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Super Eagles Manager, Augustine Eguavoen, claims that Nigeria deserves to be at the Qatar 2022 World Cup ahead of Ghana. Eguavoen is currently getting ready for the big clash between Nigeria and Ghana, which decides, who, among the two, will be in Qatar later this year. The two sides will meet in Cape Coast, Ghana, on March 25 and play the decisive leg in Abuja, Nigeria, on March 29. The winner over two legs will pick the ticket to be among Africa’s five countries at the Qatar 2022 World Cup. Speaking to a Ghanasportspagea, Eguavoen, who led Nigeria to a…

PCC wades in as ERC condemns minister’s walkout on students The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has developed a charter of demands it will present to political office-seekers for the 2023 general elections. At the Workers’ Political Conference organised by NLC in Abuja, yesterday, the President of NLC, Ayuba Wabba, listed the charter to include equity, fairness and social justice. “Our charter of demands asks for free and quality education to tertiary level for every Nigerian child. It insists that every Nigerian should access free and quality healthcare from cradle to grave. It posits that politicians should no longer be allowed…

Strike will soon be truncated – Ngige • Utomi, ex-VCs, others warn on dangers of strike • Arewa leaders call for truce • ‘Successive govts have failed in education devt’ • Strike lowering education standard, says ex-ACF chief • Senator Adeyemi asks ASUU, govt to come to middle ground As university students await return of academic activities after severe disruption as a result of last month’s warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), stakeholders have warned that continued shut down of schools might further destroy the already battered tertiary education system in the country. The stakeholders, in…

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich on Wednesday confirmed he will sell the Premier League club amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russian billionaire Abramovich has decided it is in the “best interest” of the Champions League holders if he parts ways with the club he has transformed since his purchase in 2003. “As I have stated before, I have always taken decisions with the club’s best interest at heart,” Abramovich said in a statement. “In the current situation, I have therefore taken the decision to sell the club, as I believe this is in the best interest of the club, the fans,…

A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has said that Nigeria is in the process of total collapse. The former INEC boss stated this on Wednesday in Abuja at the 2022 Workers’ Political Conference organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress. He described the 2023 general elections as critical for Nigeria’s unity. Jega said, “The sorry state of the socio-economic conditions under which the Nigerian working people, indeed the overwhelming majority of all citizens live and work, the reckless misrule and misgovernance by a tiny, rabid and reckless band of the elite, and the manner by…

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to transmit a bill to the National Assembly to amend the Petroleum Industry Act. Lawan stated this before he referred the president’s request for the amendment of the 2022 Appropriation Act to the Committee on Appropriation after the bill scaled the second reading. He said the request seeking an amendment to the PIA would enable the National Assembly to extend the subsidy regime in the Petroleum Industry Act to be in line with the president’s request for an additional N2.557 trillion to cover the fuel subsidy in…

Hansjorg Wyss, one of Switzerland’s richest men, said Wednesday he had been offered the chance to buy Chelsea, with the European football champions’ Russian owner Roman Abramovich under growing scrutiny. Wyss, 86, who founded the medical device manufacturing firm Synthes, told the Swiss newspaper Blick that he and three others had been sounded out on Tuesday. But Wyss wants Abramovich to lower his asking price for the English Premier League side. Abramovich revealed Saturday that he plans to place his ownership of the Blues into the “stewardship and care” of the Chelsea Foundation’s trustees. Abramovich has not been named on…

English Premier League club Everton on Wednesday said they had “suspended with immediate effect” sponsorship agreements with several companies in which Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov has a stake, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “The club can confirm that it has suspended with immediate effect all commercial sponsorship arrangements with the Russian companies USM, Megafon and Yota,” said an Everton statement. Uzbek-born Usmanov’s USM Holdings sponsors Everton’s training ground, with an initial five-year deal announced in 2017. It also has an option on naming rights for the Toffees’ new stadium — a deal worth £30 million ($40 million) to the Merseyside…

A group of Young Nigerians under the auspices of #TakeBackNaija# Movement has promised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over 10 million votes in the 2023 presidential election, should they present former Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, as the party standard bearer. The National Coordinator of the group, Ali Mohammad, who made this known in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, after an interactive session with the youth group and other stakeholders ahead of party primaries, pleaded with the PDP leadership to consider Obi as the presidential standard bearer, considering the fact that what is at stake in 2023 is beyond party politics,…

The Chairman of delegation of Saraki Contact and Advocacy Council (SCAC) Prof Iyorwuese Hagher said Nigeria need a competent leader like Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki to fix the country. Hagher stated this yesterday in Gusau , Zamfara State capital, when he and the advocacy team visited Zamfara Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders . The former Nigeria envoy to Mexico maintained that Nigerians are yearning for good governance which President Muhammadu Buhari failed to provide hence a need to bring a competent person to do the job. He noted that Saraki being a former senate president and governor is well qualified…