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In a quarterly financial report released on Thursday, Manchester United says it has spent more than € 20 million to thank José Mourinho and his staff. It was obvious that Jose Mourinho had not left Manchester empty-handed. Thanks to the end of December after the defeat against Liverpool, the Portuguese technician had packed his bags and the first estimates indicated a very expensive operation for the Red Devils. This Thursday, the financial report of the second quarter of the season confirms the trend since the leaders have paid 19.6 million pounds sterling or more than 22 million euros to break…

As the pressure on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to postpone the Saturday presidential and National Assembly elections in some states intensifies, the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) on Thursday warned the commission not to consider postponing elections in Rivers and Zamfara States because of the internal crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress. IPAC is the umbrella body of all the 91 registered political parties in Nigeria. It made the call in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Imo Ugochinyere, amidst reports that the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, had asked the electoral body to consider postponing…

The Kano Police Command says it has arrested two suspects in possession of 14 bags of fake specimen ballot papers in Kano metropolis, Kano State. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, who confirmed this to newsmen in Kano on Thursday, said the suspects were apprehended around Metro Police Area Command. He said that the suspects were arrested on Wednesday evening by some Police officers attached to Metro Area Command in the metropolis. Haruna said during interrogation, the suspects said they came from Jigawa State, and that the materials were meant for sensitisation and orientation purpose. “The ballot papers…

The Code of Conduct Tribunal, Wednesday, ordered the Nigeria Police Force and the Department of State Service (DSS) to arrest and arraign Justice Walter Onnoghen, the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria for trial on Friday, February 15. The CCT chairman, Danladi Umar, having heard an application by the prosecuting counsel, Aliyu Umar, directed the Inspector-General of Police and the Director-General of the DSS to execute the arrest warrant. Umar said the order is to ensure that Justice Onnoghen was brought before it on the adjourned date. His order followed an application made by the federal government for a bench warrant…

The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Malam Garba Shehu, has accused the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of looting no less than N2.9 trillion from 2005 to 2015. Shehu speaking at a mobilization symposium organised by the Buhari Diaspora Support Organization, BDSO, in Abuja declared that more than $83 billion, amounting to N2.9 trillion was stolen money and taken out of Nigeria during the period. In a keynote address on the Buhari administration’s war against corruption, he expressed amazement at the magnitude of infrastructure development such quantum of stolen money would have delivered to…

Angered by allegation of sexual molestation and killings of deaf children at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) School for the Deaf, Kuje, the Federal Government Tuesday inaugurated a 15-member committee to probe the allegation. The committee which was given two weeks to conclude findings and submit its reports to the Federal Government for action is to ascertain immediate and remote causes of the incident, whether the abuse took place and the scope and determine the culprits and their levels of involvement including appropriate sanctions. It is also mandated to ascertain the veracity of other claims such as murder, cannibalism, cultism,…

Against the Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections, the Federal Government has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of last-minute’s plot to orchestrate a crisis and trigger a sense of panic among the populaceP in furtherance of its plan to discredit the election and cause a constitutional crisis. In a statement issued in Abuja Tuesday, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, said the plot confirmed the alarm raised by the Federal Government on January 21 and February 3, 2019, that the PDP was planning to scuttle the election and, where that failed, discredit it. Mohammed said in…

The Nigerian Communications Commissions, NCC, has slammed N74 million fine on four major network operators in the country. They were said to have violated such regulations as quality of service, approval for promotions and advertisements, and sim registration in a controlled environment. A breakdown shows that MTN was asked to pay N5 million; Airtel- N20 million; Glo- N30 million and 9mobile- N5 million. The operators were only fined for sim registration infractions and unapproved promotions and advertisements as well as the failure to provide information on collapsed towers. The telecoms regulator warned the operators to desist from registering sim cards…

The Federal Government says it has disbursed more than t $200 billion recovered Abacha loot in the first tranche. Consequently, the government has received commendation on its commitment to the Open Government Partnership which started three years ago. Straightnews learnt that in 2016, Nigeria was part of the London Anti-Corruption Summit, where it signed to the Open Government Partnership and committed to the Global Forum on Asset Recovery a year later. This civil society group with focus on anti-corruption is launching the outcome of its findings on the country’s level of compliance with the commitment made. ANEEJ said having traversed…

Paris Saint-Germain made light of an injury crisis to inflict Manchester United’s first defeat under caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer with a 2-0 win at Old Trafford on Tuesday to take a huge step towards the Champions League quarter-finals. Presnel Kimpembe and Kylian Mbappe struck in a seven-minute spell just before the hour mark as PSG displayed their credentials to finally become champions of Europe for the first time, especially once they get the world’s most expensive player Neymar, Edinson Cavani back from injury. After a run of 10 wins and one draw in 11 games since Solskjaer replaced the…