Arsenal have completed the signing of defender Rob Holding on a long-term contract from third tier Bolton Wanderers, the Premier League club said on Friday. The 20-year-old made 30 appearances last season as Bolton were relegated from the championship. “It’s something you dream of as a kid – I can’t wait to get started,” Holding told the Arsenal website (www.arsenal.com). British media reported that Arsenal paid two million pounds for Holding, who can play as a central defender or fullback. He is manager Arsene Wenger’s third signing of the close season, following midfielder Granit Xhaka and striker Takuma Asano to…
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The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have continued the search for a foreign coach for the Super Eagles after Frenchman, Paul Le Guen rejects the chance when he was appointed. Le Guen on Monday, July 18 denied agreeing a deal with the NFF despite being announced as the new Technical Adviser of the Super Eagles. Although Salisu Yusuf has been confirmed to be the new Chief Coach of the Super Eagles, sources close to the Glass House revealed that the NFF are still searching for a foreign Technical Adviser. Many have wondered why the Super Eagles need a Technical Adviser with…
Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil is making good use of his vacation time as he partied at popular Los Angeles nightclub The Nice Guy. Ozil is currently in the United States where he is spending his holidays before joining Arsenal ahead of the upcoming Premier League season. The Germany midfielder was given an extended break by Arsene Wenger following his participating in the Euro 2016. Germany was knocked out in the semi-finals by host, France who eventually lost in the final to Portugal. With most of his teammates already getting prepared for next season, Ozil is letting his hair down in…
Ahead of the 2016/17 Premier League season, Manchester United legend David Beckham is starring in an advert by Sky Sports. Beckham who won six Premier League titles with Manchester United stars in the advert which broadcasters Sky are using to build the excitement ahead of this season. In the 60-seconds clip released by Sky Sports, the fitness enthusiast is seen coming across footages of Premier League games as he goes for a run. He runs into a group of Manchester United fans in a pub watching a game as one of them lifts him up to celebrate a goal. In…
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Jamiu Ekungba, has accused Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko of misappropriating about N400 billion federal allocations. He said in the last seven and a half years, there is nothing to show for the allocations accrued to the state. Ekungba stated this in a statement issued on Wednesday, July 20. “Ondo State has, in the last seven and a half years, collected over N600bn from the federation account but we cannot, in all sincerity, see tangible development that is reflective of the huge receipts,” he said. In reaction, Mimiko described Ekungba’s…
Tony Anenih, a former chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has appealed to the party caucus in the National Assembly to resist all attempts aimed at removing President Muhammadu Buhari from Office. Anenih disclosed this in a four page letter dated July 15, 2016 and addressed to the party’s National Caretaker Committee chairman, Ahmed Makarfi. The letter titled “The PDP Caucus in the National Assembly and the threat to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari” reads: “I am constrained to write this letter by my love for our great country and my long years of involvement…
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, will on Monday join current and former world leaders in the U.S. for 2016 Democratic Convention. This is contained in a statement released to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday by APC’s Assistant Director of Publicity, Mr Edegbe Odemwingie. According to the statement, parliamentarians, diplomats and senior political party leaders from over 100 countries will observe the nomination process of the Democratic Party’s candidate for President and Vice-President of the U.S. The convention tagged the 2016 International Leaders Forum (ILF) would hold in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from Monday to Thursday.…
Former Sokoto State Governor, Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa has accused Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi of buying his way into the All Progressives Congress (APC) with N100 million. Bafarawa also said that the APC government claims to be fighting corruption but it’s actually the “mother of corruption”. The former governor made the claim during a recent interview with Daily Trust. “APC government says it is fighting corruption, but it is the mother of corruption; it has been the mother of corruption since the day it opened its gates to those five governors from the new PDP,” he said. “When they (five…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Edo State, Osagie Ize-Iyamu has lost his Campaign Director, Mallam Balarabe Saidu to the All Progressives Congress (APC). According to reports, Saidu was among hundreds of PDP members who defected to the APC during the commencement of the ruling party’s governorship campaign in Auchi. “My brothers and sisters from Edo North, I hereby stand before you people with over two thousand persons from the dying PDP to join our Comrade Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, so that more development can come our way. Today, Edo North is like small London,” he said. The governorship…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has accused Governor Adams Oshiomhole of failing people of the state. The comment was made by Edo PDP Chairman, Dan Orbih during a recent campaign rally for the September 10 governorship election, Vanguard reports. “President Buhari has never intervened in any election before now, so we hope Edo State will not be an exception. Nobody can use INEC, police, army or EFCC to rig the PDP out,” Orbih said. “I want to tell Oshiomhole that Edo people are prepared to behave the way the civilian population in Turkey behaved when the soldiers…
In what what has been described by many as a “deliberate attempt to bribe Senator Oluremi Tinubu,” Senate President Bukola Saraki on Thursday, July, 21, 2016 announced the reshuffling of committees in the Red Chambers. Mrs Tinubu has been in the news over recent disagreement with her colleague, Dino Melaye who represents Kogi West Senatorial District. Senator Tinubu who was the chaired the Senate committee on Women Affairs has been announced as the Chairperson for the Committee on Environment. Others who benefited from the reshuffling exercise includes; Kabiru Marafa, (petroleum downstream committee), Adamu Aliero (Aviation), Baran Jibrin (Tertiary Institution), Binta…
A former Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba has been appointed the Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission by President Muhammad Buhari, Premium Times reports. The President was also said to have named a former Deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Nsima Ekere, as the managing director of the Commission. The new appointments follows the removal of Ibim Semenitari, who has been the acting managing director since December 2015. Ndoma-Egba, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, who hails from Cross River State, takes over from Bassey Ewa-Henshaw, also from the state. He had resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party in September and…
Gov. Simon Lalong on Wednesday said he will not rest until those behind the killing of the Saf Ron Kulere, Chief Lazarus Agai, were arrested and prosecuted. Lalong, who paid a condolence visit to the Bokkos Traditional Council and people of the area, said he would work with security agencies to ensure that the killers were found and brought to justice. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), recalls that Agai, a first class chief in Bokkos Local Government was killed on Monday alongside his driver, orderly and daughter in-law by unknown persons. The killing of monarch sparked reprisal attacks among…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) on Wednesday gave the Kogi Government a 30-day ultimatum to resolve the issue of unpaid workers’ salaries or face labour actions. The presidents of the two unions issued the ultimatum at a rally organised by their respective state chapters at the NLC office in Lokoja. Addressing a large crowd of workers, Mr Ayuba Wabba, NLC National President, said that no reasonable government would deny workers of their salaries for seven months. Wabba threatened a national labour action in the state if the governor refused to address lingering issues and stop…
The Acting Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Ibrahim Idris, has directed the Deputy-Inspector-General of Police, operations, DIG Joshack Habilla, to ensure the arrest of the killers of Chief Lazarus Agaie, the traditional ruler of Bokkos in Plateau. The directive is contained in a statement issued by the Force Spokesman, Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Don Awunah, in Abuja on Thursday. Idris said those behind the gruesome murder of the monarch would be fished out in record time for prosecution. He further said it was pathetic to see the life of any Nigerian, irrespective of his or her status, snuffed out…
Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, has urged Nigerians to stop politicizing President Muhammadu Buhari’s war against corruption. Ribadu made the comment on Wednesday, July 20, 2016, during an event organized by the Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption in Abuja, Vanguard reports. “I want to appeal to Nigerians to give the current government’s fight against corruption a chance and shun the undue politicisation of issues. There is no other way to prosecute anti-corruption than what we are witnessing presently,” he said. “The effort has yielded appreciable result going by the unprecedented recoveries and the…
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday, July 21, 2016 granted the bail of N50 million to Abiodun Agbele, an aide to Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state. Mr Agbele is expected to provide two sureties of the Director Cadre in the civil service. Agbele was accused of receiving huge public funds from former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro and delivered same to Governor Fayose. Agbele is also being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allegedly buying properties for Fayose from the N1.219 billion he received from Mr Obanikoro…
Sokoto State Government has released N155 million for the construction of Women Development Centres in all the 23 local government areas of the state. Hajiya Kulu Abdullahi, Commissioner of Women Affairs, said at a media briefing on Thursday in Sokoto that the money was released to various contractors handling the project. She said that the centres were designed to offer skills training to women, to make them self reliant. The commissioner added that already eight of the centres located in Wamakko, Sokoto South, Sokoto North, Kware,Tangaza, Binji, Gudu and Silame local government areas had been completed. She expressed satisfaction with…
The National Industrial Court has strike out the Niger Government suit against the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and other unions in the state. The judge, Justice Maureen Esowe, struck out the case on Thursday following the withdrawal by Gbadeola Egbeola, Counsel to the claimant. Egbeola, who held brief for Jibrin Okutepa (SAN) had said that report reaching him indicated that the parties had settled out of court. “Report reaching us this morning show that both parties have settled the matter out of court,’’ he said. He, therefore, applied that the suit be struck out. The News…
Former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has said that the corruption charges against him are politically motivated. Fani-Kayode also said that he was given only N800 million to run the Goodluck Jonathan campaign for three months. He made the comments on Wednesday, July 20, 2016, while speaking on Channels TV. “I have done absolutely nothing wrong and neither have any of my co-accused. I saw this coming the day we lost elections and it was announced that the other side had won,” he said. “I refused to leave the country just as I refused to leave the country in 2008 when…