Author: David Great

Barcelona are interested in a move for Manchester United and England winger Jadon Sancho, 23, amid his Old Trafford exile. (Sport – in Spanish) Sheffield United are targeting a move for former manager Chris Wilder as a replacement for Paul Heckingbottom, following defeat by Tottenham on Saturday. (Mail) Arsenal are close to agreeing a new four-year contract with Norway midfielder Martin Odegaard, 24, worth more than £200,000 a week. (Football Insider) Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo, 38, is suing former club Juventus for £17m in wages that were left pending during the Covid pandemic. (Gazzetta dello Sport – in Italian) Everton are still keen to sign Leeds and Italy winger Wilfried Gnonto, 19, after…

Ten bandits were killed in the Yankari Forest and 39 hostages were freed from the kidnappers den following a successful combined security operation tagged Operation Sharan Daji. This was revealed in a statement released on Saturday by Ahmed Wakili, the police public relations officer for the Bauchi State Command. According to Wakili, a preliminary investigation showed that on Thursday, roughly 24 kidnappers broke into the Gaji community. Mohbad’s Death: Police assure justice will be served According to reports, the attackers abducted a group of businesspeople who were leaving the Mararaban Liman Katagum Market and took them to a location known…

The Senate on Saturday refuted rumours that certain senators were planning to impeach Senate President Godswill Akpabio, calling the charges demonic and unreal. “Our attention has just been drawn to syndicated satanic verses in a section of the media, of purported and illusory plots of leadership change in the Senate,” said the upper chamber, in a statement by its spokesman Yemi Adaramodu. “This imaginative composition is in the realm of the fake and fallacious story of N100m per legislator,” it said. “It’s apt to note that the 10th Senate, under the leadership of Senator Godswill Akpabio has carried out its…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo’s, 80th birthday reception on Thursday. In a statement issued Saturday by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, ex-President Obasanjo highlighted a TikTok video erroneously alleging that Tinubu and Obasanjo met on Thursday. “The former president condemned the fake post, which also lifted a banter conversation that took place between the two, when he played host to the former Lagos State governor last year before the country’s general elections this year,” the statement reads. Obasanjo, according to Akinyemi, advises the creator…

Troubled Manchester United plunged deeper into crisis as Brighton swept to a shock 3-1 win at Old Trafford in Saturday’s Premier League clash. Erik ten Hag’s side were rocked by a first-half goal from former United forward Danny Welbeck before Pascal Gross and Joao Pedro put Brighton further ahead after the interval. Hannibal Mejbri’s first goal for the club was no consolation for United, who were booed off at the final whistle. It was United’s second successive defeat after their 3-1 loss at Arsenal before the international break. With three defeats in five league games already this season, United are languishing…

Justice Akintayo Aluko of a Lagos Federal High Court on Friday turned down a bail application filed by a chartered accountant, Omafume Augustina Ayinuola, who is standing trial for N1.07 billion and $975, 102.58 fraud. The judge refused the accountant’s bail application on the ground that she was a ‘flight risk’. Ayinuola is being charged before the court alongside her mother, Lydia Abosede Ehrievuyere and their company, Patridia Resources Limited, on a 15 count-charge of conspiracy, obtaining by false pretence, forgery and fraud, by the operatives of the Force Criminal Investigation Department ForceCID Annex Alagbon-Ikoyi Lagos. Both Ayinuola and Ehrievuyere…

The latest in a long line of accolades for Nigeria’s interior minister, Hon Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, is a trend of gratitude to President Bola Tinubu for appointing the “best man for the job.” Nigerians took to social media in what can only be described as a show of gratitude to His Excellency, President Bola Tinubu, for his astute decision in selecting his cabinet, with special emphasis on the Minister of Interior, Hon Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo. With tweets and photographs of the president juxtaposed with those of the minister, the hashtag #BTOIsWorking trended with #RenewedHope. “This is an appreciation post to President Bola…

Jadon Sancho is open to leaving Manchester United in the January transfer window if the England winger, 23, remains marooned at the club until the New Year. (Manchester Evening News) Erik ten Hag will not back down over his demand for an apology, in both private and public, from Sancho for saying the United manager has not told the truth. (ESPN) West Ham were unable to agree a deal for Hugo Ekitike during the summer transfer window but the French striker, 21, is set to quit Paris St-Germain in January. (Football Insider) Bayern Munich could revisit a move for Chelsea’s English defender Trevoh Chalobah, 24, in the January transfer window. (Football Insider) Chelsea’s co-sporting directors…

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has redeployed his Special Adviser on Health, Dr. Oreoluwa Finnih Awokoya from the Ministry of Health to the Office of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sanwo-Olu also redeployed Engr. Abiola Olowu from the Ministry of Commerce, Cooperatives, Trade and Investment to the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources as Special Adviser, Office of Mineral Resources. The changes take immediate effect according to a statement signed by the Head of Service, Mr. Hakeem Muri-Okunola. According to the statement, the Special Adviser, Office of Works is now domiciled under the Office of the Deputy Governor. Sanwo-Olu…

President Bola Tinubu on Friday nominated Olayemi Michael Cardoso as the substantive Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). In a statement by president Tinubu’s spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, “President Bola Tinubu has approved the nomination of Dr. Olayemi Michael Cardoso to serve as the new Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), for a term of five (5) years at the first instance, pending his confirmation by the Nigerian Senate.” “Tinubu also nominated persons to serve as deputy governors of the apex bank in “conformity with Section 8 (1) of the Central Bank of Nigeria Act, 2007, which vests in…