Author: David Great

Manchester City defender Kyle Walker signed a two-year contract extension with the treble winners on Thursday. Walker agreed the new deal just weeks after his future with Pep Guardiola’s side was in doubt amid links to Bayern Munich. The 33-year-old was out of favour for a period of last season and was dropped from the starting line-up for City’s Champions League final victory over Inter Milan in June. Walker was in the final year of his existing deal with City, but the Premier League champions kept the right-back at the transfer deadline and have persuaded him to extend his stay…

The Ijebu East Local Government’s suspended chairman, Wale Adedayo, has been impeached. Councillors accused Adedayo of financial theft, diverting council funds, and other offences, leading to his impeachment. This was stated in a letter written by Fasheyi Akindele, the head of the Ijebu East Local Government house. Adedayo finally came before the legislative council on Thursday as the councillors persisted in their investigation into the chairman following a number of invitations from the House that were reportedly ignored in the past. The suspended chairman allegedly admitted to using federal funds supplied to the council by the state government for purposes…

President Bola Tinubu has relieved Muhammad Nami of his duties as the executive chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), and has appointed Zacchaeus Adedeji in acting capacity. Tinubu directed Nami to proceed on three months of pre-retirement leave, as provisioned by Public Service Rule (PSR) 120243, with immediate effect, leading to his eventual retirement from service on December 8, 2023. “Adedeji is hereby appointed in acting capacity for a 90-day period before his subsequent confirmation as the substantive Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service for a term of four (4) years in the first instance,” Ajuri…

The ruling issued on July 24 by the National and State Houses of Assembly Election Tribunal in Asaba, which proclaimed Ndudi Elumelu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the victor of the most recent election for the Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency of Delta State, has been overturned by the Court of Appeal Abuja. The appellate court ruled that Ngozi Okolie of the Labour Party (LP) had won the election in two decisions. It criticized the panel for nullifying Okolie’s election and then dismissed the petition Elumelu had submitted to the trial tribunal, which is how the nullified verdict was rendered.…

Four people were confirmed deceased following a banditry attack in the eastern senatorial district of Sokoto State’s Giyawa village, Goronyo Local Government Area. 18 people were first kidnapped by the assailants who stole cattle and goods, according to the Sokoto State Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police Ahmed Rufai. Seven of the kidnapped victims, according to him, were eventually able to escape and make their way back to the neighbourhood where they were snatched from. Bandits kill 23 pastors, shut 200 churches, within four years in Kaduna – CAN Police insisted that just eleven people are still with…

The world food program (WFP) says it will spend $2.5 billion to battle hunger in Nigeria over the next five years, with over 133 million people in the country impacted by multidimensional poverty. This was revealed by the World Food Programme’s Country Director, David Stevesson, when he led a team from the UN agency to see Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Betta Edu in her office. According to Stevesson, 2.1 million Nigerians have already been identified as program beneficiaries; this number will grow with the assistance of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. Plateau govt excluding…

The Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, has announced an increase in fees for both new and returning students for the upcoming academic session. According to a press statement issued by the university’s Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olarewaju, new students in the Faculties of Arts, Law, and Humanities will pay N151,200, while returning students in the same faculties would pay N89,200. New students in the faculties of Pharmacy and Health Sciences will pay N190,200, while returning students will pay N128,200. The school stated that the fee revision, which will be implemented beginning with the 2023/2024 academic session, was developed…

BoConcept, an international furniture company, is joining forces this month with Nomadic Art Gallery to present an exhibition titled ‘Art meets Design’. The exhibition will run from 16th September to 7th October 2023 (Monday through Saturday) at 37a Adetokunbo Ademola crescent, Wuse 2, FCT Abuja and will feature works by contemporary Nigerian artists – Oluwaferanmi Okeowo, Joe Abdallah, Anny Robert and Jessicah Yakno-Abasi Ene. The innovative ‘Art meets Design’ concept was conceived by Charlotte Obidairo of BoConcept when the Danish furniture company first entered the Nigerian market in 2014. “Some customers were expressing concerns about how the contemporary furniture might…

The Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka claims that the Labour Party (LP) leadership was aware that Peter Obi, the losing candidate for president on February 25, lost the poll. Soyinka charged that the opposition party’s leadership was attempting to “force a lie” on Nigerians, particularly youths, that Obi had won the election. The Nobel Prize winner talked at an occasion called “The Lives of Wole Soyinka — A Dialogue” that was put on by Africa in the World. The occasion happened on Wednesday in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Soyinka was asked to respond to his post-general election remark on LP vice-presidential candidate…

Nigeria has once more been plunged into darkness following the collapse of the national grid system, which is run by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) out of Osogbo in Osun State. According to a check Chronicle NG in the early hours of today, only 273 megawatts of power were produced on the grid, by just two of the more than 27 electricity producing facilities. It was only a week ago that TCN celebrated the shaky 400 days of grid stability by rolling out the drum. The National grid as gathered by Chronicle NG reportedly collapsed at 00:41 AM and…