Author: Chronicle Editor

Ex-Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger wants the Premier League to end its resistance to the use of pitchside VAR monitors.

The Anambra State Police Command on Tuesday declared Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lawyer to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu wanted. John Abang, Police Commissioner held a news conference in Awka to declare the lawyer wanted in connection with the murder of two police officers at Oraifite, Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State on Monday. “I’ll like Nigerians to know that Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor (a member of the proscribed IPOB) has been declared wanted. I’ll seek the cooperation of law-abiding Nigerians, East, West, North and South that wherever they find this individual, they should report to…

Spotify has revealed its biggest songs, albums and artists of the last decade, with Drake emerging as the most-streamed artist of the 2010s. The Canadian star has racked up more than 28 billion streams, with his most popular song, One Dance, played 1.7 billion times alone. It was dwarfed by Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You, whose 2.4 billion streams, made it the decade’s most listened-to track. 2019’s biggest song was Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello’s Senorita. Released in June, the island-flavoured duet has already been played one billion times. Billie Eilish’s Bad Guy isn’t far behind, on 990 million streams.…

Mr and Mrs Adeoye have called on the President, Vice President, senators and others to come to their rescue after operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and police stormed their Event Centre in Lagos and seized it. The elderly couple in a video that is going viral explained that on 18 April 2019, some operatives of the DSS and Police stormed their event centre and claimed that the rightful owner wanted to take over the property. The couple said they protested both the forceful entrance and the ownership claim but before they knew it, the DSS operatives had…

The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Edo command says it has arrested 29 suspected drug traffickers. Mr Buba Wakawa, State Commander of the agency disclosed this in an interview with NAN in Benin on Tuesday. Wakawa said the suspects, comprising 23 males and six females, were arrested in November. He said that the suspects were in possession of about 3,756.82 kilo grammes of narcotics at the time of their arrests. According to the commander, the bulk of the seized drugs were cannabis commonly referred to as marijuana. The commander told NAN that one of the suspects said the love…

The National Universities Commission (NUC) says no less than 100 fake professors have been uncovered in Nigerian universities. Prof Abubakar Rasheed, the commission’s Executive Secretary, disclosed this in the NUC’s November bulletin. Rasheed said the NUC published the details of the fake professors on its website and also sent the names to the various universities for verification. He said this at the 2019 retreat for Vice Chancellors by the NUC Strategy Advisory Committee. “The updated version of those documents will be published by December 2019 and professors in their respective universities uploaded their CV on the website which was used…

Freddie Ljungberg is not the right man to manage Arsenal on a long-term basis, said former Blackburn striker Chris Sutton. Ex-Gunners midfielder Ljungberg, 42, is in interim charge of the club after they sacked Unai Emery last month. “Freddie said he was 100% sure they would get into the top four but based on what? It’s fantasy,” said Sutton on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Monday Night Club. “They need to get someone in place that they are going to get a reaction from.” Ljungberg, who played for Arsenal between 1998 and 2007, had been Emery’s assistant after working with their under-23…

Liverpool will host Everton in the third round of the FA Cup, while Championship promotion hopefuls Leeds United will travel to Arsenal. Holders Manchester City will welcome League Two side Port Vale and Manchester United go to Wolves in a repeat of last season’s quarter-final. National League side AFC Fylde, the lowest ranked team definitely through to the third round, will travel to Premier League Sheffield United. The ties take place from 3-6 January. Boston, of the sixth-tier National League North, will host Premier League opposition in Newcastle United, if they can come through a replay against Rochdale on Tuesday,…

The World Bank says Nigeria risks becoming home to a quarter of the world’s destitute people in a decade unless policymakers act to revive economic growth and lift employment. The economy of Africa’s top oil producer is expected to expand 2.1% in 2020 and 2021, the bank said in its Nigeria Economic Update report published Monday. That’s below the nation’s 2.6% population growth rate. The bank urged President Muhammadu Buhari to increase domestic revenue, remove trade restrictions and improve the predictability of economic policy. It also called on the government to remove expensive fuel subsidies and reduce central bank lending…

The Police command in Anambra have confirmed the death of two police officers, allegedly attacked and shot by suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) at Oraifite in Ekwusigo council area of the state. The command’s spokesman, Mr Haruna Mohammed, disclosed this in a statement in Awka on Monday. Part of the statement read, “on the 2/12/2019 at about 11:30 am, there was a formal complaint against one Barr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, a member of the proscribed IPOB in Oraifite on alleged case of abduction, assault occasioning harm and malicious damage to property. “Following the report, police patrol…