Author: Chronicle Editor

Manchester United generated the most revenue of any football club in the world last season, according to a report published by Deloitte. United dethrone Real Madrid – who held top spot for 11 years – after accumulating a record revenue of 689m euros (£515m) during the 2015-16 term. The Premier League club saw commercial revenue grow by 100m euros (£71m). Combined revenue for the top 20 clubs during the 2015-16 season grew 12% to 7.4bn euros (£6.41bn) – a new record. It is the first time Manchester United have topped the annual Deloitte Football Money League since the 2003-04 season.…

Egypt has added ex-football star Mohamed Aboutrika to a terror list for his alleged links with the banned Muslim Brotherhood, his lawyer says. Mr Aboutrika is accused of financially supporting the Brotherhood, which Egypt considers a terrorist organisation. In 2012, he endorsed the successful presidential bid by Mohamed Morsi, a Brotherhood member. The move by the 2008 BBC African Footballer of the Year alienated some of his fans. Any person named on the country’s terror list is subject to a travel ban and faces having their passport and assets frozen. Mr Aboutrika’s lawyer, Mohamed Osman, said the move was “contrary…

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has enjoined motorists in Abuja and its environs, and indeed the federation, not to engage in any panic buying of petroleum products. NNPC assures motorists that the Corporation has 1.3billion litres stock of PMS, otherwise called petrol, which is sufficient to serve the nation for more than 38 days. This plea came on the heels of reports that some motorists have begun panic buying of petrol, following rumours that the government was about to increase the pump price of the white product from N145 per litre. NNPC dismissed the rumour. It said there is no iota…

Unconfirmed reports said the wife and children of outgoing Gambian president, Yahya Jammeh have left the capital of Banjul, on the eve of the deadline given him by the ECOWAS and the African Union to quit power. Gambians and tourists were also leaving in droves. Bus parks were scenes of chaos as people boarded buses, packing suitcases onto trucks and hiring canoes to flee the capital of Banjul, as President Yahya Jammeh clung to power on the eve of his rival Adama Barrow’s planned swearing in. The Banjul airport was also chaotic as many people struggled to board planes to…

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has confirmed that it has deployed to Senegal in case of the need to enforce Gambia’s election mandate, it said on Wednesday. “The NAF today moved a contingent of 200 men and air assets comprising fighter jets, transport aircraft, light utility helicopter as well as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft to Dakar from where it is expected to operate into Gambia,” director of public relations, Ayodele Famuyiwa said. Senegal’s forces are already at the Gambian border and will enter the country if President Yahya Jammeh, who lost a Dec. 1 election, does not step down…

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has said Nigerians don’t need counselling to reject the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) during the 2019 general elections in the country, saying the abysmal performance of the party has already made the people to grow weary of it. This is just as the governor noted that there is a wide difference in the tolerance levels of former President, Goodluck Jonathan and the incumbent, Muhammadu Buhari. He stated this in Ado-Ekiti during an interactive session with some journalists. According to a press release by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, on Wednesday, he…

A Federal High Court in Kano on Wednesday fixed Feb. 20, for hearing in the case against the Clerk and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara over the suspension of Abdulmumini Jibril. Some constituents of Kiru/Bebeji Federal Constituency sued the Clerk and Speaker Yakubu Dogara, challenging the legality of suspending their member, Jibril. The counsel for the plaintiff, Mr Bashir Muqaddam had earlier applied for a date to enable him respond to the issues raised in the preliminary objection filed by the defence counsel. According to him, the defence counsel wanted the consolidation of the two suits –…

Paramilitary gendarmes firing in the air sealed off access to Abidjan port, Ivory Coast’s main port on Wednesday, forcing companies including cocoa exporters to close down, as weeks of unrest in the security forces showed no signs of easing. President Alassane Ouattara, who is also facing a wave of public sector strikes, ordered his defence minister and military chiefs to hold urgent talks with members of the security forces about their grievances in a bid to quell the instability. Ivory Coast has emerged from a 2002-2011 political crisis and civil war as one of the world’s fastest-growing economies but the…

President Muhammadu Buhari has dispatched a high-powered Federal Government delegation to condole with the government and people of Borno over Tuesday’s accidental bombing of a civilian community in the state. Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, made this known on his twitter handle on Wednesday. He stated that the delegation was headed by Chief of Staff to the President, Alhaji Abba Kyari, with service chiefs, Minister of Information Lai Mohammed and Minister of Defence, Retired Brig. Mansur Dan-Ali as members of the team. The twitter message read: “A team from (President Muhammadu Buhari)…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari requesting him “to use your good offices and leadership to urgently instruct all appropriate authorities to release budgetary allocations for the immediate payment of outstanding salaries and allowances of judges and judicial workers across the country.” In the letter dated 18 January 2017 and signed by SERAP executive director Adetokunbo Mumuni the organization said that, “The Senate of Nigeria has disclosed that federal judges have not been paid their salaries and allowances for four months. SERAP is seriously concerned that failing to pay regularly and…