Author: Amina Mohammed

Pep Guardiola hailed the impact made by Julian Alvarez in two seasons at Manchester City with the Argentine set to join Atletico Madrid in a deal worth up to 95 million euros (£81 million, $104 million). The 24-year-old cost City just £14 million when he signed from River Plate and his since enjoyed a meteoric rise, helping Argentina to World Cup and Copa America glory, as well as winning two Premier League titles and the Champions League at club level. Alvarez scored 36 times in 103 appearances for the English champions, but often found himself still squeezed out of Guardiola’s preferred…

The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the death of a 17-year-old teenager, who was electrocuted while working with his step-father at a building construction site. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday. Hundeyin said that the mother of the boy, whose name was not given, reported the case to the Agbado Police Division on Aug. 2, at 1pm. He said that the woman reported that at about 12.30 p.m. on the same day, she received a phone call from her younger brother about the incident. According to…

An airplane carrying 57 passengers and four crew crashed Friday in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, killing everyone on board, the airline said. The aircraft, an ATR 72-500 operated by Voepass airline, was traveling from Cascavel in southern Parana state to Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos international airport when it crashed in the city of Vinhedo. Voepass initially said the plane was carrying 58 passengers, but a statement on the airline’s website later revised the figure to 57. Images broadcast on local media showed a large plane spinning as it plummeted almost vertically, while other footage showed a large column of smoke rising…

A plane carrying 62 passengers has crashed in the city of Vinhedo in Brazil’s São Paulo state. An ATR-72 aircraft, operated by Voepass Linhas Aéreas, was en route from Cascavel, in the state of Paraná, to Guarulhos in São Paulo when the crash occurred, according to a report by the local news outlet G1. Video shared on social media appeared to show the plane plunging to the ground in a nosedive, disappearing behind a cluster of trees before a large plume of black smoke erupted into the air. Brazil’s TV GloboNews showed other footage that showed a large area on…

The Peoples Democratic Party has appointed former Osun State governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, as the chairman of the 25-member National Reconciliation Committee. Former Gombe State governor, Senator Ibrahim Dankwambo, has been appointed as the secretary of the committee. The PDP has been grappling with internal discord since last year’s general elections, where they were defeated by the ruling All Progressives Congress. In a statement issued on Friday by National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, the PDP announced that the inauguration of the newly formed reconciliation committee will take place at a later date. Ologunagba explained that the National Working Committee took this…

The Ogun State governor Dapo Abiodun said 100 hectares of land have been allocated to the Nigerian Navy to build a Forward Operating Base in the state. He stated this during a courtesy visit to the Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ikechukwu Ogalla in his office in Abuja on Friday. The Federal Operating Base, according to the governor, would be established in the Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of the state. He said that the naval facility would protect some strategic investments and safeguard the sovereignty of Nigeria at Tongeji Island. “Ogun State has always had a long…

The wife and two daughters of a Kogi-based journalist, Muhammed Bashir, were among the ten members of the same family kidnapped on Thursday in Kaduna State. Bashir’s wife and his two daughters arrived in Kaduna earlier on Thursday for a holiday with her (the wife’s) family in a suburb of Kaduna. Bashir, a correspondent with the Nigeria Telegraph, disclosed this to colleagues on Friday in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, in a terse statement. “My dear colleagues, please I need your prayers. My two daughters and their mother, including eight others, were kidnapped yesterday by unknown gunmen in Kaduna where…

The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Mojisola Adeyeye has claimed that she inherited a debt of ₦3.2bn, while ₦500m was unaccounted for upon her resumption in the office. She disclosed this on Channels Television’s Inside Sources on Friday. According to Adeyeye, such debt and missing funds were enough to declare the agency bankrupt if it had happened in a developed country such as the United States. She said, “When I got to NAFDAC, I met N3.2b Debt, and N500m missing and there was no account for it before I came. “I…

Samsung is recalling more than one million electric stoves in the United States following reports of accidental fires that injured 40 people and killed pets, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said Friday. Owners of one of the 30 models affected by the voluntary recall are advised to contact Samsung for free replacement knob locks or covers, according to the commission’s statement. More than 1.1 million slide-in electric ranges sold between 2013 and 2024 fall under the recall. Samsung said the announcement was issued due to reports the knobs could be accidentally activated by people or pets bumping into them. The company…

US rapper Travis Scott was arrested on Friday over a fight at a five-star hotel in the French capital, prosecutors said. “Policemen were called to the Georges V hotel and arrested Travis Scott for violence against a security agent. The latter had intervened to separate the rapper from his bodyguard,” the Paris prosecutor’s office said in a statement. AFP