Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon was on Thursday fined 5,000 euros ($6,000) by the Italian Football Federation for blasphemy. The 43-year-old Italian World Cup winner, who escaped a ban for the offence, was overheard using a “blasphemous expression” towards teammate Manolo Portanova during Juve’s 4-0 league win over Parma on December 19. Buffon, who holds the […]

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has alleged that the Inspector General of Police was posting Commissioner of Police into the State for political patronage rather than competence.

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja The National Economic Council, NEC, on Thursday resolved that states should pay compensation to victims of herders/farmers clashes whose properties were destroyed in their various jurisdictions. The compensation was part of the decisions reached during the NEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the presidential villa, Abuja. […]

The French Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Jerome Pasquier, on Thursday, paid a courtesy visit to the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, Gen Buba Marwa (rtd) with an assurance that the French government will partner with the agency in its renewed resolve to tackle drugs menace in Nigeria.

By Bose Adelaja All markets in Lagos State will be shut down on Friday, February 19, 2021 in honour of the late pioneer civilian governor of the state, Chief Lateef Kayode Jakande (LKJ) who died on Thursday, February 11, 2021. The Iyaloja-General of Nigeria, Mrs. Folasade Tinubu Ojo, who announced this on Thursday, in Lagos, […]