Super Eagles head coach, Jose Peseiro has warned his players they must be at their best to beat South Africa. The Super Eagles of Nigeria will take on the Bafana Bafana of South Africa in a semi-final fixture at the ongoing 2023 Africa Cup of Nations on Wednesday. Despite the three-time champions impressing football fans with their intelligent display in Cote d’Ivoire, Peseiro claims it is important for the players to give more than 100 hundred percent on the pitch when they face the South Africans. “We’re doing a good job. Good organisation and good commitment, we play like a team together ..read more

A 400-level female student at Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Adaeze Doris Jaja, has reportedly committed suicide.    Spokesperson of the State Police Command, Omolola Odutola, who confirmed the incident on Tuesday, February 6, 2024, said the 31-year-old died in a hotel room.   The PPRO said Adaeze was reported to have been found lying unconscious and foaming in the mouth with an empty bottle of Sniper beside her.   Odutola explained that the incident was reported to the Divisional Police Officer, Ago Iwoye Division, on January 27 at about 7:30 a.m. &nb ..read more

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday night February 6, arrived  Abuja after a two-week private visit to Paris, France.   The presidential jet landed at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Int’| Airport at about 9pm.    He was received by top government officials, including his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila; Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume; National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.   Watch the video below…       ..read more

There was heavy traffic gridlock in some parts of Lagos as motorists formed long queues outside the forecourts of filling stations on what appeared may herald a fresh scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit. Fuel queues resurface in Lagos state One of Pinch correspondents observed along the Ikorodu Road axis how motorists endured an unusually heavy gridlock due to a long queue of motorists waiting to buy petrol at filling stations. Also, the Total Filling station at the Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way had queues which led to heavy tariff around the Ikeja axis. Punch correspondent also noticed that many of ..read more

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that Donald Trump does not have immunity from charges that he plotted to overturn his 2020 election defeat, bringing the former U.S. President a step closer to an unprecedented criminal trial. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted because the allegations relate to his official responsibilities as President. “For the purpose of this criminal case, former President Trump has become citizen Trump, with all of the defences of any other criminal defendant,” t ..read more

Doyin David is trending on X after she failed to answer basic current affairs questions when she appeared on TV.   The Big Brother Naija star was a guest on the Channels TV program Morning Brief where she was asked several questions.   She got some right but failed several other questions and people are focusing on the answers she got wrong.   The interviewer asked her who the inspector general of police is and she confessed that she didn’t know the man. She was then asked the name of Nigeria’s only Nobel laureate and she couldn’t answer.     Doyin then asked the inte ..read more

The mother of a school shooter has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter in a first-of-its-kind trial.    Prosecutors said Jennifer Crumbley, 43, was grossly negligent when she failed to tell Oxford High School in Michigan that the family had guns, including a 9 mm handgun that her son Ethan Crumbley used to kill four students.    Today, February 6, 2024, a jury found Jennifer Crumbley guilty of involuntary manslaughter.      Ethan Crumbley, 15 at the time, murdered four students and injured seven people, including a teacher, in a mass shooting on Nove ..read more

A lawyer identified as Eze Victor Agala, collapsed and died outside a courtroom in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.   The legal practitioner, who is a native of Ibaa in Emohua LGA of the state, slumped just as he stepped outside the Magistrate Court building on Moscow Road, Port Harcourt.    He was immediately rushed to the Police Clinic where he was confirmed dead.   The leadership of the Port Harcourt branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has yet to comment on the incident but his friends and colleagues have taken to social media to mourn him.    ..read more

The Federal Government on Tuesday amended charges filed against the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Ladi Adebutu, and nine others before a State High Court sitting in Abeokuta. FG arraigns Ogun PDP Guber candidate, Adebutu for ‘vote buying’ The charges were amended to accommodate and arraign Adebutu in the suit instituted in July, 2023, on allegations of financial inducement of voters during the March 18 election. Nine other defendants were arraigned by the Federal Government in July, 2023 with the exception of Adebutu who was reportedly out of the c ..read more

South Carolina State University (SCSU) was under a lockdown on Tuesday, Feb. 6, amid reports of an active shooter.   Officials said the suspect was wearing all black with a ski mask.    Both SCSU and Claflin University were on lockdown as of around 11:30am, ABC reported. The lockdowns were lifted by 12:45pm, according to a SCSU spokesperson.      The university said a 19-year-old student was arrested on Tuesday in connection to shots being fired inside an academic building.    Sophomore Rolando J. Ifill has been charged with carrying a firearm on schoo ..read more