Author: Rashaad Harris

During mop-up campaigns across the nation to key swing states and vote bloc epicentres, Labor Party presidential candidate — Peter Obi, said that his party, which he claimed had no structure, had surpassed the big parties with massive structures in terms of public support and ballot demand in just seven months, counting from May of last year. Speaking through Comrade Tony Akeni, the head of the LP’s Presidential Campaign Council’s (LP-PCC) national publicity, contact, and mobilization team, Obi congratulated Nigerians on their victory and urged them to support him in the upcoming presidential and national assembly elections so that he…

Flying Eagles head coach, Ladan Bosso insists his team’s pedigree at the age-grade level will be vital in their bid to have a successful outing at the 2023 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations.Bosso’s side are among the 12 teams that will compete for honours at the competition which will start on Sunday (today). The Flying Eagles are in a tricky group with hosts Egypt, Mozambique and Senegal The seven-time champions will face the Cubs of Senegal in their opening fixture at the Cairo International Stadium on Sunday (today). “Nigeria has experience in major tournaments and we’re in Egypt to compete…

The Super Falcons lost their second game at the 2023 Revelations Cup in Mexico after losing 1-0 to Colombia on Saturday night.Recall the Falcons lost by the same margin to hosts Mexico in their first game of the four-national tournament. Linda Caicedo got the only goal of the game for Colombia in the eight minute. Caicedo featured for Colombia at the 2022 FIFA U-17 women’s World Cup in India where they finished second.The 17-year-old robbed Halimatu Ayinde of the ball on the edge of the box before volleying in a left foot strike into the bottom corner.The Falcons will round…

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has claimed that the citizens of his state won’t vote for a Presidential candidate that’ll kill when elected into office. This was said by Wike on Saturday during a campaign event for the Obio-Akpor LGA put on by the PDP’s state branch.The governor praised governors from the All Progressives Congress for their stance on a power shift to the South and said that the people of the state would only vote for unity, fairness, and equity.Wike said: “We are going to vote for the unity of Nigeria. We are going to vote for equity,…

Spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo claims that by refusing to support the masses on the Central Bank of Nigeria’s currency redesign strategy, the opposition parties has scored an own goal. Keyamo who’s also the Minister of State for Labour and Employment made this claim at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in AbujaHe said: “Now you see a situation that we found ourselves, a very convoluted and confusing situation, a situation where the government policy on naira redesign is affecting the masses negatively because of wrong implementation and wrong timing“Instead of the opposition…

THE Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), claimed yesterday that there is a covert plan by criminals to target banks in the South East while posing as people searching for the new currency. The Biafra agitation group stated that it is not a part of such a wicked and vile plot in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, captioned “There is a covert plan to target several banks in Biafra land to blackmail IPOB.”IPOB went on to explain that it learned about the covert scheme from its intelligence division, the M-Branch and that the criminals also claim…

The Confederation of African Football has appointed Moroccan Jalal Jayed as referee for Sunday’s Africa U20 Cup of Nations Group A battle between seven-time champions Nigeria and Senegal at the Cairo International Stadium.Jayed will be assisted by Tunisian Mohamed Bakir (assistant referee 1), Algerian Hamza Bouzit (assistant referee 2) and Ivorian Clement Franklin Kpan, in the match that will kick off at 7pm Egypt time (6pm Nigeria time), three hours after the tournament opening game between hosts Egypt and Mozambique at the same venue. While Hussein Jenayah from Tunisia will be the match commissioner, Burundian Jean Claude Birumushahu will serve…

Pressure is mounting on Chelsea head coach Graham Potter after James Ward-Prowse’s free-kick saw Southampton pick up a massive 1-0 win at Stamford Bridge.A converted free-kick from James Ward-Prowse on the stroke of half-time put the Saints’ captain one goal behind David Beckham in the competition’s all-time standings, and sent Potter’s team to a fourth consecutive winless match in the league.With five of the club’s eight January signings in the staring XI, Potter saw his team labour to find any invention against a Saints side set up by interim boss Ruben Selles to frustrate the hosts’ expensively assembled attacking cavalry.…

The Peoples Democratic Party’s Gubernatorial candidate in Lagos State — Olajide Adediran popularly known as Jandor, has vowed to eradicate harassment from the transport union thugs popularly called “agberos” if voted in as the state’s next government. Jandor made the promise during an electoral college governorship debate held in Lagos, where he asserted that monopoly had eaten deep in all sectors of Lagos’s economy.His words: “Lagos has a problem and that program is monopoly. Monopoly that has eaten deep in all sectors of Lagos’s economy. The first thing to announce to the people of Lagos State is to say, yes…

Arsenal scored twice in stoppage time to win a six-goal thriller at Aston Villa and return to the top of the Premier League.Jorginho’s shot deflected in off Villa goalkeeper Emi Martinez to put Arsenal 3-2 up before substitute Gabriel Martinelli raced clear to score as Villa chased an equaliser. Villa twice led, through Ollie Watkins and Philippe Coutinho, in the first half.They were pegged back by goals from Bukayo Saka and Oleksandr Zinchenko either side of the break.Victory ended Arsenal’s run of three games without a win and took them back above Manchester City after losing to them in midweek.There…