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#MUFC finally reach agreement with Crystal Palace to sign Aaron Wan-Bissaka for £50 million. His unveiling should be later this week. #MUFC now have a potential superstar right-back with vast, vast potential. A gamble, but Wan-Bissaka is an incredible and rare talent.

Where were you on June 12, 1993? I was in Ilorin, Kwara state, enjoying the weekend with my cousins. I could not vote because I registered in Lagos. If I had voted, I would have thumb-printed the space for the Social Democratic Party (SDP) whose presidential flag bearer was Chief MKO Abiola. I had been rooting for Alhaji Bashir Tofa, the candidate of the National Republican Convention (NRC). But after watching the televised presidential debate and having an argument debate with my dear friend, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu (now APC national publicity secretary), I was finally persuaded to vote for Abiola, although I eventually disenfranchised myself. I learnt a dozen lessons from the June 12 debacle. First, northerners were unfairly vilified in the political crisis that engulfed the nation after the annulment. The narrative was that they did not want Abiola to become president. There was a conspiracy theory that the north wanted to hold on to power by all means. However, the election resul...

The Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) has suspended indefinitely the license of Daar Communications PLC, owners of African Independent Television (AIT) and Ray Power over an alleged breach of Broadcasting Code. The Director General of the NBC, Ishaq Modibbo Kawu, stated this yesterday evening while briefing journalists in Abuja. Kawu said the commission responded to complaints from concerned Nigerians about the broadcast contents of Daar Communications Plc’s AIT/Raypower broadcast stations. He said the NBC had in the last two years summoned management of the company to address issues regarding their operations particularly Political Platform and Kakaaki aired on AIT. He also said Daar communications has turned itself into a bad example of what a broadcast station should be over the way and manner Hate Speech, divisive and inciting comments are applied in discussion of national issues in breach of the provisions of the NBC Act and Broadcast Code. “The NBC have over the last 2 year...

Operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), have arrested a 48-year-old Pastor with the Mountain of Fire and Miracle Church (MFM), Gwaripa Branch, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, for allegedly impregnating a 16-year-old girl. The suspect, David, was said to have volunteered to provide shelter and also conduct deliverance on the girl after she was accused of witchcraft, but thereafter took advantage of the vulnerability of the innocent girl and repeatedly sexually violated her.   The victim, a Junior Secondary School (JSS2) student of one of the government schools in Abuja, dropped out of school and was in dare need of accommodation shortly after the death of her parents in 2018.   Investigation revealed that the randy Pastor, who lost his wife sometimes ago, had once lived in the same compound with the victim’s parents in Karmo community, a suburb of Abuja. The pastor volunteered to harbour her and promised to assist ...

The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission says it has uncovered over N3.4 billion allegedly misappropriated by the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II. The alleged amount was said to have been misappropriated between 2014 and 2017. This is contained in a preliminary report of investigation conducted by the commission and signed by its Chairman, Mr Muhuyi Magaji, a copy of which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Monday. According to the report, the investigation was in respect of a petition of financial misappropriation levelled against Kano Emirate Council under the present Emir, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II. The interim report raised four cardinal issues bordering on indictments, amount involved, obstruction of investigation and recommendations. The report indicated that the Kano Emirate Council had spent over N1.4 billion in various expenditures believed to be fraudulent and unappropriated. In addition, the Emirate Council was ...

BREAKING: Sultan announces end of Ramadan fast, declares tomorrow as Eid The Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Saa'd Abubakar III has formally declared the end of Ramadan 1440 (A.H) after the new crescent of Shawwal had been sighted in Kebbi and Borno States. The Sultan, who doubles as the President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), has therefore asked Nigerian Muslim faithful to observe the Solatul Eid tomorrow, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. In his nationwide broadcast on the NTA Network broadcast, Sultan Abubakar stated that the moon was also sighted in Katsina and Yobe State. The Sultan felicitated with the entire Muslim Ummah in Nigeria and all over the world on this year’s Ramadan Fast, praying that the Almighty Allah accept the fast from as an act of Ibadah. Amin.

Six suspected militia have been killed while vandalizing and looting a church in Ayu town in Wukari local government area of Taraba state. Ayu town, which is a Tiv community and located in the midst of Jukun villages, came under attack by suspected militia. Our reporter gathered that the Tiv in the community allegedly killed and chased away the invading militia who looted and vandalized a church in the area.

The governor of Nasarawa state has revealed that he would want to be officially addressed as Abdullahi A. Sule. This was contained in a statement signed by Abubakar Ishaq, Administrative Secretary in the Office of the Secretary to the State Government (SSG) on Saturday in Lafia. The governor also made his first set of appointments since assumption of office on May 29. Ishaq said the governor approved the appointments of nine Senior Special Assistants (SSA) with effect from June 1. The appointees includes John Mamman, SSA Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs; Samuel Egya, SSA Governor’s Office; Yakubu Kwanta, SSA Youth Affairs and Non-Governmental Organisations; and Murtala Lamus, SSA Special Duties. Others are Ibrahim Abdullahi, SSA Investment and Economic Planning; James Thomas, Liaison Office Abuja; Rakiya Alaku, Women Affairs and Empowerment; Salihu Ogah, Deputy Governor’s Office; and Abubakar Zanwa, Legal Matters.  

Saraki In Trouble As EFCC Wins Strategic Victory At Court Of Appeal _ Melrose General Services Limited between the 14th day of December, 2016 and January 2017 in Nigeria, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, took control of the sum of N3,500,000,000.00 (Three Billion, Five Hundred Million Naira Only) transferred from the Nigerian Governors’ Forum’s account into Access Bank Plc account number 0005892453 by Melrose General Services Limited, when you reasonably ought to have known that the said fund represented the proceeds of lawful activities to wit-conspiracy, stealing and fraud, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15(2) (9) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended by the Act No.1, 2012) and punishable under Section 15( 3) of the same Act.”

With its expected inauguration on June 11, the 8th National Assembly under the able leadership of Dr. Bukola Saraki, will wind down to give way for the 9th Assembly. Without doubt, there have been ups and downs in the red chamber under him. Rewind a bit to his inaugural speech, where he said Nigerians are in need of a change “From impunity and elite arrogance to a life of accountability and respect for every citizen, regardless of tribe, gender, religion, region or political persuasion.” Sources who worked closely to him say these words guided the 8th Senate throughout its tenure, spurring it to action, and providing interventions. The politics of the 8th Senate and the events that shaped its 4-year span are inescapably tied to how Saraki emerged as its president amid serious opposition, including resistance from his former party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). Trouble began for the Saraki-led National Assembly when the ruling APC could not put its house in order before the June ...