Author: David Great

Real Madrid are close to agreeing a free transfer deal for Chelsea’s Antonio Rudiger, with the 29-year-old Germany defender ready to move to the Bernabeu on a contract worth at least £200,000 a week. (Guardian) Rudiger reportedly rejected £200,000 a week offer to remain at Stamford Bridge. (The Telegraph) Manchester City are considering a move for West Ham’s England midfielder Declan Rice, 23, who has also been a long-term target for Manchester United and Chelsea. (Telegraph – subscription) Paris St-Germain’s France striker Kylian Mbappe, 23, has been linked with a move to Real Madrid in the summer, but the will…

The Boston Celtics completed its four-game sweep of the Brooklyn Nets on Monday at Barclays Center to advance to the Eastern Conference Semis against the Milwaukee Bucks or the Chicago Bulls. Kevin Durant finally got out of his scoring slump to finish Game 4 with 39 points, seven rebounds and nine assists in 47 minutes of action. Kyrie Irving, on the other hand, struggled shooting and went 6-for-13 from the field for 20 points in 45 minutes on the floor. Irving added five rebounds and five assists, and scored a 3-pointer with less than two minutes in the final frame…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday, said it would be an injustice if he did not contest the 2023 election with his vast experience in the last seven years in office. Osinbajo stated this when he visited Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State in his office in Akure. The Vice President hailed President Muhammadu Buhari’s open-mindedness in delegating to him serious tasks that have aided his experience. He said that it was God that put people in power, but noted that, it would be a betrayal of his country for him to retire with all his exposure in government. Osinbajo…

A political pressure group, Citizens Network for Peace and Development in Nigeria (CNPD), has called on the All Progressives Congress (APC) to adopt former president Goodluck Jonathan, as the party’s candidate for the 2023 presidential election. The National Coordinator of the group, Mr Ralph Okorie, who made the call on Monday at a news conference in Abuja, urged President Muhammadu Buhari, to endorse the Jonathan project. “There is a need for experience and continuity. The two enjoy the most cordial relationship that had ever existed between an incumbent and his immediate predecessor,” he said. Okorie said the call for Buhari…

FBI Director Christopher Wray says the murders of police officers rose by nearly 60% during 2021, amid a wider rise in violent crime across the US. In an interview with 60 Minutes, Mr Wray said 73 officers were killed in the line of duty last year. Murders of all kinds across the US have risen dramatically since 2019. Mr Wray said violence against police was a “phenomena” that “doesn’t get enough attention”. He said it amounted to an officer killed every five days. Around 1,000 people are killed in the US by police each year, although only a small proportion…

The chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa has reiterated the commitment of the anti-graft agency towards combating money laundering and terrorism financing in the real estate sector of the economy. He stated this in Abuja on Monday, April 25, 2022 at a workshop by the Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa, GIABA. According to him, the Nigeria Evaluation Report shows that the real estate sector is the second most vulnerable sector to money laundering practices in Nigeria. . According to him, places like Abuja , Port Harcourt, Kano, Lagos are some of the…

A New York judge on Monday held former President Donald Trump in contempt of court for not producing documents subpoenaed in the state attorney general’s civil probe of his business practices, and ordered Trump to be fined $10,000 per day until he complies. Trump lost a bid to quash a subpoena from state Attorney General Letitia James, then failed to produce all the documents by a court-ordered March 3 deadline, later extended to March 31 at his lawyers’ request. Justice Arthur Engoron ruled that a contempt finding was appropriate because of what the judge called “repeated failures” to hand over…

Elon Musk clinched a deal to buy Twitter Inc for $44 billion cash on Monday in a transaction that will shift control of the social media platform populated by millions of users and global leaders to the world’s richest person. It is a seminal moment for the 16-year-old company that emerged as one of the world’s most influential public squares and now faces a string of challenges. Discussions over the deal, which last week appeared uncertain, accelerated over the weekend after Elon Musk wooed Twitter shareholders with financing details of his offer. Under pressure, Twitter started negotiating with Musk to…

Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences court in Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday, April 25, 2022, dismissed the bail application filed by one Bolarinwa Abiodun, a fake army general, who is being prosecuted on a 13-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence, forgery of documents, and possession of documents containing false pretence to the tune of N266, 500,000. The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had, on April 11, 2022 arraigned the defendant on offences contrary to Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act 2006; Section 363…

The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) on Monday officially reopened Kamba border which links the country to Republic of Niger along Kebbi corridor. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Federal Government, through a circular by Customs on Friday ordered the reopening of the border posts in Idiroko (Ogun); Jibiya (Katsina State) Kamba (Kebbi) and Ikom (Cross River). The government had closed major borders as part of efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 and curtail smuggling in order to boost local production of rice and other farm produce. While officially declaring the border open in Kamba, the Area…