Author: Rashaad Harris

Nigeria’s Asisat Oshoala clinched the CAF Women’s Award for 2022 yesterday at a ceremony held in Rabat. The 27-year-old Barcelona forward helped the Spanish side win the La Liga women League last season. This was the fifth time the Super Falcons forward won the award and she did so ahead of Ajara Nchout Njoya (Cameroon and Inter Milan) and Zambia international Grace Chanda (Zambia and BIIK Kazygurt). With this, she becomes the first African to win this prestigious for a record five times, overtaking Perpetua Nkwocha who claimed the accolade on four occasions. She was instrumental in Barcelona’s charge to…

Sadio Mane has been named as the best male African footballer of the year. The Bayern Munich man pipped former Liverpool teammate, Mohammed Salah to the award, after a season of heroics for the two men, both for club and their respective Countries. READ MORE Salah, Mane & Mendy make 3-man shortlist for African Men’s Player of the Year award Both Mane and Salah scored a combined number of 54 goals between them as Liverpool competed on four fronts, winning two trophies. Meanwhile, Chelsea goalkeeper and Sadio Mane’s Senegalese teammate, Edouard Mendy came third. Sadio Mane scored the winning penalty…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board(JAMB) has approved a new set of scores as cut-off marks into Nigerian higher institutions of learning. The Board approved 140 as cut off mark for universities. While 100 is now the official cut-off mark for those seeking admission into polytechnics and colleges of education. This was the decision taken at the 2022 Policy meeting on Admissions presided over by the Minister of Education in Abuja. According to Channels TV, the Registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, who announced the cut-off after votes by vice chancellors of universities, rectors of polytechnics and provosts of colleges…

Tech giant, Google has released the list of the top most searched personalities, music, movies, high profile deaths as well as sports in the first quarter of 2022. Mr Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Communications and Public Relations Manager, Google West Africa, disclosed this on Thursday. He said Peter Obi, Vladimir Putin and Bianca Ojukwu were the top three most searched names in Nigeria between January and June of 2022. “Bianca Ojukwu, the widow of late Biafran warlord, Chukuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu also led search interest by Nigerians when she slapped Ebelechukwu, the wife of immediate past governor of Anambra , Chief Willie Obiano.…

A Jos-based broadcaster, Caleb Senda has narrated how a friend of his paid a Hundred Thousand Naira (100k) to secure a job, only to get the shock of his life. Senda, in a terse narration on his facebook page on Thursday, said this friend of his traveled all the way from Jos, Plateau State to Lagos only to discover it was a multi-level-marketing (MLM) job, popularly known as “bring two people.” He said after his friend discovered the kind of job, he rejected it and requested that the MLM company refund his N100k, but the company refused. He said the…

On Tuesday, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) submitted exhibits to an Abuja High Court, linking former Deputy Commissioner of Police(DCP), Abba Kyari to drug trafficking offences. The exhibits submitted included $61, 400(N25, 505, 560) and 24 packs of cocaine. According to the NDLEA, $61, 400 is the alleged amount he(Kyari) used in bribing the NDLEA officers who nabbed him, whilst the 24 packs of cocaine were at the crux of the trial. The Agency said Kyari tried bribing its senior officer at a restaurant in Abuja, in order to divert them from testing the cocaine that was being…

Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah has been named on the final three-man shortlist for the 2022 African Men’s Player of the Year award.Former Liverpool forward, Sadio Mane and Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy complete the shortlist for the award, which will be handed out on Thursday July 21. Salah made 51 appearances for Liverpool last season, scoring 31 goals while providing 16 assists, and helped inspire Egypt to the final of the Africa Cup of Nations in February. He was named the Professional Footballers’ Association Men’s Players’ Player of the Year and Football Writers’ Association Footballer of the Year and won the Premier…

One of the fake ‘bishops’ the APC hired to pose as Christian leaders at the unveiling of the Party’s Vice Presidential Candidate, Kashim Shettima, has spoken up about how he was deceived. The man who gave his name as Joseph Odaudu said Bola Tinubu’s men broke the agreement they had and only gave him N40, 000 when the event was over. “They came to meet us at the car park behind Eagle Square and they promised to give me N100,000. They bought food for us and took us to another place where they gave us clothes to dress like Christian…

Over seventeen teenagers and young men supposedly in their early 20s, have been arrested for impersonating Peter Okoye of the P-Square. According to the Musician, the suspects were arrested in relation to a fake account they have created where they have been defrauding people of their monies. Peter said on twitter, “Take a good look at some of the fraudsters you are indirectly paying your hard earned money into the bank account they created as PETER OKOYE all in the name of ZOOM GIVEAWAY!” “Over 17 of them have been arrested and interrogated and charged to court with full evidence!”

Justice Musa Mustapha of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on Wednesday, convicted and sentenced one Tijjani Mohammed Bulama to six month imprisonment on a one count amended charge of criminal misappropriation. Bulama, a Point of Sale, POS operator, was prosecuted by the Maiduguri Zonal Command of the EFCC, following his investigation for criminally diverting the sum of N1.5m which a customer had asked him to transfer to another recipient. The amended charge read, “That you, Tijjani Mohammed Bulama on 26th day of May, 2022 at Maiduguri, Borno State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, being entrusted with dominion over…