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Premier League gaint Manchester United are reportedly ready to sign Nigerian player, Victor Osimhen, from Napoli this summer. La Gazzetta dello Sport, an Italian news hub, reports Manchester United plans to offer a €120m bid for Osimhen.

07/02/2023

Premier League gaint Manchester United are reportedly ready to sign Nigerian player, Victor Osimhen, from Napoli this summer. La Gazzetta dello Sport, an Italian news hub, reports Manchester United plans to offer a €120m bid for Osimhen.

07/02/2023

The Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, on Monday, visited the Abeokuta branch of the Central Bank of Nigeria to explore possible collaboration to ease the distribution challenge in the amount of money residents of the state could withdraw for transactions made in commercial banks. To ensure that....

07/02/2023

Technology company, Google has said it is planning to release its own conversational Artificial Intelligence service called Bard. Google said Bard is now available to trusted testers ahead of making it more generally available to the public. The company released a search trends report last week, whi...

07/02/2023

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, his deputy, Benson Abounu, commissioners, aides and the 22 local government chairmen of the state were absent at the campaign rally of the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Benue is being controlled by PDP with the national...

06/02/2023

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has been committed to prison for allegedly disobeying court order.  The court also directed the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to effect Bawa’s arrest and remand him in Kuje prison for the next 14 days unti...

06/02/2023

The f ormer Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife Beatrice, daughter Sonia, 25, and an associate, Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, have been alleged to have broken modern slavery laws. The Old Bailey heard on Monday, Ekweremadu was said to have illegally paid a street trader from Lagos, to travel to...

06/02/2023

Thirteen political parties out of the 18 political parties in Nigeria on Monday threatened to withdraw from participating in the 2023 general elections slated for February 25 and March 11, if the Central Bank of Nigeria extends the deadline of February 10 for the Naira swap. The parties have declare...

06/02/2023

An operations manager of a leading commercial bank in Abuja’s central area was arrested on Monday by operatives of the Economic and Financial Commission. This was because he refused to load the Automated Teller Machines of the bank despite having N29million of the new naira notes in the branch’s...

05/02/2023

The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday, asked Nigerians not to allow the results of the 2023 presidential election to be determined by “bullion vans effect.” In a newsletter sent to our correspondent, the former vice-president and serial presiden...

05/02/2023

The poor mobile service network at the Lagos International Trade Fair Complex, which houses three markets in Lagos, on Saturday stalled commerce. This was because traders complained of the inability to transfer cash online. The traders, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria at the close of busin...

03/02/2023

Popular comedian and skit-maker, Adebowale Adedayo popularly known as Mr Macaroni, has said the APC should not be campaigning for votes ahead of the forthcoming elections, but instead should be begging Nigerians for forgiveness for the hardship caused in recent times. The skit-maker, who took to Twi...

01/02/2023

The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Wednesday, revealed that some people in A*o Rock Villa are working to frustrate the victory of All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, during this month’s election. He said, ”I believe there are elements in the Villa that want ...

01/02/2023

The Bauchi State Labour Party campaign director, Alhassan Bawu, has dumped the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi, for the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar. This comes barely three weeks before the presidential election, which is to be held on February 25. Speaking ...

30/01/2023

The Ukrainian government has banned senior public servants and lawmakers including women from travelling abroad during the war with Russia. The spokesman for Ukraine’s border guard service, Andriy Demchenko, told AFP on Monday that the measure was adopted last week. “They can now only leave as p...

30/01/2023

The Department of State Services on Monday said its officers had arrested an undisclosed number of persons involved in the sale of the newly issued Naira notes. The DSS, in a statement on Monday by its spokesman, Peter Afunanya, accused some commercial bank officials of aiding the crime. The stateme...

30/01/2023

The Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Owerri, Imo State, has launched an investigation into a claim made by a student of the institution. The student claimed that she graduated with the help of God and her private parts. The student had after defending her National Diploma project made a live broadcast o...

30/01/2023

Canadian cardinal Marc Ouellet, who has been accused of s*xually assaulting a woman, has stepped down from a top Holy See position due to his age, the Vatican said on Monday. Ouellet, 78, who has strongly denied the claims against him, is retiring as head of the Vatican’s Dicastery, or department,...

29/01/2023

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja is set to deliver a landmark judgment on Monday, January 30 in a suit seeking the removal of President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), from office over alleged illegalities in the 2019 presidential election. The judgment billed to be delivered by Just...

29/01/2023

The Central Bank of Nigeria bows to pressure extends the deadline for the swapping of old Naira notes till February 10, 2023. CBN stated this in a release on Sunday. More details later…

26/01/2023

The New Nigerian People’s Party, on Thursday, accused the Independent National Electoral Commission of refusing to replace candidates who defected from the party to other platforms. The party lamented that despite orders of the Court of Appeal and the Federal High Court in Abuja directing INEC to ...

09/01/2023

A former Edo State House of Assembly member, Festus Edughele, was kidnapped on Monday morning by suspected gunmen in Ubiaja. He was on his way from Orhionmwon to Benin City, the state capital. This comes three days after 32 passengers waiting to board a train from the Igueben station in the Igueben....

09/01/2023

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s policy on restricting daily cash withdrawals comes into effect across the country today, Monday, January 9 2023. Newsmen reports that under this arrangement, the maximum weekly limit for cash withdrawals across all channels by individuals and corporate organisations i...

07/01/2023

The Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Plc has highlighted some features of the new Naira notes. This is in order to sensitise Nigerians who have expressed concern about the quality of the notes. In a statement signed by the Managing Director of NSPM, Ahmed Halilu, on Friday, the company stresse...

07/01/2023

Nollywood actor, Jamiu Azeez, recently trended online after a picture of him wearing attire that seemed to be made of Naira notes went viral. In this interview with OPEYEMI ADEFEMI, the actor reacts to some of the questions raised by his action It’s a new year. What was your experience last year? ...

07/01/2023

A six-year-old boy opened fire in an elementary school classroom in the eastern US state of Virginia on Friday, seriously injuring a teacher, police said. No students were hurt in the incident at Richneck Elementary School in the coastal city of Newport News. “The individual is a six-year-old stud...

06/01/2023

Taiwo Awoniyi is one goal shy of Erling Haaland’s goalscoring record for the most goals scored first from open play in the Premier League so far this season, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The Nigerian was on target to help Nottingham Forest get out of the bottom three with a nervy 1-0 win at Southam...

06/01/2023

Shine on Star Boy.

Villarreal winger Samuel Chukwueze looks set to clinch the top scorer award in the Copa del Rey following his goals scoring form for Villareal. Chukwueze took his goals tally in the competition to three, coming off the bench in the 68th minute and registering his name on the score sheet after 17 min...

03/01/2023

A middle-aged man slumped and died while allegedly having s*x with a woman at a hotel in Ikere Ekiti, headquarters of Ikere Local Government Area of Ekiti State. Sources said the incident happened in the hotel room where the man, identified as a herbalist, had gone to meet the woman on Monday. One o...