Edo State Government has taken up the permanent host city (PHC) sponsorship of World Digital Exhibition (Worldex), a global technology trade fair hosted yearly to link up sub-Saharan Africa with the global technology community. In a letter addressed to Frederick Apeji, Managing Director of Alford Conferences Limited, the promoter of the technology trade exhibition, Taiwo…

Enugu Rangers continued their brilliant campaign in the CAF Confederation Cup with a 2-0 defeat of Burkina Faso’s Salitas yesterday...

Despite the many challenges faced by the Nigerian sports industry in 2018, the year 2019 offers yet another opportunity to try to become bigger and more impactful economically. In this piece, I attempt to proffer some solutions to the problems and how Nigerian sport can make use of some of the available digital tools to…

CardinalStone Partners Limited has acted as the financial adviser to NEM Insurance Plc on the equity investment by AFIG Funds LLP. AFIG is a private equity firm registered in Mauritius and headquartered in Dakar, Senegal. NEM Insurance is a non-life insurance company, which commenced business in Nigeria in 1948, as Edward Turner & Co and…

Blind football and other sports in Nigeria may soon enjoy an international status as a non-governmental organization, established for people with special needs, the Bina Foundation, has pledged to lift the sports to enable its players compete with their counterparts in other countries of Africa. President of the Foundation, Lady Ifeoma Atuegwu, who stated this…

Nigeria’s Beach Soccer National Team is again on the threshold of qualifying for the FIFA World Cup, after a 4-2 defeat of debutants, Tanzania, at the ongoing CAF Beach Soccer Cup of Nations in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt yesterday.   Veteran Abu Azeez, who opened his goals tally for the tournament with a brace against…

Dr. Okay in his article compared Osinbajo to EzeUzu, great blacksmith who abandoned his trade for lesser trade that brought him to ignominy. Okay missed the point that, even when yam farming is seen as the greatest of all farming by the Igbos they still believe that, when you see what is greater than yam…

The Beach Soccer National Team, otherwise known as Supersand Eagles, will camp at the Aivoji Beach, Badagry outside Lagos ahead of next month’s Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations taking place in Egypt. Two –time African champions Nigeria will join Cote d’Ivoire, Libya, Madagascar, Morocco, Senegal, Tanzania and hosts Egypt at the continental finals slated…

President Macky Sall of Senegal and his Gambian counterpart, Adama Barrow, called for greater cooperation among African nations to fight the threats of terrorism across the continent at the Dakar International Forum for Peace and Security on Monday.

One of the products of the GOtv Boxing Night, Olaide ‘Fijaborn’ Fijabi will on October 20 stake the country’s pride by attempting to subdue his Senegalese challenger in an African Boxing Union  (ABU) title fight in Dakar. Fijabi had knocked out Shadrack Ignas Kobero of Tanzania to claim the light welterweight title in Lagos, and…

There is an alarming rise in organised political defections in Nigeria. Although she is being hyped as the giant of Africa, the democracy in Nigeria is not practised like in countries such as Ghana, Sierra Leone, Botswana, Tanzania, Liberia, Senegal and Zambia with stable democracies. Nigeria’s version is a guided democracy and a democracy for…

A Senegalese court on Thursday upheld a five-year jail term against leading politician Khalifa Sall in a ruling that bars him from running in presidential elections due next February.