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Manchester United’s new coach, Erik ten Hag will reportedly get £200m to spend on signings at the club this summer, with up to 12 players could be leaving. According to Sky Sport, Manchester United have also agreed to a £2.5m compensation package with Ajax for Erik ten Hag and his assistant Mitchell van der Gaag. The report said about 12 players are expected to leave the club with the Dutch manager to get £200m to spend on signings this summer. This is coming after Manchester United appointed the Ajax boss as their new manager, to replace interim Ralf Rangnick at the end of the season. The 52-year-old…

The First Lady, Aisha Buhari has invited all Presidential aspirants from various political parties to the State House for a Ramadan Iftar dinner. According to the invitation letter, the dinner will be held at the State House Conference Centre at 06:30 pm on Saturday, April 23, 2022. The aspirants were instructed not to come along with their mobile devices, except for their invitation cards which would serve as their entry pass. The spokesperson of the First Lady, Aliyu Abdullahi, who confirmed the dinner to Punch ,said the directive will not apply to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and and ministers who are expected to…

Manchester United have appointed Ajax boss Erik ten Hag as their new manager, to replace interim Ralf Rangnick at the end of the season. The 52-year-old has signed a three-year deal with the option of a further 12 months. He told United’s website: “It is a great honour to be appointed manager of Manchester United and I am hugely excited by the challenge ahead. “I know the history of this great club and the passion of the fans, and I am absolutely determined to develop a team capable of delivering the success they deserve. “It will be difficult…

The buses purchased for the transport of the National teams and delegations that took part in AFCON 2021 in Cameroon have gone missing barely two months after the closing ceremony of the 33rd edition of the tournament. According to the Cameroonian daily L’Anecdote, 89 out of the 90 buses put into circulation for the tournament, have vanished and the only bus remaining is that of the Indomitable Lions which the team is using for their home games.. This development comes after reports surfaced that the Cameroonian government is yet to pay some of the workers of the 2021 AFCON. Recall…

Manchester United have confirmed that their two leading scouts Jim Lawlor and Marcel Bout have left the club. Lawlor has been a chief scout for 16 years after he was brought in under Sir Alex Ferguson in 2005. The 57-year-old Irishman was given a new role six years ago overseeing an expanded network of scouts at United, but the system is expected to change again this summer. A club statement read: ‘Jim Lawlor has decided to step down from his role as chief scout in the summer after 16 years with the club. ‘During that time, Jim played a key…

Suspected kidnappers have abducted a popular radio and television evangelist, Apostle John Okoriko, in Akwa Ibom State. Okoriko, the founder of Solid Rock Kingdom Church (SRKC) at Ibekwe Akpan Nya community in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area of the state, was kidnapped on Tuesday evening, April 19. It was gathered that the gunmen numbering about five stormed the church premises, which doubles as his country home and whisked him away to an unknown destination. Witnesses told newsmen that the gunmen invaded the residence of the pastor after scaling the back fence leading to a thick bush, about 10 minutes after the victim…

The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has begun the disconnection of government offices in Niger State over a debt amounting to N1.9 billion. In an exercise carried out during the Easter holiday, the AEDC workers disconnected the state’s House of Assembly complex, Office of the Secretary to the State Government, and water board among others. Most of the offices affected were powered by generators when they resumed work on Tuesday, April 19. A memo issued on Friday by the AEDC regional manager in Minna said the debt spanned over eight years and vowed not to reconnect the offices until they…

Ondo state government has suspended a civil servant for reportedly spreading fake news about the death of the governor, Rotimi Akeredolu. Pastor John Adeyemo, the Head of Service disclosed this in a statement but didn’t disclose the Identity of the civil servant. According to him, “the disciplinary measure was based on the death rumor being peddled about the Governor. Adeyemo said the civil servant in question has been suspended and his name forwarded to the Civil Service Commission for appropriate punishment. He also said “the officer posted the fake news on his Facebook account, such bad behavior…

A 37-year-old primary school driver, Kingsley Okwumbu, has been remanded in Kirikiri Correctional center for allegedly defiling a three-year-old pupil of the school. DailyTrust reports that Okonkwo was on Tuesday, April 19, arraigned before a magistrate court in Ikeja for defilement and sexual assault. Magistrate Ejiro Kubeinje did not take Okwumbu’s plea and ordered that he should be remanded at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre. The magistrate directed the police to send the case file to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and adjourned the case to May 10. Earlier, the prosecutor, DSP Kehinde Ajayi, told the court that Okwumbu committed the offence…

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