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Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba has been provisionally suspended from playing after a drugs test found elevated levels of testosterone in his system. The 30-year-old France international, an unused substitute, was randomly selected for post-match drug testing. If found guilty of doping, he could face a ban of between two and four years. Juventus said in a […]
Super Eagles striker Taiwo Awoniyi has won the Player of the Month and Goal of the Month Awards for the month of August at Nottingham Forest. The 25-year-old striker has scored three times in four games for Nottingham Forest this season, stretching his impressive scoring run from last term to seven consecutive Premier League matches […]
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has refuted claims of political motivation behind the partial demolition of a five-storey building in the state. The property – DATKEM, is believed to belong to Olufunke Daniel, the wife of former Ogun state governor, Gbenga Daniel. Abiodun said this yesterday during an inspection of the reconstruction of the 8km […]
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has congratulated President Bola Tinubu for his victory at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal yesterday. In a statement issued yesterday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Gboyega Akosile, the governor said Nigerians had spoken through the ballots and the court has also validated the citizens’ decision by the judicial […]
The Lagos State Government has unveiled a document containing strategies to achieve the vision of reducing and ending preventable newborn deaths and stillbirths in the state. The document titled ‘Lagos State Every Newborn Action Plan’, which was unveiled and disseminated to health sector stakeholders at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Ikeja, recently was developed in line […]
Ivory Coast international defender Eric Bailly, who spent last season on loan at Marseille from Manchester United, has signed for Besiktas, the Turkish club announced today. Besiktas specified neither the length of the contract nor the value of the transfer. Having arrived in Manchester from Villarreal in the summer of 2016 and played a full […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has initiated a two-day warning strike, resulting in a crowd gathering outside the Apapa port as its staff were denied entry. The NLC’s decision to commence strike comes after it declined a meeting with the Federal Government due to escalating hardships and suffering across the country caused by the removal […]
Cameroon have recalled Manchester United goalkeeper Andre Onana for a crucial Africa Cup of Nations clash against Burundi, with the final matchday of qualifying kicking off tomorrow. Following a tactical disagreement with coach Rigobert Song, he was suspended and sent home after playing for the Indomitable Lions in their opening 2022 World Cup encounter against […]
A seven-person Panel of Inquiry, led by the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of the Force Criminal Investigation Department in Abuja, Abiodun Alabi, has been established by the acting Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, with a mandate to conduct a thorough and unbiased investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a police cadet, […]
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, yesterday, said President Bola Tinubu is “not worried” about the outcome of the judgement of the Presidential Election Tribunal on Wednesday. Tinubu, who will leave for New Delhi, India, yesterday night to attend the G-20 summit will be absent as the tribunal […]