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Manchester United legend, Gary Neville, has backed Xabi Alonso to add four more players to the Chelsea squad. Alonso has been confirmed as the new Blues boss and will officially begin in the role on July 1. However, the former Real Madrid boss has already drawn up plan on how to bolster the squad. Neville believes Alonso would go for a new goalkeeper, centre forward and a centre-back. He said on Sky Sports: “So the first thing I think Xabi Alonso will do, he will want a new goalkeeper, a centre back and a centre forward with experience. “They’ve got some…
Saudi Arabia Supreme Court has announced that Standing at Mountain Arafat, which marks the climax of the annual Hajj pilgrimage, would take place on Tuesday, May 26. It also said that Eid-al-adha celebrations would hold the following day, Wednesday May 27. This is as the nation officially declared Monday, May 18 as the first day of Dhul Hijjah 1447 AH, following the sighting of the crescent moon. According to a statement by the court, the Crescent Sighting Department of the Supreme Court “reached the decision after reviewing testimonies submitted by witnesses regarding the sighting of the Dhul Hijjah crescent.” The…
A ghastly motor accident involving a Honda vehicle with registration number KTU 921 JY and two commercial tricycles occurred at about 8:50 a.m. on Monday at the Federal Bus Stop along Ipaja Road in Lagos, leaving several passengers injured. One of the tricycles involved in the accident. Photo: Olugbenga Ige Eyewitnesses at the scene said the female driver of the Honda car was allegedly speeding when she attempted to dodge a sweeper working with the Lagos Waste Management Authority. According to witnesses, the vehicle hit the sweeper before veering across the road and colliding with two tricycles on the opposite…
An aspirant for the Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency under the platform of the All Progressive Congress, Onyeije Onuoha-Kalu, has claimed victory in the just concluded primary election. The Abia State National Assembly Primary Election Committee, led by Barrister Erasmus Cishak, had announced Ikenna Nicholas, as the winner of the primary election for the constituency on Saturday. However, addressing journalists on Sunday in Umuahia, Kalu said he won 15 of the 22 wards in the contest held on Saturday, May 16. He said he secured 8 of the 11 wards in Arochukwu Local Government Area and 7 of the 11 wards in…
Iran’s national football team was headed to Turkey on Monday to play a final friendly match and apply for visas to fly to the United States for the 2026 World Cup, Iranian media reported. The team plan to participate in the tournament despite co-host Washington having launched a war against Iran with a massive wave of attacks alongside ally Israel on February 28. The fighting has been on hold for weeks thanks to a ceasefire, but peace talks have failed to make a breakthrough and new drone attacks against Gulf countries at the weekend combined with threats from US President…
Verus Protocol’s Ethereum bridge was reportedly exploited on Monday through a fake cross-chain transfer message that allowed a hacker to fraudulently transfer out at least $11.58 million in cryptocurrency.Onchain security platform Blockaid said in an X post on Monday that its detection system identified an ongoing exploit on the Verus-Ethereum bridge and shared a transaction on Etherscan showing a transfer of 1,625 Ether (ETH), 147,659 USDC (USDC) and 103.57 tBTC v2, worth over $11.5 million.Blockchain security company PeckShield also called the transfer an exploit, with onchain data showing the funds have since been converted into Ether. The wallet shows a…
Lauren Alaina is reminding all music fans that it’s OK to not be OK. During the 2026 Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday, May 17, Alaina, 31, chose to bring attention to Mental Health Awareness Month before inviting Dan + Shay to the stage. “Sometimes, lifting lives can mean saving lives. May is Mental Health Awareness Month and an important time to say if you are secretly suffering, you are not alone,” Alaina shared with the audience inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. “Like too many of you out there, I know what it’s like to…
The incumbent House of Representatives members from Ebonyi State have been declared winners of the All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries held across the six federal constituencies of the state on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the six federal lawmakers were beneficiaries of the consensus arrangement anchored by Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebony for various political positions in the state for the 2027 general elections. The Afikpo and Edda Federal Constituency, however, became a near exception as a former Minister of State for Health, Joseph Ekumankama, went on to contest in the primary despite incumbent Iduma Igariwey…
The Federal Government has explained the delayed publication of recent Quarterly Budget Implementation Reports, saying fiscal years are defined by legislative provisions and not strictly by the January-to-December calendar cycle. In a statement issued on Sunday, the Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Tanimu Yakubu, said the delay followed the repeal and re-enactment of the 2025 Appropriation Act as well as the extension of the implementation period of the 2025 budget to June 2026. According to him, the adjustments legally extended the lifespan of the 2025 budget beyond the conventional twelve-month calendar framework ordinarily associated with a fiscal…
Browse through a book on the development options available to countries on the African continent, and if you can navigate your way through the data undergrowth and the fancy arithmetic with which these numbers make sense, the other thing that underwhelms completely is the insistence that corruption on the continent is over-rated as a contributing factor to its continued underdevelopment. Without any doubt, substantial investment in both health and educational services, and the more competent labour forces that this results in, low taxes on agriculture, prudent fiscal management, and both predictable and moderate movements in domestic prices all bear on…
