Nigeria’s Ademola Lookman was the hero on Wednesday night scoring a sensational hat-trick as Atalanta ended Bayer Leverkusen unbeaten run while ending a 61-year trophy drought in the Europa League final Both sides brought a huge amount of support and colour to Dublin for what was Atalanta’s first European final and only Leverkusen’s third. Xabi…
The Osun State House of Assembly has passed a bill for the increased salary package of some political office holders in the state. According to the Speaker of the Assembly, Adewale Egbedun during plenary on Monday, the bill will be transmitted to Governor Ademola Adeleke for assent. The salary increment bill titled, ‘Osun State Public/Political…
The Federal Government has proposed to pay N54,000 as minimum wage, as the Tripartite Committee on the New Minimum Wage returned to the negotiation table after the Organised Labour pulled out of the negotiations last week. At the reconvened meeting this week, the Federal Government made a fresh proposal to pay N54,000 as against the…
Real Madrid and Germany midfielder Toni Kroos says he will retire from professional football after Euro 2024. The 34-year-old has enjoyed a trophy-laden career with Real since he joined them from Bayern Munich in July 2014, winning both La Liga and the Champions League on four occasions. Kroos was also part of the Germany team…
New Liverpool Manager Arne Slot says the opportunity to work at one of the “biggest clubs in the world” was “difficult to ignore” His comments come hours after he was confirmed as Liverpool’s new head coach. The Reds agreed a compensation deal worth £9.4m with Feyenoord in April after the 45-year-old was identified as the…
All is now set for the final of the Europa League on Wednesday at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium between German champions Bayer Leverkusen and Atalanta For Bayer Leverkusen, this is the chance to wrap up part two of a treble – and take them to within 90 minutes of an unprecedented unbeaten season. For Atalanta, it…
One of Oleksandr Usyk’s undisputed world heavyweight titles is set to be taken off him with Britain’s Daniel Dubois poised to fight for the vacant IBF belt. The Ukrainian defeated Fury to unify the WBC, WBA, WBO and IBF heavyweight belts in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, but he will only reign supreme for a short…
The popular slogan in Nigeria about not allowing a military personnel to slap you as it could take you to the great beyond was witnessed days ago in Abuja during the clashes between some traders at Banex and Military officers According to reports, one of the military personnel keeping watch at the popular Banex plaza…
Governor Similanayi Fubara of Rivers State says he started taking decision as a governor in February, 2024. Fubara, who spoke on Tuesday at Egbeda Community Secondary School field, venue of the inauguration of some internal roads project in Emohua Local Government Area, inaugurated by Delta State governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, reiterated that the projects people were…
The 210,000-barrel-per-day Port-Harcourt refinery may finally commence operations by the end of July after several postponements. The new date was disclosed on Monday by the National Public Relations Officer, Independent Marketers Association of Nigeria, Chief Ukadike Chinedu. He stated that the development would stimulate economic activities, reduce the price of petroleum products and ensure adequate…
