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Former Super Eagles captain, John Mikel Obi has completed a switch from English Championship club Stoke City to Kuwaiti giants, Kuwait SC. The former Chelsea midfielder, who had agreed to a contract extension at Stoke at the end of the season, changed his mind and has now penned a one-year contract with the Kuwaiti side. The 34-year-old made 41 league and...

Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command, CP Hakeem Odumosu, yesterday, handed down a warning to self-acclaimed Yoruba freedom fighter, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho, not to stage any rally in Lagos,  threatening to deal with decisively with anyone who violates the directive. The planned rally slated for tomorrow at the Gani Fawehimi  Freedom Park,   Ojota area and...

Mr Joseph Obele, Chairman, Rivers State Chapter of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), has expressed his dissatisfaction over the three per cent oil derivation take approved by the Senate for oil producing communities. Obele, in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday in Port Harcourt, said that the long awaited Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) was not worth celebrating...

A Nigerian footballer, Kelvin Ifeanyi Igweani, has reportedly been shot dead by the police in the United Kingdom. According to The Mirror, Igweani was killed after officers were called to an address in Denmead, Milton Kenes, on Saturday. A sick child, who was found in the apartment, was said to have been immediately taken to hospital. It is unclear if the deceased...

A Constitutional Court in South Africa has sentenced former President Jacob Zuma to 15 months in prison for contempt of court. Zuma was found guilty by the country’s highest court after he defied its order to appear at a corruption inquiry centered on his tenure between 2009 and 2018. “The only appropriate sanction is a direct, unsuspended order of imprisonment” lasting...

Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House of Representatives have kicked against the defection of two members of the party to the ruling party, All Progressives Congress, APC, on Tuesday. The Deputy Minority Leader of the House, Toby Okechukwu, and others opposed the defection of two Cross Rivers State lawmakers, Lego Idagbo and Michael Etiaba, which was...

Abductors of Lukman Ibrahim whose pregnant wife was killed on Saturday during a kidnap operation by suspected gunmen have reached out to the family, demanding N30m ransom. A very close family source who confirmed the development on Monday in Ilorin said the family had only been able to raise N2m since the demand was made. “They insisted that it must be...

Tension is brewing in Lagos State over the planned July 3 Yoruba nation rally being championed by the secessionist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho. Igboho had held a similar rally in Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti, Osun and Ondo States. Following the last year’s #EndSARS protest which led to the destruction of public facilities in Lagos, authorities are cautious of any...

The Federal Government has explained why it was yet resume flight to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, on Monday in Abuja at the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, said that flights were yet to resume to the UAE because of the discriminatory nature of the protocol introduced by Emirates. According to him, the protocol...

The Federal Government has extended the ban on travellers from Brazil, India and Turkey due to the rising COVID-19 cases in those countries by one month. It has also added travellers from South Africa to the list. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, said this on...