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Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea said the team were “not good enough” after being eliminated from the Champions League in the last 16 by Atletico Madrid on Tuesday. Renan Lodi scored the only goal at Old Trafford as Spanish champions Atletico advanced to the quarter-finals 2-1 on aggregate. “We are really disappointed with the result. It’s difficult to put into words how we feel now at the moment. We did not do enough in both games to win it. It’s a very disappointing day for us,” De Gea told BT Sport. “They are a team with a lot of…

• Akpanudoedehe insists party crisis-free, united • Bello not on ground for daily briefing • Governors relocate to Abuja as Ganduje assures of hitch-free convention • Party commences sale of N20 million chairmanship form • Amount placed on exco form counterproductive, outrageous, youth group cries out In what appeared a patching up of the crisis that has enveloped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the embattled Secretary, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Sen John Akpanudoedehe, yesterday, made a surprise appearance at the party’s secretariat on Blantyre Street, Abuja. The return of Akpanudoedehe may not be unconnected with the insistence by the…

Ondo State Governor, Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN), has stated that the current arrangement of the federal system of government has rendered all states of the federation almost helpless and deplorable. He said the identity of each state is being eroded in a mistaken apprehension of the needs for unity and peaceful coexistence. The governor, who stressed the need for component units in a federation to enjoy considerable latitude to explore avenues for sustenance, said the present system as practiced is skewed, and has eroded the identities of the states. Akeredolu stated this yesterday at an event organised to honour living…

Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has debunked the rumour making the rounds that he met President Muhammudu Buhari in London over the current leadership crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Addressing journalists at the Government House, Katsina Monday evening, Masari’s acting Director-General on Media, Al-amin Isa, described the speculation as fiction of the imagination of those peddling it. There are speculations in Katsina that the governor had travelled to London to lobby President Buhari on the need to end the leadership crisis bedevilling the APC. But Isa, during the media chat, said: “The main reason for…

The Chairman of the Edo State All Progressives Congress (APC), Col David Imuse (rtd), has said his party will capitalise on the disarray in the state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to take over power in the state. Imuse, while describing the problem facing the PDP in the state as self-inflicted, told journalists yesterday that his party was not bothered as they knew what would happen when Governor Godwin Obaseki defected to the PDP after he was denied a second term ticket by the APC. According to him, “It is clear that the PDP is in disarray. It is a self-inflicted…

No less than 17 ex-internationals have been lined up to participate in a novelty football match to commemorate the 70th birthday anniversary of former Lagos governor Bola Tinubu. Umar Mohammed, Director-General of Tinubu Support Group (TSG), which is organising the event, disclosed this at the TSG Campaign Office in Abuja on Tuesday. He listed the players to include Nwankwo Kanu, Austin Okocha, Peter Rufai, Tijani Babangida, Mutiu Adepoju, Garba Lawal, Julius Aghahowa, Victor Ikpeba, Uche Okechukwu and Ifeanyi Udeze. The rest are Taribo West, Victor Agali, Ike Shorunmu, Victor Ezeji, Abiodun Obafemi, Dosu Joseph and Jonathan Akpoborire. The News Agency…

Movement is essential to life and in a country like Nigeria where individuals are largely responsible for their transportation, it is a given that transport cost takes a large chunk of the disposable income of an average Nigerian. Since transportation fares are largely driven by fuel prices, it is believed that a rise in fuel price will impose untold hardship on the citizens. And they are not taking it lightly. The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) recently “warned that the planned removal of fuel subsidy and subsequent increase in fuel price will affect every facet of life, including transportation, cost of…

•Edo governor: We’ve history of dealing with bullies The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, yesterday, threw caution to the wind and descended heavily on a fellow governor, Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, describing him as a serial betrayer, a disposition he further claimed was directly connected to his DNA. Wike, who replied to Obaseki’s response to his initial diatribe against his deputy, however, said a former Edo State governor and sacked national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomole, had been vindicated by Obaseki’s actions. But in replying to Wike’s initial attack against the Edo State Deputy Governor,…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Chairman of Dozzy Oil and Gas Limited,  Daniel Chukwudozie, have asked a Rivers State High Court to dismiss a suit filed by the Chairman of Ibeto Group, Chief Cletus Ibeto seeking to stop the EFCC from investigating him over an alleged N4.8 billion fraud. In a Suit marked PHC/268/FHR/2022,  Ibeto is praying the court to stop the EFCC from investigating allegations of fraud bordering on obtaining by false pretence the sum of N4.8 billion, forgery and criminal breach of trust leveled against him by Dozzy Oil and Gas Limited. Ibeto had filed an…

• NANS holds emergency meeting, stakeholders urge further dialogue • FG insists it has met aggrieved lecturers’ demands Parents, undergraduates and other stakeholders have voiced their disappointment as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) extended its ongoing strike by two months. The aggrieved teachers had on February 14 declared a one-month warning strike in protest against the government’s failure to meet their demands. Rising from an emergency meeting of its National Executive Council (NEC) at the University of Abuja, yesterday, ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said: “Having taken reports on the engagements of trustees and principal officers with the government,…