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Lionel Messi has agreed to join Paris Saint-Germain on a two-year contract, according to reports. The French club reportedly offered Messi an initial two-year deal, thought to be worth £25m a year after tax. He is expected to fly to France to seal the deal, which includes an option to extend it by a year. Messi, his lawyers and his father,...

The Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 (PSC) says the country will start administering the second batch of COVID-19 vaccines from August 10. The vaccines were donated by the United State of America. The committee’s Director of Publicity, Willie Bassey, made this known in a statement saturday in Abuja. According to Bassey, this is to step up efforts to battle the third wave of...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has met the Beninese President, Patrice Talon, in a bid to get a soft landing for the self-professed Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, who is standing trial in the country, TheCable reports. Igboho, who was arrested in Cotonou over two weeks ago, is standing trial for alleged illegal possession of a Beninese passport and...

The paramount ruler of Irigwe Ethnic Nationality in Plateau State, His Royal Highness, Bra Ngwe Irigwe, Rt Rev Ronku Aka, has accused security operatives and soldiers of not responding to calls to move in and stop marauding killer herdsmen who laid siege on communities in the Bassa Local Government Area from Saturday, July 30, to Wednesday, August 4. While lamenting...

Lionel Messi was in tears at a news conference where he officially confirmed his depart from Spanish giants Barcelona. The Argentine spoke at a conference on Sunday following a failed stay-on contract with the La Liga club, where he spent 21 years of his footballing career. “This is the end with this club and now a new story will begin. Yes,...

President Muhammadu Buhari has commissioned the Gully Erosion Site at Oghighe/Urualla/Ohukabi/Aligbara/Ahukabi/Ndijibi In Oguduasaa Isuikwuato LGA Abia State. The President was represented in the occasion by the member representing Isuikwuato/Umunneochi and Deputy Chief Whip of the House of representatives Hon. Barr Nkeiruika Onyejeocha, who doubles as the facilitator of the project. Speaking during the Commissioning, Permanent Secretary, The Ecological Fund Office, Mrs...

As the third wave of the COVID-19 infections is spreading in Nigeria, the Lagos State government has said that as part of the proactive measures to contain the spread, moreo isolation centres have been reopened to complement the existing ones even as the state has attained a 50 per cent occupancy. Abayomi who spoke at the 2021 Annual General Meeting...

A Magistrate Court sitting in Yola has remanded Aminu Yar’Adua, the 36-year-old son of the late former President of Nigeria, Musa Yar’Adua, in prison custody for allegedly killing four people in an auto crash in Yola. The former president’s son, who is a student of the American University of Nigeria (AUN) in Yola, was charged to court for allegedly causing...

One of the seven deputy national officers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), that resigned their positions on Tuesday, Diran Odeyemi, has withdrawn his letter of resignation. Odeyemi, who is the party’s Deputy National Publicity Secretary, withdrew his resignation letter on Thursday at the Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting of the party at its national secretariat in Abuja, and pledged...

The Lagos House of Assembly has amended the state Pension Law for former governors and other political office holders, reducing their benefits and emoluments by 50 percent. The House approved the recommendations sequel to the presentation of the report by the chairman of the House Committee on Establishment, Training and Pension, Yinka Ogundimu, during plenary. Ogundimu, representing Agege II, said the...