Author: David Great

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said teams have changed tactics because they are no longer intimidated by his side and that is making the Champions League campaign more difficult. City are down in 25th place in the Champions League table, two points off the playoff spots, and Guardiola has noticed an increase in opposing teams adopting a man-marking approach. “Everyone came to the Etihad and stayed back,” he told a press conference on Friday. “The first team I saw man-marking was Neil Warnock at Cardiff. Now everybody does it. Everybody comes here, it doesn’t matter, man-to-man. “They just jump on…

Manchester City captain Kyle Walker has joined AC Milan on loan for the remainder of the season, the two clubs confirmed on Friday. Milan announced in a statement that the deal includes an option to buy the 34-year-old England right-back, with Sky Italy reporting the purchase would cost approximately £4.2 million ($5.24 million). Walker, who joined Manchester City from Tottenham Hotspur in 2017, made 319 appearances for the club. His last outing came in their 4-1 Premier League victory over West Ham United on January 4. However, he was left out of City’s squad for their 8-0 win over Salford…

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, has alleged that retired military generals are behind illegal mining activities across the country. Oshiomhole made the statement during a Senate Committee on Appropriations meeting, where the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Solid Minerals Development, Senator Sampson Ekong, presented the 2025 budget report for the sector. According to Oshiomhole, a member of the Appropriations Committee, Nigeria’s ambition to diversify its economy would remain unattainable if the government fails to address the growing problem of illegal mining. “The ongoing illegal mining across the country is being carried out by…

Juventus’ new signing Randal Kolo Muani is available to make his Serie A debut against Napoli on Saturday, manager Thiago Motta said as his team looks to start a winning run. Juve signed France forward Kolo Muani on loan from Paris St Germain until the end of the season on Thursday, and the Italian club also welcomed right back Alberto Costa earlier in the January transfer window. “Randal (Kolo Muani) is available and we’ll see if he starts or not. It’s important to have taken a player of his level because we think he can help the team win games,”…

Ruben Amorim says he does not know if unsettled Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford will leave Old Trafford before the transfer window closes. Rashford has not featured for 10 games after Amorim made the shock move to drop him for United’s derby win at Manchester City in December. He responded to his omission by saying he was ready for a “new challenge”, sparking reports that he would be sold by United before the end of the current transfer period on February 3rd. Linked with AC Milan, Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund and Chelsea, Rashford remains in exile, with United boss Amorim unclear…

President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria has appointed board chairpersons for 42 federal organisations and a secretary to the board of the Civil Defence, Immigration, and Prisons Services. The president appointed former governor of Kano, Abdullahi Ganduje, former Rivers senator, Magnus Abe and former All Progressives Congress youth leader, Dayo Israel. Tinubu also appointed a new managing director for the Nigerian Railway Corporation and a director-general for the National Board for Technology Incubation (NBTI). President Tinubu directs the board chairpersons not to interfere with the management of the organisations, emphasising that their positions are non-executive. All the appointments take immediate effect.…

A former Minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye, has accused ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo of spreading falsehoods about the Mambilla power project to obscure his own record. Agunloye, who served as Minister of Power and Steel between 2002 and 2003 under Obasanjo’s administration, is currently facing a seven-count charge brought by the Federal Government at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court. The charges relate to an alleged $6 billion fraud involving the Mambilla Hydroelectric plant. In a statement released on Friday, Agunloye, now the National Secretary of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), alleged that the government is using him…

A civil society organization, the Centre for Reform and Public Advocacy, has announced plans to sue the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, over the alleged collection of outdoor advertisement and signage fees in the six area councils of the FCT. In a letter addressed to the minister on January 22 and copied to the Director of the Department of Outdoor Advertisement and Signage, the group demanded an immediate halt to the fee collection, which it claims is illegal. The organization gave a seven-day ultimatum, threatening to commence legal proceedings against Wike if the practice continues. Mr.…

At least 24 residents of Bida, the headquarters of Bida Local Government Area in Niger State, were hospitalised after the outbreak of a mysterious illness in the town. Reports indicate that 20 of the affected individuals have since been discharged following more than a week of treatment at the Federal Medical Centre and Umaru Sanda Ndayako General Hospital, Bida. The illness, which caused sudden collapse and loss of communication abilities, has left many residents worried. Providing an update on the situation, Niger State Commissioner for Secondary and Tertiary Health, Dr. Bello Tukur, said the outbreak was linked to untreated severe…

More than 460 illegal immigrants, some with criminal records including sexual assault, domestic violence, drug offenses, and weapons violations, have been apprehended in the United States. Fox News reports that the arrests were carried out by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the initial days of President Donald Trump’s administration. According to the report, “between midnight January 21 and 9am January 22, a 33-hour period, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, ERO, arrested over 460 aliens.” Those taken into custody include individuals with criminal histories of sexual assault, robbery, burglary, aggravated assault, drug and weapons offenses, resisting arrest, and…