Author: David Great

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Mr. Peter Obi, has lamented the exit of Jubilee Syringe Manufacturing (JSM) Company from Nigeria. Chronicle NG reports that the company (JSM), reputed to be the largest syringe manufacturing venture in Africa, stopped production many months ago, it finally announced the end of operations on December 31, 2023. “After careful consideration and a thorough evaluation of our current business situation, we regret to inform you that we must implement temporary measures to ensure the long-term sustainability of the company.” the company said in a memo sighted by Chronicle…

Arsenal have expressed an interest in signing AC Milan and England centre-back Fikayo Tomori, 26. (Football Transfers) Bayern Munich are in talks with Tottenham and England defender Eric Dier, 29, as one of several centre-back options. (Athletic – subscription required) Manchester United will pay the majority of Jadon Sancho’s wages if the 23-year-old England winger returns to Borussia Dortmund on loan. (i Sport) Juventus have pulled out of the race to sign 28-year-old Manchester City and England midfielder Kalvin Phillips, who is also wanted by Newcastle United. (Sun) West Ham are open to selling 27-year-old Morocco defender Nayef Aguerd this month, if manager David Moyes can secure a replacement before the transfer window closes. (Standard) Roma and AC…

Suspected insurgents in Nigeria killed 14 people in a rampage that began in a nightclub and proceeded into the surrounding neighbourhood in northeastern Yobe State, residents said on Friday, two months after another attack in the state killed 40 people. The Boko Haram and splinter Islamic West Africa Province have waged an insurgency in Nigeria’s northeast for more than one decade and continue to carry out sporadic attacks against civilians and the military. Ali Musa, a resident from the Kwari community in Yobe told Reuters by phone that the gunmen arrived around 1:00 a.m. (0000 GMT) at a nightclub and…

The Defence Headquarters says no fewer than 43 terrorists have been neutralised and 115 others arrested by troops in different operations in the last one week. The director, defence media operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Buba said the military remained focused on its campaign against insurgents and operations against other criminals across the country. According to him, troops are hunting terrorists in their hiding places and conducting targeted offensives to destroy them. He said that troops had neutralised several leaders of terrorist groups and their foot soldiers as well as degraded their…

The Lagos State House of Assembly approved Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s N2.267 trillion budget for 2024. The budget, which included 58% capital spending and 42% recurring expenditure, was passed unanimously by voice vote by members of the state assembly. On December 13, 2023, Governor Sanwo-Olu presented the House with a N2.246 trillion budget plan for 2024, stating that the state expected N1.251 trillion in domestically produced income and N596.629 billion in federal government contributions. Prior to its passage, Sa’ad Olumoh, Chairman of the Joint Committee on Budget and Finance, presented a committee report recommending that the Public Works Corporation, the Water…

President Joe Biden will seek to fire up his 2024 campaign Friday with a major speech warning that democracy is at risk from Donald Trump, three years after the deadly January 6 US Capitol attack. Either trailing or neck and neck with Trump in recent polls, the 81-year-old Democrat will frame his likely Republican rival as a threat to the nation in an address near the historic US independence war site of Valley Forge in Pennsylvania. A looming winter storm forced the speech to be brought forward a day from Saturday, the third anniversary of the Capitol assault by a…

The Kabusa Grade 1 Area Court in Abuja on Friday ordered the remand of a tenant, Chris Okoye, 44, for beating his landlord. The judge, Abubakar Sadiq, ordered Mr Okoye’s remand after listening to his plea. The defendant, who lives at 2A Niger avenue villa nova, Apo, is charged with criminal conspiracy, intimidation, force, assault and causing hurt. He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. The prosecutor, O.S. Osho, had earlier told the court that the landlord, Ochengele Isaac, reported the matter at the Apo Police Station on January 3. Court jails security guard for stealing bicycles…

Two Nigerian policemen have been arrested in connection with a string of armed robberies in Lagos and Ogun States, the Nigeria Police, Zone 2 Command Headquarters said. The policemen identified as Inspector Sunday Adetoye (No. 279495) and Inspector Ogunleye Stephen (No. 223521) with their gang robbed residents in Obada-Oko in Ogun State before they were caught. Another policeman who was also involved in the robbery, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Ajayi Victor, is at large. Two other accomplices who were also arrested were identified as members of a vigilante group in the area. Disclosing how the policemen were arrested, Zone…

South Africa’s ex-Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was released from jail on parole Friday and “is now at home”, authorities said, almost 11 years after he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in a crime that gripped the world. Having served more than half his sentence, the 37-year-old double-amputee was quietly whisked out from the Atteridgeville prison on the outskirts of the capital Pretoria, avoiding the hordes of media gathered outside. “He was admitted into the system of Community Corrections and is now at home,” the department of correctional services said in a statement. Pistorius, known worldwide as “Blade Runner” for…

Arsenal have made an approach for Everton’s Belgium midfielder Amadou Onana, 22. (Teamtalk) Arsenal are also preparing a move to sign 17-year-old Netherlands defender Jorrel Hato from Ajax. (Telegraph – subscription required) The move taking winger Jadon Sancho, 23, back to Borussia Dortmund from Manchester United will include an option to buy the England international for £25m. (Football Insider) Atalanta have set an asking price of £51.7m for their Italian defender Giorgio Scalvini, 20, who has been linked with Manchester United. (Metro) Chelsea and England midfielder Conor Gallagher, 23, wants to stay at Stamford Bridge despite being linked with a move away. (Mirror) Manchester United are not expected to activate an option to extend France…