Real Madrid midfielder, Toni Kroos has extended his deal at the club by a year to June 30, 2024, the Spanish side said on Wednesday. The German, 33, will now play his 10th season for Los Blancos. In 417 games for the club he has won 20 titles, including four Champions Leagues. The 2014 World Cup winner, who retired from international duty in 2021, is the most successful men’s German footballer of all-time. Madrid, who missed out on the Spanish title to Barcelona FC and lost their European crown to Manchester City in the season just finished, are rejuvenating their…
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Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa has released N100 million counterpart fund for the implementation of Adolescent Girls Initiatives for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) project in the state. The governor made this known during an engagement with government officials and stakeholders in Yola on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that AGILE is a World Bank-assisted project, in collaboration with the NationalProject Coordinating Unit (NPCU). The project is geared toward improving education infrastructure, promote social behaviour change in communities, among others. Represented by Hajiya Aisha Umar, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, Fintirisaid that with…
Germany plans to provide Ukraine with an additional €381 million ($416 million) in humanitarian support this year, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London. This will be used, for example, to provide generators, food and tents, she said. Since the beginning of the Russian war in February 2022, German aid to Kiev has amounted to €16.8 billion. In the long term, however, money is not enough, the foreign minister added. “We are helping Ukraine to invest in renewable energies and energy efficiency,” she said. In this way, she said, Ukraine’s reconstruction could be shaped in…
The labour unions at Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology (OAUSTECH), Okitipupa, Ondo State, on Wednesday protested against the sack of some of their newly-appointed members by the university council. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that members of the unions barricaded the institution’s main entrance and disrupted academic and administrative activities as no staff or students were allowed to enter the institution. The unions, of the institution’s chapters, are the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), National Association of Academic Technologist (NAAT), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the National Association of…
A Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed Oct. 23 for hearing a suit filed by former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, challenging the order obtained by the EFCC for final forfeiture of her seized assets. Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the date on Wednesday after Alison-Madueke’s lawyer, Benson Igbanoi, and EFCC’s counsel, M.D. Baraya, regularised their processes in the suit. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the anti-corruption agency had planned to conduct public sale of all the assets seized for being proceeds of crime as ordered by courts to be permanently forfeited to the Federal Government. The…
The Allied People’s Movement on Wednesday in Abuja, closed its case at the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC) in its petition challenging the Feb. 25 election of President Bola Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima after calling one witness. The News Agency of Nigeria,(NAN) recalls that counsel to the APM, Mr Gideon Idiagbonya had told the court on Monday that he needed just one day to open and close his case since he had only one witness. NAN also reports that hearing of the party’s petition had stalled due to its inability to obtain a Supreme Court judgement of May 26.…
The Niger/Kogi Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Wednesday released heavy railway locomotive parts it intercepted to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Niger. The Area Controller of the Command, Comptroller Busayo Kadejo, disclosed this at the command’s Headquarters in Minna, while handing over the items to the NSCDC. Kadejo told newsmen that the railway parts were intercepted by the personnel of the service on surveillance along Bida-Minna road on May 11. “On the 11th of May, 2023 at about 10:30 a.m. our surveillance patrol team intercepted one white unregistered Mitsubishi Canter truck along…
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Wednesday, gave an order restoring Mr Mahdi Gusau as the deputy governor of Zamfara following his impeachment by the state’s House of Assembly on Feb. 23, 2022, inspite of a subsisting court order. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgement, also set aside all the steps and actions taken by the House of Assembly, former Gov. Bello Matawalle and the state’s chief judge in the purported impeachment of Gusau during the pendency of the suit in court. Justice Ekwo, who held that the act of the then assembly’s speaker, ex-governor, chief judge and indeed…
American business mogul, Bill Gates said her 20-year-old youngest daughter, Phoebe, was excited he would see Nigerian music stars – Burna Boy and Rema when he visit Nigeria. He said this on Wednesday while delivering his opening address at an event in Lagos State. The PUNCH reports Gates and Aliko Dangote visited President Bola Tinubu on Monday. The visitation was part of the Gates Foundation’s commitment to working closely with communities and leaders to support innovation. Gates disclosed Phoebe’s gladness over his visit to Nigeria and the possibility of meeting Afrobeats stars such as Burna Boy and Rema. “When my…
The National Industrial Court will begin its 2023 annual vacation on July 31. The announcement, which was made in a circular on Wednesday in Abuja was signed by the President of the court, Justice Benedict Kanyip. The vacation, Kanyip said, will end on Sept. 26. In addition, he stated that normal court sitting would resume on Sept. 27. Kanyip made the declaration pursuant to Order 58 Rule 4(2) of the National Industrial Court Civil Procedure Rules. The president said that there would be no normal court sitting during the period except for urgent applications to be heard by a vacation…