Author: Rashaad Harris

Real Madrid beat Espanyol on Saturday afternoon to claim their latest league title. Goals from Rodrygo (2), Benzema and Asensio were enough to hand the Bernabeu side their 35th La Liga. The league win makes Real Madrid the Spanish side with the highest league titles. Before this season, they last won it in 2020 before fellow capital club, Atletico Madrid won last year’s edition. The win means Carlo Ancelotti has now won all the domestic league titles in Europe’s top five leagues, that is: Italy, Germany, England, France and now Spain. No other manager has ever done that. Ancelotti will…

Twenty four (24) suspected internet fraudsters, otherwise known as “Yahoo Boys” have been apprehended by operatives of the Lagos and Enugu State commands of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in both states. Eighteen (18) of the suspects were arrested in Lagos while the six (6) others were nabbed in Enugu. This was contained in a statement issued on Saturday by the Spokesman of the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren. According to the statement, the Lagos suspects are: Tijani Olumide Ahmed, Balogun Olusola, Ukuhor Richie Ifemeluona, Ologun Damilola, Adetokunbo Yusuf, Olubiyo Timilehin, Oyegoke Gafar Olaitan, Agarawu Farug Okikiola, Kazeem Oluwadamilare Adebayo…

Super agent, Mino Raiola who represents high calibre footballers like Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Paul Pogba and Erling Haaland, has passed on. He was 54. A statement posted on Mino’s Twitter account by the Raiola family read, “In infinite sorrow we share the passing of the most caring and amazing football agent that ever was. “Mino fought until the end with the same strength he put on negotiation tables to defend our players. As usual, Mino made us proud and never realised it. The tweet: https://twitter.com/MinoRaiola/status/1520403579311464449?t=SFhwAtQdZkXXodEZeb4t-g&s=19 “Mino touched so many lives through his work and wrote a new chapter in the history…

A lady who goes by the tiktok username, @Veegodess has come out to say she doesn’t regret sleeping with a dog. [wpvideo eipx7QIP]

A bus carrying NYSC members went up in flames at a gas station in Warri. It is not clear what caused the fire but it seems the white bus branded College of Education Warri, was leaking fuel from underneath, as that was where the fire emanated from. While the female attendants and other women around took to flight, some men rushed towards the bus as they helped pull out the Corp members from the windows and door of the bus. [wpvideo ussgGuls]

It is Salah, the end of the Ramadan fast and bags of rice branded with the pictures of Presidential contestants, Atiku Abubakar and Bola Ahmed Tinubu have been sighted. The picture below was posted on Facebook by Deji Adeyanju, with the caption “The political ancestors are sharing Sallah rice.🤦‍♂️”

Nigerian music Legend, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2baba could not control his emotion as he broke down in tears while paying tributes to his friend and colleague, Sound Sultan during his special performance at the Nigerian Entertainment Industry (NECLive9), on Friday, April 29, 2022. Recall that Sound Sultan passed away after a battle with cancer of the throat in the United States in July 2021. His demise shook the entire music industry in Nigeria. Already, media reports say a new album is expected to be released in a bid to keep Sultan’s memory, alongside a merch line. 2Baba who…

British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe on Friday made a late bid to buy Chelsea worth over $5b, despite Todd Boehly emerging as the number one person to acquire the London side. Ratcliffe owns Ligue 1 club Nice and has also invested in Formula One team Mercedes. But that’s not all, he also owns Ineos and recently started developing the auto startup, Ineos Grenadier, a boxy off road SUV based on the old Land Rover Defender. However, Todd Boehly has won the race to buy Chelsea in a deal worth more than £3.5billion, despite a dramatic late hijack attempt from Britain’s…

Justice Elias Abua of the Cross River State High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, has convicted and sentenced two former bankers: Titus Chima Nwankwo and Utibe-Abasi Ifiok George for stealing the sum of Two Million, Nine Hundred Thousand Naira only from the account of a deceased customer of a commercial bank. Nwankwo and George were jailed on Tuesday, April 26, 2022 after pleading guilty to one-count separate charges bordering on forgery, conspiracy, breach of trust and stealing, upon their arraignment by the Uyo Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. In view of their pleas, prosecution counsel, Joshua Abolarin prayed the…

On Thursday, President Muhammadu Buhari met with Cameroon’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Amb. Salaheddine Abbas at the State House in Abuja, where he treated him and his entourage to Iftar (the meal eaten by Muslims after sunset during Ramadan). This was made known on the Federal Government’s official Twitter handle, Government of Nigeria. A statement on the handle read, “Yesterday evening, President Muhammadu Buhari hosted Iftar for members of the Diplomatic Corps, led by the Dean of the diplomatic community and High Commissioner of Cameroon to Nigeria, Amb. Salaheddine Abbas, at the State House.