Author: Rashaad Harris

Aston Villa have signed midfielder Philippe Coutinho on a permanent deal from Barcelona for an undisclosed fee in the region of £17M. Barcelona will retain a 50% sell-on clause.Barça bought the Brazilian from Liverpool for £147M and sold him for £17M, losing a whooping £130M. The midfielder’s move to the Camp Nou didn’t go exactly to plan and it was followed by a loan spell at Bayern Munich in 2019, where he went on to make 23 appearances scoring 8 goals. He returned to Barcelona in 2020 where he stayed but still found games hard to come by, coupled with…

Popular comic skit maker, Debo Adedayo, best known as Mr. Macaroni has added his voice to the heavy condemnation trailing Thursday’s lynching of a female student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto State over alleged blasphemy. The student, simply identified as Deborah was accused of insulting Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and thereafter beaten to a pulp. From a video clip of the incident, stones were hurled at the young lady by young boys. Some also used sticks and different objects to hit her. When the victim fell to the ground unconsciously, the attackers gathered tyres around her before…

The lady seen above, Deborah Yakubu was on Thursday burned to death in Sokoto for blasphemy. According to sources, she was murdered because she insulted the Islamic Prophet Mohammad while in an argument on a WhatsApp group. The incident which took place at the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Wamako Sokoto, involved the student who is the Treasurer of the campus Christian group, Fellowship of Christian Students. According to the students who witnessed the incident, upon receiving threats on her life, she was quickly helped to the school’s security unit, but the mob still came after her, took her from…

A Kaduna Magistrates’ Court has arraigned a 30-year-old woman, Helen James, for allegedly stealing an iPhone 12 worth N375, 000. The defendant, who lives in Sabon Tasha, Kaduna, is charged with theft. According to NAN, the Prosecution Counsel, Inspector Chidi Leo, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on April 23, at a shopping Mall in Barnawa, Kaduna State. The prosecution said that the complainant went to the shopping mall to buy some provisions and forgot the phone in a shop. Ehe said that when the complainant realised that her phone was missing, she called the number and…

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State on Wednesday visited members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee at the Party’s National Secretariat after submitting his Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms for his 2023 re-election bid. APC National Secretary, Sen. Iyiola Omisore who recieved the governor on behalf of the National Chairman, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu assured the him of the NWC’s intention to provide a level-playing field to all aspirants as well as a credible screening and primary election process. The governor congratulated members of the NWC on their recent election and informed them that he has added…

Barely 48 hours after disowning a nomination form purchased for him by a northern group, Nigeria’s former President, Goodluck Jonathan has decided to run for president in 2023. Mr Jonathan had on May 9 rejected presidential expression of interest and nomination forms of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) bought for him by a Fulani group. He later visited APC chairman Abdullahi Adamu, a shuttle his aides said was to distance himself from the purchase. Nigeria’s newswire, the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, which broke the news, said a credible source with Jonathan’s camp, disclosed that the ex president has…

A Lexus ES350 with the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) registration number IMO 44 was among other items recovered from 36 suspected internet fraudsters, otherwise known as “Yahoo Boys” arrested by operatives of the Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. It is not clear whether a member of the NYCN was among the suspects. The other items recovered from the suspects included one Mercedes Benz GLK with registration number KTU 729 HD and one Toyota Camry with registration number KTU 720 HL, include several phones, laptops, international passports. This was disclosed in a statement…

On Wednesday Monday, two men met their end at the hands of an angry mob in Lagos, after they were burnt to death. The incident, it was gathered, occurred in the morning of Wednesday after the victims were caught with 18 mobile phones at Cele, Lagos. According to a NAN reporter who said he saw the charred corpses said, “The two guys, before their death, were interrogated and confessed that they were from the Ajegunle area. “The victims were mobbed following accumulated anger of frequent thefts around the shops in the area last few weeks,” a source said. Lagos police…

Three people have been reportedly killed by suspected cultists in Inen community of Oruk Anam Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The attack victims were robbed of their possessions before they were killed when the miscreants raided the community on motorbikes on Tuesday. Johnson Akpakpan who spoke with newsmen on Wednesday said the first house they attacked was that of Mrs Choice Etuk. They first assaulted Mrs Choice Etuk’s stepson before they killed him and escaped with the victim’s brand new motorcycle. Akpakpan said the hoodlums suspected to be cultists from neighbouring communities proceeded to Elder Sunday Jumbo’s compound…

Emeka Nwajiuba, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Education has tendered his letter of resignation. This is coming after the President Muhammadu Buhari issued a directive ordering all cabinet members and aides that have picked forms for the 2023 presidential elections to step down. So far, cabinet members like Chris Nwabueze Ngige, Rotimi Amaechi and other political appointees under the current APC administration have all bought forms. READ MORE Education Minister pays N100M for APC Presidential ticket Amidst ASUU Strike Here’s the full list of those expected to resign: Attorney-General Abubakar Malami, transport minister Rotimi Amaechi, Niger-Delta minister, Godswill Akpabio, labour…