Day: 1 June 2021

Home gal, Ese Brume out-jumps Chioma Ajunwa’s 25yr-old record

Yemi Thomas, Entertainment Editor

Twenty-five years after long jumper, Chioma Ajunwa, conquered the world by winning a gold medal at Atlanta ‘96 Olympics, another Nigerian, Ese Brume, has made big headlines in that country, this time in the city of California. Brume, who was Nigeria’s only athlete to reach the final of any event at the Rio 2016 Olympics in Brazil, jumped a distance of 7.17m on Saturday at Chile Vista Festival in California to become the first African woman to ever make such a mark. She shattered Ajunwa’s 25-year-old Long Jump record of…

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Buhari sacks NSITF MD Somefun, Kemi Nelson, others over N3.4bn scam

Jide Ige

The President, Muhammadu Buhari, has sacked the suspended Managing Director of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Adebayo Somefun and some members of the board for spending N3.4 billion on “non-existent staff training.” The President also approved the appointment of Akabogu Michael as Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer to replace Somefun. Somefun and three other Executive members of the NSITF namely, the executive director, Finance and Investment, Jasper Ikedi Azuatalam; executive director, Operations, Olukemi Nelson and executive director, Administration, Tijani Darazo Sulaiman, were suspended last year for breaching procurement rules and…

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Confusion trails death of NECO registrar

Jide Ige

There is a raging confusion over the death of the Registrar of the National Examinations Council, Professor Godswill Obioma. Obioma died on Monday night at his Minna residence in the Niger State capital. The deceased’s wife, Mrs Elizabeth Obioma, told newsmen that her husband was killed by assassins. “the assassins came in and killed him and left without taking anything,” she reportedly said. However, the son of the deceased in a letter addressed to the Director Human Resource Management, NECO, Mustapha Abdul, attributed the death of his father to a…

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