Former Super Falcons coach, Ismaila Mabo, has urged the Nigeria Football Federation to ensure the women’s national team began preparations on time for the 2023 Women’s World Cup, The PUNCH reports. The biggest women’s football tournament has been scheduled to hold in Australia and New Zealand in the summer. The Falcons were disappointing at the Women’s
Head coach of the Golden Eaglets, Nduka Ugbade, has expressed optimism that the Golden Eaglets will compete favourably at the 2023 U-17 African Cup of Nations billed for Algeria from April 29 to May 19, The PUNCH reports. At the draw ceremony in Algiers, the Eaglets were drawn in Group B against Morocco, Zambia and
Political engagement and the electoral process are major parameters used in measuring the progress of democracy in a democratic state. Apathy means indifference. Political apathy is the indifference or lack of interest of an individual in participating in political activities. It mostly occurs as a result of the disappointment of the citizenry in the government,
Avoidable deaths from container-laden trucks
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IN swift succession, containers attached to trucks are wreaking havoc across Lagos. A tragic accident on Sunday on the Ojuelegba Interchange in which a 20-foot container fell on a commercial bus was replicated in near-similar incidents the next day on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway and the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The Ojuelegba accident was the most catastrophic as
TOPE OMOGBOLAGUN writes on recurring accidents involving containers and tankers, which have been killing people in the country especially Lagos State It was yet another sad moment in Lagos on Sunday when a 20-foot container on an articulated truck fell on a minibus and crushed nine people to death in the Ojuelegba area of the
On Tuesday, a lawyer wrote to the management of the Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri, Imo State, apologising on behalf of Ogechi Okoroafor, a graduating student of the institution. A day earlier, Miss Okoroafor posted a video on social media in which she attributed her graduation to God and her private parts. The video received immediate
Will Peter Obi disappoint us?
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There is so much rage in the land. People are angry at those that presently manage our commonwealth. Even the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has succumbed to the mass angst and is also attacking his own party. But I want us to understand one important truth. It is not about
Don’t buy Tinubu’s parasitism
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Since the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate Bola Tinubu made his infamous speech about saboteurs trying to scuttle his election in Ogun State, recently the airwaves have been agog with conspiracy theories. Of course, he did not name anyone but he gave speculators enough homework when he lamented that the protracted fuel crisis and the
Some yet-to-be-identified assailants have attacked the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission at Ojoto, in the Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State. The hoodlums also attacked the Nnobi Police Station and a residential building at the station. Both Ojoto and Nnobi are in the Idemili South LGA. PUNCH Metro gathered that the
The Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, has paid a condolence visit to the family of a former Vice Chancellor of the Abia State University and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the governorship election in the state, Prof Uche Ikonne, who died recently. Describing the death as shocking, Ikpeazu, who was accompanied
Stadium withdrawal: Wike working for Tinubu – PDP PCC 
