The coast looks clear for Manchester United to sign their dream striker Victor Osimhen as reports say Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis lowered his price tag from €150m to €120m, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. Red Devils manager Erik ten Hag is in desperate need of a new striker for next season given Anthony Martial’s fitness struggles and Wout Weghorst’s move is unlikely to be made permanent. According to Man Utd News, De Laurentiis has slashed the valuation price of the Nigerian striker by €30m as a sign that Naples are willing to sell their striker. The 24-year-old- prolific striker had…
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Lionel Messi said on Wednesday he will sign for Major League Soccer side Inter Miami, choosing the United States as his next destination over a Barcelona reunion or blockbuster deal to play in Saudi Arabia. Inter Miami, co-owned by former England international David Beckham and founded in 2018, sacked coach Phil Neville last week with the team bottom of the Eastern Conference. The Argentine forward, 35, has spent the last two seasons at Paris Saint-Germain, playing his final game for the club on Saturday, after moving from Barcelona in 2021, where he spent the majority of his career. MLS and…
The United Nations Children’s Fund and the National Population Commission have partnered with the National Youth Service Corps for the registration of 12.7 million births in 2023. The partnership will also include the issuance of birth certificates that provide the names and nationality of every child in Nigeria, under the age of 5, in 21 states, 456 local government areas, and 4,978 wards across the country. UNICEF Chief of Child Protection, Dr Ibrahim Sesay, stated this while leading a team of officials of the agency and the NPC, to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the NYSC at the National…
Seven people, including six children, have been injured in a mass stabbing in the town of Annecy in the French Alps on Thursday, security sources told AFP. A man armed with a knife attacked a group of children aged around three years old as they played in a park near the lake in the town at around 9:45 am (0745 GMT), a security source who asked not to be named and a local official told AFP. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin tweeted that the culprit “has been arrested thanks to the rapid reaction of security forces”. At least three of the…
A former Niger Delta militant, Asari Dokubo, has disagreed with the Governor of Rivers State, Sim Fubara, on his remarks that Rivers is a Christian state. In a tweet immediately after his inauguration on May 29, 2023, the governor stated that the state would stay strong in its Christian values. However, responding on Facebook Live, Dokubo lamented that Fubara started his term on the wrong footing. He stressed that such a comment goes against the principles of inclusivity and religious freedom. Dokubo maintained that the governor lacked the authority to unilaterally declare the state a Christian one. “I am using…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company has confirmed that once the Dangote Refinery starts pumping out refined petroleum products from late July or early August, the NNPCL will cut down on its imports of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol. NNPCL is currently the sole importer of petrol into Nigeria, a task which it had shouldered for several years. Other oil marketers stopped importing petrol due to their inability to access the United States dollars at the official rate. NNPCL also owned a 20 percent stake in the Dangote Refinery. The 650,000 barrels per day crude oil processing refinery was inaugurated…
As Nigerians grapple with the aftershocks of the fuel subsidy removal, President Bola Tinubu has directed the National Economic Council to come up with inputs on palliatives and the minimum wage review as part of measures to cushion the pain of subsidy removal. This was as the Trade Union Congress said it was expecting the Federal Government to provide feedback on its demand for N200,000 minimum wage by June 19. But speaking during a meeting with members of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, led by its Chairman, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State in Abuja on Wednesday, Tinubu directed NEC led…
Ride-hailing drivers, including that of Uber, Bolt, LagRide and Indriver, on Wednesday, began a nationwide strike. At the direction of the Amalgamated Union of App-based Transport Workers of Nigeria, ride-hailing drivers are following a sit-at-home order until the ride-hailing companies increase their base fares by 200 per cent. According to the National Vice President of AUATWON for Southwest Nigeria, Kolawole Aina, the drivers plan to picket the offices of Uber in Victoria Island and Bolt in Lekki. Despite the strike action, which is supposed to run till Friday, our correspondent who tried to book a ride from the PUNCH Headquarters…
Date: 2023-Jun-08 🎯TOPIC: THE COST OF PRIDE 📺 WATCH THE DEVOTION VIA THE LINK BElOW👇 https://youtu.be/AHdaPQWxxiw ✝️ TEXT:2 Kings 14:1-22(NKJV) 14:1. In the second year of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, became king. 14:2. He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. 14:3. And he did [what was] right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like his father David; he did everything as his father Joash had done. 14:4. However the high…
The Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate in the last election, Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday, called their first subpoenaed witness at the Presidential Election Petition Court. In a petition marked CA/PEPC/05/2023, Atiku and the PDP are challenging the outcome of the presidential election which produced Tinubu as the president. At the resumed hearing, counsel for the PDP, Chris Uche, SAN, informed the court that the petitioners are set to call its first subpoenaed witness who is an Adhoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission. However, counsel to the respondents in the case namely; INEC, Bola Tinubu and the…