Evenepoel
3 Dec
Double Olympic road cycling champion Remco Evenepoel broke a hand, ribs and shoulder blade when he collided with the open door of a postal van in Brussels during an off-season training ride on Tuesday. The 24-year-old's team Soudal Quick-Step revealed the extent of his injuries as the Belgian was transferred to a specialist hospital for…
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Mevi Irimiya and Jayden Oladimeji combined in the men’s doubles tennis category to defeat Isah Yahaya and Abdulbaasit Salami 7-6(9), 6-1 on Monday in the round of 16 at the ongoing ITF World Tennis Tour Junior J30 in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Irimiya and Oladimeji have advanced to the quarter-finals…
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The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Yusuf Abdullahi Ata, says he will resign if the current APC state chairman, Abdullahi Abbas, is re-elected. Ata made this statement at a press conference in Kano on Monday. He reaffirmed his position, stating he would resign from both his ministerial role and the party. He said, “This…
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The Obidient Movement has announced the appointment of directors to lead its key directorates, reinforcing its commitment to good governance and national transformation. The appointments were disclosed in a statement issued on Monday by the movement’s National Coordinator, Dr. Tanko Yunusa. The newly appointed directors include Nana Kazaure – Director, Strategic Communications & Media; Yusuf…
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President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State on his fresh term in office. Aiyedatiwa, who succeeded former Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu, was sworn in on Monday in Akure, Mr Bayo Onanuga, the President’s spokesman, said in a statement. Tinubu urged the governor to use his mandate to serve the people of the…
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Barely four months after introducing the tax reform bills and sending them to the National Assembly for consideration and passage, President Bola Tinubu has asked the Senate to give him workable laws from the bills. During the first day of the two-day public hearing on the bills, there were no dissenting voices, unlike at the…
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Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, on Monday, said he has proven to be a crisis manager with an eye on public peace and prosperity in the face of provocation by the opposition All Progressives Congress over control of local government areas in the state. He said the sustenance of peace across the state, "despite the…
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Chairman of the Southern Governors Forum (SGF) and Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has congratulated the Ondo State Governor, Mr. Lucky Aiyedatiwa, on his inauguration as the seventh democratically elected governor of Ondo State. Abiodun, who described the inauguration as a new chapter in a glorious dawn for the people of the Sunshine…
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The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has said that Nigeria's capital market has been repositioned for better foreign investment inflow through the closing of the arbitrage between the parallel market and the official market. Oba Ogunwusi made this disclosure in Abuja while hosting a 30-man delegation from the Republic of Kazakhstan, comprising business…
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The Southwest Zone of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association (IPMAN) on Monday threatened to shut down its operations across the region if the 30 tankers arrested by the Lagos State government were not released. The Chairman of IPMAN Western Zone, Chief Joseph Akanni, stated this while speaking with journalists in Ibadan, the capital city of…
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The Vice Chancellor of MacPherson University, Professor Francis Adegbaye, on Monday described the non-inclusion of private universities as beneficiaries of the Tertiary Education Fund (TetFund) as unfair. He argued that it was imperative for the Federal Government to allow private universities to benefit from accessing funds from the federal agency to address their infrastructural challenges…