By Abimbola Ogunnaike Swedish football legend, Zlatan Ibrahimovic announced his retirement from football on Sunday, 4 June, 2023, after AC Milan final match of the Serie A season. Ibrahimovic on the San Siro pitch following Milan’s 3-1 win over Verona, said: “It’s the moment to say goodbye to football, not just to you.” He is renowned for his acrobatic strikes and volleys, powerful long-range shots, and excellent technique and ball control. He is regarded as one of the greatest strikers of all time and is one of the most decorated active footballers in the world, [a] having won 34 trophies…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike Brighton’s Moises Caicedo has reportedly ‘agreed on personal terms’ with Premier League club Arsenal, with deal said to cost The Gunners£80million. But Chelsea are said to lurking around still to hijack the deal. Caicedo is expected to leave Brighton this summer transfer window. Arsenal head coach, Mikel Arteta sanctioned a club-record bid in excess of £70million for Caicedo in the January transfer window but the deal fell through as Brighton refused to sell the 21-year-old. Arsenal still want to sign Caicedo ahead of the 2023-2024 seasons and as reported by Metro UK, the Gunners have now ‘agreed…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Following his appointment as Chief of Staff to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu,the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has sent an appreciation notes to his principal, thanking him for finding him worthy for the position. Gbajabiamila made this known over the weekend in a terse statement after his appointment was made official by the President Tinubu, ending weeks of speculation.“Having spent the last 20 years in the Nigerian Parliament, and after winning my 6th term election into the National Assembly, I shall work with Mr President in discharging the enormous task ahead of him for…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Nigerian singer Burna Boy on Saturday, 3 June, 2023 made history after selling out the 80, 000-capacity London Stadium. Burna Boy’s concert, which was held on Saturday, 3 June, 2023, in the United Kingdom, UK, generated immense excitement among his fans and admirers with his performances. The singer became the first African artiste to sell out the 80, 000-capacity London Stadium in the United Kingdom (UK). Confirming the report via its official Twitter handle on Saturday before the show, the London Stadium congratulated the singer for the achievement. It tweeted: “NOW SOLD OUT @burnaboy’s RECORD-BREAKING concert has…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike A Video has captured how a Nigerian teenager made an attempt to poison his best friend and his two brothers with rat poison with an intention to steal their iphone X. A video making captured the desperate attempt of the unnamed young boy who tried to take the lives of three people so as to steal and get away with one of their smart phones. In the video, making the rounds on social media, he could be heard being questioned on how he planned to carry out the plan without being suspected. He confessed that he had…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike In their bid to help end the sit-at-home in Enugu State, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Clerics, unions have backed the efforts of the Enugu State Government to end the sit-at-home menace effective today, Monday 5June, 2023. Their support is coming after the directive by the Enugu State Government to all government parastatals, businesses, and educational institutions to resume activities across the state today, Monday, 5 June, 2023. In a statement made available to newsmen late on the night of Sunday, 4 June, 2023, the National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike,…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Sweden has officially declared sex as a sport, just as the country is also set to host its first-ever sex competition, says report. The participants will engage in sex sessions which can go up to six hours daily and a panel of judges will decide the winners of the sex competition while the audience will also influence the final decisions.Tagged European Sex Championship, the competition will start this week, Thursday, 8 June, 2023, and run through a period of six weeks with participants engaging in sexual activities from 45 minutes to 1 hour daily, depending upon the duration…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Blackout looms nationwide as the the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) directed its members to withdraw their services nationwide on Wednesday, 7 June, 2023 and join the strike action proposed by the Nigerian Labour Congress NLC over the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal government. In a memo signed by its acting general secretary, Dominic Igwebike, the NUEE urged its members to comply with the directive and stop work from the early hours of Wednesday, 7 June, 2023.The memo reads, ‘’All National, State and Chapter executives are requested to start the mobilisation of our members…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission has discovered the National Assembly members’ uncompleted constituency projects worth over N45 billions, an online medium of an Ogun State based national newspaper reports Documents exclusively obtained by the medium revealed that the projects were tracked by sectors and states, showing the numerical and percentile breakdown of the projects. According to the documents, this is part of the Constituency and Executive Projects Tracking Initiative of the ICPC, which is in its fifth stage, following the completion of the fourth stage in 2022. It was learnt that the tracking…
By Abdulwarees Solanke In size, Nigeria and Singapore are poles apart. But in strategic eminence in their respective regions, both countries have somewhat similar qualifications. Nigeria is popular as Giant of Africa all over the world just like the tiny Singapore is celebrated as an Asian Tiger globally. In 2015, Singapore clocked 50, with remarkably compelling evidences of development. But Nigeria, clocking 63 later this year, is still pursuing so many reform initiatives and development projects to arrive at the Singaporean station of transformation. So, as Nigeria inches rapidly towards her sixtieth anniversary of becoming a republic, there is…