Author: Chronicle Editor

Italy set up a Euro 2020 semi-final match with Spain after edging an exhilarating tie with Belgium in Munich. The game may not have been a goal feast like some of the last-16 ties but it was an intense battle between two excellent teams playing fantastic football. Italy have been arguably the best team at the tournament so far, while Belgium are the world’s top-ranked team. The Azzurri’s two goals – which took the team up to 13 consecutive wins and 32 games without defeat – were of the highest quality. Nicolo Barella wriggled through three defenders before drilling in…

Popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, should have joined the South-West Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun corps. A former Assistant Director with the Department of State Services (DSS), Dennis Amachree, stated this on Friday during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily. “The action of the DSS is preemptive and it is also a warning to all those who have been stockpiling arms in different parts of the country,” he said in reaction to a raid carried out by DSS operatives on Igboho’s house in Ibadan on Thursday. “We have Amotekun. Why is Sunday not operating…

Three-time champions Spain survived another scare to beat 10-man Switzerland in a dramatic penalty shootout to reach the semi-finals of the European Championship. Swiss substitute Ruben Vargas was in tears at full-time after he blasted his penalty over the bar, allowing Mikel Oyarzabal to score the decider for Spain. Spain, ranked sixth in the world, also needed extra time to defeat Croatia in the last 16 despite leading 3-1 with five minutes of normal time to play. They were in front in St Petersburg against Switzerland too – midfielder Denis Zakaria deflected Jordi Alba’s shot into his own net to give Spain…

Embattled Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho has revealed how DSS operatives and other security agents invaded his home and framed him for crimes he did not commit. Igboho made the statement on Friday via his spokesman, Olayomi Koiki. He revealed how the security operatives destroyed his surveillance system before invading his home without a search warrant and killing innocent residents. Igboho also mentioned that he was never invited for questioning, stating that he was only doing what he thought best for his people. The activist added that the arms and ammunition displayed were “harvested from the agency’s…

VP urges States to send EndSARS judicial panels’ progress reports Reconciliation reached regarding States’ repayment of Budget Support Facility As plans for next year’s budget begins to gather pace, the National Economic Council (NEC) has endorsed the 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF/FSP) which was presented to it at an emergency meeting of the Council today. Besides the MTEF presentation, the NEC also updated its focus on the reports of the State Judicial Panels set up across the country after last year’s EndSARS protests. Today, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, urged States where the panels are…

Osun state police command has arrested two identical twins and others for gang-raping a lady and sending the nude photographs of the victim on Facebook in Osun State. According to reports, the victim who was a girlfriend to one of the suspects, attempted suicide following the dastardly act perpetrated by five suspects. The suspects; Olabode Kehinde, Olabode Taye and Bakare Yusuf were apprehended by the police. School teacher arrested for raping pupil in Aba The trio were dragged before Osun State Magistrate Court sitting in Osogbo on Friday on six counts of conspiracy, unlawful carnal knowledge, indecent assault, breach of…

A primary school teacher of a private school in Aba, the commercial centre of Abia State, simply identified as Mr. Nathani has been arrested and detained at the Aba Area Command of the Nigeria Police Force for reportedly having carnal knowledge of a 10-year-old female pupil in his class. A close family source of the victim revealed that the teacher started abusing his pupil in January this year. It was learnt that he threatened to deal with the child if she ever mentioned it to her parents. The child was said to have summoned the courage to let the cat…

Nigerian international Victor Moses has completed a permanent transfer to Spartak Moscow after a season-long loan at the Russian club. The move brings to an end the winger’s nine-year Chelsea career and returns him to the Russian Premier League club, where he made 20 appearances on loan last season. Moses switched Wigan Athletic for west London in the summer of 2012, completing his transfer to the European champions just days after starting against us on the opening weekend of the Premier League season. In his first interview as a Chelsea player, Victor Moses promised ‘there’s still more to come from…

The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has said that Boko Haram insurgents and bandits are different from the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and their leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Speaking to BBC Pidgin on Friday, the former FCT Minister said that Boko Haram and bandits do not have a recognised and centralised leadership. He said Kanu is a visible and central leader who has called for the dissolution of Nigeria. El-Rufai was responding to questions from Nigerians on why bandits and terrorists in the North were not treated the same way agitators in the south are treated. Kenya denies…

The Kenya Government has dismissed claims that it was involved in the arrest and extradition of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to Nigeria. Kenya authorities said they could not ascertain whether the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu took place in the East African nation. Recall that the Nigerian authorities had hinted they seized Nnamdi Kanu in London, United Kingdom before extraditing him to Nigeria. However, the British High Commission in Nigeria had denied the IPOB leader was arrested or extradited from the UK. The Director-General of Kenyan Immigration Services, Alexander Muteshi, dismissed the claims of his…