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13 February

AFCON Review : What Ivorien did to make them win !

At the point the Ivorien Football Federation took that bold and decisive decision to sack Jean-Louis Gasset before the commencement of the Round of 16 fixtures, drama or cold war would have ensued if it were Nigeria. Here in Nigeria, we would have started a huge debate that would further destroy the already confused team. We would ask, who is ...

12 February

7 key Lessons as Super Eagles lost 2-1 to Ivory Coast

1) Huge win for the Elephants of Cote D’Ivoire, huge lesson for the Eagles; the better, hungrier, and more committed team on the night won. The stats even do not do justice to how the Ivorians were out of sight in this final compared to the Super Eagles. They committed more muscle, played for the final, and got the reward. ...

11 February

Keyamo reveals Wigwe’s big dream for aviation, the last moment

The reported tragic loss of my friend, brother and not-far-away neighbour in Lagos, Herbert Wigwe, the co-founder of Access Bank, the CEO of Access Holdings and the founder of Wigwe University, is very devastating. He was in my office earlier this week (where we took the pictures below) and actually left my office to fly out of the country and ...

11 February

AFCON : It’s final today, odds favour Super Eagle

At Alassane Ouattara Stadium in Abidjan. The final, will kick off at 9 pm Nigerian time. It will be a rematch of both teams’ Group A encounter earlier in the tournament where the Super Eagles emerged victorious by a lone goal on matchday two, but today’s game offers both teams the chance to lift the trophy. The Opta supercomputer has ...

9 February

Labour gives 14-day ultimatum to strike, FG begs

Nigeria Labour Congress is brewing a Nationwide strike of a great magnitude.YOUNEWS is aware. The organised Labour is threatening to declare a nationwide strike in the next 14 days. Her major reason is the alleged failure of the government to implement the memorandum of understanding reached with the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress in October 2023. But,The ...

9 February

FRSC Officer, Ogunrinde for burial today

Today is the burial, lowering into the grave, to be left all alone, of Adebowale Emmanuel Ogunrinde.Sources said he died after a brief illness on Sunday, February 4,2024. By noon, today February, 9,2024 Ogunrinde one of the fans of YOUNEWS would have been committed to mother Earth. He was an officer with Federal Road Safety A Corps. He began working ...

8 February

Sports journalist, Kayode Tijani is dead

Kayode Tijani known and described as Sports Encyclopedia extraordinaire, the man with one of the richest sports library in Nigeria is dead. YOUNEWS understand that he had been battling ill heath for some times.His wife, and children have been by his side throughout the tough last few years. He passed on Wednesday, 7 February, 2024 at the Lagos University Teaching ...

8 February

Redeemer’s University graduates (LL.B.) kick as Law School refuses them

Two years after graduation, Law graduates at Redeemer’s University (RUN) in Osun State are yet to be admitted to Law Schools. And now the students are up in arms, claiming they cannot take it any longer. Though the School is claiming accreditation for Law, graduates of its Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) programme are complaining that they cannot go to law ...

7 February

AFCON: The constant team at semi finals set against S/Africa today

Nigeria’s Super Eagles is filling out again, today , as she would want do, at semi final rounds of AFCON. Super Eagles is with the record of being the country with the most last-four appearances at the continental fiesta. Since making her debut at the 1963 finals held in Ghana, where she was ejected in the group phase after 3-6 ...

5 February

Veteran actor, Jimi Solanke, 81, is dead

The folk singer, poet, and playwright, Solanke died on Monday at the age of 81, just 59 days to his 82nd birthday. He is understood to have passed on while he was being taken to the Babcock University Teaching Hospital from his country home at Ipara Remo. Solanke has been in and out of hospital since December until his death ...