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Nantes rebuff Newcastle's bid for Simon as they hold out for nothing less than £20m

ENGLISH Premier League giants Newcastle United have had a bid for Super Eagles winger Simon Moses rejected by his French club Nantes who have made it clear that he is going nowhere unless their £20m asking price is met.

 

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Can someone please explain to me why Nigeria’s Northern States Governors Forum has not got our presidential candidates to sign up to a manifesto pledge that looks like this 

Ayo Akinfe

[1] By 2025, every one of our 19-member states must generate enough revenue to at least meet its running costs

[2] Every state in northern Nigeria must be twinned with a state in the south as part of our education policy. By 2035 every northern state must match its southern twin in terms of literacy, secondary school leavers, graduates and post-graduates

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Buhari gives himself a pass mark on combating terrorism saying he has degraded Boko Haram

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has given himself a pass mark with regards to dealing with Nigeria's terrorism threat saying that God has helped his administration to clear Boko Haram insurgents out of the northeast.

 

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Daar Communications denies that Dokpesi's London ordeal had anything to do with rape

DAAR Communications has denied reports that the recent arrest of its chairman Chief Raymond Dokpesi by the London Metropolitan Police at Heathrow Airport was as a result of his association with a rape case.

 

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Chelsea hope to sign PSV's Noni Madueke during the current January transfer window

CHELSEA manager Graham Potter is considering making a bid for PSV Eindhoven's Nigeria-eligible winger Noni Madueke before the close of the January transfer window in a bid to end his side's incessant slide down the league table.

 

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Peter Obi promises to retire Tinubu and Atiku and pay them redundancy package if elected president

FORMER Anambra State governor and Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi has promised to retire his two main opponents in next month's elections from politics with a handsome  redundancy package if he wins because they are too elderly.

 

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Security forces arrest 22 year old female said to be one of ESN's leading assassins

SECURITY forces have arrested a 22 year old lady identified as Amaka Onah in the forests of Igboeze South Local Government Area of Enugu State who they believe is a notorious Eastern Security Network (ESN) assassin.

 

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As we mourn Vialli and Pele, I ask myself which day Nigeria will start to excel in every area of endeavour. Let us start with goalkeeping and ask when we will produce a real global legend 

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Lev Yashin 
[2] Rinat Dasayev
[3] Gordon Banks 
[4] Sepp Mieir 
[5] Walter Zenga 
[6] Oliver Khan 
[7] Peter Schmiechel 
[8] Dino Zoff 
[9] Gianluigi Buffon 
[10] Gianluca Pagliuca

We cannot be content with excelling in just one or two areas. From what I can see, the only area where we are real world beaters is with the opening of religious houses.

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Nigerian government says it will be able to stop petroleum product imports by first quarter of 2024

PETROLEUM resources minister Chief Timipre Sylva has predicted that the federal government will end the practise of importing petrol and other related products into the country by the first quarter of 2024.

 

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PDP denies Atiku is in London for health reasons saying he came for a media parley

NIGERIA'S main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied media reports that its presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has been flown to London in response to recent health challenges.

 

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