The past 24 hours has recorded interesting events both on local, state, national and international level. Below are top trending news.
Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Tijani Muhammad-Bande, on Tuesday bowed out of office as President of the 74th session of the General Assembly. He handed over the gavel to Turkish diplomat and politician, Volkan Bozkir, who will be steering the ship of the 75th session of the 193-member lawmaking body.
Manchester United have been placed in Pot 2 for the upcoming UEFA Champions League group stage draw in October after the eight teams were confirmed on Wednesday. Man United was placed in Pot 2 alongside Ajax, Chelsea and Manchester City respectively.
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has defended the demolition of the illegal shanties in the National Stadium in Lagos, saying that the edifice was not a market place. Dare made the assertion while responding to questions on the side-line of the signing of the N150m worth league sponsorships Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), between Total E&P and the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF).
Jose Mourinho’s former colleagues at Real Madrid, have warned the Tottenham Hotspur manager over a move for Gareth Bale. The 31-year-old is closing in on a return to Spurs, who are negotiating with Real Madrid over a season-long loan deal and how his £600,000-a-week salary will be financed.
Tongues have been waging over the refusal of the state police command’s denial of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from holding its meeting in the state Secretariat, in Gusau, the state capital. The crisis started on Sunday when sixteen people met for a meeting in the state APC headquarters in Gusau, the state capital where troops of armed policemen stormed the Secretariat and arrested the sixteen leaders of the party.
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Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has ordered the Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA) and the Aba South LGA Town Planning Authority to immediately ensure full and safe demolition of the partially collapsed 3-storey building along Azikiwe Road in Aba. The State government announced this in a statement issued by the state Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi Kalu.
A top FIFA official, Olli Rehn, on Wednesday, said that the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to cost club football 14 billion dollars (about N5.4 trillion) this year worldwide. Rehn, who currently heads the FIFA committee set up to tackle the effects of COVID-19 pandemic, stated that the cost is around one-third of its value.
BBNaija housemate Ozo has emerged winner of the BBNaija Innoson Motors challenge and has been subsequently rewarded with a brand new 2020 IVM Caris. Innoson Motors or Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM) is the indigenous Nigerian auto brand focused on producing affordable and durable vehicles for Africans with the aim of preventing the importation of used cars to Africa.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s assumption of office in 2015 prevented Nigeria from becoming a failed state. Mohammed said Buhari saved Nigeria after what he called a “long stretch of rapacious and rudderless leadership.
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