Author: Chronicle Editor

Claude Puel started life at Leicester with a 2-0 win over Everton, with the visitors remaining marooned in the relegation zone. With David Unsworth in caretaker charge following the sacking of Ronald Koeman, Everton were punished by Leicester’s pace on the break as Jamie Vardy (18) and a heavily deflected Demarai Gray effort off Jonjoe Kenny (28) gave them an early advantage. Puel, who was appointed as Leicester’s third manager of 2017 on Wednesday, had to watch his side defend deep for the majority of the second period – but the visitors lacked the imagination or variation in their play…

…Its now compulsory for operators to install CCTV cameras, other gadgets, says CP …Sets up 10-man committee to tackle menace frontally The Lagos State Police Command has warned operators of night clubs, beaches, hotels, bars, lounges, among others in the State to henceforth put internal security measures in place to discourage drug abuse, drug peddling and other criminal activities in their establishments in the overall best interest of their businesses and security of the State. Speaking at the weekend during a meeting with stakeholders in the hospitality industry at the Command Headquarters in Ikeja, the State’s Commissioner of Police, Mr…

Sir Oseni Salawe Elamah, Executive Secretary of the Joint Tax Board (JTB), has disclosed that state governments will reap huge benefits from the implementation of Voluntary Assets and Income (VAIDS), an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Finance. Speaking in Abuja yesterday, Elamah explained that VAIDS, was conceived to ensure that individuals and corporate entities are given a time-limited opportunity to voluntarily declare their income and assets as basis for tax assessment. This, he said will greatly benefit all tax authorities, especially at the state level. According to Elamah, the decline of oil revenues, the major source of funding to…

Subscribers of Globacom have taken to the social media and other platforms to show their appreciation of the latest offers from the company. Globacom last Monday introduced new concepts in customer appreciation in the country with the launch of two major initiatives tagged Everyday Bonanza and Glo Jumbo SIM as well as announcement of October 31st as another Free Data Day. The first initiative, Everyday Bonanza, allows thousands of Globacom subscribers to win different prizes ranging from Flat Screen LED TV sets to 4G-LTE phones, generators, refrigerators, Microwave ovens and 4G-LTE MiFis every day for the duration of the offer.…

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called for immediate suspension of those suspected of complicity in reinstating Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman of Pension Task Team, into civil service. NANS’s President, Chinonso Obasi, in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said that suspending suspected accomplices in the case would ensure credible probe of the scandal. Maina was in 2012 accused of misappropriating N100 billion pension funds while he headed the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, an assignment given to him by former President Goodluck Jonathan. While investigation was being conducted on the allegation, he deserted his job…

The Enugu State Police Command said it arrested a suspect involved in impersonation of bank customers and beneficiaries of transfers from abroad. The Command’s Spokesman, Ebere Amaraizu, said in a statement on Sunday, that the 23 year-old suspect was an undergraduate from Amaigbo in Nwangele Local Government Area of Imo. According to him, the suspect went to a new generation bank located at Okpara Avenue in Enugu metropolis to cash the sum of 800 dollars purported to have been sent to him from someone abroad. “When he was asked by the bank staff to provide proof of identification, he presented…

Nigeria has raised the alarm over the rising cases of organ harvesting in the guise of ritual killings in some parts of the nation. Organ harvesting is the illegal removal of human organ or tissue without a person’s consent; generally to be sold on the black market for organ transplants. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has, therefore, resolved to commence investigation into illegal human organ harvesting. The Director General of NAPTIP, Ms Julie Okah-Donli, told disclosed the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that cases of organ harvesting was complicated but would carry…

For the umpteenth time, it’s exclusively necessary to state that the KOGI PROJECT – where there would be collective development and individual happiness of its people – has been utterly compromised, thus heading for total collapse by the previous uninspiring leaders that held sway before the incumbent. Here is it, the 2billion Naira meant for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises development in Kogi state – converted to an elephant shared -constitutes one of the major wounds being nursed by the Governor Yahaya Bello administration. Let me douse your curiosity… the immediate past governor, Captain Idris Wada (retired), accessed a whooping…

Former US president Barack Obama has been summoned for jury duty in the state of Illinois and is planning to serve, a court official says. Details have not been released but he is expected to appear in Cook County next month. Mr Obama, 56, owns a home in Washington DC and also in Chicago and could be called for civil or criminal cases. Ex-presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush also appeared for jury selection after leaving the White House. READ: INEC registers 125,198 new voters in Enugu Barack Obama went to Harvard Law School and lectured at the University…

Anthony Joshua defended his WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles by wearing down a game Carlos Takam with a controversial 10th-round stoppage at a raucous Principality Stadium. The Briton, 28, damaged his nose after a heavy head collision early on and did not have things all his own way against a fighter who took the bout at 12 days’ notice. But in a key fourth round in which both men enjoyed success, Joshua dropped his man with a hook and badly damaged the eye of his rival. Takam was twice inspected by ringside medics but battled on until he was…