Author: Michael Right

Lionel Messi says November’s World Cup in Qatar will “surely” be his last. The 35-year-old Paris St-Germain forward has played at four World Cups with Argentina, scoring six goals and making five assists in 19 appearances. He earned a runners-up medal in 2014, and after captaining his country to the Copa America title in 2021, the World Cup is the sole major trophy missing from Messi’s illustrious collection. “It’s my last World Cup, surely,” he said. Messi seeks PSG departure, Bayern wants Kane Speaking to ESPN, Messi added: “I’m counting down the days to the World Cup. There is anxiety and…

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday (today) lay the 2023 Appropriation Bill before a joint session of the National Assembly in Abuja. Ahead of the Federal Government budget presentation, the House of Representatives, on Thursday, passed the 2023–2025 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper, which the President earlier presented to the National Assembly. The passage followed the consideration of the report of the Committee on Finance on the MTEF/FSP by the Committee of Supply. The House approved an aggregate FGN expenditure of N19.76tn, made up of total recurrent (non-debt) of N8.53tn; personnel costs (MDAs) of N827.8bn; capital expenditure…

The chairman of the Lagos State Parks and Garages, Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya (MC Oluomo), on Thursday, announced the introduction of the bar code to checkmate untoward activities among some commercial bus drivers. Akinsanya explained that the initiative would reduce the number of kidnappings and other crimes committed by some drivers. He claimed that the issue of insecurity was a serious one, and as participants in the transportation industry, the agency could not just sit back and let charlatans turn its parks and garages into safe havens for criminals. “Our goal is to leverage technology to detect some criminal elements using…

President of the United States Joe Biden announced on Thursday he is pardoning people with federal convictions for simple possession of marijuana, a historic move that could help more than 6,500 people and sends a powerful message on how such actions should be treated. The vast majority of convictions happen at the state level. The president is urging states to likewise pardon those offenders. “Too many lives have been upended because of our failed approach to marijuana,” Biden said in a statement. “It’s time that we right these wrongs.” Biden is also asking the departments of Justice and Health and Human…

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, met with the freed 23 passengers of the March 28, 2022, Abuja-Kaduna train attack at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) hospital in Kaduna. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed this in a statement signed on Thursday titled ‘President Buhari meets freed Kaduna train passengers, thanks Nigerian military for their brave services.’ According to Shehu, the President made an impromptu visit to the hospital to see the victims of the train attack after commissioning Cadets of 69 Regular Course (Army, Navy and Air Force) of the NDA, in…

A former inmate, Mr Christian Akara, has stated that no fewer than 150 persons were killed by an armed squad during an invasion of the Ikoyi prison, Lagos State. Akara gave the testimony on Tuesday while speaking before Magistrate A. O. Komolafe of the Lagos Island Coroner Division sitting at Court 4, Surulere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the coroner inquest was to unravel the circumstances that led to the killing of some inmates in the prison on October 22, 2020. Akara was responding to questions from Mrs Amanda Demechi-Asagha, an interested party in the inquest…

Ripple is a cryptocurrency project that was created even before the world first heard the word Bitcoin. The creators of the project desired to develop a product for people to lend, borrow and exchange crypto assets directly, without intermediaries. In fact, the project has taken trading to a whole new level. As you know, the more advantages a project offers in the market, the more likely it is to be the best. So we would like to dedicate this article to Ripple and its special features and see what experts think about its future. Kim Kardashian to pay $1.6m in…

Two persons have been burnt beyond recognition while three others sustained injuries in an early morning tanker explosion at Ilo Awela area of Sango on the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway. ChronicleNG gathered that 12 vehicles were also affected in the incident that happened at Sango-Ota Old Toll Gate Plaza, along the Lagos-Abeokuta road, Ogun state. The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) confirmed that the incident occurred in the early hours of the day, leaving three persons with burns. FRSC spokesperson in Ogun, Florence Okpe, told newsmen that the tanker was ascending the Ilo Awele slope, adjoining the Abeokuta-Lagos section of the expressway,…

A gunman has killed at least 37 people in an attack at a children’s day care centre in Nong Bua Lamphu province, in Thailand. He subsequently opened fire on and crashed his vehicle into a crowd of bystanders, before returning home and killing his wife and child, police said. Police have identified the attacker as Panya Khamrab, a 34-year-old former police lieutenant colonel. He had been dismissed from the force in January for methamphetamine possession, and had appeared in court on a drugs charge hours before carrying out the attack, Thai police say. He was due to face a verdict…

A Moroccan state agency, the Cannabis Activities Regulatory Agency (ANRAC) agency has issued the first 10 permits for manufacturing and processing cannabis in Morocco. The agency said farmers who organise into cooperatives in the northern mountain areas of Al Houceima, Taounat and Chefchaouen will be gradually allowed to grow cannabis to meet the needs of the legal market, Reuters reports. Cannabis is already widely cultivated in Morocco illegally and the new law, passed by the parliament last year, does not permit its use for recreation. The law is intended to improve farmers’ incomes and protect them from drug traffickers who…