Day: November 21, 2023

Ronaldo, Messi Set For Riyadh Showdown 2024

Ganiyu Amodu

Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami will face Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al Nassr next February in the Riyadh Season Cup. Eight-time Ballon d’Or winner Messi, who joined the US squad in July and sparked a championship run in the League Cup against US and Mexican clubs, is expected to meet Ronaldo, a five-time Ballon d’Or winner. Messi led Argentina to last year’s World Cup crown and has long been a rival of Portugal captain Ronaldo. The upcoming Riyadh Season Cup 2024 promises a footballing extravaganza as iconic players from across the globe assemble…

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Confusion In Plateau As Assembly Speaker, Duputy Resign

Ganiyu Amodu

The speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Hon Moses Thomas Sule, has resigned his position as speaker. The deputy speaker, Hon Gwottaon Fom, has also resigned his position. READ ALSO JUST IN: Ex-minister, Abba Moro Emerges Senate Minority Leader Cabal Must Have Hijacked My Govt – Buhari Man 34, Rapes 90-year-old Woman In Aged Care Home The member representing Pankshin North Gabriel Dawang, has been elected as the newspeaker. Hon Timothy Dantong representing Riyom constituency is now the new deputy speaker of Assembly.

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JUST IN: Ex-minister, Abba Moro Emerges Senate Minority Leader

Ganiyu Amodu

Senator Abba Moro representing Benue South senatorial district, has emerged as the Senate Minority Leader. The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio made his appointment known at the plenary on Tuesday. The two-term Benue senator is a lawmaker from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). READ ALSO Cabal Must Have Hijacked My Govt – Buhari Man 34, Rapes 90-year-old Woman In Aged Care Home Reps Probe Lottery Trust Fund For Spending IGR He took over from Senator Simon Davou Mwadkwon representing Plateau North Senatorial District who was removed by the Appeal…

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Cabal Must Have Hijacked My Govt – Buhari

Ganiyu Amodu

Former President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed that a cabal must have hijacked his eight-year administration. Buhari made this revelation in a recent interview with the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA). The former president said there is a possibility of losing the grip of power to a cabal. When asked if losing his administration to a cabal, Buhari said, “it must have been.” He added that he was not sure anyone who breached the law was allowed to “walk away.” READ ALSO Man 34, Rapes 90-year-old Woman In Aged Care Home Reps…

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Man 34, Rapes 90-year-old Woman In Aged Care Home

Ganiyu Amodu

A 34-year-old man has been arrested and charged with the rape of a 90-year-old woman in an aged care home in the town of Bateau Bay, 100km north of Sydney in Australia. An Australian Guardian report on Tuesday, citing the police, said that the suspect entered old people home in the east coast holiday town and attacked the woman in the early hours of Nov. 15. The head of the sex crimes unit, Jayne Doherty, said the “horrendous” act of attacking a defenceless old lady in the safety of her…

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Reps Probe Lottery Trust Fund For Spending IGR

Abibat Babalola

The House of Representatives Committee on Finance on Monday placed the National Lottery Trust Fund on status enquiry for spending the entirety of its Internally Generated Revenue. Consequently, the committee is set to appoint an external auditor to investigate the accounts with a report expected thereafter to enable the House to take further legislative action. The Chairman of the Committee, James Faleke, a member of the All Progressives Congress representing Ikeja Federal Constituency, Lagos State, also charged the Fiscal Responsibility Commission and the Office of the Accountant General to probe…

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Army Declares 3-day Mourning In Honour Of Late COAS, Major Gen Chris Alli

Abibat Babalola

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja has declared a three-day period of mourning, starting on Monday 20 November 2023 in honour of the Late Maj Gen Chris Alli rtd, former Chief of Army Staff, following his disheartening demise on Sunday 19 November 2023. Director of Army Public Relations, Brig Gen Onyema Nwachukwu made this known in a statement on Monday. He said, “During this time, all Nigerian Army formations and units have been directed to hoist their flags at half-mast, as a symbol of collective grief…

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I Found Myself Under Oshodi Bridge After 21 Years In US – Nigerian Man

Ganiyu Amodu

“I just strangely found myself in Nigeria. I spent nine years in London. I studied Banking and Finance in London. I had struggled a lot. I had a dream like I was flying in the skies.”   A Nigerian man has narrated his traumatising story of how he found himself under the Oshodi Bridge, in Lagos and slept there for two years, after living 21 years in the United States. According to the man who was tearful as he shared his story, he studied Banking and Finance in London, but…

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