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Super Eagles striker, Victor Boniface, was missing from Bayer Leverkusen training on Monday. This comes after he was involved in a ghastly car crash on Saturday. Boniface was in action for the Bundesliga champions last Saturday, scoring the winner as they defeated Frankfurt in a league fixture. After the game, Boniface was involved in an accident, as he drove to the airport to pick up his friends. However, Leverkusen has said he only sustained two minor injuries on his left hand. It remains to be seen if Boniface will be involved when Xabi Alonso’s men take on Brest in their…

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Prince Adewole Adebayo, has accused the President Bola Tinubu-led government of worsening Nigeria’s economic woes. Adebayo likened the government’s policies, including the removal of petrol subsidies and the floatation of the naira, to squeezing Nigerians “like oranges,” leaving them to bear the brunt of escalating hardship across the nation. In this interview with the DAILY POST, he shared his alternative ideas that would have made life better and easier for Nigerians instead of the petrol subsidy removal and floating of the Naira by the current administration, which have brought untold…

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has issued a three-month ultimatum to owners of uncompleted buildings and undeveloped plots across the Federal Capital City (FCC) to immediately develop their properties or risk losing them. FCTA explained that the move was necessitated by what it described as the rapid expansion of shanties and squatters within uncompleted buildings and undeveloped plots. 2. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said on Monday that it raided the Ilorin home of Senator Oyelola Yisa Ashiru (APC Kwara South), where it recovered a consignment of…

The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has apologised to the broadcast industry, the people of Enugu State and the listening public over the invasion of Urban Radio by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. This is contained in a statement by the Director of Public Affairs of NBC, Mrs Susan Obi, on Monday in Abuja. She said the commission received with dismay the incursion into Urban Radio 94.5 FM Enugu on October 14 by operatives of EFCC during a live radio programme. According to her, the incursion, which was purportedly to arrest the programme’s presenter, Favour Ekoh,…

Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has asked Kylian Mbappe to focus on scoring goals over pressing to help the team. Ancelotti stated this on Monday during a press conference ahead of their Champions League clash against Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday. According to him, the central striker position within his team has not changed. Mbappe has already netted eight goals for Madrid in 12 games across all competitions this season. “I prefer that (Mbappe) scores goals than he presses,” Ancelotti said. “The central striker position in our team has not changed, I ask him the same I asked of Karim (Benzema,…

The Kano State Hisbah Board has declared wanted Auwal Danladi Sankara, the suspended Jigawa State Commissioner for Special Duties, over his failure to attend a reconciliation meeting on the allegation against him of having an illicit affair with a married woman. During a press conference held in his office on Monday, the Commandant General of Hisbah, Sheikh Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa, told newsmen that the matter at hand required sitting down with the parties involved first before any other actions, but Sankara, he alleged, spurned the invitation for a reconciliation meeting. “The commissioner chooses to ignore our moves at tackling the…

The husband of Tasleem Baba Nabegu, the woman allegedly caught with Jigawa State Commissioner for Special Duties Auwalu Sankara, has filed a case at Kano Upper Shari’a Court 1, Kofar Kudu. The court, presided over by Ustaz Ibrahim Sarki Yola, has scheduled Tuesday to commence a hearing on the allegation of adultery against the suspended Jigawa State Commissioner, Auwal Danladi Sankara and Tasleem Baba Nabegu. The complainant, Alhaji Nasiru Buba, lodged a direct complaint before the court, alleging suspicion that Sankara and his wife, Tasleem, the mother of his two children, have been engaging in illicit affairs, which is against…

Dangote Refinery has said that there is no fresh case against the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and other petroleum marketers over the import of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol). The spokesperson of Dangote Dangote Group, Anthony Chiejina, disclosed this in a statement on Monday. His statement served as a clarification of the report making the round that Dangote Refinery had dragged NNPCL and petroleum marketers to the Federal High Court to void the latter’s fuel import licences. Reacting, the Dangote Group spokesperson said that the matter has been overtaken by events. “This is an old issue that started in June…

AC Milan manager Paulo Fonseca has heaped plaudits on Samuel Chukwueze ahead of the side’s UEFA Champions League clash with Club Brugge. Chukwueze scored the winning goal in AC Milan’s 1-0 victory over Udinese last Saturday. The Nigeria international was also named Man of the Match after the encounter. The Rooseneri will welcome the Belgian Pro League champions to the San Siro on Tuesday. Fonseca praised the winger’s quality ahead of the encounter. “Chukwueze and Okafor are quality players; they played well and with confidence. That’s very positive for a coach,” Fonseca told a press conference. “I was very pleased…

President Paul Biya of Cameroon on Monday returned to the country amid rumours of his death. Biya arrived at Yaounde’s international airport, the Cameroonian capital. The 91-year-old appeared on state broadcaster CRTV after the presidential plane landed, shaking hands with officials next to his wife Chantal, as a jubilant crowd waited to greet him. A few weeks ago, questions were raised over Biya’s health and whereabouts following his disappearance from public view. Biya’s whereabouts were unknown after attending the China-Africa summit in Beijing at the beginning of September. “Today the president is on his way and this will put an…