Manchester United have released a statement on Saturday after Mason Greenwood was charged with attempted rape and assault. The 21-year-old has also been charged with controlling and coercive behaviour and assault. Greenwood is due to appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates Court on Monday. “Manchester United notes that criminal charges …

Chelsea co-owner, Todd Boehly, is very keen to sign England and Tottenham Hotspur striker, Harry Kane next summer. This claim was made by respected football journalist Ben Jacobs. According to Jacobs, Boehly wants to prove that Chelsea can sign proven Premier League stars like Kane. “They’ll look at Harry Kane …

Christopher Imumolen, the youthful Accord party presidential candidate, has dismissed the economic plan of Labour Party (LP) flagbearer, Peter Obi. The former Anambra governor and others attended the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) conference in Lagos this week. At the event, attention of the audience shifted to Professor …

Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski has named Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema his favourite for the 2022 Ballon d’Or prize. The ceremony for this year’s award takes place on Monday in Paris. Benzema has enjoyed a sensational year, having spearheaded Los Blancos’ victorious campaigns in LaLiga and the Champions League. Throughout the …

The Peoples Democratic Party, Kaduna State chapter, has rescheduled the planned consultative visit of the presidential candidate of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his running mate, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, to Kafanchan. Newsextra24 recalls that in a programme schedule visit by the PDP Presidential hopeful, he was billed to move …

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said those from the North don’t need candidates from the South during the 2023 elections. Atiku stated this while responding to a question posed to him by the spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, during …

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has demanded the immediate and unconditional release of two Kwara-based journalists prosecuted for defamation, by Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq. This was made known in a statement signed by the National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, on Saturday. Onwubiko described the governor’s arrest and remand …

A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and deposed Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, on Saturday, called for the unbundling of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, declaring the national oil company as a money pit and not a “cash cow”. Sanusi, who spoke at the 7th edition …

The Adamawa State chapter of the All Progressive Congress has said it will be appealing the Federal High court ruling disqualifying the party from fielding a governorship candidate for the 2023 general election. The court had on Friday, annulled the candidature of Sen. Aishatu Ahmed, and restrained her from parading …

…Diri mulls post-disaster roundtable  THE Bayelsa State government on Saturday declared that “no fewer than 300 communities and villages have either been totally or partially submerged by flooding in the state.” It also announced that “about 700,000 persons have either been displaced or affected by the flood.” The state government …