Day: 10 August 2021

Messi @ PSG: I am happy to begin a new life here

Yemi Thomas, Entertainment Editor

Argentina forward Lionel Messi, who left Barcelona last week, has signed a two-year contract with Paris Saint-Germain. The deal comes with an option of an additional year, the French club announced on Tuesday. Messi, 34, will wear the number 30 as revealed in a video by the club, the number he had when he began his professional career at Barcelona between 2004-2006. “I am excited to begin a new chapter of my career at Paris Saint-Germain,” said Messi in a statement on the club’s website. The 34-year-old, who was a…

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Chevron CMD in messy divorce

Jide Ige

The Chief Medical Director of an Oil prospecting company , Chevron Nigeria Limited, Dr. Rotimi Olalekan Babalola is now in a divorce mess as his wife Mrs. Adediwura Adebukola Babalola has approached the Lagos High Court for divorce. According to court processes obtained by our correspondent in Suit No: LD/9231WD/2021, Mrs. Babalola brought the petition against her husband on the ground that he has been displaying act of intolerable cruelty and inhuman conduct towards her and the only child of the marriage. According to the facts filed in support of…

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WAEC announces date for 2021 SSCE

Jide Ige

The West Africa Examination Council has announced August 16, 2021, for the commencement of the 2021 West African Senior School Certificate Examination. The Head of the Nigeria office, Mr Patrick Areghan, made the announcement in Lagos on Tuesday. “In accordance with the Final International Timetable, the WASCCE 2021 will take place throughout the sub-region from Monday, 16h August to Friday, 8th October 2021. “However, the examination will end in Nigeria on 30 September 2021- spanning a period of seven – weeks,” he said. He said that about 1.6 million candidates…

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Yewande Sadiku, NIPC boss in EFCC net

Wura Kelani, Crime Reporter

Yewande Sadiku, the Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council (NIPC) was interrogated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for about nine hours. The anti graft agency questioned her for alleged abuse of office, bordering largely on suspicious award of contracts running into several millions of Naira and a posse of unearned frivolous allowances, a source disclosed. The source however said there were still many grounds to be covered. But it was unclear if the NIPC boss will be detained or not as…

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