Author: Festus Adeloye

Premier League champions Manchester City beat FA Cup winners Manchester United 7-6 on penalties to win the Community Shield at Wembley on Saturday after the traditional season curtain-raiser finished 1-1. United created a host of chances to take the lead and were rewarded when 20-year-old substitute Alejandro Garnacho ran through the City defence to slide the ball into the bottom corner of the net in the 82nd minute. Erik ten Hag’s team looked on course to repeat their shock victory over City in last season’s FA Cup final but midfielder Bernardo Silva netted a minute from time to send the…

President Bola Tinubu has said the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will continue persuading Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso to return to the bloc. The trio cut ties with ECOWAS after sanctions were imposed on them by the bloc following coups in their territories. Tinubu, who also doubles as ECOWAS Chairman, said the regional bloc would continue to be friendly to the countries. “It is in our hearts to make sure that security is enhanced, and that constitutional government is defended and promoted in our region,” Tinubu was quoted in a Friday statement by his spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale.…

The Chaplain of the All Saints Police Protestant Church, Mopol 42 Mobile-Based in Gusau, Pastor Isa Andrew and his 13-year-old daughter identified as Grace, who were whisked away by suspected terrorists, have urged the First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, and other Nigerians to come to their aid to regain freedom from the hands of terrorists. They made the appeal in a viral two minute forty-four seconds (2:44s) video released by their abductors giving an ultimatum from Saturday to next week Thursday to produce an additional N6 million naira, two boxer motorcycles and one Honda motorcycle or they would marry off his…

Abia State Government has said it was yet to receive any 20 trucks of rice as palliative from the Federal Government. Commissioner for Information, Prince Okey Kanu, told Vanguard that no such palliative had arrived the state, adding also that there was no communication from the Federal Government for any such palliative. This is as he dismissed as fake news, reports that the Federal Government had also distributed 50kg bags of rice to states for sale at the cost of N40,000. He said:” We didn’t see any truck of rice from the Federal Government. And the issue of selling 50kg…

The Delta State Police Command has confirmed the release of the abducted former member of the House of Representatives, Joan Onyemaechi. Onyemaechi was abducted on Tuesday, July 30, 2024, in her church off DBS Road, Asaba, the Delta State capital, after gunmen killed her police orderly and driver. Confirming her release on Saturday morning in a chat with our correspondent, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Bright Edafe said she was released on Friday night. He said, “Yes, she was released last night”

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide says there is no leadership tussle in the group following the recent death of its President-General, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu. The National Publicity Secretary of the Igbo socio-cultural group, Dr Alex Ogbonnia, disclosed this on Friday in Enugu, stressing that such speculation by a media section was untrue. “There is no leadership row or tussle in Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide at present and there is not likely to be one shortly,” Ogbonnia said. He said the group’s National Executive Committee, comprising erudite scholars, technocrats and veterans of diverse fields, was already seamlessly carrying out the functions of the…

A former member of the Federal House of Representatives, Oyewole Babafemi Diya, died on Friday after a brief illness. Wole, who is the younger brother to late former Chief of Defence Staff, Oladipo Diya, Diya was a two-term representative of Somolu Federal Constituency in the Green Chamber. He was also a two-term member of the Lagos State House of Assembly representing Somolu State Constituency I. The younger Diya died a few days to his 64th birthday which is expected to come up on Tuesday, 20 August, 2024. It was gathered that he had for years been nursing a heart-related disease.…

Operatives of the Forward Operations Base (FOB), Bonny in Rivers State have successfully rescued 59 individuals from a stranded dredging vessel at the mouth of the Opobo River. According to a statement by the Nigerian Navy’s spokesman, Aiwuyor Aliu-Adams, the base received a distress call about a dredging vessel in danger of going down at the mouth of the river which is typically turbulent at this time of the year. The vessel MV AMBIKA 4 at the time of the incident was under contract with Sterling Global Oil Limited and was deployed at the Opobo field. On getting the call,…

The Chief Magistrate’s Court in Wuse Zone 6 has summoned Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh and her bodyguard, Gbenga, to answer allegations of assault and trespass. The case, numbered CR/359/2024, was brought forward by Elvis Abuyere, Chief Executive of Skyewise Group Limited, an Abuja-based car dealership. According to the court summons dated August 6, 2024, both Dikeh and Gbenga are required to appear in court on August 24, 2024. The complaint alleges that Dikeh, in January, engaged with the car dealership to purchase a new Changan Uni-K 2023 model from Mikano Motors. Abuyere’s company paid N85 million to Mikano Motors on…

Sha’Carri Richardson conjured a dazzling last leg to power the United States to victory in the Olympic women’s 4x100m relay on Friday. Richardson turned on the afterburners to overhaul Britain, Germany and France in the home straight as the US quartet took gold in 41.78sec. Britain took silver in 41.85sec while Germany finished with bronze after crossing in 41.97sec, just edging out host nation France. The victory represented a redemption of sorts for Richardson, who had been heavily favoured to win the individual 100m crown earlier in the Games only to be upset by St. Lucia’s Julien Alfred. In driving…