Bayern Munich says it will not sack their manager Thomas Tuchel despite their third successive defeat in nine days Sunday’s shock 3-2 loss at Bochum saw Harry Kane and co slip eight points behind league leaders Bayer Leverkusen in their bid to retain the Bundesliga title for a record 12th time. Bayern’s defeat followed a…
Newcastle United’s sporting director Dan Ashworth has been placed on gardening leave after telling the club he wants to join Manchester United. Manchester United are targeting Ashworth to join their Ineos-inspired overhaul of the club. Newcastle have Ashworth under contract, which prevents the 52-year-old from working for anyone else into 2025 unless compensation is agreed….
The Federal Government has begun negotiations with the Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners to avert the planned suspension of operations by NARTO members with respect to the lifting of petroleum products. On Sunday oil marketers and the executives of NARTO met about six times in the last two days, following the declaration of the…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has expressed confidence that his political camp would defeat any opposition in the 2027 elections. The former Rivers State Governor who has been in a face-off with his successor, Siminalayi Fubara, stated this during a thanksgiving service by a federal lawmaker, Senator Barinada Mpigi in Koroma,…
Leaders at an African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa have condemned Israel’s offensive in Gaza and called for its immediate end. Moussa Faki, the chair of the African Union Commission, said Israel’s offensive was the “most flagrant” violation of international humanitarian law and accused Israel of having “exterminated” Gaza’s inhabitants. Faki spoke…
The crisis trailing Saturday’s primary election of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, has deepened with the emergence of another candidate laying claim to the party’s ticket for the governorship election scheduled for September 21, 2024. This brings the number to three laying claim to the ticket Anamero Sunday Dekeri was on Saturday…
Media aide to President Bola Tinubu, Dada Olesugun has blamed Nigerian media outlets for exposing a photo of the president sleeping during the 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU). Mr Olusegun, in a post on X, said Mr Tinubu, who was captured sleeping at the event in Addis Ababa, gave…
A member of the House of Representatives, , representing Ondo West/Ondo East Federal Constituency, Biola Makinde has berated his colleagues for writing a letter to President Bola Tinubu accusing Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of anti party activities Makinde, who stated that the caucus members from the state goofed, urged the federal lawmakers to avoid heating up…
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has warned that rising prices of fuel and other commodities could lead to social unrest in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Angola and Kenya. The AfDB said this in its macroeconomic performance and outlook for 2024 in which it projected Africa’s economy to grow higher than the 3.2 per cent recorded in 2023….
A young primary school pupil has set social media on fire with his speech on the state of the nation. The boy Abdulkabir Abdulkadir dressed in his school uniform and sorrounded by his fellow pupils and teachers took Nigerian politicians to the cleaners. What really amazed many was his knowledge of some of the policies…
