ORGANISERS of the Fifa World Cup taking place in Qatar later this year have issued a set of stringent guidelines that will prohibit the organising of parties and other social events in line with the host country's strict Sharia laws.
Between November 21 and December 18 this year, the 2022 World Cup will be holding in Qatar,...
NIGERIA'S Super Eagles are to play a friendly match against Mexico's El Tri on May 28 as the North American side lines up a series of friendlies in the run-up to this year's World Cup taking place in Qatar in November.
Taking place at the AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas, the match will be the first game the Eagles will...
AFGHANISTAN'S ruling Taliban government has issued a directive to all civil servants that they must wear a beard and adhere to a strict Islamic dress code or risk being fired from their jobs.
Local media sources reported that representatives from the Afghan Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice were...
Ayo Akinfe
As part of its preparations for the 2022 World Cup, Qatar has built the world's first mobile stadium that can can be dismantled and transported anywhere
I sincerely hope that the giant of Africa Nigeria is on the ground watching developments, as we will be needing this technology desperately in the future. It may be...
AFGHANISTAN'S new foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has asked that the country's Taliban government be allowed to address the United Nations General Assembly currently taking place in New York to explain its stance.
Last month, the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan after dramatically deposing the government and taking...
GLOBAL footballing body Fifa has named Nigerian legends Austin Okocha and Emmanuel Ammunike in a newly-constituted technical advisory group supervised by former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.
Put together to consult for Fifa on the future of men’s football, the new group is comprised of 38 legendary players and coaches...
Ayo Akinfe
First of all the Federal Inland Revenue Service (Firs) should set an income tax revenue target of $50bn by 2030
New Firs boss Muhammad Nami, should forward proposals to the National Assembly introducing a regime whereby no public official will receive more than four times the national minimum wage
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DEPUTY police commissioner Abba Kyari has denied receiving a bribe from a Nigerian Instagram celebrity Ramon Abbas popularly known as Hushpuppi in response to his recent indictment by a US court over the matter.
In court documents released by the United States Department of Justice yesterday, Mr Kyari was said to have been...
OVER 200 Nigerian doctors registered with the British General Medical Council (GMC) during the months of April and May this year making Nigeria the country with the third highest number of foreign doctors working in the UK after India and Pakistan.
In the UK, the GMC, licenses and maintains the official register of medical...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) Foreign direct investment - Aim for $50bn annually. When Mark Zuckerberg last visited, did we get him to commit to a minimum annual investment figure
(2) Development grants - I have lost track of how many billions are available through bodies like Unesco, Unicef, WHO, WTO, World Bank, etc
(3) Federal government...
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