The APC National Youth Leader, Dr Dayo Israel, has described the death of Kano State athletes and officials while returning to Kano from Abeokuta after the recent National Sports Festival (NSF) as “heavy and disturbing.” The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalled that the bus of the Kano State contingents was involved in a road…
Nasarawa State on Tuesday, opened training camp for its athletes ahead of the 22nd National Sports Festival tagged: Gateway Games Ogun 2025, slated to hold from May 16 to May 30 in Ogun State. Mr Yakubu Kwanta, the state’s Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, while declaring the camp open, said the 10 days preparation…
No fewer than 200 young people residing within the Air Force barracks will participate in the 4th Base Sport Festival Inter-Barracks Youth Competition, scheduled for April. Mr Daniel Tumeyar, Youth President of Sam Ethnan Air Force Base, Ikeja, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos. According…
Hannatu Musawa, Minister of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy(FMACTCE), says Motherland Festival, a new initiative, would serve as a platform to connect Nigerians in diaspora with their homeland and culture. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the minister stated this during a news conference to unveil plans and programme for the…
The Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism and Creative Economy, has reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to strengthen trade and tourism relationship with China. The Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mr Oraeluno Raphael, stated this on Saturday in Abuja, at the Chinese New Year Temple Fair, also known as the spring festival. Raphael said that…
More than 20 people were injured, two of them seriously, early Wednesday when an elephant turned violent during a local religious festival in the southern Indian state of Kerala, police said. The incident took place at Tirur in Malappuram district, about 350 km north of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala. “Early today, at the…
The Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) is set to take.pace at the AFRIFF HUB, The Palms, Oniru in Lagos State. The event organisers, in a statement on Monday in Abuja by AFRIFF Founder, Chioma Ude, would be held between Nov. 3 and Nov. 9. Ude, said that the festival’s opening night would feature ‘Headless’, a…
