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The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra State might have to fully integrate into the All Progressives Congress (APC), according to Osita Okechukwu. Osita Okechukwu is a member of the recently inaugurated APC Anambra Governorship Campaign Council. Okechukwu made the statement while speaking to journalists and noted that after 16 years of playing in a little pond, APGA should stop agonising and organise properly within the mainstream of Nigeria politics. He spoke against the background of claims by Anambra State government that the APC procured the Jigawa State High Court judgment that excluded Prof. Chukwuma Soludo from the list…

Serie A has lost two of its biggest names this summer in Romelu Lukaku and Italy’s goalkeeping hero Gianluigi Donnarumma, but some exciting talent has been on the move to Italy’s top flight as the new season prepares to kick off. AFP Sport picks out five signings to watch in Serie A in 2021/22: Tammy Abraham (Roma) England international Abraham’s move to Roma comes at a crucial time in his career, as he leaves the only club he has ever known in Chelsea for an uncertain rebuilding project in a new country under new Roma coach Jose Mourinho. Frozen out…

Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane was left out of the squad that travelled to Portugal on Wednesday for a Europa Conference League play-off amid continuing speculation over the England captain’s future. Manchester City are keen to sign Kane and were reported to have tabled a bid of £100 million ($139 million) in June. Earlier, this week the 28-year-old was named in a 25-man squad for the Europa Conference League play-off against Pacos de Ferreira but did not make the journey on Wednesday. Kane, who has three years left on his contract, only joined in first-team training on Tuesday after a…

Romelu Lukaku is in line to make his second Chelsea debut against Arsenal on Sunday after the club record signing revealed he has been given the number nine shirt. Belgium striker Lukaku rejoined Chelsea in a £98 million ($135 million) move from Inter Milan last week. The 28-year-old missed Chelsea’s win over Crystal Palace in their Premier League opener on Saturday while he quarantined. But Lukaku trained with his new team-mates on Wednesday in front of Chelsea fans during an open session at Stamford Bridge. He is in contention to feature in the London derby at the Emirates Stadium this…

Lagos State Government on Wednesday said anyone caught using children to beg risked being jailed for 10 years as the state commences onslaught on those engaging in street begging and hawking. The Commissioner for Youth and Social Development, Segun Dawodu, stated this, during a press briefing on Wednesday. He announced a special team to daily raid the nooks and crannies of the state of street beggars, miscreants, and street hawkers. He said the task would be executed in conjunction with the Nigeria Police. Dawodu said the action became pertinent because some of those begging are not looking for alms, but…

Prominent Northern leaders held a meeting in Abuja, yesterday, where they identified some of the problems clogging the wheel of growth and development in the 19 Northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). They also announced the formation of the ‘Abuja Roundtable’, a non-partisan and non-governmental group, designed to address the challenges facing the region. Some of the leaders at the meeting include 1993 presidential candidate of the National Republican Convention, Ibrahim Tofa; former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Yayale Ahmed; former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Attahiru Jega; former governors, ministers, senators; and military…

The Africa Progress Group led by former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has moved to curb population explosion in Nigeria and the rest of Africa. Obasanjo made this known during his speech on Tuesday at the Public Presentation of the 2020 Africa Progress Group Report. According to the former head of state, Nigeria’s population of over 200 million people with a significant youth bulge should be harnessed for increased industrialisation of the country and Sun-Saharan Africa. The ex-President said the failure of current African leaders to engage the teeming youths in productive engagement was dangerous as violent extremists and criminals would…

Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has warned the Nigerian Government to guard against a repeat of what happened recently in Afghanistan to happen in Nigeria. The PUNCH had reported that the Taliban took effective control of Afghanistan on Sunday, leading to president Ashraf Ghani fleeing the country. Omokri, who prayed to God not to allow Boko Haram to achieve in Nigeria what Taliban achieved in Afghanistan, warned that the foreign country first witnessed what is happening in Nigeria before the insurgents took over. In a post on his Instagram, Omokri said like Nigeria “rehabilitated” Boko Hara terrorists, Afghanistan did the same…

A media regulator faulted a Swiss newspaper on Tuesday for sexism over a headline earlier this year describing the World Trade Organization’s highly qualified new chief merely as a “grandmother.” Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in March became the first woman and first African to lead the WTO, following a long, high-powered career serving both as finance and foreign affairs minister in her native Nigeria and 25 years at the World Bank. But when the Aargauer Zeitung regional daily announced the 67-year-old Harvard-educated development economist’s appointment in February, it opted to focus its headline on her role as a matriarch. “This grandmother will…

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has described the death of former Deputy President of the Senate, Ibrahim Mantu, as a sad development. Gbajabiamila, in a statement issued Tuesday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Lanre Lasisi, said Mantu contributed immensely to the growth and development of the Nigerian Legislature. He noted that Mantu, who served as the Deputy President of the Senate in the 5th Assembly, was one Nigerian that would be remembered for his democratic credentials. Gbajabiamila condoled with the government and people of Plateau State, especially the Mantu family, over…