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Cristiano Ronaldo’s controversial second spell at Manchester United is to end with “immediate effect”, the club announced Tuesday before a report emerged that their US-based owners, the Glazer family, could sell the Premier League giants. Portugal forward Ronaldo set the stage for his Old Trafford exit last week with his outspoken television interview on TalkTV […]

The naira, on Monday, appreciated to N775 per dollar at the parallel section of the foreign exchange market. The figure represents an appreciation of N15 or 1.9 percent compared to the N790 it traded last week. Bureaux De Change (BDC) operators, popularly known as ‘abokis’, who spoke to TheCable in Alade Market, Ikeja, Lagos, quoted the buying […]

Super Falcons skipper Asisat Oshoala has expressed concerns over society’s pressure on those who have decided not to have kids. The Barcelona star wondered why people should be castigated for choosing not to have children. The 28-year-old forward tweeted: “I will never understand why y’all curse out people for not wanting to have kids…..Like, it’s their decision, […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria has launched a countdown clock on its website for the January 31, 2023 deadline for the N200, N500, and N1,000 notes currently in circulation. The apex bank had announced a Naira redesign policy to produce new notes for three of the naira denominations in circulation: N200, N500, and N1,000 notes. […]

Former Super Eagles forward Daniel Amokachi says Thursday’s friendly match where the Super Eagles lost 4-0 to Portugal is enough proof the team doesn’t deserve a place in the FIFA World Cup which starts today in Qatar. He blamed the Super Eagles woes on appointment of wrong coaches as well as calling up wrong players […]

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says he has stopped reading social media. Tinubu, who frequently updates verified social media handles under his name, said this in a video currently trending online. “I don’t read social media anymore; they abuse the hell out of me. If I read it, I […]

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has officially endorsed the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, for the 2023 general elections. Ohanaeze said Obi represented “Nigerian conscience, moral probity, generational hope, redemption epiphany, and above all, the Igbo collective unconscious.” The Igbo body, which stated this in a statement on Sunday titled, ‘2023: […]

The United States Department of Justice said it has transferred over $20.6 million to the Federal Government of Nigeria as part of the loot traced to former Nigerian military leader General Sani Abacha and his co-conspirators. The US DoJ, in a statement on Thursday, said the fresh repatriation brings the total amount forfeited and returned […]

President Buhari has approved the immediate increment of salaries and welfare packages for judicial officers. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, made this known on Friday in Rivers State, during the official commissioning and handing over ceremony of Nabo Graham-Douglass Campus of the Nigerian Law School, Port Harcourt to the […]

Chidinma Ojukwu, the alleged murder suspect of Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, on Thursday told a Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square that the statement she wrote at the police was torn. Ojukwu said this while giving evidence at the trial within trial to ascertain whether the statement she made was voluntarily […]

The United States (U.S.) Department of Justice (DoJ) announced yesterday that it has repatriated more than $20.6 million worth of assets linked to former Head of State, the late Gen Sani Abacha and his associates. The DoJ said in a statement yesterday that the transfer of funds “is in accordance with an August 23 agreement […]

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Thursday pledged to provide “logistics support” for the campaigns of Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi within the state. Wike also said Obi, a former Anambra State governor, has all the characteristic to lead Nigeria. The Rivers governor made this known to the LP presidential candidate in […]