After weeks of speculations, the exit of Maurizio Sarri from Chelsea to Juventus has now been confirmed. In an official statement on the Blues website, it was confirmed that Sarri has been granted his wish to leave the London club back to Italy. As reflected in Sunday’s statement, both Chelsea and Juventus have reached an agreement for the early termination of Sarri’s contract with Chelsea FC which had two years left to run and is ending at his request. Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia said: ‘In talks we had following the Europa League final, Maurizio made it clear how strongly he…
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About four months after President Muhammadu Buhari was declared the winner of the 2019 presidential election, controversy continues to trail the election process. Mr Buhari was declared the winner of the February 23, 2019, general election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) having scored highest votes of 15,191,847 to defeat his closest rival, former vice president Atiku Abubakar, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 11,262,978 votes. Mr Abubakar and his party rejected the results saying they were manipulated. They argued that the results being announced do not tally with what the party collated across the country. The…
A 40-year-old man, Femi Oguntumi, was on Friday found hanging to a ceiling fan in his room at Dakata Quarters Kano. Mr Oguntumi was a staff of Karish College in Kawaji area of Kano and there has been no indication yet as to what led to the incident. However, the police say they have launched a discreet investigation to determine whether it was suicide or not. Abdullahi Haruna, the Police Public Relations Officer in Kano state, said in a statement on Saturday in Kano that the police received information on the incident at about 8:15 p.m on Friday. He said…
The management of Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado Ekiti, says it has begun investigations into allegation of sexual misconduct involving one of its lecturers, O.O Aduwo. Bode Olofinmuagun the Head, Directorate of Information and Corporate Affairs of the institution. in a statement on Saturday, said the university had also queried the lecturer concerned. “The attention of the management of Ekiti State University has been drawn to a video that has gone viral on an alleged sex scandal involving one of our lecturers,” the statement said. “The video allegedly fingered one Dr O. O. Aduwo of the Department of Accounting as…
Five years after then candidate Muhammadu Buhari said there would be no office of the first lady for his wife, Aisha, Mrs Buhari, on Thursday, announced her decision to be addressed as the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Since Mr Buhari’s first term inauguration as president, the presidency has referred to Mrs Buhari’s office has ‘office of the wife of the president.’ Mrs Buhari, however, said her new title would take effect immediately. She said this would also resolve the issue of the title of wives of governors. Mrs Buhari disclosed her new official title at the…
An explosion, suspected to be a gas explosion, has rocked a mall in Port Harcourt City of Rivers State, recording five casualties. The mall affected is the SPAR Mall in the capital city. According to a staff of the mall, the explosion happened around 3:30pm on the first floor of the two-storey building housing the mall. Goods worth of billions of naira were destroyed in the explosion as staff of the mall, made efforts to extinguish the fire before the arrival of fire services. Confirming the accident, Rivers State Police spokesperson, Nnamdi Omoni said the injured are receiving treatment at…
A controversy is presently brewing over the mysterious disappearance of a newborn at the Plateau Specialist Hospital, Jos, the capital of Plateau State. While the mother, Mary Chukwuebuka, said her baby was taken away from her by a ‘staffer’ at the hospital hours after she gave birth, the hospital management has dismissed the claim, linking it to a ‘mysterious woman’ who reportedly visited the hospital on the same day the incident happened. The woman said her baby was taken from her on May 28 after delivery. “I came to the hospital on Monday (May 27, 2019) to deliver my baby.…
Ilasa Ekiti community in Ekiti State has been thrown into turmoil following the beheading of a teenage Fulani girl by a herdsman to whom she had reportedly been betrothed. The herder, whose identity is yet to be made public, allegedly ambushed the girl at a stream in the community on Tuesday and cut off her head. The police in Ekiti State on Wednesday confirmed the incident, saying the suspect had been arrested following information provided by the deceased’s younger sister who witnessed the murder. The suspect reportedly fled the scene of the crime as soon as he carried out the…
Gunmen on Tuesday stormed Rigasa Community of Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna state and abducted a nursing mother. It was gathered that the gunmen arrived in the community at about 2 a.m. and went from house to house picking their victims. Three other young women were alleged to have also been abducted but the police said all the victims apart from the nursing mother had been rescued. The husband of the nursing mother who identified himself simply as Ibrahim said the kidnappers left their infant child and took the mother away. “The infant is with our neighbour together with…
The State Security Service on Wednesday announced a nationwide crackdown on individuals allegedly caught posting inciting materials on the Internet, in a move that could provoke fresh debates about the potency of Nigerian Constitution’s free speech safeguards. The SSS said it had recently observed that some social media users were skewing Nigeria’s history to promote ethnic violence and tip the nation into crisis, a development it said must be urgently reversed through state interference. The secret police’s spokesperson, Peter Afunanya, said that some “unpatriotic” Nigerians have been using social media platforms to make “unguarded public statements and/or use the social…