Author: Adejuyigbe Francis

Fulham head coach Marco Silva has reportedly emerged as a surprise candidate to land the vacant Chelsea job after manager Graham Potter was sacked on Sunday night. Chelsea co-owner, Todd Boehly, sacked Potter after the Blues’ Premier League 2-0 defeat to Aston Villa on Saturday. The result against Aston Villa left Chelsea sitting in 11th position on the Premier League table. However, a number of top managers in Europe have already been linked with the vacant position and a shock candidate from the Premier League has also emerged. According to The Mirror, Silva has admirers at Chelsea and he is…

Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers says he will bow out of office on May 29 as a fulfilled man, having positively impacted the 23 local government areas of the state. The governor charged the incoming administration on stewardship. Wike made the statement during a Thanksgiving Service organized by the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday at All Saints Anglican Cathedral, Rumuokwurusi, Obio/Akpor local government area of the state. Wike said that only a blind man or an enemy of the state would refuse to admit the extent of spread of equitable infrastructure across the state. “If…

These are interesting times as the country faces revenue shortfalls. The Governors of the 36 states of the federation have resolved to meet with all the economic and financial agencies in the country to discuss issues surrounding their states’ security votes. The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), disclosed this in a statement by the Director, Media and Public Affairs NGF Secretariat, Mr. Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, in Abuja on Sunday. Bello-Barkindo said the meeting was with a view to ironing out thorny issues surrounding their states’ security votes, towards establishing a better option of managing the funds. He said that the meeting, according…

Not less than a whopping N3.9trillion ($8.5bn), has been injected into the Nigeria’s economy from cargo importers in the last 17 years through stoppage of long vessels waiting time at the seaports. It’s worthy of note that before port concessioning exercise embarked upon by the administration of Ex- president, Olusegun Obasanjo in 2006, it was gathered that foreign shipping firms have slammed congestion surcharge on Nigerian bound cargoes due to long vessel waiting time at Nigerian seaports. However, while speaking to journalists after a courtesy visit to her by the new country managing director of APM Terminals Nigeria, Frederik Klinke,…

Luciano Spalletti is confident Napoli will bounce back when they face Milan in the Champions League quarter-finals, having seen his side suffer a crushing 4-0 defeat against the Rossoneri. The Serie A leaders collapsed at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on Sunday, as the outstanding Rafael Leao scored twice for Stefano Pioli’s rampant visitors. While Napoli remain 16 points clear of their closest rivals Lazio, the defeat is their heaviest in Serie A since a 5-1 thrashing at the hands of Atalanta in December 2007. With Napoli looking certain to end a 33-year wait to win the Scudetto, their upcoming Champions League tie…

President Muhammadu Buhari, his vice, Yemi Osinbajo, and the 44 ministers in the Federal Executive Council (FEC) among others would be declaring their assets before the end of the current administration. Along with them to declare assets are all the outgoing presidential aides, the 28 state governors and their cabinet members, National Assembly and state assembly members, and local government chairmen. According to the Special Adviser to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) Chairman on General Duties, Dr Mustapha Musa, the declaration was in line with the 1999 Nigerian Constitution, which says all public officers shall declare their assets and liabilities on the…

Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika is under fire for spending a whopping sum of N12 billion to acquire 10 firefighting trucks in Nigeria Airports. Sirika disclosed on Sunday that he commissioned ten firefighting trucks for the Federal Airports Authority, FAAN. In his post through Twitter, a microblogging site, Sirika revealed that FAAN had not bought firefighting trucks in 15 years. “Just commissioned 10 Firefighting trucks, the total cost of over 12Bn Naira. More to come in due course. Safety has been the Buhari focus in Aviation since 2015. Hitherto, FAAN has not bought new trucks in 15 years”, the Minister…

Khosi has been declared winner of the Big Brother Titans Season 1 reality show. The South African was announced as the winner during the show finale on Sunday. Khosi beat 23 housemates and walked away with the $100, 000 grand prize. The show lasted for 72-days and had two hosts, Ebuka and Lawrence. Earlier, Ipeleng, Ebubu, Yvonne and Tsatsii were evicted from the show. The six housemates who made it to the finale were, Ebubu, Ipeleng, Yvonne, Khosi , Kanaga Jnr and Tsatsii.

Chelsea have sacked Graham Potter after a miserable spell in charge. Potter, 47, left Brighton to take the reins at Stamford Bridge last September following the departure of Champions League-winning manager Thomas Tuchel. Yet the former Seagulls boss failed to get the best from the star-studded squad he inherited, with a flood of January signings seemingly adding to his problems. And the Blues have confirmed that Bruno Saltor will take charge as interim head coach following Saturday’s 2-0 defeat to Aston Villa, which saw Potter’s slide slip into the bottom half of the Premier League table. Co-controlling owners Todd Boehly…

Leicester City have sacked Brendan Rodgers as their manager, with the club in danger of suffering relegation this summer. Rodgers was sacked a day after their 2-1 defeat at Crystal Palace. The result saw the Foxes slip into the bottom three with 10 games remaining. On Sunday, Leicester announced that a “mutual agreement” had been reached with the 50-year-old, who had been in charge since February 2019. Rodgers leaves with coaches Chris Davies and Glen Driscoll. This means goalkeeping coach Mike Stowell and first-team coach Adam Sadler will take charge of their fixture against Aston Villa at King Power Stadium…

The founder and presiding bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide aka Winners Chapel, David Oyedepo has reiterated that he has never campaigned or spoken on behalf of any politician during elections in Nigeria. The clergyman made this known while speaking on the subject of faith at the church’s headquarters at Faith Tabernacle, Ota hours after an alleged audio recording of the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, pleading with the cleric to help instruct Christians in South West Nigeria to vote for him surfaced. Oyedepo said he never spoke to any group of people on behalf of any politician. He added that all political…

Anthony Joshua returned to winning ways by beating Jermaine Franklin via unanimous decision at O2 Arena on Saturday. Entering the content having lost three of his past five, including the last two against Oleksandr Usyk to cede his heavyweight belts, Joshua faced his first non-title fight in 12 bouts. The Brit’s camp promised a new dawn for fans of the Olympian, but, despite being in control throughout against Franklin, he showed there was still plenty of work left on his comeback trail. While Franklin did well to shrug off some heavy hits, he never truly mustered much of a threat…