, rebranded in 2016, for the first time, beating Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk and Juventus star Cristiano Ronaldo. It marked his first major individual honour since claiming his fifth Ballon d’Or in 2015 and the 32-year-old was pleased to land the award. “It has been a long time without winning an individual prize,” Messi told reporters. “It is an award…
Cristiano Ronaldo, conspicuously-absent from the FIFA Best Awards at the La Scala Opera house in Milan, on Tuesday took to Instagram to express his feelings in philosophical terms. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ronaldo missed out as Lionel Messi was named FIFA Best Player of the Year for the sixth time on Monday. The Juventus superstar was conspicuous by his absence in Milan at FIFA’s glitzy ceremony on Monday night. Messi took the award ahead of his long-time rival and Liverpool’s defensive rock Virgil van Dijk. The FC Barcelona superstar who won La Liga last season as…
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr Sunday Dare, has expressed the ministry’s commitment to discover and develop young sporting talents for the country. Ms Ngozi Obiechina of the Press and Publication Unit of the ministry made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. She stated that Dare made the ministry’s position known during reception in his honour by 1991 set of Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. She added that the minister made it clear that “sports is a major business and there is the need to groom and nurture young talents…
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered the immediate release of the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, from the custody of the Department of State Service, DSS. Justice Taiwo Taiwo said the activist should be released to his lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), who is to produce him for arraignment whenever he is required. Falana had told the court that since the detention order has expired and application for renewal has been withdrawn, the court should make a consequential order and release Sowore.“If the court wants him and i will produce him (Sowore).” Falana said that…
Gov. Gboyega Oyetola of Osun on Tuesday submitted a list of 35 nominees to the state House of Assembly for confirmation as commissioners and Special Advisers. Mr Timothy Owoeye, the Speaker announced this during plenary on Tuesday. Owoeye said the nominees include six immediate past commissioners and Special Advisers, saying they are expected to submit 25 copies of their Curriculum Vitae to the house not later than Friday, Sept. 27. He said screening would begin on Monday, Sept. 30, while the roaster would be out before Friday. He said the submission of the list had laid to rest rumours that…
The Peoples Democratic Party, its presidential candidate in the Feb. 23 election, Atiku Abubakar, have formally filed their 66 grounds of appeal against the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal at the Supreme Court. Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, a senior lawyer in the legal team of Atiku and PDP, disclosed that the appeal was predicated on 66 grounds, which they believed Justices of the tribunal erred in their verdict on Atiku and PDP’s petition against the election of President Muhammadu Buhari. The five-member panel led by Justice Mohammed Garba had in its judgment delivered on Sept. 11, dismissed the…
By Adeyemi Okediran In recent times, Nigeria has witnessed an unprecedented level of insecurity. This has made national security threats to be a major issue for the government and has prompted a huge allocation of the national budget to security along with grants from foreign countries. Insecurity, especially internal is not a problem that is unique to Nigeria. Other countries both developing and developed face the challenge. The difference however between some of them and our country, Nigeria is how they manage and tackle such threats. It’s an open secret that the world is faced with security challenges, some of…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja Efforts by the President Buhari Administration to reduce poverty in the country through its various Social Investment Programmes have continued to receive accolades from well-meaning individuals and organizations within and outside the shores of the country. The latest is coming from Schwab Foundation, a sister organization of the World Economic Forum WEF, following its conferment of the prestigious Public Social Intrapreneur award on Mrs Maryam Uwais the Special Adviser to the President on Social Investments. A statement by NSIO Communication Manager, Justice Bibiye on Monday, said Mrs Uwais joined 40 other individuals selected from different countries…
President Muhammadu Buhari recently set up an Economic Advisory Council, to replace the country’s Economic Management Team. He also moved some departments and agencies of government to the new Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development. I don’t see why this should become a source of agitation and frustration for some Nigerians. The Economic Advisory Council is chaired by Professor Doyin Salami, a seasoned intellectual. The members are persons of great technocratic ability with a track record of achievement as economists and policy wonks. The Council will meet every month and meet with the President every quarter. The…
WHEN President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, inaugurated his cabinet on August 21, two burning issues were omitted in his speech. I am sure the issues must have been discussed at the ministerial retreat organised by the office of Secretary to the Government of the Federation and the President felt it was no longer necessary to reopen discussions on the two issues during the cabinet inauguration.