Author: David Great

Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku has no interest in signing for AC Milan or Newcastle this summer, despite the 28-year-old’s growing frustration at a lack of opportunities at Chelsea. (Evening Standard) Lukaku has been linked with a move away from Chelsea with Inter Milan his preferred destination. Barcelona will listen to big-money offers for Netherlands midfielder Frenkie de Jong. Manchester United have been linked with the 24-year-old with Erik ten Hag, who coached De Jong at Ajax, taking over as Old Trafford boss this summer. (Sport – in Spanish) Ten Hag, meanwhile, has identified eight players he can trust when he…

Liverpool survived a scare against Villarreal to move into the Champions League final – and keep their hopes of winning an unprecedented quadruple alive. The Reds had comfortably won 2-0 in the first leg but that advantage was wiped out after only 41 minutes at a noisy and passionate El Madrigal as the Spanish side pushed for a huge upset. Boulaye Dia scored Villarreal’s first after only three minutes, converting Etienne Capoue’s pass, before ex-Arsenal midfielder Francis Coquelin headed in a second from another Capoue cross as the Reds looked rattled. Liverpool had to improve in the second half and…

Women living in about half of all US states could soon lose access to abortion, according to a leaked Supreme Court document on Roe v Wade. A draft opinion from Justice Samuel Alito said the majority of the court’s judges favoured overturning the ruling known as Roe v Wade which in 1973 established a woman’s right to an abortion. The prospect that nearly 50 years later this nationwide protection could be eliminated has dismayed pro-choice activists but cheered opponents of abortion. The court’s final ruling is due at the end of June or the start of July. What will happen…

Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State will formally declare his intention to run for the office of President of Nigeria in Abuja on Wednesday. The declaration, tagged “Unveiling My Nigeria Agenda”, is the climax of the Governor’s extensive consultations across the geo-political zones in the last six weeks. It will also lay to rest speculations on whether he would run for the Presidency or not. A statement by Yinka Oyebode, chief press secretary to the governor said Fayemi had discussed his plan to run for the number one office with President Muhammadu Buhari last month, sought counsel, guidance and support from…

The Nigerian Army has described the killing two soldiers by IPOB/ESN members as callous and despicable, vowing to unmask those behind it. In a statement by the Director Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, the army explained that the duo were in the Southeast to perform their traditional marriage. “The Nigerian Army (NA), on Saturday 30 April 2022 received information on the gruesome, barbaric and most despicable manner in which members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its armed affiliate, Eastern Security Network (ESN) murdered in cold blood, two soldiers Master Warrant Officer (MWO) Audu M Linus…

A lawyer, Festus Onifade, has disagreed with MultiChoice Nigeria Limited, the operator of DStv and GOtv, over the firm’s application challenging the jurisdiction of the tribunal in a suit filed against it. Onifade and Coalition of Nigeria Consumers (CNC), in a counter affidavit filed before a Federal Competition and Consumer Protection (FCCPC) tribunal sitting in Abuja, described the prayers by MultiChoice as “incongruous.” The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that while Onifade and CNC are 1st and 2nd claimants, MultiChoice and Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) are 1st and 2nd defendants respectively. The company, in a motion…

Senator Abdullahi Adamu, national chairman of All Progressive Congress (APC) has advised Nigerians to be security conscious. He gave the advice shortly after a courtesy visit to the Emir of Keffi, Dr Shehu Chindo-Yamusa at his palace in Keffi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State on Monday. “We have the responsibility as government to take care of the citizenry’s security but security is everybody’s business. “If anyone is doing anything wrong, you have the responsibility to report to the nearest authority,” Adamu said. “If you keep quiet, you are endangering the peace and tranquility of the country and your family.…

By Etim Etim Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is steadily carrying out his threat to ‘’fight dirty’’ and his targets have been well marked out: President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. He has deployed most of the writers in his newspaper, The Nation, as his fighters. Day after day, they rain abuses and insults on Yemi Osinbajo and the President. Their grouse is that the VP has dared to run for President and Buhari is tacitly supporting him and at the same time unsympathetic towards Asiwaju. There is no way the VP would have had the audacity to challenge Asiwaju…

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Monday, called on Nigerians to embark on three days prayers for the country. CAN in statement by its General Secretary, Daramola Bade in Abuja said that the directive was given by its President, Rev. Samson Ayokunle. Ayokunle said that the request was made to all church leaders, through their various Churches. “Organise a solemn assembly to pray for Nigeria on May, 13, 14,and 15 “We are to passionately call upon the Lord to: show Nigeria mercy and divinely intervene in all affairs of our nation, especially economic, political and security matters so that…

Some Nigerians have decried the current level of poor performance of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) which they attributed to dearth of senior officers to man sensitive positions in the organisation. They made the criticism while recounting their experiences to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. One of them was a Nigerian, who returned from Europe to renew his international passport, which had some two months to expire. The respondent, who simply called his name Ibrahim, expressed sadness with the frustration he experienced in the service Headquarters to renew his passport yet could not be attended to. He…