Author: Amina Mohammed

Atletico Madrid signed striker Julian Alvarez from Manchester City on Monday in a deal reported to be worth up to 85 million euros ($93 million). “The club has reached an agreement with Manchester City for the transfer of the Argentine forward, who has signed a contract for the next six seasons,” said Atletico in a statement. Spanish reports say Atletico will pay 75 million euros for the forward, with potentially 10 million more in bonuses. The 24-year-old arrived at City for just £14 million (16 million euros) in January 2022 from River Plate, winning two Premier League trophies and the…

The reinstated Deputy Governor of Edo State Philip Shaibu has resumed office and has directed his staff to follow suit. He is also warning banks carrying out transactions with the Office of the Deputy Governor of Edo State without his express consent about the illegality of such transactions. In a video broadcast, Shaibu mandated those yet to resume work since his reinstatement to do so or face the consequences. According to him, the judgement of the Federal High Court which reinstated him indicated that his office has never been vacant. He also disclosed that he was saddened by the killing…

Former governor, Rasidi Ladoja, has been crowned as the Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland. He was crowned by the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin at a ceremony attended by acting governor, Bayo Lawal of Oyo state in the company of other top government functionaries. He was presented with the staff and instrument of office by the acting governor. The event was held at the Aafin Olubadan of Ibadalland, Oke Aremo, Ibadan on Monday, August 12. The event was the first ceremony of the Olubadan which was preceded by a meeting of the members of the Olubadan-in-Council.

An explosive device has been detonated at the secretariat of the Action People’s Party (APP) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The explosion which reportedly occurred at midnight shattered the glass on the window near the impacted area. The Rivers State Police Command has deployed two security vehicles and personnel to the scene in the new GRA. Routine activities are also going on smoothly within the area. APP which is relatively unknown in Rivers State gained attention recently after securing and decorating a building in the highbrow area of Port Harcourt to host its secretariat. There are claims that the party…

D’Tigress’ Rena Wakama has won the best coach at the women’s basketball event in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Wakama is also the first Nigerian National Female Basketball Team coach to win the women’s Afrobasket title since it began in 1966. She took the Nigerian female team to the quarter-finals of the tournament t for the first time in its history. That feat made them the first-ever African team (men or women) to play at that stage of the event. “Best coach of #Paris2024 Women’s Basketball, Rene Wakama, Nigeria,” a tweet on the X handle of the International Basketball Federation…

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mike Ozekhome, has urged President Bola Tinubu to muster the political will to get Africa’s most populous nation what he described as a people-centred constitution. The human rights lawyer was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics show. He is a member of The Patriots, a group of eminent Nigerians led by former Commonwealth Secretary-General Chief Emeka Anyaoku who met with the President on Friday at the State House in Abuja. Asked whether the President has the political will to make a new constitution happen, the senior lawyer said, “Well, he should have the…

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has said if by now, the President Bola Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration hasn’t realised the enormity of the sufferings of Nigerians it means it wasn’t ready for governance from the start. Atiku who spoke through his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe , explained that it was disappointing that the administration had to wait for Nigerians to take to the streets to draw its attention to what has become the desperate times we’ve been forced to live in. He said, “There were certainly challenges before now, that’s why you were given the mandate. We know…

Hundreds of mourners gathered Sunday in Southport, northwest England, for the funeral of a nine-year-old girl killed in last month’s knife attack, which sparked more than a week of nationwide disorder. Family, friends, community leaders and emergency responders all joined Alice da Silva Aguiar’s parents for an emotional ceremony at a Catholic church in the seaside town, nearly two weeks after the mass stabbing that shocked the country. Attendees had been asked to wear white, a tradition for some in Portugal, where Alice’s parents hail from. Locals lining the main road clapped as the funeral cortege — bearing a small…

The death toll from a landslide at a vast garbage dump in the Ugandan capital Kampala has risen to 18, police said on Sunday, amid claims the site was a disaster waiting to happen. Local media said homes, people and livestock were engulfed in mountains of waste at the landfill in the northern Kampala district of Kiteezi on Saturday after a collapse caused by heavy downpours. President Yoweri Museveni said he had directed the army’s special forces to help in the search and rescue operation and demanded to know who allowed people to live near such a “potentially hazardous and…

Poland says seven of its nationals did not fly Russian flags in Kano, a city in North-West Nigeria. Andrzej Szejna, Polish Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, told private radio station RMF FM that the six students and the teacher “were in the wrong place at the wrong time”. The seven Polish nationals were accused of playing a “suspicious role” in protests against government policies and economic hardship, the Department of State Services said upon their arrest on Thursday. The Polish foreign ministry, however, said they were students and a teacher. Africa’s most populous country is struggling with its worst cost-of-living…