Author: Vincent Osuwo

The Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo has been fined €255 and given a 30-day suspension by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) after he left the national team’s camp amid a disagreement with head coach Jorge Jesus. On Monday, October 19, the federation’s Disciplinary Council announced the sanctions, which came after an investigation into the 41-year-old forward’s departure from the squad in Copenhagen, Denmark, on September 30. In its ruling, the Disciplinary Council said it had upheld the charge against Ronaldo, finding him guilty of an intentional disciplinary offense under Article 160(1) of its disciplinary regulations. According to BEIN, Talk Sports, on…

Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, has urged Nigerians living in the United Kingdom to stop sending money to those who ask for financial help back home. Obi also encouraged them to tell their relatives to vote for leaders who are productive. He said this on Sunday during a town hall meeting with diaspora supporters in Manchester, United Kingdom. He emphasized that Nigeria’s current economic hardship stems from poor leadership and argued that ongoing financial support merely softens the impact of bad governance without tackling its root causes. “You have people at home in Nigeria today…

Prof. Gregory Ibe, the founded of Gregory University, Uturu, and the All Progressives Grand Alliance’s 2023 governorship candidate in Abia State, has passed away. The death of Ibe was confirmed in a statement released on Monday by the royal family of HRH Eze Cyril Ibe of Okwelube I, Amaokwe Achara Autonomous Community, in Isuikwuato Local Government Area of Abia State. The family said the educationist, industrialist, and philanthropist passed away after struggling with health issues. The statement read, “With deep sadness, but with gratitude to Almighty God for a life of purpose, impact, and service, we announce the passing of…

President Bola Tinubu has highlighted the part former Delta State Governor Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan played in the state’s political and socio-economic affairs after he left office in 2015. In a condolence message issued on Monday, Tinubu noted that Uduaghan kept contributing to democratic governance and public service after finishing his two terms as governor. The President said: “After his tenure as governor, Dr Uduaghan continued to feature prominently in Delta State’s political and socio-economic landscape, contributing to the sustenance of democratic governance and the advancement of public service in Nigeria.” Uduaghan, who died at the age of 71, served as…

A Catholic priest, Father Patricio Sánchez Molinari, has died after a large wooden cross fell on him while he was celebrating Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Guayaquil, Ecuador. According to the Associated Press and the Ecuadorian newspaper El Universo on Sunday, the incident took place on Saturday during a service that was being livestreamed on social media. The priest was standing at the altar when the cross hanging behind him came loose and struck him on the head. The Associated Press reported that footage of the service showed “a heavy crucifix detaching from the wall above…

A man and his son lost their lives after being burnt to death in an auto crash at Sabon Barki, in the Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State, while three other people sustained injuries. The crash happened at about 4:20pm on Sunday and involved a commercial tricycle, commonly known as Keke NAPEP, which was carrying a family returning from church service. An eyewitness, Kefas Gyang, who confirmed the incident on Sunday, said the tricycle caught fire after another vehicle hit it. He said the man’s wife sustained a broken leg, while two of their children and the tricycle…

US President Donald Trump on Sunday endorsed ally Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of Israel’s tightly contested parliamentary election on October 27, giving a lift to the veteran prime minister’s effort to secure a fresh mandate. In a video released by his Likud party, Netanyahu highlighted his close ties with the US president, stating that together they had “crushed Iran” and adding that re-election would let him work with Trump to “eliminate the Iranian threat over the next two years, or even sooner.” The endorsement arrives less than two weeks before Israel’s first election since the Hamas-led attack of October 7, 2023,…

The Federal Government has disagreed with the World Bank over the debt servicing-to-revenue ratio for the first half of 2026, which the bank placed at 124 percent. In its latest Nigeria Development Update (NDU), the bank stated that federal government debt servicing stood at 124 percent of its revenue. However, in a statement issued yesterday, the Federal Ministry of Finance challenged the bank’s analysis, noting that the debt servicing figure also covered state governments and that comparing it with federal government revenue for the period was therefore incorrect. The statement read in part, “This conclusion is misleading, for three reasons,”…

The presidency on Sunday dismissed as untrue the latest assertion by Oyo State governor Seyi Makinde that the federal government was holding back N250 billion in NLNG dividend windfall for each state of the federation and urged that the claim be ignored. It further pointed out that, based on Makinde’s claim, a one-off distribution of N250 billion to each of the 36 states would come to N9 trillion, excluding the federal government, the FCT, and the 774 local councils, and added that NLNG had never paid $25 billion in dividends to the Federation Account in a single payout. The governor,…

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has begun investigating the death of a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Etimbuk Daniel, at the Awgu Orientation Camp in Enugu State, collecting samples of medications administered to him for laboratory analysis. NAFDAC disclosed on Sunday that its operatives had visited the camp clinic, interviewed the medical personnel and other workers, and collected samples of the medications for further investigation amid reports alleging that the corps member died from the effects of substandard and falsified medicines. In a statement released by its Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, NAFDAC said…