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Manchester United ended Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s three-year reign as manager at Old Trafford on Sunday following a run of one win in seven Premier League games. Saturday’s 4-1 embarrassment at the hands of struggling Watford was the final straw for the United board, who had stuck by Solskjaer in recent weeks despite humiliating home defeats to Liverpool and Manchester City. “Manchester United announces that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has left his role as Manager,” the club said in a statement. “Ole will always be a legend at Manchester United and it is with regret that we have reached this difficult decision.…

A Civil Society Organisation, the Anti-Corruption Network has said that 60 per cent of corruption issues in Nigeria are built and legalised in the nation’s budgetary system. The group alleged that the proposed 2022 budget for the presidency and other agencies were laced with fake items running into billions aimed at defrauding the citizens. Speaking in Abuja, the Executive Secretary of ACN, and former Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory, Dino Melaye maintained that budget fraud is the real foundation of all corrupt practices in the country. President Muhammadu Buhari had in October presented a budget of N16.39 trillion for…

• Says Only 2.67% Of Residents Have Received Jab • Introduces New International Travel Protocols  The Lagos State government has hinted of a possible fourth wave of COVID-19 in the state, while lamenting that only 2.67 per cent of its population has been vaccinated, making the state susceptible to another outbreak. The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, while addressing journalists in Ikeja, yesterday, identified the volume of visitors coming into the state for Christmas and New Year festivities as a potential driver of the fourth wave. He, however, stated that the overarching goal was to keep the economy of…

Fola Ojo It was a move I personally and fervently considered over the years. It remains a lodestone in the chambers of my heart. The draw may be withering off as a result of extant environmental toxicity in Nigeria, but the dream is far from being peremptorily interred in the capsular of abandonment. I have always been an unapologetic advocate of relentlessly coaxing able, available, and good people to run for political offices. This gospel I am noted for in my orbit of influence. I have no penchant for encouraging a pool of characters who will use the cover…

Ayo Olukotun Hopefully, the flurry of last-minute activities to stave off the looming strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities will succeed in saving the educational system and the nation another round of possibly prolonged shut down of our rapidly multiplying universities. One wished that it did not come to that: a situation where the government would do the right thing only under the pressure of a strike, but over time we have built a system that is not responsive to its own internal logic or administrative processes but only to the impulse of emergencies and naked threat.…

The National Assembly has transmitted the 2021 Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill it passed this month to President Muhammadu Buhari for his assent. The two chambers of the National Assembly had earlier this month passed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill making provision for electronic transmission of election results by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and adoption of direct primaries by the parties for the election of their candidates in future polls. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Babajide Omoworare, who made this known yesterday, stated that the bill had been transmitted to President…

Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (rtd) has charged 2,000 newly trained officers of the anti-narcotics body to resist every temptation that would make them compromise their duties and responsibilities. Marwa gave the charge yesterday at the passing out parade of the new officers at the NDLEA Academy, Jos, Plateau State. He reminded them that they were coming into the agency at a time when the institution was being overhauled to make it more effective and efficient, and as such their months of training at the Academy must count through impactful…

The Central Bank of Nigeria has acknowledged the receipt of N19.3bn recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from the Kogi State salary bailout account domiciled in Sterling Bank. The money was meant for the payment of Kogi State workers, but was alleged to have been, instead, domiciled in an interest yielding account with the bank EFCC spokesperson,Wilson Uwujaren, on Friday said the apex bank had acknowledged the receipt of the said sum. According to him, “this effectively puts to rest the campaign of misinformation and unconscionable denials by the Kogi State Government that no fund was recovered from…

I am writing this on Thursday, November 18, 2021. By the time you are reading it on Saturday (today), the coach of Nigeria’s national football team may have become history. From everything that I can gather from those with ears closer to the corridors of football power in Nigeria than I, it is almost a given that the German who has spent almost six years scouting for players in Europe in the guise of any meaningful and measurable coaching in Nigeria, will not be on the Nigerian bench when the Super Eagles take their place in Cameroon during AFCON in…

Says request difficult and heavy Stresses he won’t interfere in judicial process President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday raised hope of a possible political solution to the incarceration of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, saying he may consider the request of Igbo leaders for his release. He, however, ruled out the possibility of his interfering in the on-going judicial process under which Kanu is being tried before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Speaking while receiving a group under the aegis of Highly Respected Igbo Greats, at the State House, Abuja, the president…