Author: Vincent Osuwo

Former AC Milan and Napoli manager Gennaro Gattuso is close to being named the new head coach of the Italian national team, according to transfer analyst Fabrizio Romano. Romano reported on Saturday that an agreement is expected to be reached in the next days, with only minor details remaining before the transaction is consummated. “Gennaro Gattuso is on the verge of becoming the new Italy head coach, with an agreement due to be finalised in the next days. “Final details and then deal done,” he wrote. The Italian, famous for his fiery playing style and passionate management attitude, is expected…

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) have busted a transnational organised human trafficking syndicate and arrested three suspects. The operatives also claimed to have rescued 20 victims who had been trafficked from the Republic of Equatorial Guinea and Togo to Nigeria for various forms of labour exploitation. This was revealed in a statement issued by NAPTIP Press Officer Mr Vincent Adekoye in Abuja on Friday. According to the operatives, the apprehended suspects are part of an organised criminal network operating in Nigeria. Adekoye disclosed that the operation, which was…

Bandits on Thursday killed one Aliyu Agaji and kidnapped nine others in two communities in Niger State’s Kontagora local government area. Chronicle NG gathered that the incident occurred about 9 a.m., when the bandits entered the Waya community and abducted four persons. They later went to the Basawa community at 10 p.m., when they kidnapped another five persons. A local vigilante who requested anonymity said security authorities apprehended them at the Umma Farm on the outskirts of town and freed the kidnapped victims. “The local vigilantes mobilised to challenge them, and they were able to intercept the kidnapped victims and…

The family of late Chief Moshood Abiola has demanded information about the supposed N45 billion debt owing to it by the Federal Government. The call followed recent comments by former Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido, who urged President Bola Tinubu to recompense the family as a symbol of national reconciliation and justice. Lamido had reignited a dispute over money supposedly owing to the late Abiola, demanding that the Federal Government pay the business mogul’s heirs around N45 billion. Lamido informed guests at the May 2025 presentation of his biography, ‘Being True to Myself’, in Abuja that Abiola’s company, International Telephone…

Israel’s fire service said its personnel were responding to multiple “major” crises caused by an Iranian missile attack, including efforts to rescue persons trapped in a high-rise structure. “Firefighting crews are handling several major incidents, mainly in the Dan region” in and around Tel Aviv, the statement stated. It continued that “firefighters are working in a high-rise building to rescue trapped individuals and extinguish a fire, as well as responding to two additional destruction sites.” AFP images from central Tel Aviv showed fire and smoke billowing from a residential skyscraper, with a massive hole at its base caused by an…

Spanish giant Real Madrid have agreed a deal to sign teenage playmaker Franco Mastantuono from River Plate. The 17-year-old attacking midfielder cost Madrid little over 63 million euros ($72 million), according to a release from River Plate. Mastantuono will compete in the team World Cup in the United States this summer with the Argentine team before heading to the Spanish city. “Mastantuono will be a player at our club for the next six seasons, from 14 August 2025 to 30 June 2031,” said Los Blancos in a statement. “At 17, he is also the youngest player to play an official…

Senator Bukola Saraki has responded to President Bola Tinubu’s comment on the state of chaos in Nigeria’s opposition parties by acknowledging internal turmoil inside his own party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He did, however, say that the party would straighten itself out. During his Democracy Day lecture on Thursday, Tinubu took a direct shot at opposition parties, expressing amusement at their hardships. “It is a joy to see the opposition in disarray. “For me, I will not say, ‘Try your best to put your house in order. I will not help you to do so, either,” the president said.…

Former Lagos State lawmaker Jude Idimogu has asked President Bola Tinubu to declare Chief M.K.O. Abiola as a past Nigerian President posthumously. Idimogu, who represented Oshodi-Isolo Constituency II from 2015 to 2023, made the request in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday. This comes after ex-military ruler Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd.) admitted Abiola won the 1993 election in his memoir. “I commend the President for recognising democracy heroes such as the late Kudirat Abiola and Bola Ige, among others, for their democratic struggles. “Yes, Abiola won the election, and I urge President Tinubu to declare him…

Investigators retrieved a black box recorder on Friday from the accident site of a London-bound passenger jet that collided with a residential area in Ahmedabad, India, killing at least 290 persons on board and on the ground. The Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner issued a mayday call just before crashing around midday on Thursday, after lifting only 100 metres (330 feet) above the earth. One guy on board the jet, which was carrying 242 passengers and crew, amazingly escaped the horrific crash, leaving the tailpiece of the aircraft protruding from the second storey of a hostel for medical professionals from…

Chinwe Nwachuku, the Gombe State Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has appealed to Governor Muhammadu Yahaya for immediate action after a windstorm wrecked parts of the NYSC orientation camp in Amada, Akko Local Government Area. Nwachuku made the statement on Friday during the swearing-in ceremony for the 2025 Batch ‘A’ Stream II corps recruits. Nwachuku said, “I want to seize this opportunity to profoundly thank His Excellency for the love the scheme enjoys in Gombe State. “But as we are gathered here today, it is with tears in my eyes that I want to bring to the…