Author: Chronicle Editor

Neymar scored his first Champions League goal in a year as Paris Saint-Germain capped off their impressive Group A campaign with a 5-0 win over Galatasaray

Gabriel Jesus scored a superb hat-trick as Manchester City came from behind to win their final Champions League Group C game at Dinamo Zagreb.

Napoli have appointed Gennaro Gattuso as the Italian club’s new head coach following the dismissal of Carlo Ancelotti on Tuesday. Ancelotti was sacked just hours after taking Napoli into the Champions League last 16 with a 4-0 win over Genk. Gattuso, 41, previously managed AC Milan but left the Serie A club at the end of last season. Gennaro Gattuso to replace Carlo Ancelotti at Napoli “We need to work hard, win back points and come through this tricky period,” said Gattuso. “The aim is to recoup points and get back into the Champions League positions.” Napoli are seventh in Serie…

Vilnius Airport in Lithuania has unveiled its alternative festive tree – made entirely of items confiscated from passengers.

Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President says the motive behind Punch Newspaper’s decision to address President Muhammadu Buhari as Major General is sinister. In his response titled, Punch and its Sinister Motives for Attacks on President Buhari, he pointed out that President Buhari was elected twice by Nigerians. In an editorial on 11 December, the newspaper said its new policy was to address President Muhammadu Buhari as Major General in his official title and refer to his government as a regime instead of administration, comes to us as totally curious and utterly incredible. The paper claimed that…

Militants have killed at least 60 people in an attack on a military base close to Niger’s border with Mali.

A police officer and at least five other people have died in a series of gun battles in Jersey City, in the US state of New Jersey.

The Senate on Wednesday sought to provide legal backing to the provision of Constituency Projects in Nigeria’s annual budget by a minimum of twenty percent. The move to do so was initiated with the consideration of the Constituency Projects (Budgetary Provisions) Bill, 2019, sponsored by Senator Stella Adaeze Oduah (PDP, Anambra North). Oduah, in her lead debate, said the intention of the bill is to ensure that good governance is delivered to the people, most of whom statistics show, are seventy percent rural dwellers. According to her, Constituency Project is one of the ways of attracting federal presence to Nigerians…

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said the Senate will investigate the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) over alleged non-remittance of N800 billion to the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) for the maintenance of roads across the country. Lawan stated this in his concluding remarks on a bill for an Act to Repeal the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency Act, 2002 and to Establish the Federal Roads Authority Bill, 2019. According to the Senate President, previous efforts by Nigeria to concession government enterprise failed as a result of systemic corruption. He, therefore, called for Public – Private – Partnership in the…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has urged traditional rulers in Nigeria to use their moral authority to solve problems in the country. Prof Osinbajo said this at the 11th General Assembly of the National Council of Traditional Rulers in Nigeria, themed Imperative of Community Policing and Menace of Drug Abuse: The Role of Traditional Rulers. Speaking on the theme, the Vice President said, “One is a social problem and the other a strategy for preventing and combatting social problems. But most importantly, the theme suggests and I believe most perceptively that traditional rulers have crucial roles to play in both. “Societies…