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  • Transfer Deadline: See players who made last minute move

    Transfer Deadline: See players who made last minute move

    Many players made a last-minute switch to other clubs as the January transfer window closed by 11 pm on Tuesday, January 31st.

    Few premier league sides bolstered their squad strength ahead of the second half of the 2022/23 season.

    Chelsea FC secured premier league record signing with the acquisition of Argentine playmaker, Enzo Fernandez from Portuguese side, Benfica, Nigeria’s Onuachu joined Southampton from Belgian side Genk for £18 Million, and Arsenal snapped up Brazillian midfielder, Jorginho for £12million.

    Below are the list of the last-minute transfer move:

    Enzo Fernandez Benfica – Chelsea £115m

    Paul Onuachu Racing Genk – Southampton

    Diogo Monteiro – Servette to Leeds, undisclosed

    Naouirou Ahamada – Stuttgart to Crystal Palace, undisclosed

    Albert Sambi Lokonga – Arsenal to Crystal Palace, loan

    Felipe – Atletico Madrid to Nottingham Forest, undisclosed

    Hamed Junior Traore – Sassuolo to Bournemouth, loan

    Pedro Porro – Sporting Lisbon to Tottenham, loan

    Keylor Navas – Paris Saint-Germain to Nottingham Forest, loan

    Jonjo Shelvey – Newcastle to Nottingham Forest, undisclosed

    Harry Souttar – Stoke to Leicester, £15m

    Marcel Sabitzer – Bayern Munich to Man Utd, loan

    Illia Zabarnyi – Dynamo Kyiv to Bournemouth, £24m

    Cedric Soares – Arsenal to Fulham (loan)

    Kamaldeen Sulemana – Rennes to Southampton, £22m

    Harrison Ashby – West Ham to Newcastle, £3m

    Jude Soonsup-Bell – Chelsea to Tottenham, undisclosed

    Joao Cancelo – Manchester City to Bayern Munich, loan

    Nathan Opoku – FDM Field Masters Sporting Club to Leicester, free

    Sasa Lukic – Torino to Fulham, £8m

    Jorginho – Chelsea to Arsenal, £12m

  • BREAKING: CBN extends use of old Naira notes

    BREAKING: CBN extends use of old Naira notes

    The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has extended the deadline for the use of the old notes till February 10.

    CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, announced the extension in a statement signed on Sunday.

    He explained that the apex bank has sought approval from President Muhammadu Buhari to extend the deadline for the use of the old notes by 10 days.

    “Based on the foregoing, we have sought and obtained Mr President’s approval for the following:  A 10-day extension of the deadline from January 31 to February 10 to allow for the collection of more old notes legitimately held by Nigerians,” the statement read.

    “A 7-day grace period, beginning from February 10 to February 17, in compliance with Sections 20(3) and 22 of the CBN Act allowing Nigerians to deposit their old notes at the CBN after the February deadline when the old currency would have lost its Legal Tender Status.”

    The CBN Governor also solicited the cooperation of all Nigerians in ensuring a hitch-free process for the implementation of the policy.

  • NIM-SIM Linkage: FG extends deadline of exercise for few days

    NIM-SIM Linkage: FG extends deadline of exercise for few days

    Federal Government has admonished Nigerians and legal residents of the country who haven’t done their NIN-SIM linkage to do so in due time ”the next few days” to ensure that they complete their NIN-SIM linkage.

    FG has extended the the exercise for some few days to allow unregistered persons to do so before it closes the exercise

    In a joint statement signed by the Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Head, Corporate Communications, National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Mr. Kayode Adegoke, advised Nigerians to take advantage of the window to complete the process of enrolment and verification.

    It reads in part: “The general public would recall that the Federal Government approved an extension of the NIN-SIM linkage deadline to the 31st of March, 2022.

    “In preparation for the enforcement, the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) urges citizens and legal residents to use the next few days to ensure that they complete the linkage.

    “To this end, the Honourable Minister has further directed that the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) should offer enrolment services round-the-clock for the next few days. Prof Pantami also thanks all those who have completed their NIN-SIM linkage.

    “On behalf of the Honourable Minister, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, and the Director-General/CEO of NIMC, Engr. Aliyu Aziz, urge citizens and legal residents to take advantage of the window to complete the process of enrolment and verification within the next few days.”

  • EPL: April deadline set for final bids for Chelsea

    EPL: April deadline set for final bids for Chelsea

    Chelsea’s four prospective new owners have an April 11 deadline to submit their final bids to buy the Blues.

    The Raine Group, the New York merchant bank in charge of the sale, has set that deadline for final bids to keep Chelsea on course to have new owners by May.

    Chelsea’s remaining suitors will have the chance to table improved offers to buy the Stamford Bridge club, with commitments required for at least one billion pounds (1.3 billion dollars) of future spending.

    Chelsea have instructed Raine to seek those future spending commitments in a bid to safeguard the west London club’s future at football’s elite level.

    Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca was the final addition to the four-strong shortlist to buy Chelsea on Friday.

    The 67-year-old billionaire co-chairman of Bain Capital boasts a strong offering to buy the Blues.

    Chicago Cubs owners the Ricketts family, former Liverpool chairman Sir Martin Broughton and LA Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly are the other bidders still in the race.

    Roman Abramovich put Chelsea up for sale on March 2, amid Russia’s continued invasion of Ukraine.

    The Russian-Israeli billionaire was then sanctioned by the UK Government on March 10.

    The Blues must operate under strict Government licence, with Abramovich unable to profit from Chelsea’s sale.

    Downing Street must approve another new licence to authorise Chelsea’s eventual sale, with the money either frozen or distributed to charitable funds to aid victims of the war in Ukraine.

    Abramovich has pledged to write off Chelsea’s 1.5 billion pounds debt and the bidding frenzy for the club could see the eventual deal hit three billion pounds.

  • March 26 deadline for registration of 2022 UTME and Direct Entry ll’ not be extended- JAMB

    March 26 deadline for registration of 2022 UTME and Direct Entry ll’ not be extended- JAMB

    Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has said the March 26 deadline for the registration of the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) would not be extended.

     

    Oloyede made the announcement during the monitoring of the registration at Global Distance Learning Computer-Based Centre yesterday in Abuja.

     

    According to him, the deadline would not be extended because the board was working on a “tight schedule”.

     

    Oloyede expressed displeasure at the turnout of candidates at the centre, saying only one candidate turned up for registration, instead of the usual 200 or more candidates per day.

     

    He said: “Today is March 21, 2022. We still have five days to go and you can see how vacant the CBT centres are. So, we are telling you so that nobody, on March 26, will have the guts to tell us to extend. Now, we have registered about 1.5 million to 1.6 million candidates. So, we are good to go.

     

    “You can see how vacant the registration centres are. As big and as efficient as this centre is, you have only one candidate. And look at your time. So, it shows clearly that candidates are not coming out, or we may have exhausted the number of candidates that are eligible for registration.

     

    “We are working on a very tight schedule because of the other examination bodies that have their slots. We cannot encroach into the slots of the National Examination Council (NECO), the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), and the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB).

     

    “We have a very tight schedule. That is why we continue to say yes, we have the capacity to register 100,000 in a day.”

     

    Oloyede said the board was taking the campaign to the public to call attention to the fact that students were not registering.

     

    He also said the cost of buying diesel to run the CBT centres was becoming unbearable.

     

    JAMB Registrar noted that the board had opened discussion with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), saying after due consultation, the problems would be addressed.

     

    Also, JAMB said it had suspended two financial institutions for vending the e-PINs above N4,700 in the ongoing registration for the UTME and DE. But the board did not name the financial institutions involved in the infraction.

     

    Oloyede, at a meeting with financial institutions (vendors) engaged in the vending of the 2022 UTME/DE e-PINs, announced the immediate suspension and blacklisting of the two vendors for allowing their agents to vend the e-PINs above the stipulated price.

     

    He said besides blacklisting the vendors, the board would also retrieve the details of the agents for prosecution.

     

    JAMB stated these in its weekly bulletin released by its Head of Media, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, yesterday in Abuja.

     

    The board said it would also report their illicit act to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, to ensure that extorted candidates get refunded.

  • Transfer: Man City face deadline to sign Haaland

    Transfer: Man City face deadline to sign Haaland

    Premier League side Manchester City are facing a deadline to sign Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland before his buyout clause jumps.

    BILD says striker’s £64million release clause must be activated by April 30.

    That means all clubs bidding to sign him must register their intention by then – while the Norwegian must also notify his current club of his intention to leave.

    Sources in Germany suggest he will make his plans clear before the end of March.

    A move to the Etihad is becoming increasingly likely while Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain have all been keeping tabs on the 21-year-old’s situation.

    However City are pushing hardest and should know in just over six weeks if they have been successful.

  • UNN denies fixing deadline for collection of certificates

    UNN denies fixing deadline for collection of certificates

    The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) has denied fixing a deadline for the collection of degree and diploma certificates.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports UNN made this known in a statement released on Tuesday by Dr. Okwun Omeaku-Chief (Dr), Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the institution.

    The statement reads: “Attention of the management of the University of Nigeria has been drawn to a circular mandating graduates of our University who are yet to collect their degree and diploma certificates to do so before February 4, 2022.

    “That circular, which was first published in a rogue Facebook account, did not emanate from our university, neither was it signed by any known officer of the University of Nigeria.

    “While we encourage our graduates to come for their certificates, we urge the general public to disregard the deadline stipulated in the fake circular.

    “For the records, the official Facebook handle of our university is “@universityofnigeria”. The general public should beware of such fake Facebook pages as University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), University of Nigeria Nsukka and University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

    “The University has commenced the process of shutting down the fake accounts used by merchants of falsehood to deceive unsuspecting members of the public”.

  • FG may extend NIN-SIM linkage deadline again, 35% enrolment target

    FG may extend NIN-SIM linkage deadline again, 35% enrolment target

    The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has said that as of December 10, 2021, over 70 million unique national identity number enrolments have been recorded.

    The minister said this in his speech at the fifth-generation spectrum auction in Abuja on Monday.

    A copy of the minister’s speech was sent to our correspondent by the media team of the Nigerian Communications Commission on Monday.

    According to the minister, the number of enrolments recorded moved from 40 million in September 2020 to over 70 million as of December 10, 2021, showing an increase of over 30 million in slightly over a year period.

    The minister said, “We have already made a number of giant strides in the development of our digital economy and the deployment of 5G networks will further support our efforts. For example, it is worthy of note that, as of December 10, 2021, we had exceeded the 70 million mark in unique NIN enrolments.

    “You will recall that we had just over 40 million enrolments in September 2020. The additional enrolments, which are close to 30 million enrolments in a little over a year, constitute a truly great feat to the extent that other countries now want to learn from us.”

    The Director-General of the National Identity Management Agency, Aliyu Aziz, had disclosed that the agency projected over 200 million enrolments in the national identity database.

     

  • Ogun governor gives appointees nursing 2023 ambition deadline to resign

    Ogun governor gives appointees nursing 2023 ambition deadline to resign

    The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has directed all serving political appointees with 2023 political ambitions in the state to resign on or before January 31, 2022, to pursue their dreams.

    The governor was quoted to have said this in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Tuesday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Kunle Somorin.

    Abiodun said while it is legitimate to have such ambitions, the directive became expedient to avoid some observed distractions and the loss of focus in the discharge of their current responsibilities.

    “As an administration unwaveringly committed to delivering on its electoral promises, any activity that is capable of undermining the implementation of the Building Our Future Together Agenda of the Administration will not be tolerated,” the statement read.

    Governor Abiodun advised that those who cannot wait till the appropriate time for the 2023 electioneering process should take their leave to pursue their ambitions without constituting a clog in the wheel of the implementation of government programmes and activities.

  • BREAKING: FG sets December 1st Deadline for civil servants to get COVID-19 vaccine

    BREAKING: FG sets December 1st Deadline for civil servants to get COVID-19 vaccine

    The Federal Government has set a deadline of December 1 for civil servants to take the COVID-19 vaccine.

    Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, announced this at a briefing on Wednesday in Abuja.

    “With effect from 1st December 2021, Federal Government employees shall be required to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination, or present a negative COVID-19 PCR test result done within 72 hours to gain access to their offices in all locations within Nigeria and our Missions.

    “An appropriate service-wide advisory/circular will be issued to guide the process,” the SGF said.

    He also revealed that the government has removed South Africa, Brazil, and Turkey from the list of countries where travellers have been restricted from coming into Nigeria as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Mustapha explained that the government took the decision to lift the ban following an emergency meeting held before the briefing.

    He also commended the United Kingdom for reviewing its travel protocols which allowed fully vaccinated travellers from Nigeria to enter the country without having to self-isolate after their arrival.

    “Over several months, four countries were placed on high-level restriction for travellers from such countries,” the SGF said. “The PSC has after a review of the developments in these countries, decided to remove South Africa, Turkey, and Brazil from the restricted list.

    “As you are aware, the UK has eased restrictions on fully vaccinated travellers from Nigeria to the UK with effect from 11th October. Nigeria welcomes this development and assures that the PSC shall continue to review Nigeria’s protocols based on global developments, science, and national experience. A revised protocol will be issued in the next 24 hours.”

    He alerted Nigerians on the forthcoming two major religious festivities – Salah and Christmas, noting that there would be increased passenger traffic in and out of the country Similarly and possibly events of large gatherings.

    Mustapha, who said the PSC would escalate surveillance and other control activities, urged the states and all Nigerians to increase their vigilance.