Real Madrid have been confirmed as La Liga champions for the 34th time after a 2-1 win against Villarreal on Thursday evening. The club won the title for the first time since 2017 after the win over Villarreal gave them an insurmountable seven-point lead above Barcelona with one game left to play. Madrid veterans Sergio Ramos, 34, and top scorer Karim Benzema, 32, made important contributions in the victory, while Thibaut Courtois will win the Zamora trophy for the La Liga goalkeeper with the best goals-to-games ratio. Benzema scored both goals, one of which was a second-half penalty to wrestle La Liga back from Barcelona after two years. There will be no title celebrations, including the traditional bus parade to the Cibeles fountain, with club and local officials asking fans to stay at home over concerns about further…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the constitution of the Nigerian National Merit Award governing board (NNMA), by re-appointing five old members and the appointment of one new member into the board. Mr Festus Daudu, Permanent Secretary, Special Duties, Ministry of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, made this known in a statement he signed and issued on Thursday in Abuja. According to Daudu, the board chaired by Prof. Shekarau Aku from the North West, has his tenure renewed. Others whose tenures were renewed are Prof. Sheikh Abdallah from the North Central, Prof. Jinadu Adele, South West; Prof. Mohammed Hassan from the North East. Others are; Prof. Sam Ohaegbulam (Fresh Appointment)…
Nigeria is expected to generate more that $500 million annually in royalties and taxes and around 250,000 jobs from the improved gold mining operations in the country. President Muhmmadu Buhari disclosed this on Thursday during the official presentation of locally mined gold bars by the Presidential Artisanal Gold Mining Development Initiative (PAGMDI) to him at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. While hailing the initiative and reaffirming the administration’s commitment to establishing gold refineries, the President lamented the huge amount of resources that had been lost to illegal mining and and smuggling in the mining industry. In a statement by the…
Defence Headquarters has said that 602 repentant Boko Haram members swore Oath of Allegiance to the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the last one week. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, John Enenche, disclosed this while giving an update on the Armed Forces of Nigeria operations between July 9 and July 16 at a news conference Thursday in Abuja. Mr Enenche, a major-general, said the repentant Boko Haram members relinquished their membership of the terrorist group and underwent De-radicalisation, Rehabilitation and Re-Integration (DRR) programme by Operation SAFE CORRIDOR. According to him, the ex-insurgents who have completed DRR programme at Malam Sidi Camp…
Lawmakers at the House of Representatives have ordered the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to immediately arrest the Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Prof Kemebradikumo Daniel Pondei, for contempt of the legislature. The Interim Management Committee of the NDDC led by Pondei had staged a walk-out from the committee when it appeared for the continuation of the investigative hearing of the commission. Pondei questioned the credibility of the House Committee, saying the committee Chairman, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, was corrupt as he had benefited from award of contracts in the commission. Irked by the walk-out, spokesperson for the House, Benjamin…
Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has rushed to the residence of a former acting Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Joi Nunieh, in Port Harcourt following massive presence of armed policemen in the compound. The armed security operatives besieged the residence of Nunieh on a day she was billed to travel to Abuja to testify before an ad-hoc committee of the House of Representatives investigating the alleged malfeasance in the NDDC. Nunieh has been engaged in allegations and counter allegations with Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, over corruption and mismanagement of resources that accrued to the commission. The…
Ondo state APC sets up committee for the upcoming Governorship primary Election 1. H.E. Yahaya Bello – Chairman 2. Olorogun o’tega Emerhor OON – Secretary 3. Alwan Hassan – Member 4. Chief Samuel Sambo – Member 5. Hajiya Binta Salihu – Member 6. Mr. Emma Andy – Member 7. Dr. Adebayo Adelabu – Member 8. Abdullahi Aliyu – Member 9. Mrs. Margret Ngozi Igwe – Member Ondo State Governorship Primary Election Appeal Committee 1. Emperor Chris Baywood Ibe – Chairman 2. Arch. Abdulmimuni Okara – Secretary 3. Mr. Festus Fientes – Member 4. Mr. Okon Owoefiak – Member 5. Mr.…
Nigeria nation is likely to witness a new wave of increased insecurity in the days ahead as Nigerian Army has instructed all its personnel to immediately withdraw from all checkpoints and road blocks across the country. All internal security operations will henceforth be taken over by Nigeria Police Force. This development was sequel to a petition written by the police authority to President Buhari in which it cried foul that the Army has taken over its constitutional duty of ensuring internal security. It has been gathered that the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu is expected to proceed to…
The Senate on Wednesday, asked the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to direct the Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity to set up a committee to review the age limits for job seekers in the country to allow competent applicants to be employed. The resolution followed the consideration of a motion by Senator Ibrahim Gobir. Gobir cited Orders 42 and 52 of the Senate Standing Rules, and noted that requirement of Ministries Departments and Agencies and other private bodies, which set age barriers, “inadvertently excludes and marginalises skilful and competent prospective applicants from participating in such exercises.” He said,…
Verified Twitter accounts owned by Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, and Elon Musk, chief executive officer of SpaceX, have been hacked in a suspected bitcoin scam. The accounts were hacked alongside those of other high-profile users on Wednesday evening. Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon; Joe Biden, US democratic presidential aspirant; Kanye West, US rapper; Apple; and Uber, are among the victims of suspected bitcoin hackers. Others include Barack Obama, former US president; and Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City. The scam was done in a series of coordinated tweets with emphasis on “giving back” through doubling of bitcoins…