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Manchester United have officially appointed Ruben Amorim as their new head coach, following the sacking of Erik Ten Hag after a disappointing 2-1 defeat against West Ham. Amorim, 39, leaves his role at Sporting CP, where he has led the team to the top of the Portuguese league table, to take on one of the most challenging jobs in European football. United wasted no time in securing Amorim as their new manager, triggering his release clause and sending a delegation to Lisbon earlier in the week to finalize the deal. In a statement, the club expressed their excitement, noting, “Manchester…

Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, the Special Counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on Friday raised the alarm again over the Department of State Services (DSS) blatant and continued disobedience of extant court order in Kanu’s case. Ejimakor said that in deliberate violation of court order allowing Kanu access to his lawyers, the DSS on Friday again blocked Kanu access from his legal team. He vowed that following the DSS’s insistence on violating the court order, all suspended legal actions to enforce compliance would proceed apace and with much vigour. Ejimakor said, “Today, in…

Justice Dehinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on November 1, 2024, ordered the final forfeiture of the sum of $2.045 million, seven landed properties, and the two share certificates of Queensdorf Global Fund Limited Trust linked to the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. Justice Dipeolu gave the order following a motion on notice filed and argued by a team of lawyers led by Rotimi Oyedepo, SAN, for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. According to a statement from the EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, the forfeited properties…

Social media personality Okuneye Idris, popularly known as Bobrisky, was removed from an Amsterdam-bound KLM flight and detained by immigration officers late on Thursday night while attempting to leave the country. The popular cross-dresser posted on his Instagram page to alert followers about the arrest, stating that he had sustained injuries during an altercation with the immigration officers. Bobrisky alleges that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is responsible for his detention. He wrote, “Nigerians help me, EFCC just arrested me. I’m badly injured.” On 22 October, Bobrisky was intercepted at the Sème border while allegedly attempting to flee the…

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) says Nigeria has yet to announce a date for Mpox vaccinations rollout, even as cases keep surging across Africa. The organisation noted that presently, Mpox cases in the continent have risen to more than 500 per cent from last year’s record. Dr Ngashi Ngongo, Chief of Staff at Africa CDC, said this during a weekly webinar briefing on the outbreak. Recall that the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Mpox a global public health emergency in August for the second consecutive year. This followed the spread of a new variant…

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Amnesty International Nigeria have condemned the ongoing detention of minors involved in the August #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protests. In August 2024, Nigerian youths took to the streets to protest against the hardships, hunger, and poor governance that have marked the current administration. Many were arrested by Nigerian security forces, with 76 individuals arraigned in court today. During the proceedings, one minor among the group collapsed in the Federal High Court in Abuja. In response, SERAP took to its official X platform (formerly Twitter) to denounce the detention, calling on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to…

The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared that candidates in the forthcoming Ondo State governorship elections will sign a peace agreement on November 8. Prof Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC Chairman, who reported this during a quarterly consultative meeting with Civil Society Organizations in Abuja , said the peace signing ceremony is worked with by the National Peace Committee, led by former Head of State, Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar. The signing aims to guarantee candidates pledge to a peaceful, viciousness free political race before the November 16 poll. He additionally said that almost 72% of registered voters had collected their Permanent Voter…

The Rivers State government has discredited a social media report that Governor Siminalayi Fubara shut down the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), and other oil companies in the state. In a statement endorsed by the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Warisenibo Joe Johnson, the Rivers government said the report isn’t just misleading but a false narrative. The assertion peruses, “The attention of Rivers State Government has been attracted to a misleading news item circulating on social media on “Gov. Siminalayi Fubara shutting down NNPCL and all oil companies in Rivers State”. “The report was not only false, but a…

A minor, who is among 76 persons set to be arraigned by the Nigerian Police Force for participating in the recent EndBadGovernance protest that held across the country, on Friday, collapsed before the Federal High Court in Abuja. The defendant who is barely 15 years old, slumped as the charge was about to be read to them by trial Justice Obiora Egwuatu. The incident forced the judge to abruptly halt the proceedings and return to his chambers. With the help of lawyers in the courtroom, the frail looking boy was rushed to the court’s clinic as his co-defendants, who…

 for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerians against the illegal circulation and sale of Foula condoms, an unregistered brand found on the market. According to NAFDAC’s Post-Marketing Surveillance Directorate, unregistered Foula condoms, packaged in threes, have recently been discovered in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, and Zango, Katsina State. In its Risk-Based Post-Marketing Surveillance study on registered condoms in Nigeria, the Directorate noted: “The condom is not registered by NAFDAC for use in Nigeria, and the product’s labeling is not in the English language.” The agency emphasized that condoms, when properly registered and used correctly, are effective…