The Sports ministry in Cameroon has named Marc Brys as the country new national team coach to the consternation of every one including the Cameroonian Football Federation The 61-year-old Belgian, who was most recently at OH Leuven, has been chosen to replace former Liverpool and West Ham defender Rigobert Song. However, Fecafoot appeared to be…
Former president of the Spanish football federation Luis Rubiale has been arrested as part of a corruption investigation. He was detained on his arrival in Madrid from the Dominican Republic. He is suspected of receiving illegal commissions when negotiating a lucrative deal to stage the Spanish Super Cup competition in Saudi Arabia. Prosecutors are seeking…
Criminal elements in Anambra State have suffered disastrous defeats as Joint Security Force in the State took the fights to their camps in different parts of the State. The gunmen, this time, also lost their high calibre ammunitions and their major strongholds to the joint security force. Announcing this in a press statement made available…
Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has declared that the era of tampering with Local Government funds in the state is over. This is as he has waded into the rift between traders at Ariaria International Market and a developer engaged by the previous administration to remodel the market. Otti said he had directed that…
English premier league side Nottingham forest boosted their survival hopes with a convincing victory over fulham at the city ground. Three first half from the embattled forest team was all they needed to pick all three points in a 3-1 win despite fulham threatening a comeback in the second period. Callum Hudson-odoi opened the scoring…
Africa’s number one Table Tennis player, Quadri Aruna has called out Table Tennis governing body. World Table Tennis over the injustice meted out to him for missing two major tournaments. Aruna in a post on his social media page was quoted as saying “Two ranking penalties in two consecutive months plus monetary penalty” said such…
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has apologised to Christians over its Easter message which has stirred controversy among adherents of the faith. In its Easter message to Christians in Nigeria, the FIRS had shared a flier showing a Point of Sale (PoS) machine with the caption, “Jesus paid your debt, not your taxes”. The…
Chukwuka Utazi, the immediate past senator representing Enugu North senatorial zone, has declared that only through the All Progressives Congress (APC) Ndigbo can produce a Nigerian president. Utazi, who recently defected to the ruling party from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), urged Ndigbo to serve in the APC to stand the chance of producing a…
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has defended striker Erling Haaland following Roy Keane’s criticism after Sunday’s 0-0 draw with Arsenal. The ex-Manchester United captain said Haaland’s “general play” is “so poor” and “almost like a League Two player”. “I don’t agree with him, absolutely not,” said Guardiola when asked about Keane’s comments. Haaland scored 52…
Some artisans in Enugu State have expressed dismay that they were not being patronised by potential exhibitors at the forthcoming 35th Enugu international trade fair. The artisans said this in separate interviews in Enugu on Tuesday. They said it was unfortunate that they had been going to the trade fair complex in search of jobs…
