Author: David Great

Egypt forward Mohamed Salah, 31, has reportedly “given the green light” for a Saudi Pro League side to negotiate with Liverpool over a possible transfer this summer. (Alkass, via Football365) Salah’s agent Ramy Abbas Issa dismissed reports linking the Egyptian forward to Al-Ittihad last week. (Chronicle NG) Brazil international Alisson Becker has no plans to leave Liverpool and is happy being manager Jurgen Klopp’s number one goalkeeper. (Anfield Watch)  Saudi Arabian side Al-Nassr were said to be keen on signing the 30-year-old and that Alisson was tempted. (Footmercato – in French) Fulham have received an offer of almost £47m from Al-Hilal for Serbia striker Aleksandar Mitrovic with the 28-year-old keen to make…

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation exercise is scheduled to resume in Borno State 13 years after the three-week course was suspended over recurring attacks by Boko Haram insurgents. The NYSC via its Twitter handle on Tuesday announce to prospective corps members deployed to the state’s second stream of the Batch ‘B’ orientation course of a change of venue. “All Prospective Corps Members (PCMs) deployed to Borno are to reprint their Call-up letters from the NYSC portal,” it said. Corps member bemoans lack of adequate infrastructures at Ekiti NYSC camp “The date of the commencement of the Orientation Course…

The Federal Government has applied to drop the “illegal possession of firearms” case it filed against the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, at the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) at the Federal Ministry of Justice, Mohammed Abubakar, in an oral application, told Justice Nicholas Oweibo that the application followed the result of further investigations. However, counsel to the suspended CBN Governor , Joseph Daudu (SAN), opposed the application insisting that that the government must first purge itself of the disobedience of the court’s order granting Emefiele bail, before its…

Amid a shortage of foreign exchange, Nigeria’s inflation rate rose to 24.08% in July 2023, the highest recorded in recent times. The July 2023 rate showed an increase of 1.29% points when compared to the previous month’s, which was 22.79%, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in its Consumer Price Index (CPI) report released on Tuesday. The CPI measures the rate of change in the prices of goods and services. On July 25, 2023, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) raised the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR), which measures the interest rate, from 18.5 percent to 18.75%. CBN moves to…

The All Progressives Congress in Kogi State (APC) has announced suspension of the party’s Chairman for Ankpa Local Government Area of the state, Abdullahi Zakeri, for “anti-party activities”. In a statement on Tuesday, the APC Chairman in the state, Abdullahi Bello, said the suspension is with immediate effect. The party also appointed Mohammed Salifu Jibrin as the acting Chairman of the party for the local government. “This is to notify the general public that the State Working Committee of the Kogi State All Progressives Congress has received a letter recommending the Ankpa Local Government Chairman of the All Progressives Congress,…

A former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Professor of Political Science, Bolaji Akinyemi, has stated that the intervention of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in restoring democracy in Niger is in a bid to stop more coups. The regional body placed sanctions on the Niger military junta following the coup that displaced president Mohammed Bazoum in July 26. Speaking on Channels TV Politics Today on Monday, Akinyemi said there has to be a line following military coups in other West African countries like Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea. He said, “I haven’t heard one single commentator, even…

The House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee investigating job racketeering by Ministries Departments and Agencies and mismanagement of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System IPPIS on Monday queried the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) over what is described as lopsided employment in the agency. The panel had demanded that the agency as a matter of urgency submit to it the list of all staff employed between 2015- 2023 and decried lack of adherence to extant regulation of the nation’s public service as it was discovered by the committee that JAMB employed 300 staff from 2015 till…

The Lagos office of the Economic and Financial Crimes, EFCC, on Sunday, August 13, 2023, facilitated the extradition of Samuel Ogoshi and his brother, Samson, to the United States of America, to face prosecution for sexually extorting numerous young men and teenage boys in the Western District of Michigan and across the US. The Commission had, sometime in May 2023, initiated the extradition proceedings at the Federal High Court, Abuja Judicial Division, against the Ogoshis alongside one Ezekiel Ejemeh Robert over the exploitation of minors and production of pornography, following a request by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI.…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said it is set to take new measures to save the naira from an impending crash in the FOREX market Acting Governor of the CBN, Folasodun Sonubi, made the disclosure to State House Correspondents after briefing President Bola Tinubu on what the bank was doing the halt the slide on Monday at the State House. Sonubi stated President Tinubu expressed his concern about the impact of recent developments in the foreign exchange market, particularly on ordinary citizens. The Acting Governor of the apex bank said he assured the President that the CBN…

Chelsea have completed the signing of Ecuador international midfielder Moises Caicedo from Brighton and Hove Albion. The Blues reportedly paid a British record fee of £115 million after he refused to join rivals Liverpool who had agreed £111m with Brighton. The 21-year-old agreed to an eight-year contract with a club option of a further year at Stamford Bridge. At his unveiling, Caicedo said: “I am so happy to join Chelsea! I am so excited to be here at this big club and I didn’t have to think twice when Chelsea called me, I just knew I wanted to sign for…