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Following Lionel Messi’s exit from Barcelona, the president of the Spanish club, Joan Laporta announced that the club has incurred a total of 1.35bn euros in debt. Laporta said the situation is very worrying. However, he blames his predecessor, Josep Maria Bartomeu for accumulating so much debt and leaving him a terrible inheritance. The club’s wage bill currently accounts for 103% of total income. According to Laporta, extending Messi’s contract would have put the club in jeopardy at it would have made the wage bill accountable for 110% of revenue, which La Liga refused to accept. Messi left the Nou…

Real Madrid goalie, Thibaut Courtois has agreed to stay at Santiago Bernabéu for the next five years. The Belgian goalkeeper joined Madrid in 2018 from Chelsea in a £35m deal. The 29-year-old who is spending his fourth season at the club said that he is hoping to surpass the level he was last year. “This is going to be my fourth season at the club of my dreams,” Courtois wrote on his website. Chelsea keeper Courtois breaks up with pregnant girlfriend “It’s an honour to have the opportunity to play for all these trophies. Personally, I hope to maintain and…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has assured Nigerians that it will not rig the 2023 election to remain in power. The ruling party’s resolve was disclosed in a statement by Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe Ph.D, the National Secretary Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) All Progressives Congress (APC). Sen Akpanudoedehe reiterated that the party will not copy the bad habits of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), adding that the President Muhammadu Buhari-administration will make sure that the elections are free and fair in accordance with the law. The Senator added that there was no need for APC to rig elections because…

Kayvee has exited the Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eyes edition on Monday citing some medical reasons. The Ogun State native who was born in 1995 was raised in Lagos and he attended his primary and secondary education in Nigeria’s commercial city. The 26-year-old has met with the organizers of the reality television show before he headed for the exit. “Kayvee, one of the housemates in the Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) Shine Ya Eye Season, has been removed from the House on medical grounds,” an insider told Chronicle NG. BBNaija: Pere warns housemates against disrespecting him Before his removal, he…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Kano Zonal Command on August 16, 2021 arraigned Rashida Ibrahim Usman before Justice Maryam Ahmed Sabo of the Kano State High Court sitting in Milla Road, Bompai, Kano State. The defendant was arrested by operatives of the Commission following a complaint by one Hajiya Wasila who alleged that sometime in April 2018 she was introduced to the defendant by her sister, Pricia Shaaibu with the information that she is a well-connected businesswoman who runs a business called Golden Premier Club. Subsequently, the defendant invited the complainant to Abuja where she explained the details…

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the President-elect of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema on his emergence as the next leader of the South African country. President Buhari lauded the people of the central-south African country for exercising their electoral rights in the polls. He also commended the incumbent president, Edgar Lungu for accepting the result of the elections, adding that Nigeria looks forward to a peaceful collaboration between the two African nations. President Buhari’s statement was disclosed in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina. “President Muhammadu Buhari congratulates the President-elect Hakainde Hichilema, on…

Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has been declared winner of last week’s keenly contested presidential election. Mr Hichilema defeated the incumbent, President Edgar Lungu, by a landslide – more than a million votes. It was Mr Hichilema’s sixth attempt at winning the presidency. His supporters have been celebrating on the streets of the capital, Lusaka. Mr Lungu has accepted defeat and congratulated Mr Hichilema. Earlier, he alleged that the elections were not free and fair and said ruling party election officials had been chased from polling stations, leaving votes unprotected. In its final tally, the electoral commission said Mr Hichilema…

President Muhammadu Buhari said that the infrastructural development and job creation is the solution to ending terrorism in Africa, not military force. President Buhari’s statement was published in the UK’s Financial Times on Sunday. The article which was titled ‘Africa needs more than US military aid to defeat terror’, focused on the current state of global terrorism in relation to the withdrawal of US troops in Afghanistan. According to President Buhari, the threat of terrorism now “burns fiercely” in Africa. To combat terrorism, the President said what Africa needs most from the US “is a comprehensive partnership to close the…

The second phase of the COVID-19 vaccination programme has resumed after a delay due to logistics. The programme which was supposed to commence on August 10, was delayed due to ‘administrative reasons’, according to the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed. The resumption of vaccination in the country comes after Nigeria took delivery of over four million doses of the Moderna vaccine from the United States of America. According to data collated by the Nigerian center for Disease Control, only one percent of the population has been vaccinated so far. The flag off ceremony, held at the Federal Medical Centre in…

The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has signed the 2021 Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law. The President who is still in isolation after his trip to London, approved the bill on Monday. The PIB which was passed by the Senate on July 15, after thirteen years, was also passed by the House of Representatives on July 16, 2021; before reaching the President for final approval. The President’s approval was disclosed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina. “President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Petroleum Industry Bill 2021 into law.…