Author: Festus Adeloye

Como have signed former Spain goalkeeper Pepe Reina on a one-year deal, the newly-promoted Serie A club announced on Thursday. “Como 1907 is pleased to announce the signing of Pepe Reina until June 2025,” said the club in a statement. The 41-year-old, who has played for some of Europe’s biggest clubs including Barcelona, Liverpool and Bayern Munich, will be a back-up ‘keeper for Pau Lopez who is set to arrive from Marseille. Reina returns to Italy after being released by La Liga outfit Villarreal. He won the 2014 Italian Cup in the first of two spells at Napoli and also…

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, affirmed the re-election of Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State. In a unanimous decision by a three-man panel of Justices, the appellate court, dismissed an appeal that was brought before it by the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva. It held that the appeal was incompetent and constituted an abuse of court process. The court said it found no reason to dislodge the earlier judgement of the Bayelsa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which declined to nullify the outcome of the gubernatorial poll that held in the…

The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, said on Thursday a new curriculum would be introduced for secondary schools nationwide by September 2024. Tahir made this known at the ongoing 2024 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board policy meeting in Abuja. “We are working hard to ensure that a new curriculum is introduced for secondary schools by September,” Mamman said. Mamman noted that the exercise has been on for the past year and a stakeholders meeting will be held on August 6,2024. “It is our plan that by September, this programme will be implemented in all schools, public and private,” the…

The Coordinator of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Ogun State, Mrs Olayinka Nasamu, on Wednesday, said that the agency knows nothing over a hit-and-run driver who crushed to death a student of Gateway ICT Polytechnic, Saapade, Aiyepe Annexe, Pelumi David Idowu, in front of NYSC Orientation Camp along Sagamu-Ikenne road last week Monday. The fleeing driver had reportedly hit the motorcyclist carrying Idowu from the back killing both the student and the motorcyclist on the spot. Students in Ogun state, under the auspices of National Association of Nigerian Students and National Association of Ogun State Students had on Tuesday, protested…

The Police Command in Lagos State says it has arrested two suspected hoodlums over the death of a vigilante member in the Epe area of the state. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday. Hundeyin said that the Epe Police Division got a report on Monday at about 4.30 p.m. that an Ibile Vigilante member, simply identified as Oluwafemi, 45, was attacked on Friday at about 2.00 p.m. by suspected hoodlums. He said the hoodlums reportedly attacked the vigilante member at a refuse dump site, at Afero Village, Epe, while attempting…

There is outrage in Amassoma, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, following the fatal stabbing of a final-year student from Niger Delta University on Monday. According to community sources, the victim, Francis Palowei, was at the Sand Dump, a popular student relaxation spot, when some local youths stabbed him after he refused to pay them N150. Palowei, from Obrigbene community in the Ekeremor Local Government Area, was set to graduate on July 24, 2024. Police have since arrived in the community, searching for those responsible. Students from the university have also joined in the search, though some have…

Senate President Godswill on Wednesday effected a minor reshuffle in the Standing Committees of the Senate. This followed the sack of Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume as Majority Whip by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the elevation of Senator Mohammed Tahir Monguno (APC – Borno North) as his replacement. Akpabio said: “With the elevation of Distinguished Senator Tahir Monguno to the position of the Majority Whip of the Senate, his committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters will now go to the only Senior Advocate of Nigeria that we have in the 10th Senate. “Senator Adegbonmire Adeniyi SAN now…

The national average retail price for Premium Motor Spirit otherwise known as petrol increased year-on-year, YoY, by 37.44 percent to N750.17 per litre in June 2024 from N545.83 per litre recorded in the corresponding period of 2023. On a month-on-month, MoM basis, the average retail price decreased by 2.53 per cent from N769.62 per litre in May 2024. The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, report on Premium Motor Spirit,(Petrol) Price Watch for June 2024 disclosed that Benue State topped the price chart for the product at N864.55, followed by Jigawa and Rivers States with N847.00 and N810.00 respectively. However, Lagos,…

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday, adjourned proceedings on the alleged money laundering case instituted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission against a former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, to September 25. The trial judge, Justice Emeka Nwite, while delivering a ruling in an application for a stay of proceedings by Bello’s lead counsel, Mohammed AbdulWahab, held that proceedings would continue despite the appeal filed by the defendant before the Court of Appeal. Justice Nwite said, “The grant of Stay of Proceedings is at the court’s discretion. And since it is an issue of discretion…

The Labour Party (LP) on Wednesday said he won’t join issues with Joe Igbokwe, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State. Igbokwe, who described himself as the leader of Ndigbo in Lagos APC had issued a statement where he claimed the planned nationwide protest was being sponsored by the LP. Acccording to him “The Endsars bandits are gathering again, and this time, we see hands of Labour Party followers everywhere. They are yet to come to terms with the colossal loss of 2023 Presidential Elections . They are still bitter to the marrows. They are…