Author: Israel Effiong

Gerd Muller’s record of scoring 525 goals for a single club across all competitions was equalled Sunday by Lionel Messi, Barcelona’s superstar. Messi, the five-time Ballon d’Or winner brought up the landmark in the 83rd minute of his side’s 2-0 win over Villarreal yesterday’s evening, doubling Barcelona’s lead as they restored their five-point advantage at the top of the table. He has now found the back of the net 525 times in 606 appearances for Barca across all competitions, drawing level with Muller’s record from his 14-year Bayern Munich career, which ended in 1979. Muller, who is regarded as one…

The naira has appreciated by 30.3 per cent since February when the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) began its aggressive interventions at the foreign exchange market, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The Nigerian currency had exchanged at N520 to the dollar at the peak of onslaughts by currency speculators before the CBN stated intervening by injecting foreign exchange in the market. The CBN’s injection of more than $3.6 billion to meet the demand for foreign exchange resulted in the convergence of rates at the parallel market and the Bureau De Change segments. The apex bank’s intervention led to…

1. The biggest name among them, and the world’s highest-paid soccer coach, is Manchester City’s Josep ‘Pep’ Guardiola. An incredibly successful four years in Barcelona ended when he stepped down from the job in 2012, and after a year away from the sport he returned to take over the top team for some £15 million per year. He had led Bayern Munich to a Bundesliga title, the UEFA Super Cup – a first for a German team – and the FIFA Club World Cup. 2. Following Guardiola is Manchester United’s Jose Mourinho (£13.8 million). He won the Champions League in 2009-10…

ARGUABLY, if inland sea ports in Eastern and Southern Nigeria were fully developed and operational, Nigeria would not have been watching a huge N1.00 trillion go down the drains every year/ Activities at the Calabar Port in Cross River State, Warri and Koko Ports in Delta State are not economically significant. Developing a functional sea port in Onitsha, the commercial hub of Eastern Nigeria is being crippled by seeming selfish political considerations. It is being feared that such a sea port could kill those in Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria. Now, the nightmarish  state of access roads to Lagos…

Kendall Jenner is this year’s highest paid model, raking in $22 million in the 12 months prior to June 2017. For the first time since 2002, Gisele Bundchen is not the world’s highest-earning model. Kendall Jenner, 22, steals the top spot with a mammoth $22 million year. Thanks to an Instagram account that lets her disseminate advertisements to 85 million followers, Jenner tallied a career-best total in the 12 months to June from favorable deals with Estée Lauder, La Perla and Adidas, among others. Paychecks from her family’s reality TV show, her Kendall + Kylie clothing line with her sister, Kylie Jenner, and numerous…

Before today, there were 10 oldest leaders in the world. Tuesday, November 21, Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean President resigned and packed out of the scene of the oldest ones. StraightNews, therefore, presents nine leaders who are still holding on to leadership thread in the world. Queen Elizabeth II, United Kingdom Not just venerable, but also the second longest-serving head of state. When Queen Elizabeth, 89 in April, assumed the throne in 1952, most members of the current cabinet hadn’t even been born, some foodstuffs were still rationed and the Guardian still didn’t have a website. With one notable exception, being…