Author: Vincent Osuwo

Arsenal ensured that Liverpool would not win the Premier League title on Sunday by cruising to a 4-0 victory against 10-man Ipswich. Liverpool needed an Arsenal defeat and a win over Leicester later on Sunday to secure their record-tying 20th English Premier League title. Defeat effectively destroys Ipswich’s chances of retaining their Premier League status since they are 15 points behind safety with five games remaining and have a substantially worse goal difference than West Ham. Following a stunning victory over Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu to reach the Champions League semi-finals for the first time since 2009, Arsenal…

Olatunji W. Bolaji, 77, a Nigerian Uber driver, was shot and killed outside a hookah lounge in Philadelphia, United States. Bolaji, who lived in Norristown, Pennsylvania, was on duty at about 2 a.m. on Wednesday when he picked up a 22-year-old male outside the Byblos Hookah Bar near Rittenhouse Square in Centre City, CBS News reported on Friday. Police added that immediately after Bolaji picked up the young man, another vehicle came up behind his SUV, and two males got out. One of them opened fire on both Bolaji and the passenger. Despite being shot in the head, Bolaji managed…

No fewer than 120 inmates escaped a Chad prison during a shoot-out that left three people dead and wounded a state governor visiting the facility, officials told AFP. The breakout occurred late Friday when an uprising happened in the high-security penitentiary five kilometres (three miles) from the town of Mongo, in the centre of Chad. “There are around 100 who escaped, three dead and three wounded,” Hassan Souleymane Adam, secretary general of the Guera province in which Mongo is located, said. A local Mongo official, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, disclosed that prisoners broke into a manager’s office…

Former Minister of Defence, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), has advised Nigerians to defend themselves against bandits and criminals, warning that relying exclusively on the government for safety is no longer an option. Speaking on Saturday at a public event in Takum, Taraba State, Danjuma said his five-year-old warning is still applicable in the face of the country’s escalating insecurity. According to him, the recent spate of killings in Benue, Plateau, and other parts of Nigeria has confirmed his concerns. “The warning I gave some years ago is still as valid today as it was then. Nigerians must rise and…

A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Lafia, Nasarawa State, has sentenced a football fan to three months in prison for assaulting a Plateau United player, Temitope Vincent, on April 13. The unruly fan took the law into his hands despite Nasarawa’s 3-2 victory against Plateau in the NPFL match. The attack occurred despite recent NPFL approval allowing fans back into Lafia Township Stadium under strict security conditions. The event happened following a match between the two North Central rivals. Plateau United’s Temitope Vincent became a target after his performance in the game, despite missing a penalty in the last minutes.…

Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen has reached an agreement with Premier League side Manchester United over personal terms ahead of a potential summer move, according to Turkish journalist Serdar Çelikler. “Victor Osimhen has reached an agreement with Manchester United. But there is also the club side of the matter,” Çelikler said on a podcast. Osimhen, currently on loan at Turkish giants Galatasaray, has been in sensational form this season, netting 29 goals and providing six assists in 34 appearances across all competitions. United’s immediate concern in the transfer market is reportedly recruiting a top striker given Rasmus Hojlund’s dismal form this…

Uche Secondus, a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, has urged President Bola Tinubu to reinstate the suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara. Secondus stated that this is the only way to uphold the people’s mandate in the state. The PDP chieftain requested this in an Easter greeting posted on Sunday by his Special Adviser on Media, Ike Abonyi. According to him, the actions of Rivers Sole Administrator Ibok-Ete Ibas have turned the state into a keg of gunpowder. This comes just a few days after the Ad-Hoc Committee on Rivers State Oversight requested Ibas to appear before…

Governor Siminalayi Fubara has reiterated his commitment to delivering the evidence of democracy and good governance to the people of Rivers State. Also, the Fubara reminded us that the period of Easter affords the opportunity for reconciliation and unity. Fubara made this statement in his Easter message to the people of the state contained in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Saturday. The suspended governor stated this in a message he personally signed and obtained by newsmen. Fubara’s statement was titled ‘Renewed By The Resurrection: Advancing Peace, Unity and Good Governance’. The statement partly reads, “As we celebrate the…

The death toll in gunmen’s latest onslaught on various towns in Logo and Ukum local government areas of Benue State has increased to 55. Several settlements, including Ugondo in Logo, Tyuluv, Gbagir, and Ukum LGAs of Benue state were targeted by suspected armed herders on Thursday and Friday. The State Police Command, through its Spokesman, Catherine Anene, announced on Friday that five persons in Ukum and 12 people in Logo had been slain, for a total of 17. However, during an on-the-spot inspection tour of some of the towns assaulted in the two local governments on Saturday, state Governor Hyacinth…

No fewer than 143 people died, and dozens more went missing after a boat carrying fuel caught fire and capsized in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Friday. Hundreds of passengers were jammed onto a wooden boat on the Congo River in northwest DRC on Tuesday when the wildfire broke out, according to Josephine-Pacifique Lokumu, head of a delegation of national MPs from the region. The calamity struck near Mbandaka, the capital of Equateur Province, at the junction of the Ruki and the massive Congo River, the world’s deepest. “A first group of 131 bodies was found on Wednesday,…