Author: Chronicle Editor

The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards bent the knee to HBO’s fantasy epic “Game of Thrones,” which closed out Sunday night’s ceremony by nabbing the prize for best drama series. HBO also had the most wins of the night, with 9, to Amazon’s 7 and Netflix’s 4. D.B. Weiss and David Benioff’s series, based on George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels, ended its eighth and final season in May with a divisive finale and tepid reviews, but still managed to become the most-watched program in the premium cable network’s history, with 19.3 million viewers. And Emmy voters followed suit. Despite its polarizing farewell run, the blockbuster…

The Nigerian Army on Sunday says it has dismissed three soldiers arrested among a kidnapping gang in the outskirts of Maiduguri. Maj.-Gen. Olusengun Adeniyi, the Theater Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, disclosed this while handing over the dismissed soldiers to the police in Maiduguri. Adeniyi disclosed that the soldiers were arrested with 22 other suspects by a joint patrol team in the early hours of Sunday at a building in the outskirts of Maiduguri. He said that the soldiers were initially deployed to the Operation Lafiya Dole, but engaged in nefarious activities such as kidnapping, armed robbery, killings and cultism. Adeniyi…

The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) said that the supply of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) dropped by 10.78 million litres to 50.22 million litres per day due to closure of the borders. Mr Kimchi Apollo, PPPRA spokesman, disclosed this in a statement he issued in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. He said that the high volume of fuel supply before the closure of the border was mainly as a result of widespread smuggling of the commodity. Apollo explained that the high opportunity for arbitrage in fuel prices in neighbouring countries had especially encouraged smuggling. He said that as at Aug. 11,…

The Senior Pastor and founder, Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare has declared himself as the 16th President of Nigeria and successor of President Muhammadu Buhari. He likened President Buhari to Moses who led the Israelites to River Jordan but cannot cross it, stressing that, it will take a Joshua (Bakare) to go to the other side and begin to distribute the resources to the people. Bakare, during a sermon, said that nothing could change it because he was born for that purpose to be president and has prepared for it. READ: Malami, Magu, Emefiele, others in UK to quash…

– Fed Govt seeks extradition of P&ID owner’s son to face charges – AGF, IG, CBN governor, EFCC boss, Information minister in London The Federal Government has assembled a formidable team that has arrived the United Kingdom to challenge the $9.6 billion arbitration judgment against Nigeria. A government’s high-powered team is in London ahead of Thursday’s court session in the matter against Process and Industrial Development (P&ID). TheNation reports that besides, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which secured conviction and forfeiture order against P&ID Nigerian affiliate, has filed charges against two firms linked to P&ID. The anti-graft agency…

Junior workers in the employment of the Federal Government have started receiving the N30,000 minimum wage, Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, said at the weekend. Ngige, who spoke in Enugu, said the payment to levels 1 to 6 commenced last month. His claim was corroborated by the National President of the Nigeria Civil Service Union (NCSU) and a member of the Joint Public Service Negotiating Council, Mr. Lawrence Amaechi. According to Amaechi, the junior workers received the new wage as their August salary. The minister dismissed the claim by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) that the Federal Government was reluctant…

Neymar scored another late winner as French champions Paris St-Germain edged past Lyon to move three points clear at the top of Ligue 1. The Brazil forward skilfully swivelled in the box and fired into the bottom corner with three minutes remaining to break the hosts’ resistance. He had been booed by his own fans before scoring a 92nd-minute winner against Strasbourg last weekend. He missed PSG’s first five games as he tried to force a return to Barcelona. Neymar finding his feet again But, back in the PSG team after missing their 3-0 Champions League win over Real Madrid due…

As this season’s edition of popular reality TV show, BBNaija, slowly comes to an end, ‘Biggie’ will be rewarding loyal fans on DStv and GOtv with all furniture in the BBNaija house or N1m cash prize! From Monday, 23 September till Sunday, 29 September, DStv and GOtv customers will stand the chance of winning furniture such as beds, lounge chairs, Jacuzzi, refrigerator, dining table set, TV, Head of House chair and more currently in use in the Pepper Dem house or a cash prize of N1m to 10 lucky customers. READ: Hope Uzodima implicated, arrested in India To be a winner…

India’s Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) has arrested a Nigerian man identified as Hope Uzodima in Mumbai for alleged possession of dangerous weapons. The suspect, a 40-year-old man who lives in Bonkhode village in Koparkhairane was arrested for possession of ivory and a sword cane. Another Nigerian named King Chukwudi Fidelis who is also in police net fast-tracked his arrest as he helped the police with information. The 30-year-old Fidelis was arrested at Sector 13 in Koparkhairane last week for the possession of 64 gm of methamphetamine powder worth rs3.2 lakh. Investigations revealed that he got the drug from Uzodima. Also, read…

The Imo state governor, Emeka Ihedioha, yesterday, described the outcome of the governorship election tribunal which delivered judgement in his favour, as the winner of the 2019 Guber election in the state, as “no victor no vanquish.” Ihedioha spoke in Owerri, through his Chief Press Secretary, Chibuike Onyeukwu. He said he needed other candidates who were in court challenging his emergence to join hands with him and develop Imo state. It stated: “Today is a very important day in the history of our Rebuild Imo project. The Nigerian Judiciary has once again demonstrated courage and much honour in the discharge…