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The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President, Ibrahim Gusau, is expected to address the media in Abuja on Thursday amid reports that he has resigned from office. The NFF president is scheduled to speak at a world press conference at the federation’s headquarters, where the reported resignation and the growing crisis surrounding Nigerian football are expected to dominate the engagement. Reports have emerged that Mr Gusau and several members of the NFF Executive Committee have resigned amid mounting pressure on the federation following a series of disappointing results involving Nigeria’s national teams. A source familiar with the development said the NFF…
The wife of embattled Delta State content creator, Ifeanyi Ogbonna, popularly known as Odogwu of Asaba, has defended her husband against allegations that he raped 20-year-old Favour Agbro, saying he only had an affair with the deceased. The woman, whose name was not stated, made the claim in a video uploaded on the content creator’s page on Wednesday, while insisting that she would continue to stand by her husband. The Delta State Police Command had arrested Ogbonna, 40, in connection with the alleged rape of Favour, who later died after ingesting a toxic substance. The police said the suspect allegedly…
US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) drew $232.1 million in net inflows on Wednesday, slowing from the previous day while extending their inflow streak to eight trading days.The latest inflow was down about 26% from Tuesday’s $314.4 million and marked the smallest daily total since Aug. 18, according to SoSoValue data.The eight-session streak has attracted about $2.8 billion, cutting year-to-date net outflows to about $2.03 billion. Cumulative net inflows rose to $54.6 billion, while total net assets reached $98.6 billion.Daily inflows in US spot Bitcoin ETFs since Aug. 17. Source: SoSoValueThe slowdown came as Bitcoin stalled after briefly climbing above…
Pennsylvania’s Hersheypark theme park has responded to backlash over an ill-timed social media post following the death of Dolly Parton. “We join the millions mourning the loss of Dolly Parton, whose generosity, talent and spirit touched so many,” a park spokesperson told People in a statement on Wednesday, August 26. “A member of our social media team noticed inaccurate pricing information about Hersheypark within a post and intended to respond directly just to that individual to correct it, not realizing the reply would appear as a response to a conversation about Dollywood. It was removed as soon as we recognized…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the forfeiture of cash and assets worth more than $500 million to the federal government in the past three years, the commission’s chairman, Ola Olukoyede, has said. Mr Olukoyede said this on Wednesday while delivering a lecture at the 43rd Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime in the United Kingdom. “Within three years of my assumption of office, we’ve been able to forfeit both cash and assets worth over half a billion dollars to the government,” he said. The EFCC chairman said Nigeria’s legal framework allows the commission to seek forfeiture…
The Nigerian government has set a target to provide reliable electricity to at least 30 per cent of health facilities by the end of 2027, as about 40 per cent of functional Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) currently lack access to electricity. The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Iziaq Salako, disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja at the official launch of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA)-Renewable Asset Management Company (RAMCO). The event was held under the theme, “Powering Sustainable Growth: Launching Nigeria’s Renewable Asset Management Company.” Mr Salako said the electricity deficit in health facilities was undermining healthcare…
The Abia State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Nigerian Railway Corporation to enable the state to construct an access road across the railway corridor linking Okpara Square and Akanu Ibiam Street (Goodshed) to Bende Road in Umuahia, the state capital. Speaking at the event on Wednesday, Governor Alex Otti said the access road was part of a comprehensive plan to give the state capital a facelift and tackle traffic challenges around the corridor. He said, “And that’s why it is important that we have this. Because there are a lot of things, like I told you…
Brian Austin Green had such a great time filming Totally ‘90s House for HGTV that he wants to return — without any new additions. “I wouldn’t nominate anyone else,” Green, 53, quipped exclusively to Us during a joint interview with Beverley Mitchell and Jodie Sweetin. “I think the three of us should come back and do season 2.” Totally ‘90s House, which airs Wednesdays on HGTV, follows Green from Beverly Hills, 90210, Mitchel, 45, of 7th Heaven fame and Full House‘s Sweetin, 44, who are paired off against Melissa Joan Hart from Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Boy Meets World‘s Matthew…
President Bola Tinubu has expressed condolences to the family and colleagues of veteran journalist and publisher of The Eagle Online, Dotun Oladipo, who died on Tuesday at 56. President Tinubu, in a statement issued on Wednesday by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, described Mr Oladipo’s death as a loss to Nigeria’s media industry and the country. Mr Oladipo, a former Political Editor at PUNCH Newspapers, died suddenly on Tuesday. The Eagle Online publisher had a journalism career spanning nearly three decades and worked with several Nigerian newspapers before establishing the online publication. President Tinubu said Mr…
Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, has proposed setting aside some jobs exclusively for humans and taxing AI and robots as part of measures to manage the disruption he expects artificial intelligence to cause in the labour market. Gates made the proposals in a more than 6,000-word essay titled “The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical,” published on his Gates Notes website on Wednesday. The proposals formed part of Gates’ recommendations for managing what he described as the transition into an AI era that could fundamentally change how people work, earn income and organise society. ‘Human…
