Author: David Great

Burnley’s survival hopes received a huge boost after it held Manchester United to a stalemate at Old Trafford, with Zeki Amdouni’s late penalty earning the Clarets a point that inches Vincent Kompany’s men a little closer to pulling off a great escape. Adrift of safety and knowing Nottingham Forest and Luton play fellow basement dwellers next weekend, Burnley realistically needed to leave Old Trafford with something to show for their efforts to boost their survival hopes. Those hopes almost took an instant hit though, when Alejandro Garnacho was afforded too much space at the far post, but he was leaning…

The Plateau Environment Protection and Sanitation Agency (PEPSA) says 103 persons in Jos -Bukuru metropolis have been sanctioned by the mobile courts for violating the sanitation laws. The director-general of the agency, Samuel Dapiya, who disclosed this on Saturday in Jos while monitoring the exercise, also said the exercise recorded minimal compliance by residents of the Jos-Bukuru axis. Mr Dapiya said there was partial compliance in Jos North from Gangare to Salisu Adamu area on Bauch road, as the youths were seen evacuating waste and dumping same in the dust bins provided by the agency. Mr Dapiya, further said in…

It’s just four months into the year 2024; Father’s Day is barely two months away, but we already have a nominee for the father of the year award. His name is Yahaya Bello. Yahaya Bello, the immediate past governor of Kogi State, has ‘raised’ the bar (if there are standards) when it comes to what it takes to be a good, kind-hearted, and loving father. We wouldn’t have known this side of Bello if not for Ola Olukoyede, the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, who, in a press conference on Tuesday, disclosed to the world how…

Seasoned journalist & former presidential aide, Laolu Akande, has raised concerns over the American International School Abuja’s acceptance of a $760,000 advance fee for former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello’s children’s school fees. He made this known on Friday on Channels Television’s programme InsideSources With Laolu Akande. Akande, a Nigerian-American, who himself practiced journalism in leading US newspapers before relocating to Nigeria, said “Unknown to many people, besides the several other billions which Bello is alleged to have stolen, the EFCC has also secured a refund of over $760,000 paid in by his nephew, Alli Bello who is the current…

Leicester City have secured promotion from the Championship to the Premier League thanks to Leeds United’s shock 4-0 loss to QPR on Friday. Leeds’ loss to QPR on Friday evening meant that Leicester fans could start their celebrations early as the result mathematically confirmed that the Midlands club cannot finish lower than second in the league, thus securing automatic promotion to the Premier League. Sitting atop the Championship with 94 points with two games to spare, Leicester knew that a win on Sunday away to Preston North End would secure their promotion back up to the top tier in England…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, taskforce on currency mutilation, dollarization of the economy and forex malpractice, have arrested 34 suspected currency speculators for alleged foreign exchange fraud. They were arrested on Friday, April 26, 2024, in a sting operation following credible intelligence about illegal sales of dollars at the Wuse Zone 4 area of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja. The suspects are: Usman Mohammed, Abdullahi Nasir, Abubakar Saleh, Mohammed Kabir Ibrahim, Abubakar Ghadafi, Muktar Usman, Umar Abubakar Abba, Yakubu Sani, Aminu Abubakar, Muhammed Suleman Abara, Yusuf Tahir, Usman Lawal, Usman Lawal, Usman Umar, Amina Garba Rola, Muhammed Aliyu,…

British monarch, King Charles III is to return to public royal duties after the positive effect of his cancer treatment. King Charles has been receiving care as an outpatient since early February, and the announcement will be a boost for the monarchy as it comes to terms with the king and Princess Kate of Wales as cancer patients. Sources stressed that in spite of the welcome news, the king still has cancer and will continue to be treated for the undisclosed form of the disease. A Buckingham Palace spokesperson on Friday said that “his majesty’s medical team are very encouraged…

Ukraine has received the bodies of 140 soldiers killed while trying to defend the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson from Russian attacks. The authority responsible for prisoner-of-war matters said on Telegram on Friday that five bodies were from the Sumy section in northern Ukraine. Russia has no Ukrainian territories under its control in this area; however, at the beginning of March, units of allegedly Russian volunteers fighting on the side of Ukraine made advances from the Sumy region into Russian territory. Once the identities of the dead have been established, they will be handed over to their relatives,…

A Nigerian lawyer, Benignus Chibueze Mbam, has petitioned the Minister for Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo and the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Correctional Services (NCoS), Haliru Nababa over the unlawful release of a convict, Anthony Okpala. The convict, according to the lawyer, was convicted alongside his company, Mashuchun International Limited, by Justice Mojisola Dada, on charges of two counts of dishonestly converting to their use the sum of $177,000 and the N6,504,000.00 million, on December 21, 2023, and consequently sentenced to seven years imprisonment, while also convicted and ordered to pay the sum of N1 million. The lawyer, in the petition,…

Hamza Abdullahi, an officer in the Office of the National Security Advisor have told a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court suite in Abuja that a sum of N4.633billion was traced to the account of Dalhatu Investment Limited where son of former Sokoto State governor, Attahiru Bafarawa, Sagir is director and sole signatory to the company’s account. Abdullahi spoke as second prosecution witness on Wednesday in the trial-within-trial of former Sokoto State governor, Attahiru Bafarawa and four others. Abdullahi stated that in 2015,  he was the second-in-command of Special Task Force, Fraud Investigation on Arms, Defence Equipment Procurement in the…