The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has inaugurated a truth and reconciliation committee to ensure peace between the Hausa community and Yorubas in the ancient city. Oba Ogunwusi inaugurated the committee in his palace on Saturday in Ile-Ife, Osun. Ooni described members of the Hausa community in Ile-Ife as his subjects and co-owners of the town with whom he has enjoyed tremendous loyalty in the last 14 months of his reign. “Thank God for the normalcy, I commend Gov. Rauf Aregbesola, for being proactive and the security agents for their efforts towards ending the crisis,” he said. The royal…
Author: David Folami
Gov. Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti says that Governors of South West States will ensure that the late Maj.-Gen. Adeyinka Adebayo is given a state burial. Fayose, who is also the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, stated this on Saturday when he paid a condolence visit to Adebayo`s family at his Lagos residence, Ikeja. He said he had sent a letter to his colleagues in the Southwest geo-political zone on the need to give the departed general, who hailed from Ekiti, a state burial. “I have written letters to my colleagues governors. I don’t think his burial…
United defeated Southampton 3-2 to win the EFL Cup, are in the Europa League round of 16 and have an FA Cup quarterfinal against Chelsea on Monday. But there has been no talk of winning three trophies within the dressing room, according to Carrick. “I think that is getting too far ahead of yourself as a player,” he said in the Mail on Sunday. “You have to concentrate on the next game, the next week. If you start thinking about the trophies that you can win and count them off too early then it tends to come back and bite…
Bayern cruised 10 points clear of Leipzig, who surprisingly lost to struggling Wolfsburg, by clinically taking their chances against a decent Frankfurt side. Buoyant Bayern have scored now 28 goals in their last seven games in all competitions. A fifth successive Bundesliga title looks a formality with 10 games remaining. Bayern returned to their pre-Arsenal form during the first half. Despite being outplayed for long periods, Bayern led 2-0 at half-time, scoring with their only two chances. Effectiveness personified. 8 — Basking in the glow of sealing a 11th Champions League quarterfinal with his sixth different side, the Italian maestro…
Pep Guardiola’s team never seemed to get out of second gear yet were still steadily on top of their opponents through the match. City cut through Middlesbrough at will, even if they weren’t able to find the net, and they were able to make it through to the next round without too much energy spent ahead of some tricky fixtures. It could have been a much more comfortable afternoon had City’s attack finished off their chances, meaning the odd break from the home side wouldn’t have caused as much stress in the away end as they did. It was also…
The Brazil international suffered an injury in Wednesday’s remarkable Champions League comeback against Paris Saint-Germain after scoring two goals in the final seven minutes of the 6-1 win that brought a 6-5 aggregate victory. The Barca players were given Friday off by coach Luis Enrique, but Neymar was unable to take part when they returned to training on Saturday and the decision has been taken not to risk him against Depor. Rafinha will also miss the game after coming down with a bout of gastroenteritis on Saturday. The two Brazilians join Aleix Vidal and Jeremy Mathieu on the sidelines, with…
Pep Guardiola was rewarded for his bold selection decision at the Riverside with David Silva and Sergio Aguero guiding Manchester City in the FA Cup semifinals just four days before Wednesday’s crucial Champions League return against AS Monaco. Silva’s third-minute opener, followed by Aguero’s second for City on 67 minutes, secured a comfortable win against ‘Boro on a day when the home side had goalkeeper Brad Guzan to thank for saving them from a much heavier defeat. But with this quarterfinal tie sandwiched between last Wednesday’s Premier League stalemate against Stoke City and the Champions League round of 16 second-leg…
Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool will look to sign players this summer to build on their “really good basis” while admitting his squad is too thin as it stands. Liverpool are in the thick of a fight for a top-four spot in the Premier League and will need an expanded squad if they are to compete in the Champions League. And while Klopp said Liverpool will be buyers in the summer transfer window, he’s also looking to get more of the players already at Anfield. “The plan is to begin with about improvement of the players here, because we always forget…
Jose Mourinho is a winner. Everywhere he goes, he wins. He has only been at Manchester United for half a season and has already claimed his first trophy, beating Southampton in the EFL Cup final a fortnight ago. But the thing about habitual winners is that they tend to be rubbish losers. Sir Alex Ferguson was happy to admit he was a bad loser and it’s no surprise that Mourinho, the natural heir to Ferguson’s throne at Old Trafford, is the same. When Mourinho returned to Stamford Bridge earlier this season, facing the club that sacked him twice, he would…
As R&B singer, Waje, contemplates the possibility of remarrying and finding true love, she drew a list of attributes and one of them must be a God fearing man. The single mother stated all the interests she is looking to find in an interview with Punch News’ Saturday Beats. According to Waje, money isn’t all that matters but she is insistent that her new type of man must be hardworking and good looking. “I have not ruled out the concept of love and re-marrying from my life, I can never do that. “I look for certain criteria in a man…
A new report has confirmed actress, Tonto Dikeh’s violent history which according to a statement offered by the Ghana Police Service (GPS) saw her pull a gun on estranged husband, Oladunni Churchill. A Crime Officer at the Madina Divisional Police, Ghana, Superintendent Joseph Oppong disclosed details of the incident in a video posted by Asempa News. Oppong recalled an occurrence where Dikeh damaged her husband’s possession reportedly worth a sum of $15,000 after consuming some vodka. This report came to light following her recent interview with the Media Room Hub which made her seem like a victim of a bad…
>Veteran Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie thinks his ability to attain a long life is down to a precedence found in his family. Edochie who recently celebrated his 70th birthday on Tuesday, March 7, 2017, disclosed that those who came before him are nonagenarians. These include his father and aunt who lived up to the ages of 96 and 98 respectively. He stated this in an interview with Punch News. “I am very grateful to God that he permitted me to live up to 70 years. This calls for a special celebration. “When I remember that many of my age mates…
The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, on Friday, reaffirmed Federal Government’s commitment to return the economy to the path of sustainable growth. The minister’s Special Assistant, Festus Akanbi, said in a statement that Adeosun made this known when the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Stuart Symington, paid her a visit in Abuja. Akanbi stated that the minister explained that in spite of the oil price shock and drop in production volumes, Federal Government had succeeded in utilising the situation to reposition the Nigerian economy to the advantage of the nation. She said the lack of adequate investment in infrastructure…
A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Charles Soludo said the size of nation’s Gross Domestic Product has shrunk from about 575 billion dollars to about 354 billion dollars. Soludo said this at an economic talk shop, organised by the Vanguard newspapers. The talk shop which had other panelists such as Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, former governor of Edo State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, also a former governor and Minister of Steel and Solid Minerals, Issa Aremu, the deputy president of the Nigerian Labour Congress was moderated by Mr. Fola Adeola, the founding managing director of Guaranty Trust…
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians to have more trust in Nigerian doctors. He stated this while speaking with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and other top government officials at the Presidential Villa on Friday, March 10, hours after his arrival from the United Kingdom. “We have to trust our doctors more and trust ourselves more,” he said. Buhari also advised the people not to indulge in self-medication. “I think one of our terrible things is self-drug administration,” he noted, adding that “I can’t remember this drug that Nigerians take so much, very common.” The President, who just returned from a…
Mourinho’s former club have a 10-point lead at the top of the Premier League, and his first trip to Stamford Bridge as United manager ended in a 4-0 thrashing in October. United return to London for Monday’s FA Cup quarterfinal, ahead of which Mourinho appeared to take a dig at Chelsea manager Antonio Conte’s tactical approach. He told the Football Focus programme: “I’m not surprised [by the success]. I’m surprised with the way they play. “I’m surprised because I thought they were demanding a different kind of football. “I think they are very good defensively and I think they have…
The club have been linked with a move for another goalkeeper — with Joe Hart touted as a possibility — amid inconsistent performances from both Mignolet and Karius. But Klopp, who has indicated that he wants to freshen up his squad in the summer, told a news conference ahead of Sunday’s home game against Burnley that he was satisfied with his goalkeeping situation. “I am happy most of the days,” he said. “One day when a goalkeeper is involved in a goal which happens quite a few times it is the life of a goalkeeper that you are the last…
Pep Guardiola says Manchester City showed how serious they are about the FA Cup after reaching the semifinals with a 2-0 victory over Middlesbrough. Guardiola will go to Wembley for the first time as a City boss after an early goal from David Silva and a second from Sergio Aguero secured a comfortable quarterfinal win at the Riverside. The City boss picked a strong side for the clash — four days before the crucial Champions League second leg with Monaco, which is then followed by a Premier League game with Liverpool. “We are delighted, first of all to be in…
Former Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko has said that he left N20 billion in the state’s coffers. Mimiko made the comment in denial of a claim by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that he left a N150 billion debt profile for the state. The denial was made on Mimiko’s behalf by former Commissioner for Information, Kayode Akinmade. Akinmade also said that the APC’s allegation “is a lie from the pit of hell.” He said further that the domestic debts incurred by the last administration amounted to N53 billion with salary arrears of about N20 billion. Mimiko handed over to the…
Tottenham Hotspur are a club going places. Or so we keep hearing. But it really is time their gifted squad converted promise into silverware. Any silverware, anyhow. That’s not just the view of moaning media types. It is the opinion of the players themselves. Spurs have not won anything since the League Cup of 2008. Their last title win was in the “glory, glory” days of Danny Blanchflower, Bobby Smith, Dave Mackay and Cliff Jones in 1960-61, a group who were tremendous on the pitch — and often had a thing or two to say off it. When discussing an…