The Latest

Ibas Hails Rivers Angels For Federation Cup Win, Pledges ₦50m Reward

The Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.), has hailed the state-owned Rivers Angels Football Club for retaining the President’s Federation Cup Women’s title.
byTayo Aderinola
29/06/2025
2 minute read
Total
0
Shares
0
0
0

The Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.), has hailed the state-owned Rivers Angels Football Club for retaining the President’s Federation Cup Women’s title.

Rivers Angels beat Nasarawa Amazons 4-2 on penalties during the finals at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena in Lagos on Saturday to claim the title for the 10th time.

Rivers Angels players celebrating after the win

Speaking to journalists after the win, Ibas, represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Ibibia Worika, expressed joy over the win.

“This is absolutely unprecedented. There’s nothing like it. We are proud as Rivers men and women that our girls can put up such a feat, and we are proud as a government.

“His Excellency, the Administrator, sent me here to encourage the girls at this final. So, I think it’s a wonderful thing. It’s a great feeling, and there are no words to describe it.

“Before the match, I also conveyed His Excellency’s best wishes to the team. I told them that the Rivers State Government is very proud that you are even here in the finals and that if you do your best, you can be absolutely certain that Rivers State Government is going to recognise you,” he stressed.

The SSG conveyed the administrators promise of ₦50 million to the Rivers Angels and used the avenue to encourage Team Rivers athletes who won medals during the 2024 National Sports Festival to remain coordinated as the government was working on redeeming the pledge to them.

The team manager of Rivers Angels, Mrs Matilda Otuenne, noted that the team had been dedicated and hardworking to achieve the feat.

Rivers Angels’ previous triumphs were in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2024.

Total
0
Shares
Share 0
Tweet 0
Pin it 0
Share 0
Share 0
Share 0
Share 0
Related Posts
Read More
7 minute read

Roseline Ogunro’s report, Radio Nigeria Announcer on Duty the day General Murtala Mohammed was killed

I was the early morning duty continuity announcer on Friday 13 February 1976, exactly 45 years ago. My shift commenced at 5:30 am and would have finished at 11:30 am. Things were going on smoothly until about 7:20 am when a rather scruffy man with red eyes as though under the influence of alcohol or other substances, in army uniform and armed with a gun, walked into the continuity studio with another army officer and one of my colleagues, a producer in the Hausa Service of Voice of Nigeria. The scruffy officer was later to announce that he was Dimka. He said as they came in, ‘any resistance from these people, shoot’. He then demanded to use my microphone. I got up and he took over my seat and my microphone. He then announced that there had been a coup and that the Head of State, General Murtala Mohammed had been killed. He proceeded to make the infamous ‘dawn to dusk curfew’. He read from a scrap of paper. After the announcement he asked if I had military (martial music) to which I said no. The colleague who accompanied the officers left immediately and returned quite quickly with a compilation of martial music records possibly from the music library. He seemed to have pre-compiled them. I was commanded to play them after Dimka’s announcement. I was not overly scared at this point. I thought to myself, ’just do as you are told’ especially as the man was armed with a gun.
byLateef Idris
13/02/2021