Four-time Premier League Golden Boot winner, Thierry Henry and Newcastle United’s all-time leading goalscorer, Alan Shearer, have been named as the first players to be inducted into the official Premier League Hall of Fame.
Last year, it was revealed that The Coca-Cola Foundation committed thousands of dollars to innovative initiatives such as the RecyclesPay Project, a programme through which waste collection was incentivised for vulnerable communities. This year, The Coca-Cola Foundation is sticking to this tested formula through the Cash 4 Trash Initiative, implemented by local NGOs, W.A.S.T.E Africa, in partnership with MEDIC.
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Amaju Melvin Pinnick was treated to a night of celebration as he assumed his FIFA Executive Council role. The event, which took place on Thursday, April 1, 2021, at Live Lounge, Lagos, saw friends and family convene to celebrate his important contributions to football in Nigeria and Africa.
#NeverWatchingAlone With 380 million fans tuning in every week, the UEFA Champions League is the most prestigious club football competition. As the biggest clubs across the globe clash for the trophy, fans watch on and absorb all the spectacle on show. Music superstar, Chike, media personalities, Nancy Isime, Uti Nwachukwu, Samantha Walsh, and VJ Adams, have just announced exciting activities in collaboration with Heineken for the 2020/2021 UCL season.
Have you taken the vaccine against COVID-19? If not, the chances of getting the first jab are on the high side now. Nigeria has received the first batch of 300,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses out of the 1 million doses from the African Union. This was made possible by the $25 million donation by the MTN group.
Former Manchester United midfielder, David Beckham, has insisted his former teammate Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, is doing an “incredible job” at the club Beckham and Solskjaer played together for seven successful years together at United between 1996 and 2003.
“I was not bothered about myself. It was my family — my three young children and my wife — that I was worried about. My wife has an underlying illness and I didn’t know what I was going to do if she caught the virus,” said Johnson Kayode Kolade, a 42-year-old father living at Ifako-Ijaiye in Lagos, as he recollected the harrowing two weeks of his life which had him battling the COVID-19 virus. Kayode is a Health Administrator and HR Professional at a popular hospital in Lagos. In March 2020, a young woman was admitted into the hospital after complaining…
Versatile Nollywood Actress Ayobami Ojo aka Oyita who recently returned from UK for a personal business project and also bagged an ambassadorship deal with a famous skincare brand “SherrylGold” based in the art of Lagos Nigeria, took to her instagram page to celebrate the international women’s day in a more unique way…. The versitle actress was inspired by her past ordeal with women she meets on the street everyday saying women are the strongest… She took to her Instagram this morning and posted this
“No one can defend you because the people who should protect you are the ones abusing you. What do Nigerians have to be happy about?” – Amanda Iheme on Public Eye. Once upon a time, it was said that Nigerians were the happiest people on earth; that we are so resilient that if pushed against a wall, we will break through and come out the other side smiling. But recently, reports have shown a higher rate of suicide, anxiety disorder, and drug abuse. What has become of the happiest people on earth?
In anticipation of the knockouts phase of the 2020/2021 UEFA Champions League season, Heineken has unveiled a new campaign tagged “You’re Never Watching Alone: Share the Passion”. Proud sponsors of the European club competition for 26 years, the brand revealed the campaign was conceived with the knowledge of Nigerians’ fervent love for football and sharing topical football moments.
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has shut down a health center in Abuja for allegedly receiving a bribe to issue fake coronavirus test results to people. The Director-General of NCDC, Dr. Chike Ihekweazu, disclosed this during a national Presidential Task Force briefing on COVID-19 held in Abuja on Monday.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has extended suspension of flights from Nigeria (Lagos and Abuja) from February 28 to March 10. The UAE aviation authorities made this known in the updated travel protocol posted on the website of the Emirates Airline, the flag carrier of the UAE, on Sunday afternoon. The update reads: “In line with government directives, passenger services from Nigeria (Lagos and Abuja) to Dubai are temporarily suspended until 10 March 2021.
A Nigerian new media organisation, Neusroom, in partnership with marketing technology company, Plaqad, has published the results of an independent online survey polling 7,000 young Nigerians. The poll reached over 420,000 people across different platforms, garnered about 7,000 responses, was shared over 3000 times, and accumulated more than 17,000 engagements.
One of the sons of the late ex-Niger governor Abdulkadir Kure, Umar Kure, has challenged the distribution of his father’s estate by taking his mother Senator Zenab Kure to the Sharia Court of Appeal, Niger State.
The Federal Government under Inter-ministerial committee on the disposal of assets forfeited to the federal government have begun the process of selling forfeited assets in 52 locations across the country. The Chairman of the committee, Dayo Apata revealed this during a press conference on Tuesday.
The world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos is set to step down as Amazon CEO and transition to the role of executive chair, later this year the company has announced. According to the February 2 announcement, Bezos will be replaced by Andy Jassy.
