Interim manager Ruud van Nistelrooy is set to conduct Manchester United’s pre-match media before their next Premier League game against Chelsea on Sunday. The BBC reports that this is the clearest sign yet Ruben Amorim will not be in charge this weekend. United are in talks with Sporting Lisbon over Amorim’s release. The Portuguese club themselves have a league fixture against Estrela on Friday and a Champions League match against Manchester City in Lisbon next Tuesday. It is believed they are looking for a 5 million euro (£4.2m) compensation fee for Amorim’s move to Old Trafford. Amorim could in fact…
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Valencia have requested that their LaLiga home game against Real Madrid be postponed. According to ESPN, this is due to the floods in the south-east of Spain, which has left at least 70 people dead. A decision from the league is expected within 24 hours. The Valencia area, along with Albacete, is among the worst affected and on Wednesday, the government’s emergency coordination centre confirmed that the latest number of known fatalities stands at 70, with many people still missing. A decision will also be taken on the second division game between Levante and Malaga, which is due to be…
A Coalition of Professional People Living with Disabilities, (PLWDs), has expressed displeasure with President Bola Tinubu over alleged discrimination in his recent appointments to the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs. They claimed that the appointments neglected the voices and needs of PLWDs, particularly in light of their previous call for the inclusion of a female candidate in the ministry. The group’s representative and convener of the coalition, Ismaila Sani Dabai, in a statement issued on Wednesday, expressed deep disappointment over the selection of two male candidates from the same state for key leadership roles, stating that such a decision undermines the…
Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested four suspects for alleged stealing of diamond earring, headphones and other valuables worth millions of naira in the State. The Commissioner of Police in the State, Umoru Ozigi disclosed this to newsmen while parading the suspects and three others on Wednesday at the Command’s headquarters in Benin City. Ozigi said the arrest of the suspects followed a complaint received from one Daramola Gabriel that armed robbers invaded his home at the back of One World Hotel, South-lbie, in Etsako West Local Government Area and stole valuables worth millions of Naira. He…
The Senator representing Borno South in the National Assembly, Mohammed Ali Ndume, on Wednesday, aligned with leaders of Northern extraction in opposing plans by the Federal Government to review the tax regime of the country upward. Ndume, in a statement in Abuja, said the Federal Government must get things right first, expand sources of income for Nigerians and ensure that the people are living and not surviving, before reviewing the taxes upward. The former Leader of the Senate said the middle class of the country is gradually fading, as they are being squeezed out by the high inflation. “This tax…
The Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Monisade Afuye has assured all religions groups in the state of a fair deal and unbiased prioritization of their welfare to ensure religious gious tolerance in the system. Afuye who acknowledged the crucial role of religion in bringing men closer to God and teaching morals, thereby reducing crimes in society, restated the resolve of Oyebanji’s government to work harmoniously with religious stakeholders in the state. The Special Assistant on Media to the Deputy Governor, Victor Ogunje, said Afuye gave the assurance while playing host the members of the newly inaugurated Christians Pilgrimage Welfare Board, led…
The Arewa Civil Rights Movement, ACRM has countered the position of the Northern Governors Forum on President Bola Tinubu’s tax reform bills. DAILY POST reports that the new tax bill currently on the floor of the National Assembly proposed a derivation principle in the distribution of Value Added Tax, VAT accruals between the federal government and subnationals. The Northern Governors Forum chaired by the Gombe State Governor, Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya, had in a communique issued at the end of its recent meeting, rejected the tax bill currently in the National Assembly for deliberation. But the National President of the Arewa…
The Edo State Police Command said two suspects have been arrested in connection with the abduction of Rev Fr Thomas Ayode, a Catholic Priest and Rector of Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary School, Ivanokpodi, in Agenegbode, Etsako East local government Area. DAILY POST reports that the Catholic Priest was abducted on Sunday at about 7pm at the Seminary School. Oyode, was said to have told the abductors to take him in place of the two students of the institution they kidnapped. It was gathered that the Kidnappers had made contact with the Catholic Diocese of Auchi, led by Bishiop Gabriel Dunia…
President Bola Tinubu has appointed Major General Olufemi Olatubosun Oluyede as Acting Chief of Army Staff, COAS. A statement issued on Wednesday by Tinubu’s media aide, Bayo Onanuga said Oluyede will act in the position pending the return of the substantive Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja. The Army spokesman, Onyema Nwachukwu had in a statement on October 20, amid the rumour of Lagbaja’s death, said that the COAS was on leave. Onanuga said Lagbaja remains the substantive Chief of Army Staff. He said, Oluyede until his appointment, “served as the 56th Commander of the elite Infantry…
The naira has returned to depreciation ways against the dollar at the foreign exchange market on Wednesday as FX supply dropped. FMDQ data showed that it slightly depreciated to N1631.17 per dollar on Wednesday from the N1630.35 exchange rate on Tuesday. This represents a marginal N0.80 loss against the dollar compared to N1630.35 traded the precious day. Similarly, at the black market, it fell to N1,750 per dollar on Wednesday from N1,748 exchanged on Tuesday. This comes as foreign exchange transaction turnover declined to $128.98 million in the period under review from $242.59 million recorded the previous day. The depreciation…