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Liverpool and Real Madrid will clash at the Stade de France in the UEFA Champions League final on May 28. Tensions are rising ahead of the Champions League final The war of words has already begun between the two sides. It was Mohamed Salah who set it off by declaring his desire to exact revenge on Real Madrid for the 2017-18 Champions League final loss. Several players and pundits have weighed in since but Karim Benzema responded in kind to Salah and Liverpool in an interview with Movistar (via Liverpool Echo). He said: “Liverpool have a lot of confidence. They think they have already won the match, maybe.…

•Pfizer to offer all drugs not-for-profit to 45 lower-income countries The world’s food crisis could last until 2024 unless safe corridors are created to move Ukrainian food stocks currently blockaded by Russia, Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has warned. Speaking at a press conference on policy outlook for trade and food at the on-going World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, she explained: “The food crisis, if we don’t get these safe corridors out, is going to last another year or two, to be honest with you.” According to her, the United…

Kayode Komolafe It is obvious from the way the presidential  aspirants of the two major political  parties have crisis-crossed Nigeria in the last few weeks that the elected delegates to the conventions hold some powers. The aspirants have been “meeting” the elected party delegates who would elect the flagbearers of the respective parties. Already delegates are already deciding the fate of aspirants seeking their party tickets for  the legislative elections in some parties. The inexplicable omission  of the statutory delegates in  the Electoral  Act 2022 has even made the elected delegates more “powerful,”  you may say. In the absence…

Olusegun Adeniyi I have a friend who is forever seeking trending jobs. He once wanted to be a petrol attendant. None of us (his friends) understood why someone with a master’s degree could set his sights so low until he told the story of how a petrol attendant had ‘oppressed’ him by snatching his girlfriend during a fuel scarcity in the country. Last week, our guy scaled up by looking for anyone who could help him secure a job in the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF). I’m still not sure how that went but I saw someone who resembled him in the ‘Baba Oyoyo’ crowd that ushered the new Overseer of the OAGF…

Glencore, a mining  and commodities trading firm has agreed to pay over $1.1 billion for various infractions, including paying bribes to several African countries to get mouth-watering crude oil purchase contracts. Between approximately 2007 and 2018, a Department of Justice (DoJ) press release, said that Glencore and its subsidiaries caused approximately $79.6 million in payments to be made to intermediary companies. It stated that this was done in order to secure “improper advantages” to obtain and retain business with state-owned and state-controlled entities in the West African countries of Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and Equatorial Guinea. “Glencore concealed the bribe…

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdulahi Adamu, yesterday, said that the ruling party would take decision on zoning after all the presidential aspirants had been screened. In an interview with select Hausa Service media organisations, Adamu also said the presidential aspirants would be scrutinised in accordance with the party’s guidelines for the 2023 elections The guidelines of the party provides three ways of choosing the party’s candidate for an election, which include direct, indirect and consensus. Baring his mind on the zoning arrangement, Adamu said no decision would be taken until the aspirants were screened.…

•Those behind barbarous killings in South-east will be hounded by security forces, presidency assures •Soludo declares curfew in eight LGAs, bans okada, tricycle operations on Mondays •Zulum confirms 32 persons killed by Boko Haram in weekend’s attack in Kala-Balge •Lawan halts campaign in honour of murdered Borno farmers •Terrorists attack Masari’s LG, abduct two Catholic priests, ECWA pastor, others President Muhammadu Buhari, the vice president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), and African Bar Association (AFBA) have condemned the alleged killing recently of a pregnant woman, Harira Jubril, and her four children in Anambra…

• Jandor defeats Vaughan to pick Lagos PDP ticket • Former Commissioner, Mbah, ex-VC Ikonne emerge Enugu, Abia candidates • Delta Speaker defeats Ibori’s canditate to emerge flag bearer • Embattled Rivers accountant general, Fubara wins ticket • Confusion as Kano PDP holds parallel primaries • Presidential aspirant, Mohammed’s name appears on Bauchi guber ballot paper The race by the major opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to win 25 states, up from the 13 it currently controls, began yesterday across the country with its shadow governorship elections to produce candidates to fly the party’s flag in the 31 states where…

Nigeria and Ethiopia have concluded arrangements to hold a Joint Ministerial Commission meeting in Addis Ababa, next month, where various areas of bilateral relationship and exchange perspectives on a range of international issues of mutual interest will form the crux of discussion. This followed President Muhammadu Buhari’s meeting, yesterday, with Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Dr. Abiy Ahmed, who was hosted to a state visit and presidential lunch attended by First Lady of Nigeria, Aisha Buhari and Ethiopian First Lady, Zinash Tayachew, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. During the meeting, the leaders of both countries agreed to take concrete steps to…

Bishop Dr. Emmah Gospel Isong is the National Publicity Secretary of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Remedy for Victims of Religious Persecution and Discrimination Initiative. He spoke with AYOYINKA JEGEDE in Calabar on 2023 and other national issues. There have been arguments about the region that should produce the next Nigerian President in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. Do you think emphasis on zoning will jeopardise merit?  Zoning is a word that we should not start with in our political questions, but it can end it. It is childish democracy to argue about which zone…