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Nigeria’s U-20 women’s national team, the Falconets, ended their campaign at the 2025 WAFU Zone B U-20 Women’s Cup in Benin Republic with a perfect record after defeating the hosts 1-0 at the Omnisport Stadium in Adjohoun on Wednesday. SOT Blog reports.

Already confirmed as champions before the final match, the Falconets maintained their 100 percent record thanks to a 16th minute goal from in-form striker Ramotalahi Kareem, who finished as the tournament’s top scorer with four goals.

Kareem pounced a precise through ball shrugged off her marker and calmly slotted past the goalkeeper to hand Nigeria an early lead .

The Falconets dominated possession and created several chances to extend their advantage but were unable to convert them

Benin pushed forward in the second half in search of an equaliser, yet Nigeria’s defence remained composed and resolute to secure a deserved victory.

The win sealed a flawless outing for coach Moses Aduku’s side, who finished top of the standings with 12 points from four matches, scoring ten goals and conceding only one.

Ghana finished second with six points, while Benin ended without a point.

President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Ibrahim Gusau, has debunked claims that the Super Eagles are owed a backlog of match bonuses stretching to about 30 games ,SOT Blog Reports,

In a interview released by Elegbete Tv on Wednesday, Gusau explained that the NFF had cleared all outstanding monies due to the team, while their bonuses for the World cup qualifiers have also been agreed.

The Super Eagles boycotted training in Rabat, Morocco on Tuesday ahead of their crucial 2026 World Cup African playoffs semi- final against Gabon on Thursday.

Both parties, however, reached a compromise on Wednesday as the team returned to training ahead of the crucial playoffs.

Nigeria will face Gabon at the Complexe Sportif Prince Heritier Moulay Al Hassan in Rabat on Thursday (today) with the winner to face either DR Congo or Cameroon, who will also square up against each other today as well .

Initial reports from the team’s camp said players and officials skipped what would have been their second tranining session in protest of unpaid bonuses, which date back to 2019.

While it was also reported that the players wanted $15,000 each for each playoffs, and that the NFF proposed $ 10,000 , captain William Troost-Ekong dismissed the claims, maintaining that the team was focused on the games ahead.

Once a resolution is found, we will be the first to confirm. Any other claim or demands other that the rightful request written about is FALSE , ‘Troost-Ekong said

All we want and continue to do is to focus on the big games ahead. In the wake of the saga, Gusau countered the captain’s claims. It’s not true that we have owed for 30 matches,” Gusau told Elegbete TV.

Immediately after AFCON last year, we sat down with the leaders of the team and we negotiated . I told them I didn’t want us to go into the World Cup qualifiers with any issues of money. Can we please sit down and agree on what your outstanding is ? Please, this is what we can do to make sure we clear that. Let us go on a clean sheet to face the qualifiers, and we have reached an agreement with them the NFF president told Elegbete TV.

“So before we came back to this year’s qualifiers, we reached an agreement with them and everything was cleared. So, if there is any outstanding we have with the Super Eagles, it has to do with the Qualifiers, and these qualifiers we are playing we the NFF and the Nartional Sports Commission have reached an agreement with them. So, It’s not an issue of after every match;this is the match bonus we are going to give you, and they agreed . So anytime they are coming now, we just give them appearance fee, which we have been doing through the National Sports Commission.”

That is why i want to say that the Chief of Naval Staff was scammed. He has realised that the he was scammed. Instead of him to now come out and seek help, he resorted to using military might”

-Mr lere Olayinka, the senior Special Assistant on Publicity and Communications to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, defending the minister’s actions during a confrontation with a naval officer in Abuja.

The Senate Committee on Public Accounts has rejected a written explanation from NNPCL for a missing #210 trillion between 2017 and 2023, insisting that the company’s Group CEO must appear in person. NNPCL claimed #103 trillion was accrued expenses and #107 trillion were receivables, but the committee found the figures unjustifiable pointing out that the company only generated #24 trillion in revenue over five years. The controversy stems from a leaked 2023 audit report that provided the first public glimpse of the anomaly, and the committee warned of subpoenas for former NNPC and NAPIMS officials if satisfactory answers are not provided.

Along Nigeria’s coastal belt, artisanal fishers and women traders face relentless attacks at sea-engine thefts, kidnappings and killings while official reports claim near shore waters are safe. Community leaders say a week hardly passes without an incident. Despite employing over 6 million people and supplying the country’s fish needs, the small scale fishing sector has no functional national policy, registry or credit system . Yet the government’s focus remains on large vessels and oil . Industrial trawlers and foreign fleets drag juvenile fish in “by-catch” across Nigeria’s waters, fueling stock depletion. With weak enforcement and a stalled fisheries policy , coastal livelihoods are slipping into crisis.

Two brothers who were kidnapped along the Adugbe-Imoga Road and taken into the bush by kidnappers on November 8 have regained their freedom, Credible news outlet gathered on Monday.

The brothers , identified as Issac and Victor Olayere, were taken into the bush as soon as they were kidnapped in Uma/Imoga, into confusion as the kidnappers demanded 22million ransom. While the community was still at a loss over how to raise the ransom, the brother called their father with an unknown number, telling him they had escaped from the kidnappers’ den. The Okpahi of Imoga Kingdom, Oba Patrick Obajoye, revealed this to the public . He called on the authorities to come to the Rescue of Imoga, a town he said shares a border with Ondo and Kogi, thereby making it prone to kidnapping activities. We pray for safety always

Lagos NANS demands ban on unregistered trucks after student deaths. As earlier reported that two students died in a multi-vehicle collision that occurred on Saturday November 8 ,2025, at the Powerline Junction , inward Ikorodu Roundabout , Lagos .

According to NANS, the deceased students were identified as Oluwaseyitan Afolabi Emmanuel , a newly admitted 200-level Direct Entry student of Banking and Finance, College of Applied Social Sciences, and Ayomide Jagun , a 300-level student of Mechatronics Engineering, College of Engineering and Technology. The Statement read in part, ‘Lagos State Axis expresses its deepest grief and solidarity with the entire community of the Lagos State University of Science and Technology over the huge loss of two promising students in the tragic road accident that occurred on the morning of Saturday, November 8, 2025, at Powerline Junction, inward Ikorodu Roundabout ‘ May their Gentle souls rest in peace,Amen.

LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: 114th Inaugural Lecture by Prof Moses Akanbi
Time: Nov 11, 2025 14:00 Africa/Lagos
Guests to be seated by 1.30pm

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PROFESSOR AKANBI MOSES ADEBOWALE TO PRESENT LASU 114TH INAUGURAL LECTURE ON TUESDAY, 11TH NOVEMBER 2025

The Lagos State University 114th Inaugural lecture will be delivered as follows:

INAUGURAL LECTURER: Professor Moses Adebowale AKANBI, Dean, Faculty of Science, Lagos State University.

TOPIC: ‘The Nature of Error: Human Fallibility Versus Divine Infallibility In Computational Thought’

DATE: Tuesday, 11th November 2025

VENUE: Buba Marwa Auditorium, LASU Main Campus, Ojo, Lagos

TIME: 2.00 p.m.

Guests are expected to be seated by 1.30 p.m.

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