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Polish striker Robert Lewandowski said Monday he was raring to go at new club Barcelona and determined to help them “return to the top and win as many titles as possible”. “I’m finally here. I’m delighted to be at Barça,” the former Bayern Munich star told Barca TV after joining his new teammates in Miami where Barcelona are starting a four-match US tour this week. “The last few days have been long, but finally an agreement has been reached. I’m ready to take on this new challenge,” continued the 33-year-old. “I’ve always wanted to play in La Liga and in…

The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has sought closer collaboration with the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in the fight against the importation of substandard products in the country. A statement issued by SON indicated that its Director-General, Malam Farouk Salim, made the request when he visited Col. Hameed Ali, NCS Comptroller-General, in Lagos on Friday. According to Salim, the robust 11-year cooperation between SON and NCS has borne many fruits over the last decade. The statement indicated that the SON helmsman spoke during a visit to the Comptroller General of NCS, Col. Hameed Ali (Rtd.). He emphasised the strategic role…

National Co-ordinator of Nigeria Young Professionals For Tinubu (NYPT) 2O23, Alhaji Abdullahi Tanko Yakasai, has called on Nigerians to support Bola Ahmad Tinubu because the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate will rescue the country from insecurity and poverty when elected into office in 2023. Yakasai spoke in Kano when he gathered political stakeholders at NYPT office located at Yankaba, Nassarawa Local Government Area of the state to formally celebrate the victory of Tinubu as APC flag bearer and Kashim Shettima as vice presidential candidate. He announced Tinubu as the grand patron of NYPT, calling on all to support…

A CIVIL society group, Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) has warned the electorate ahead of today’s Osun governorship election on the need to resist vote buyers during the exercise. The group argued that many of the vote-buyers have alternatives of another country if Nigeria collapses, noting that vote sellers don’t have anywhere to flee to. Speaking during a briefing with newsmen In Osogbo, the Executive Director of the WARDC, Dr. Abiola Akiode-Afolabi, explained that, “ The implication of vote-buying is far-reaching – it makes it difficult to call leaders to account since they paid their ways to the…

The security situation in Nigeria is degenerating by the day. Even though there are top-level, medium-level and low-level security officials, the trend suggests that no one is actually in charge or at best, that the persons in charge have been overwhelmed and they are just pretending to still be in charge. The body count on the number of lives lost is numbing. This runs against the constitutional aphorism that the security and welfare of the people is the primary purpose of government. Why is aggravated insecurity still the order of the day? This discourse seeks to introduce some common sense…

The number of Lassa fever infections since the beginning of the year is 829, with 160 deaths, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. The latest situation report released for week 26 by the NCDC also showed that there are 5,510 suspected cases of the infection across 98 Local Government Areas in 24 states. Lassa fever is a viral haemorrhagic fever and an acute viral illness and the zoonotic disease has a high morbidity and mortality rate and economic and health security implications. Following the outbreak of the viral infection this year, the National Emergency Operations Centre response mode…

Flourish Africa, founded by Africa’s richest woman, Apostle Folorunso Alakija, has announced the graduation of the first batch of 500 female entrepreneurs of the Flourish Africa Business and Life Skills Training programme. The programme, targeted at female-owned Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), was sponsored by Mrs Alakija to raise the next generation of economically empowered women on the continent, starting with Nigeria for the next five years. Mrs Alakija established Flourish Africa to act as a catalyst for the advancement of African women. The movement was formed to provide female millennials and adults with access to information that will…

Senator Kashim Shettima is a former Governor of Borno State and a close associate of All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. He has been a staunch supporter and campaigner for the choice of Tinubu as the next President of Nigeria. He toured many states with Tinubu in December 2021 where he addressed party delegates and mobilised support for the former Governor of Lagos State. As governor of Borno State between 2011 and 2019, the 56-year-old Kashim Ibrahim Shettima ran his government on the similar template used by Bola Tinubu in Lagos. Despite the Boko Haram insurgency, he…

Fellow Nigerians, we enter a moment of renewed hope. We hold the chance to move the nation and our collective cause forward as never before. Let us seize this moment so that history may write kindly of us. It is time to focus with utmost devotion and love of country to do all we can do to advance the ideals of democratic and progressive good governance in the land. We must end poverty and bring greater prosperity and more lasting peace. Let us be wise of thought yet courageous in action, as we embark on a collective enterprise that brings…

All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu yesterday explained why he picked the former governor of Borno State, Senator Kashim Shettima, as his running mate for next year’s poll. He said he was guided by the principles of competence, innovation, compassion, integrity, fairness and adherence to excellence. The flagbearer said to re-envision and reshape the nation, he must set up the best team that would establish a just, capable and compassionate governance for Nigerians, irrespective of religion, region or ethnic origin. Tinubu also said he chose the former governor, following consultations with party stakeholders and other Nigerians as…