Senator Danjuma Goje has advised the minister of power, works and housing, Babatunde Fashola to ‘do the needful’ if the work is too much for him. Fashola had accused the National Assembly of removing key projects of his ministry in the 2017 budget. Speaking on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, July 5, 2017, Goje said the National Assembly would not be intimidated by Fashola’s “blackmail and propaganda.” “Fashola should know that he is dealing with the national assembly of Nigeria and not Lagos State House of Assembly,” said Goje, the chairman Senate Committee on Appropriation. “This assembly is…
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Late elder statesman and the Dan Masanin Kano, Dr Maitama Sule, has been buried on Tuesday, July 4, 2017. Sule died in the early hours of Monday in Cairo, Egypt, shortly after he arrived the country for treatment. Dozens of sympathisers flooded the funeral which held in Kano State. Dignitaries, including Malam Abba Kyari, who represented PMB was in attendance. Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, Deputy Governor Hafiz Abubakar and the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II attended the funeral. Also in attendance were Senate President Bukola Saraki, Minister of Interior, Abdurrahman Danbazau; Minister of Mines and Steel Development,…
Prominent personalities have continued to troop to the residence of the late elder statesman, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama-Sule at Dawaki Road in Kano metropolis to condole his family. Maitama-Sule died on Monday, July 3, in a hospital in Cairo, Egypt and was buried on Tuesday, July 4, at Wali Maigeza cemetery in Kano metropolis. NAN reports that among those who paid a condolence visit to the family of the deceased include the former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former governors of Jigawa and Sokoto States, Alhaji Sule Lamido and Alhaji Dalhatu Bafarawa respectively. Other dignitaries who were also at the residence of late…
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Moohammed on Wednesday in Abuja assured that the fresh crisis between the Presidency and Upper Chamber of the National Assembly would be resolved amicably. The minister gave the assurance when he briefed State House correspondents alongside the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Alhaji Abubakar Malami as well as the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Alhaji Muhammad Bello. The Federal Executive Council meeting was presided over by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo. The Senate on Tuesday frowned at a statement credited to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo that the Upper Chamber…
Mrs Titi Atiku, wife of former Vice-President Abubakar Atiku, told an Ikeja High Court that Akpan-Jacobs, the pastor, who allegedly defrauded her of N918 million was her “errand boy”. Titi made this claim while being cross-examined on Wednesday by Mr Amos Ibe, the defence counsel to Akpan-Jacobs. “I paid N49 million for the land used as the premises of THA Shipping, my partner Fred Holmes never contributed to the buying of the land but he contributed to the building of the property.” “The N49 million was given to Akpan-Jacobs to purchase the land, but did not know who he bought…
Wayne Rooney is in talks with Everton about a return to Goodison Park this summer, sources have said. The Manchester United captain will be allowed to leave Old Trafford after seeing his role in the team reduced under Jose Mourinho last season. The deal for Rooney to return to his boyhood club hinges on Everton putting together a wage packet close to the £250,000 a week he currently earns, though they are unable to match the full amount. The prospect of a loan deal with the option of a permanent move has been discussed. The striker still has two years…
Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool will go into the new season with an improved squad and there is reason for “real optimism” at the club. Liverpool returned for preseason training on Wednesday morning and Klopp must ensure his players hit the ground running with a two-legged Champions League qualifier to play soon after the Premier League season begins. “We all know it could have been maybe a little bit better but it could have been much worse. “We are now one of the top four teams in England so now we want to keep this situation and work with it and…
With Wayne Rooney set to return to his boyhood club Everton, Manchester United are losing a club legend. But his imminent departure also means the captain’s role will be available next season. As the record goal scorer, Rooney’s legendary status wouldn’t usually be questioned but controversy surrounds this discussion when it comes to him. The player famously asked to leave the club in 2010, before claiming it was the biggest mistake of his career. Less than two years later, he again told Sir Alex Ferguson he wanted to leave, but ended up staying and signing a new contract. Everton fans…
Gilles Grimandi, the former Arsenal player and now French scout for the club, knows Alexandre Lacazette very well. The first time he set his eyes on the Lyon striker was 10 years ago, when Lacazette was 16 and already the star of the 2001 generation at l’OL. Alongside the teenage forward were Clément Grenier, Yannis Tafer and Sebastien Faure; all of them were in the France youth set up. But Lacazette was at the centre of everything. Lyon born and bred, he made his debut for the OL first team not long after, as an 18 year old, realising his…
Luke Shaw will travel to Los Angeles with Manchester United’s first-team squad on Sunday after impressing the club’s medical staff with his dedication and commitment during rehabilitation for his ankle ligament injury, sources have said. The England defender is not expected to be fit for a return to Jose Mourinho’s team until the end of August after undergoing surgery on his ankle following the injury sustained against Swansea City at Old Trafford on April 30. But Shaw, who will be 22 next Wednesday, has been included in United’s travelling party in order to continue his recovery in the United States…
Barcelona fans breathed a huge sigh of relief on Wednesday when the club announced it had reached an agreement with Lionel Messi over a three-year contract extension. Messi will sign the deal — which ties him to Barca until 2021 — when he returns from his honeymoon in Antigua and Barbuda sometime next week. Barca were always confident that the Argentine would remain at Camp Nou, but nerves nevertheless permeated the fan base when the club allowed him to move into the final 12 months of his current contract. However, with an agreement now confirmed, the club can rejoice at…
Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette was having his medical at Arsenal on Tuesday as his club-record transfer was close to being finalised, a source confirmed to us. France forward Lacazette, 26, is expected to put the final touches on a five-year deal after agreeing personal terms, with Arsenal set to pay Lyon a fee of about £45 million plus add-ons. The source said on Tuesday afternoon that an official announcement could be made within 24 hours. The deal will make Lacazette Arsenal’s most expensive signing ever, eclipsing the £42m they paid for Mesut Ozil in 2013. Lacazette scored 37 times in…
Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness has suggested the club cannot pay the kind of salary that Alexis Sanchez is reportedly demanding, while adding that he is not aware of any move for the Arsenal man. Sanchez, 28, has been heavily linked with a summer move to Bayern and is reportedly seeking wages of £300,000-a-week. But Hoeness has told a sponsorship even, in quotes reported by kicker, that Bayern are not willing to pay such an amount in order to attract star players to the club. Asked about his club’s interest in Sanchez, Hoeness said: “I’m not involved in operational business.…
Former Bayern Munich coach Ottmar Hitzfeld expects Jurgen Klopp to return to Germany and take the reins at the Allianz Arena after winning Liverpool’s first Premier League title. Klopp took charge of Liverpool in 2015 and has since gone on to guide them to a League Cup and Europa League final, in which they lost both, as well as into next season’s Champions League. And with Klopp’s third season in England soon to get under way, Hitzfeld told T-Online that the former Borussia Dortmund boss is on the right path to bringing a first league title to Liverpool since 1990.…
Gov. Mohammed Bindow of Adamawa on Monday declared a state of emergency to rejig the state’s healthcare delivery. Bindow said this at the flag-off of the renovation of General Hospital Numan as part of the implementation of the policy in the health sector. He said during the ground breaking ceremony that the renovation was to boost medical care for the people of the state. The governor also said that the gesture was in fulfillment of his campaign promises to the people during the last electioneering campaign. He promised to enhance health service delivery in the state through the provision of…
YBNL rapper Olamide and OBO Davido collaborate on happy song ‘Summer love’. The Nigerian music stars get their groove on with the ladies in the laidback track produced by Pheelz. The video was shot by Joe Young Spike. Enjoy.
South American champions Chile have promised to stay faithful to their adventurous approach which often threatens to blow their opponents away but also leaves their own defence dangerously exposed. “Our gameplan is always to have the initiative, to take the leading role, have control and create openings,” coach Juan Antonio Pizzi told reporters after his side lost 1-0 to Germany in Sunday’s Confederations Cup final. “Our commitment in the future is to continue doing the same.” Chile were once renowned as relative lightweights in South America but in the last few years have become one of the continent’s most inventive…
The Kano state government has declared Tuesday, July 4, 2017, as a public holiday to mourn the death of Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule who died today. The holiday was declared in a statement signed by the State Commissioner for Information, Mallam Mohammed Garba. The statement read, “The death has occurred today (Monday) of Alhaji (Dr.) Yusuf Maitama Sule, Dan Masanin Kano. “Dr. Yusuf Maitama Sule died at a hospital in Cairo, Egypt, where he was receiving treatment for an illness. “Funeral prayer for the deceased will be conducted tomorrow (Tuesday) at the Emir’s Palace, Kofar Kudu, by 4:00pm. “Governor Abdullahi…
The Speaker, Kano State House of Assembly, Alhaji Kabiru Rurum, has resigned amidst allegation of collecting money to scuttle investigation on the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II. Rurum resigned in a letter read at plenary by the Deputy Speaker, Ibrahim Chidariof who presided over the sitting on Monday. The former speaker was alleged to have collected N100 million from business mogul Aliko Dangote but failed to share the money to the members. He had earlier at a news briefing before the assembly went on Sallah recess, denied the allegation and threatened to sue an online media group that first…
DR Ogbonnaya Onu, the Minister of Science and Technology, has called on all stakeholders in the sector to help commercialise research findings for the development of the country. Onu made the call when he received the report of the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology (FMST) Committee on the Blueprint for Commercialisation of Research and Development (R&D) Results on Monday in Abuja. He said that such effort would create more job opportunity for the citizens. “All the stakeholders in the value chain of R&D commercialisation must ensure that viable R&D results available in the nation’s universities and other research institutions…