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Former Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure was named assistant manager at Belgian Pro League side Standard Liege on Tuesday, the club said. Wigan to appoint Kolo Toure, MLS could finance Ronaldo deal The 40-year-old, who earned more than 100 caps for the Ivory Coast during his playing career, is the final addition to the team of coach Carl Hoefkens, who was appointed on Friday. Yaya, formerly a player at Monaco and Barcelona, among others, was briefly an assistant coach at Ukrainian First League side Olimpik Donetsk and Russian Premier League club Akhmat Grozny, both in 2021. Standard Liege finished sixth…

YouTube will launch its first official shopping channel for live commerce in South Korea on June 30, Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday. South Korea already has a booming live-streaming commerce business led by tech giant Naver (035420.KS), making it a prime test market for the global heavyweight as the Alphabet-owned (GOOGL.O) company focuses on becoming more “shoppable”. Trump returns to YouTube and Facebook after two-year ban The new channel will operate in Korean and will start as a 90-day project. In the beginning, it will provide a live-commerce platform to companies and plans to livestream shopping content from about…

The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, on Tuesday decorated the new Acting Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun. Shettima decorated Egbetokun in place of President Bola Tinubu, who had earlier left for Paris, France, to attend the Financial Pact Summit. His decoration at the presidential villa was a brief ceremony witnessed by top government officials. These include the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume; the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila; the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu; the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, who also serves as the Chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum; and…

President Bola Tinubu has approved the return of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) to the Office of the Vice President for supervision, in compliance with their various establishment Acts. The President has also approved a formal structure for the Office of the Vice President as well as an appropriate number of technical and administrative aides that will work with the Vice President in the discharge of his responsibilities.

Former Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has been taken into the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over claims of misappropriation of funds. Ortom was invited for questioning by the EFCC a month after leaving office. It was gathered that he arrived at the Abuja office of the EFCC on Tuesday morning and was sighted walking into the building of the anti-graft agency. His media aide, Terver Akase, and Principal Special Assistant on Special Duties, Abraham Kwanhgu, were sighted with him. It was reported that Ortom handed over a debt profile of N187.7 billion to the administration…

The President, Bola Tinubu, departs Nigeria for France to participate in the Paris Summit for the New Global Financial Pact. This will be his first official trip abroad since he was sworn in as Nigeria’s president on May 29. Alake announced the proposed trip in a statement on Monday, even as the president leaves for Paris today to attend the summit for a new global financial pact. The two-day summit seeks to explore opportunities to restore fiscal space to countries that face difficult short-term financial challenges. According to Alake, the pact prioritises vulnerable countries for financial support owing to the…

The Department of State Services (DSS) has taken its modus operandi, or mode of operation, as a secret service organisation to Nigerians for public enlightenment. The aim was to correct some media miscommunications, some legal misinterpretations, and some citizen misconceptions about the service. The DSS is an intelligence organisation that detects, prevents, and neutralises threats against Nigeria. Chronicle NG reports on the public address by Peter Afunanya, DSS PRO, on national concerns. THE DSS OPERATES WITHIN ITS MANDATE Recently, about five major newspapers called out the DSS for a bashing of sorts. The papers that used their platforms to express…

The headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics organising committee were being searched by police, organisers said on Tuesday. The search was ordered by the French national financial prosecutor’s office, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told reporters. Olympics row deepens as 35 countries demand ban for Russia, Belarus “A search is currently under way at the headquarters of the organising committee,” Paris 2024 said in a statement. “Paris 2024 is cooperating fully with the investigators to facilitate their inquiries.” Paris 2024 did not give any further details. “We do not have anything else to share at the moment,”…

The operatives of the Anambra Vigilante Group (AVG) have killed two suspected gunmen said to be terrorising residents of the state. It was gathered that the incident happened in the early hours of Monday in Okija, Ihiala Local Government Area of the state. The Ihiala LGA is a border town between Imo and Anambra states, and the hoodlums were said to have been terrorising members of the communities around the areas and also forcing them to comply with the Monday sit-at-home. According to sources in the area, the gunmen, numbering about 15, stormed the camp of the vigilante operatives, thinking…

Gunmen have kidnapped the Oba of Idofin, Shedrack Durojaiye Obibeni, and his wife in Yagba East Local Government Area of Kogi. They were kidnapped along Makutu-Idofin Road in Kogi State at about 5 p.m. on Monday, according to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria. Gunmen kill INEC staff, kidnap wife in Ebonyi Confirming the incident, Mr. Abdulrasak Asiru, Yagba East Local Government Council Chairman, described it as “very shocking” and “sad”. Asiru said that he was still in shock over the incident, which had not happened in the area for almost two years. “I, as the council chairman,…