Manchester City midfielder Rodri Hernandez has emerged the winner of this year’s Ballon d’Or award, beating competition from Real Madrid trio of Jude Bellingham, Vinicius Junior and Dani Carvajal. The Spanish international becomes the second Premier League Player to win the coveted award in 16 years since Cristiano Ronaldo won it in 2008. Rodri, the…
In what will come across as a really tragic development, Srikant Satre, a 23-year-old man has been trampled to d£ath after he tried to take a selfie with an elephant. Srikant Satre and two of his friends ventured into the Abapur forest close to the city of Gadchiroli in central India following reports that an…
An Ikeja Special Offences Court has heard how former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele instructed his former dispatch rider not to formally acknowledge over $3millon received on his behalf. Monday Osasuwa, who was first prosecution witness (PW1), disclosed this on Monday under examination by Olalekan Ojo (SAN), counsel to Emefiele before…
The Northern Governors Forum has kicked against the proposed Tax Reform Bill that was forwarded to the National Assembly. It stated that the proposed tax bill is against the interests of the North and other sub-nationals. In a communique read by the chairman of the forum and Governor of Gombe state, Mohammed Yahaya, the governors…
As the directive given to the beggars to leave Abuja streets ended on Sunday, the FCT Administration on Monday began a massive clampdown on them, the scavengers and other destitute persons. Our correspondent, who followed the enforcement team, reports that not less than 15 beggars and 19 scavengers were arrested during the operation. Riding Motorbike…
Transcendent greetings from the ambience of true leadership of ever progressive, energetic, and dynamic Nigerian University Students and the law-abiding citizens in the name of Aluta with tactfulness and purity. The National Association of University Students (NAUS), an upright association whose civil uprightness and unpretentious acts have over time proved to the citizenry to be…
Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, said yesterday that contrary to popular opinion, his principal, President Bola Tinubu, did not acquire a new official jet but a refurbished one. “It’s not President Tinubu’s plane, it belongs to the people of Nigeria, it is our property,” Onanuga said on the Sunday edition of Inside Sources with Laolu Akande,…
President Bola Tinubu has approved N10 billion Youth Development Fund aimed at empowering youths in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This was disclosed by the Minister of the FCT, Mr. Nyesom Wike, on Monday while inaugurating the upgrading of War College/Army Checkpoint Road and other ancillary roads in Ushafa, Bwari Area Council, Abuja. The minister…
A former Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Mr. Fulani Kwajafa, OFR, Sarkin Yakin Biu has died at the age of 88 after a brief illness. Kwajafa who died on October 23, 2024, and whose death was confirmed by a member of his family, was survived by his wife Patience…
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has arrested a lawmaker for assaulting a driver in the nation’s capital. Police spokesperson for the Command, Josephine Adeh, confirmed that Alex Mascot Ikwechegh “is at the Maitama Police Station undergoing questioning”. In a statement on Monday, the Command said the Bolt driver Stephen Abuwatseya reported the matter…