Sport

South African club permanently banned from football after scoring 59 goals in one match

South African club permanently banned from football after scoring 59 goals in one match Two Southern Africa football teams with one based in Limpopo banned for life for scoring 59:1 and another scoring 31:1 in a lower division league in what seems to be the battle to gain promotion according to soccer24. Matiyasi FC, who

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National News

How delegates across states voted in PDP presidential primary

How delegates across states voted in PDP presidential primary Governor Nyesom Wike, who picked reasonable votes from Lagos, won Oyo and Ekiti, where he got the backing of Governor Seyi Makinde and former Governor Ayodele Fayose respectively. But Atiku won overall. Premium Times obtained details of how the various state delegates voted at Saturday’s Special

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National

PDP national delegate empowers people in his community with proceeds from primaries

PDP national delegate empowers people in his community with proceeds from primaries Mr. Tanko Rossi Sabo, a PDP delegate who came back with the money he got, has shared it all with his community in Sanga LGA of Kaduna State. According to a former SA Media to late Governor Yakowa of Kaduna State, Reuben Buhari,

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Special Report

Menace of erosion on Niger Delta people

Menace of erosion on Niger Delta people On a sweltering Friday afternoon last April, Kenneth Omokahire sat close to four neighbours outside his house in the Anibeze community in the southernmost Nigerian state of Bayelsa, lamenting to the men about coastal erosion in the town. “What else can we do?” asked 65-year-old Omokahire, whose former

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News

Police raid shrine in Delta, recover two assault rifles

Police raid shrine in Delta, recover two assault rifles Police in Delta State have raided a community shrine where they recovered two FNC assault rifles and arrested two suspects. The raid was occasioned by restiveness in Ugboren, an oil bearing community in Sapele local government area of the state, over leadership tussle. ALSO READ: Police

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News

WhatsApp increases group limits to 512, adds more features

WhatsApp, a social media messaging platform, has increased the number of participants that can be accommodated in a group to 512, from 5 May 2022. In 2017, WhatsApp increased the number of participants to 256, which remained constant till the recent update. The messaging platform in an earlier tweet on 5, May 2022, stated that

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Environment News

CEPEJ, other NGOs clean up Warri, Effurun to mark 2022 World Environment Day

Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), a non-governmental organisation, was joined by other NGOs on Wednesday, to clean up Warri and the surroundings as part of the activities to commemorate the 2022 World Environment Day. The participants picked refuse from Enerhen Junction through Hausa Quarter to Igbudu market under a carnival-like atmosphere. The World

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National News

Goodluck Jonathan is God’s will as APC candidate – Cleric

Ahead of the Presidential pri­maries of the All Progressives Congress (APC), an Abuja-based cleric, Pastor Prize Aluko, has declared that former President Goodluck Jonathan is already the party’s Presidential candidate by the authoritative will of God. The senior pastor of The Resurrected Assembly (GROM) and convener of Abuja Minis­ters Prayer Outreach (AMPO) disclosed that whatever

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Africa News

Zimbabweans selling toes $20,000 amid high cost of living

Zimbabweans selling toes $20,000 amid high cost of living Zimbabweans are reportedly cutting their toes in exchange for dollars to survive the cost of living in their country, following the nation’s economic downturn, a video seen by Ripples Nigeria, on Tuesday, disclosed. The video posted on social media platform, Twitter, showed a man limping, with

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