‘They were a different class’ – Troost-Ekong admits Watford were poor against Liverpool

William Troost-Ekong has revisited Watford’s 5-0 loss to Liverpool last month and admitted that the Hornets underperformed  but Jurgen Klopp’s team were on another level. In Claudio Ranieri’s first game in charge of Watford, the Reds cruised to an easy 5-0 win at Vicarage Road with Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino getting their…

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Endsars Panel: Sanwo-Olu Sets Up Four-Member Committee for White Paper Report

•Committee to submit Report in Two weeks •Okuwobi: Panel treated 235 petitions, awarded a total of N410 million to 70 victims Trust Africa News, By Ayomide Otitoju Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday set up a four-member committee led by Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN) to raise…

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Nigeria, Africa’s most attractive investment destination, First Bank, BOI say

With a population above 200 million people and access to market across the continent, Nigeria is the most attractive destination for investment in Africa, say the First Bank of Nigeria and the Bank of Industry. The CEOs of First Bank of Nigeria, Adesola Adeduntan and Bank of Industry, Olukayode Pitan, stated this respectively at a…

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Food inflation rises to 18.34% in October; headline inflation marks at 15.99: NBS

Nigeria’s statistics office, said that composite food index rose by 18.34 per cent in October 2021 compared with 17.38 per cent in October 2020.  The nation’s headline inflation was also put at 15.99 per cent, marking a second-month consecutive decline, the office said. The data was relayed by Simon Harry, the Statistician-General of the Federation…

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Pantami: ASUU says FUTO professorship dubious; sets up panel

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Monday said there are doubts and “unanswered questions” on the appointment of Isa Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy, as a Professor of Cyber Security by the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), adding that the appointment violates the rules. “There are serious doubt and unanswered questions…

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Ogun attorney-general Gbolahan Adeniran resigns over ‘massive corruption’ in Governor Abiodun’s government

Akingbolahan Adeniran has resigned as Ogun State attorney-general effective later this month, Peoples Gazette was told, after he spent weeks seething about Governor Dapo Abiodun’s corrupt practices, incompetence and general maladministration.  Mr Adeniran, a liberal arts scholar and commercial law expert, turned in his resignation because he was no longer comfortable serving Mr Abiodun in…

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