“Amazing Kid Eche”, aka Eche Chinonso, is a 12-year-old football freestyle prodigy from Delta State, Nigeria. It became clear that Eche had a talent when he was just five years old, so his father began taking him to the field to practice regularly. At the age of eight, Eche began putting in more time to Read More…
Nigeria’s national under-17 male football team on Friday defeated their Burkina Faso counterparts 1-0 to qualify for the final of the WAFU U-17 tournament in Lome, Togo. With this win, the Golden Eaglets have also picked one of the tickets for the 2021 CAF U-17 AFCON scheduled for Morocco later in the year. In the Read More…
The Coach of Lagos-based MFM FC, Tony Bolus, says the away point secured by his team in Match Day 4 encounter against Uyo-based Dakkada was equivalent to three points given the nature of the game. “It was a technical game, and the team picking an away point is like getting three points,’’ Bolus said after Read More…
The World Bank says global economy is expected to grow by 4 per cent in 2021, assuming an initial COVID-19 vaccine rollout becomes widespread throughout the year. It said this in a statement issued in Washington D.C. on Tuesday at the presentation of the January 2021 Global Economic Prospects. It added that the said recovery Read More…
Nigeria stands as the number one country in Africa in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) 2020 World Economic Outlook’s ratings of countries. Using countries’ GDPs, IMF ranked Nigeria among the first 26 countries in the world in the same position with an average 442,976 million U.S. dollars. Countries are sorted by nominal GDP estimates from Read More…
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) says it has generated N4.178 trillion revenue in the last 10 months. The Executive Chairman of the service, Mr Muhammad Nami, disclosed this while presenting a report on Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) at the 46th meeting of the Joint Tax Board (JTB) in Abuja on Friday. Nami said what Read More…
Nigeria expects to receive its first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in January, the country’s health minister said on Wednesday, but officials do not yet know which one they will get. Africa’s most populous nation has not been as hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic as others on the continent such as South Africa, but it Read More…
A Consultant Ocular Oncologist, Dr Abia Nzelu, has decried the growing incidence of cancer disease and the poor attention being given to it in Nigeria. Nzelu, also Executive Secretary, Mass Medical Mission (MMM) in charge of cancer care, made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. The expert also said that Read More…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to Nigeria says exchange rate and monetary policy reforms, increased revenue mobilisation and structural reforms will unlock Nigeria’s growth potential. The team lead, Ms Jesmin Rahman, said this in a statement issued on Friday in Washington D.C at the conclusion of the virtual mission. The mission was conducted from Read More…
…warns of second-wave of infections Nigeria may be on the verge of a second wave of COVID-19 infections, the health minister warned on Thursday, as another official said the country expects to roll out a vaccine by April next year. Osagie Ehanire, speaking at a news conference in the capital Abuja, said 1,843 cases were Read More…
