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Tammy Abraham has completed his move to Roma from Chelsea, the Serie A club announced on Monday, the England forward joined former Blues boss Jose Mourinho in the Italian capital in a deal worth 40 million euros ($47 million). In a statement, Roma said that Abraham had signed a five-year contract and that Chelsea would “retain the right to a percentage of any future transfer fee involving the striker”. Italian media report that the 23-year-old, who will wear the number nine jersey left vacant by Edin Dzeko’s transfer to Inter Milan, will earn 4.5 million euros net each season. “You…

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, said the present National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cannot lead the party to victory in the 2023 general elections and called for a replacement of the leadership. The governor noted that the internal rumbling that was recently witnessed in the party was due to the failure of the NWC to carry out its responsibility as an opposition political party effectively. Wike, who stated this on national television in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, maintained that the PDP remains the only credible alternative party that Nigerians are expecting to take over power…

* Says it will allow investments, transparency to flourish in oil, gas industry The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for assenting to the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), saying that Nigeria’s oil and gas industry will now receive a breath of fresh air and allow investments and transparency to flourish. Gbajabiamila, in a statement, Monday noted that the coming into being of the law is a victory for Nigerians and a landmark achievement that ended the two-decade-long journey. According to him, when massive investments come in as a result of the PIB,…

As I had explored in this newspaper sometime ago, the blessing of the civilian political coming of our most dear Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s head of state is to reveal to us that the true change that Nigeria has ever needed must happen now. Indeed, that change was in the slogan of their political party, but as a gimmick only. But as God Himself would have it, He was using their mouths to reveal this upcoming mind of God; a real change for all those Nigerians desirous of freedom, universal human love, justice, progress and the death of all the…

Politicians are at their game again. All over the land, it is one political crisis or the other, arising from the primary elections to decide the candidates of the political parties. The Electoral Act requires that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, should issue guidelines to political parties to determine the candidates to represent them during elections, and thereafter forward their names to INEC.  For the 2021 governorship election in Anambra State, INEC had set November, 2021 for the conduct of the main election. This literally threw fire into the camps of all the political parties, and indeed exposed the…

General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, (GCFR), will be 80 on Tuesday August 17. He is the second longest serving Military ruler in Nigeria, the first being General Yakubu Gowon (GCFR), who ruled Nigeria from August 1, 1966 to July 29, 1975. General Babangida ruled Nigeria from 27 August 1985-26 August 1993. His classmates at Government College Bida were General Abdusalam Abubakar (GCFR), General Mohammed Mamman Magoro, Major General Mamman Jiya Vatsa, Major General Muhammed Gado Nasko, Major General Garba Duba, Mr. Paul Babale, Aliyu Makama, Ibrahim Sanda, Abulmaliki Ndayako, Mohammed Bello Ndayako, Abdulrahim Dangana and Alhaji Alhassan Bisallat. Till today, historians…

• Governors, ACF, CAN, Muslim groups condemn killings • UNIJOS suspends ongoing exams • Police arrest 20 suspects, deploy tactical units • Army rescues seven more victims Few hours after imposing a dusk-to-dawn curfew on three Local Government Areas of Jos North, Jos South and Bassa in Plateau State, Governor Simon Lalong yesterday declared a 24-hour curfew in Jos North to contain escalating security threat. The governor, in a statement signed by his Director of Press, Simon Macham, urged citizens to abide by the curfew and remain indoors to allow security agencies maintain law and order and deal with those…

Nigeria has registered 541 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) as active cases continue to soar in the West African country. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which made this known via its verified website on Monday morning, said the additional infections, though declined from the 655 recorded on Saturday, raised the cumulative cases to 182,503. The centre said that the number of known active cases was now 13,152, an increase from 12,917 reported on Saturday. The public health agency, however, did not state the percentage of COVID-19 variants in the newly recorded infections. It put the Delta variant seen…

Member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have set a January 2025 deadline for the adoption of cleaner fuels and vehicles in the region to reduce air pollution across the cities. ECOWAS Director of Energy, Bayaornibe Dabire disclosed the plan at the African Refiners and Distributors Association (ARDA) 2021 virtual workshop series. At the workshop, Dabire disclosed that the range of fuel specifications in the sub-region currently spans 50 Parts Per Million (PPM) sulphur in some countries to 10, 000 ppm in others. He said the need for harmonisation led to the issuance of ECOWAS directive…

Few hours after imposing a dusk to dawn curfew on three Local Government Areas of Jos North, Jos South and Bassa of Plateau State, Governor Simon Lalong on Sunday directed the imposition of a 24-hour curfew in Jos North to contain escalating security threat. The governor said, “From 2pm of today, Sunday 15th August 2021, a 24-hour curfew will come into effect in Jos North Local Government Area. This is necessitated by security reports which indicate rising threats to the safety of lives and properties within the Local Government.” The governor, in a statement signed by his director of press,…