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Super Eagles Maintain 39th Position In FIFA Ranking

The Super Eagles of Nigeria remain in the 39th position in the latest FIFA monthly ranking released on Thursday. Jose Peseiro’s side also retained their position as the sixth-best team in Africa. The Super Eagles are behind Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt on the continent. The West Africans were last in action in June when they defeated the Leone Stars of...

EPL: Bruno Fernandes Named Man Utd’s New Captain

  Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has named midfielder Bruno Fernandes as the club’s new permanent captain. Man United disclosed this in a statement via its website on Thursday This comes after Ten Hag’s decision to strip Harry Maguire of the armband amid the defender’s uncertain future. “Bruno Fernandes has been named as the new club captain of Manchester United,” Man United’s...

Fuel Price Hike: Nigerians Roar In Anger, NLC, NUJ,  Fume, As Trouble Looms

Nigerians were jolted on Tuesday following a further increase in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, popularly known as petrol. Reports that anger and condemnations poured in from across the country, with the citizens describing the decision as insensitive. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had in his inaugural address on May 29, 2023, announced an end to the fuel subsidy...

Ngor Okpala PDP Elects Amajirionwu Chairman, Prof Njoku Remains Apex Leader

The contentious issue surrounding the emergence of a new Local Government Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Ngor Okpala, has been finally resolved, as the party has elected a new chairman in the person of Sir Emeka Chidi Amajirionwu. Amajirionwu emerged chairman after an election conducted by the party in the premises of the Apex Leader of Ngor...

 2023 Imo Guber: YPP Candidate Opara Insists It Is Owerri Zone Turn

.Flashes Back 1991 Charter of Equity By Okey Alozie The  Young Peoples Party, YPP flagbearer for the November 2023 Imo guber election, Dr Kemdi Opara has declared that it is the turn of Owerri zone to produce Governor of Imo State based on the agreement made by Leaders of the State from various zones regardless of their political platforms. The YPP guber candidate...

N70bn Palliative: Human Right Lawyer, Falana Charley Boy Oputa Carpets

Tinubu Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has condemned the National Assembly over the decision to allocate N70 billion as palliatives for its members. Falana, in a press statement released on Sunday, said the move is illegal and contemptuous. The allocation of N70 billion, disbursed among 306 newly elected members, in addition to N40 billion set aside for the purchase of Sports Utility...

Imo PDP Describes Uzodinma’s 40k Minimum Wage Greek Gift

.Says Governor Hardly Keeps Promises The Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic party notes with hysteria the Greek gift of N40,000 minimum wage, proposed for state civil servants by the governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma at a stakeholders meeting in the Rockview Hotel, Owerri on Saturday. Much as we join the workers to celebrate the said palliative, we still have our...

Insecurity:  Owerri West Boils, As Three Shot Dead

By Peter Uzoma  The spate of insecurity which has engulfed the Agwa, Izombe and Ejemekwuru Communities in Oguta LGA, Imo State is gradually spreading its tentacles to other neighbouring communities of Orogwe, Ohii, Ndegwu, Amakohia-ubi and Irete, in Owerri-West LGA. Apart from previous incidents, Orogwe and Ndegwu Communities last Tuesday tasted the sour grape of life as unknown gunmen snuffed life...

Ex -Federal Lawmaker, Alagbaoso, Thanks Constituents, Affirms Charter of Equity on Uzodimma’s

Member who represented Orlu, Orsu and Oru East Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Asiwaju Jerry Alagbaoso, has expressed gratitude to his Constituents: Ezes, his Campaign Council and his political associates from different zones of Imo State for their massive support throughout his sojourn in the National Assembly. Alagbaoso who addressed Ezes of Orlu, Orsu and Oru...

Attack On Uzodimma: Amajirionwu Describes Ikenga As Rabble-Rouser

A former Special Adviser SA to Governor Hope Uzodimma and former member of Imo State House of Assembly, Okenze Blyden Amajirionwu has lambasted the member representing Ideato federal Constituency in the House of representatives, Hon Ikenga Ugochinyere for his continued attacks and blackmail on Governor Uzodimma. Hon Amajirionwu while reacting to heaps of allegations levelled against the Governor by...