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The president of the world’s ruling football body, FIFA, GianniInfantino has arrived in Algeria ahead of the opener of the2023 African Nations Football championship (CHAN).The opener of the tournament pits host Algeria against Libyaat the Nelson Mandela stadium in Algiers.The CHAN is Africa’s second nations’ flagship tournamentreserved solely for players plying their trade in their domesticchampionships....

Ethiopia’s defence forces say members of the AmharaSpecial Forces - allies with the federal government during thetwo-year civil war against fighters from Tigray - have startedwithdrawing from the Tigrayan city of Shire and itsenvironments.This comes as Tigrayan fighters earlier in the week beganhanding over their weapons in line with a peace agreementsigned in November in Pretoria to end the brutal war.Tigraya...

The Supreme Court has agreed to promptly hear an appealby a serving lawmaker, Peter Nwaoboshi who was sentencedto seven years imprisonment.Nwaoboshi who currently represents Delta North SenatorialDistrict in the ninth National Assembly, was convicted andsentenced by the Court of Appeal in Lagos in July 2022 alongwith his two companies for laundering 322 million naira in2014.In a ruling, a five-member panel of the ap...

The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) says a total of 18,551 Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVC)were collected on Thursday 12th of January across EdoState.Figures released by the Edo state INEC Head of VoterEducation and Publicity, Timidi Wariowei showed that IkpobaOkha had the highest number of collections with a total of2931, followed by Ovia North East with 2851, Etsako Westwith 1952, Ovia South West 1587, Ore...

The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malamisays his ministry has prosecuted 1,500 terrorism cases and iscurrently collaborating with relevant agencies for the nextphase of terrorism-related trials.Malami made this known in Abuja, during the 17th Edition ofPresident Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration ScorecardSeries.He said that the ministry in conjunction with the relevantsecurity and Law Enforcemen...

The kidnapped president of Igueben Area Customary Court,Edo State, Precious Aigbonoga, has been rescued by thestate Police Special Anti-Kidnapping Squad.This is contained in a statement by the Publicity Secretary ofNigerian Bar Association, Benin Branch, Festus UsiobaifoEsquire.According to the statement, one police officer was killed in theprocess of rescuing the victim.The State Police Spokesperson, SP ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) hasextended the deadline for the collection of Permanent VoterCards until Sunday, January 29, 2023.INEC earlier fixed the collection deadline as Sunday, January22, 2023.After a meeting, INEC said it had pushed the deadline byeight days.INEC National Commissioner Festus Okoye said in astatement that over 100,000 PVCs were collected in somestates s...

The US government has offered a 10 million dollar cashreward for information about Mohammud Abdi Aden.Aden is the alleged mastermind of the 2019 attack on a hoteland office complex in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, in 2019.He was allegedly part of the cell that planned the DusitD2hotel attack, which resulted in the deaths of 22 people.The Somalia-based militant group al-Shabab said it carriedout the assault....

Edo Queens lost their long standing unbeaten home run asAbia Angels pip the Benin based team one nil at the SamuelOgbemudia Stadium, Benin city.Marian Ohadiwe's 57 minutes strike was enough to earn theAngels their first victory over Edo Queens at the NigeriaWoman Football League (NWFL).Reacting to the defeat, Coach Moses Aduku rue the off dayperformance of his charges and commended their opponentsfor their well ...

As part of efforts to ensure a properly planned and sanitizedenvironment in the state, the Edo State government hasembarked on the demolition of illegal structures in variouslocations within Benin City metropolis.A Director in the Ministry of Physical Planning, Housing,Urban and Regional Development, Henry Enabulele said thedemolition exercise became imperative as defaulters failed toheed various warnings and notices issued to them....