February 21, 2019

A combination of photos of the NFF logo and late Kashimawo Laloko.   A former technical director of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Kashimawo Laloko, is dead. Laloko, who founded the Pepsi Football Academy in 1992, was said to have died on Saturday at the age of 76 after a prolonged battle with diabetes. A […]

Alex Iwobi AFP Photo   Alex Iwobi will not be available for Nigeria’s final 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Lesotho after testing positive for Covid-19, officials told AFP on Monday. Everton forward Iwobi tested positive before Saturday’s 1-0 away win over Benin, and travelled back to Nigeria with the rest of the squad […]

A file photo of a health official helping his colleague with his PPE.   Nigeria on Sunday reported seven more deaths from complications related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, authorities have said. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed this in its latest update on the outbreak of the disease in the country. In […]

    An international expert mission to Wuhan has concluded it was very likely that Covid-19 first passed to humans from a bat through an intermediary animal, while all but ruling out a laboratory leak. The intermediate host hypothesis was deemed “likely to very likely”, while the theory that the virus escaped from a lab […]

A file photo of lawyers at the Edo State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Benin City.   The Edo State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Benin City is set to deliver judgment in the four petitions before it, following the conclusion of hearing and adoption of addresses. One of the petitions, marked EPT /ED/GOV/05/2020, […]