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England manager Gareth Southgate has signed a new contract to keep him in the role until December 2024. Southgate, whose previous contract was set to run out after the 2022 winter World Cup in Qatar, has been manager of the national side since November 2016. He led England to the final of Euro 2020 – their best men’s performance in 55 years – in July. “It remains an incredible privilege to lead this team. We have a great opportunity in front of us,” he said. Southgate will oversee England’s progress at next year’s World Cup, which runs from 21 November-18…

At least five people have been killed and more than 40 injured after a car ploughed into a Christmas parade in the US state of Wisconsin, police say. School bands and a dance troupe of grannies were among those marching through the city of Waukesha when a red SUV came speeding down the road. It hit dozens of people, including children. One person is in custody. The incident does not appear “at this time” to be an act of terrorism, one official said. The suspect appeared to have been fleeing another scene when he ran into people at the parade,…

Cristiano Ronaldo paid tribute on Monday to “outstanding human being” Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after the Norwegian was sacked as Manchester United manager. Ronaldo, who returned to Old Trafford in August, has scored nine times in 13 games for United this season but has failed to prevent the club’s slide down the Premier League table after a series of embarrassing results. Solskjaer was sacked on Sunday, less than 24 hours after United’s humiliating 4-1 defeat at Watford, which followed chastening home losses to Liverpool and Manchester City. Ronaldo, 36, was a team-mate of Solskjaer’s in his first spell at the club…

Manchester United have approached Zinedine Zidane about becoming their manager but, according to sources close to the former Real Madrid boss, he is not interested in going to Old Trafford at this point. Ole Gunnar Soskjaer was sacked by United on Sunday after Saturday’s 4-1 defeat at Watford. Zidane ended his second spell as Real manager in May this year. He won three consecutive Champions League titles with the club from 2016. After leaving in 2018, he returned a year later and won La Liga and the Spanish Super Cup in 2020. Man City and Barcelona talk Sterling swap, Man…

Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc has acquired 71.69% stake in Honeywell Group Limited at a total enterprise value of NGN80 billion. Honeywell Group in a statement on Monday said the deal will create a more resilient national champion in the Nigerian foods industry, ensuring long-term job creation and preservation. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval. Commenting on the transaction, Honeywell Group Limited Managing Director, Obafemi Otudeko said: “Today’s announcement is in line with the evolution of Honeywell Group and our vision of creating value that transcends generations. He added that, “For over two decades, we have supported Honeywell Flour…

By Ahmed-BK On the two pre-2015 occasions he vied for the presidency of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari drew blank. Until he wised up after the futilities, Buhari had lived under the illusion that his famed cult-like followership in the Northern part of the country was cogent enough to make him president. The stubborn fact, that no part of the country could go it alone was vehemently lost on Buhari himself and the radical egg heads made up of fringe politicians and apolitical retired bureaucrats who, in their cocooned arrogance, misled themselves into believing that the presidency was there for the taking.…

The Lagos State Government has given N1 million and a two-bedroom apartment to the family of late Jumoke Oyeleke who was killed by a stray bullet during the Yoruba Nation rally in Lagos on July 3, 2021. The 25-year-old was working as a shop assistant to fend for her family when the police stray bullet hit her. The Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who was represented by his Senior Special Assistant on Administration, Mrs Titi Oshodi, presented the keys to the new apartment in the Ikorodu area of the state to the family. “We are in the new place of the…

The Kogi State Government has threatened legal action against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the alleged N20 billion bailout funds revealed by the anti-graft commission. The EFCC had disclosed that the Kogi State government had kept the funds in a commercial bank so as to yield interest. The anti-graft agency had announced on Friday that it has returned the disputed funds to the Central Bank of Nigeria. However, the state government has said that it did not open nor create the said account. Speaking on behalf of the state government in a press briefing on Sunday in…

A vehicle ploughed into a Christmas parade in the US state of Wisconsin on Sunday evening causing “some fatalities” and injuring more than 20 people, police said. Officials were still gathering information on the incident which occurred just after 4:30 pm (2230 GMT), as spectators in the town of Waukesha, a Milwaukee suburb, watched the annual tradition. “The Waukesha Christmas parade was taking place when a red SUV broke through the barricades, westbound, headed down Main Street,” Police Chief Dan Thompson told reporters. “The vehicle struck more than 20 individuals, some of the individuals were children and there were some…

An unknown number of travellers have been kidnapped by bandits during an attack on the Abuja-Kaduna expressway on Sunday afternoon. It was gathered that the victims were waylaid by the bandits at about 2 pm. The assailants who reportedly blocked the road at Katari village operated for over an hour before whisking their victims away to an unknown location. Some motorists told newsmen that they had to turn back after hearing sounds of sporadic gunshots. Other motorists parked kilometres parked far away from the scene. Travellers resumed their journey after vehicular movement was restored on the other side of the highway.…