Author: Adejuyigbe Francis

Granit Xhaka has joined Bayer Leverkusen from Arsenal, ending the midfielder’s seven-year stay in North London. The Swiss playmaker, 30, joined the Gunners from Borussia Monchengladbach in 2016 and went on to make 297 appearances for the club. On signing his five-year contract at Leverkusen, Xhaka said: “I know the league inside out and have always watched them from London. “Leverkusen are a club with an impressive history and ambitious goals. Above all, I see it as a club with a great future. “The discussions with those responsible were enormously motivating. You are ambitious and want to achieve something —…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has made a grand entrance to trending social media platform, Threads. Threads – owned by Meta which is founded by Mark Zuckerberg – has seen over 10 million people sign up after new strict measures introduced by Elon Musk on Twitter. In his first post on Threads, President Tinubu wrote: “My fellow Tailors, Idan has landed.” Nigerians have reacted after seeing their President join the social media platform… Ayomidate wrote: “Idan! I Dey with you! Make I show you road” Cerzeeco wrote: “Well “Follow for follow” make we start our influencer journey. 😹😂” Damian_pg: “Tinubu Sabi operate phone…

Workers in Ondo State have urged Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu who has been battling ill-health for a while to ensure full recuperation before resuming official duties. The workers represented by the state Chairmen of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Oladele Victor Amoko, the Joint Negotiating Committee, JNC, Olapade Ademola and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, Clement Fatuase, in a statement issued on Thursday emphasised that the full recovery of the governor is of utmost priority. The governor, who had left for a 21-day medical leave abroad a few days ago, is scheduled to return home on July 6, 2023, according to…

Cesar Azpilicueta has signed a one-year contract with Atletico Madrid after announcing his departure from Chelsea. Spanish defender Azpilicueta, 33, made 508 appearances for the Blues having moved to West London from Marseille in 2012. He won nine major honours at Stamford Bridge, skippering the side to triumphs in the 2019 Europa League, 2021 Champions League and 2021 Club World Cup finals. In an Instagram post, Azpilicueta — affectionately known to fans as Dave — said: “This is, without doubt, the hardest letter I have ever had to write, but I want to be the one to share this with…

Civil servants in Osun State have walked out of the ongoing staff audit on Thursday. The staff audit is being carried out by the Osun State Government through a consulting firm, Saibot Consulting. Some civil servants who offered to speak with newsmen claimed the way the consultant has been treating them during the exercise angered them. They lamented that they could no longer endure the embarrassment. The workers also kicked against the exercise, describing it as baseless. One of them, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said: “We don’t see the need for the exercise as it is baseless;…

After briefing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of plans in the loop for the 2023 National census exercise, he maintained the exercise would continue as planned. The President would later fix a new date for the national population and housing census to hold. Recall that the initial date set for its conduct was postponed indefinitely in April this year. ⁣ The Chairman of the National Population Commission, NPC, Nasir Kwarra, made this disclosure to State House Correspondents after his delegation gave the President a full brief at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja. He stated that the visit to the President…

Following the crisis rocking the APC concerning the NASS principal officers, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Joe Igbokwe, has called on the National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, to quit his position. Speaking on Wednesday, Igbokwe said it is high time the national chairman was excused from his job because he could no longer be trusted. He showed displeasure at the way the party chairman publicly dismissed the list of the principal officers which the president, who is also considered the leader of the party, must have endorsed. Igbokwe said the national chairman had shown…

President of Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau on Monday called on FIFA refereeing instructors who are in Nigeria for various refereeing programmes, to help improve the lot of Nigerian referees to a level that they would be regularly considered for major FIFA and CAF assignments. Speaking in his office during a visit by the instructors, Gusau appealed to the instructors from Zambia, Morocco, Mozambique and Djibouti to always find time, even outside regular instructional periods and sessions, to communicate with Nigerian referees with a view to supporting, encouraging and building them up to be among the very best…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has resolved the disagreement between the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu, and the National Assembly leadership over the announcement of principal officers of the parliament. Crisis erupted in the ruling party on Tuesday after Adamu rejected the principal officers of the National Assembly announced by both the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas. Adamu had peviously disagreed with the nominations of the principal officers during a meeting with the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) led by Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State at the party’s…

An Assistant Director in the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF), Mr. Yildiyel Musa Takat and an Administration Officer at the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Mr. Nankpat Dukbong, have been arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), over allegations of fraud, employment scam and conspiracy. The duo were brought before Honourable Justice O. A. Musa of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), High Court 7, sitting in Jabi, Abuja, via a charge No: CR/151/2022. In a 6-count charge, ICPC accused the defendants of conspiracy, abuse of office and defrauding unsuspecting job…

Paris Saint-Germain president, Nasser Al Khelaifi, has given Kylian Mbappe a two-week ultimatum to decide his future. According to him, Mbappe will either sign a new deal with the Ligue 1 champions or leave this summer. “Kylian Mbappé has to decide next week or in two weeks. No more than this”. “If he does not want to sign a new contract, the door is open.. “No one is bigger than the club, no player, not even me. It’s very clear,” Al Khelaifi told Le Parisien. Mbappe had written to PSG in June, stating that he will not extend his stay…

A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday sentenced a 25-year-old man, Bala Hassan, to 10 months imprisonment for conspiring and stealing a generator set worth N450,000. The convict of Ungwan Dosa, Kaduna, pleaded guilty to the charge and begged the court for leniency. Delivering judgement, the Magistrate, Mr. Ibrahim Emmanuel, held that the defendant was being convicted and sentenced based on his plea of guilty to the offence. “The court having found the convict guilty of the offence, in line with his plea for mercy, a first time offender, who did not waste the time and resources of the court.…