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  • Man Utd coach Solskjaer reacts to sack talk

    Man Utd coach Solskjaer reacts to sack talk

    Embattled boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is confident Manchester United can improve following a stop-start run of results in all competitions.

    The Red Devils have won only five of ten games in all competitions, while they are already out of the League Cup.

    United dropped more Premier League points at the weekend, drawing 1-1 at home to a depleted Everton side.

    Their next run of matches includes clashes such as Leicester City away, Liverpool at home, Tottenham Hotspur away, and Manchester City at home.

    But Solskjaer is adamant that he can get the best out of his squad.

    “It is the same question that was asked after Wednesday night,” Solskjaer told reporters.

    “I’m very confident that we will get the best out of this squad.

    “A lot has happened this month and we’ve had Raphael and Jadon with us since August, and Cristiano since September. We’ve got loads to work on and we need to improve, we know that and I know that.

    “But I do believe in this group of players and the coaching staff that I’ve got. So, the short answer is yes.

    “I believe in these players, I believe in the coaching staff and I believe we have something going. The proof is in the pudding, we need results and you have to turn up.

    “You can’t say ‘we did well against City and Tottenham last year’, we have to do it during the 90 minutes, whoever plays. That is the challenge.

    “Because every game in the Champions League and Premier League is a big game against a good team and every game as Manchester United is a potential banana skin, as we are expected to win every one.”

  • Premier League club sack manager over poor results

    Premier League club sack manager over poor results

    Premier League club Watford have sacked their manager Xisco Munoz after 10 months in the job.

    The 41-year-old Spaniard helped win promotion to EPL last season after joining in December 2020.

    Watford are 14th with seven points from seven games and Munoz’s last match in charge was Saturday’s 1-0 defeat by Leeds United.

    “The board feels recent performances strongly indicate a negative trend at a time when team cohesion should be visibly improving,” the club said.

    “The Hornets will always be grateful to Xisco for the part he played in securing last season’s promotion and wish him well for his future career in football.

    “No further club comment will be available until the imminent announcement of a new head coach.”

    Watford have had five managers in two years and there has been no indication of who will replace Munoz.

    The club, who were also knocked out of the Carabao Cup by Stoke in September, will next play Liverpool on 16 October in a league fixture.

  • Kano Assembly demands sack of State Revenue Service chairman for performing far from Lagos

    Kano Assembly demands sack of State Revenue Service chairman for performing far from Lagos

    The Kano State House of Assembly has passed a resolution urging the State Government to sack the Chairman of the State Internal Revenue Service, Alhaji Abdulrazak Salihi.

    This followed the adoption of a motion by the House Leader, Mr Labaran Madari at the committee of the whole on Tuesday in Kano.

    Speaking on the motion, Madari said that Salihi was unfit to retain his seat as the chairman of the State Internal Revenue Service.

    The chairman had earlier appeared before the lawmakers after he was summoned at Monday’s sitting to explain the activities of the service.

    The Speaker, Alhaji Ibrahim Chidari, said that the lawmakers wanted the chairman sacked because he lacked competence for the job.

    Chidari said Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) has dropped sharply in the state in spite of its large economy.

    “Kano is well known for high performance in IGR, next to Lagos state. It is worrisome that Kano is now number nine in revenue generation and 17 in performance. This is not acceptable,” he said.

    The House thereafter, set up an ad hoc committee under the chairmanship of Alhaji Magaji Zarewa (Rogo-APC) to investigate the activities of the service and report in 30 days.

    The House also adopted a resolution urging the state government to rehabilitate the Rogo-Gwangwan Road in Rogo Local Government Area (LGA) of the state due to its deplorable condition.

    This followed the adoption of a motion on a matter of urgent public interest, by Alhaji Magaji Zarewa (APC-Rogo) at plenary.

    Speaking on the motion, Zarewa said that the bad condition of the road had resulted in untold hardship on residents of the area.

    “The bad condition of the road has created untold hardship on the people in the communities who are mostly farmers,” he said.

  • BREAKING: Buhari fires Agriculture, Power Ministers

    BREAKING: Buhari fires Agriculture, Power Ministers

    President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Minister of Agriculture, Sabo Nanono and the Minister of Power, Mamman Sale.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports President Buhari fired both Ministers on Wednesday.

    This is the first time the President has taken such an action since stepping in the saddle six years ago.

    But he has now declared that this would be a continuous exercise aimed at reinvigorating the cabinet and injecting fresh ideas into governance.

    The Minister of Environment, Mohammed Mahmoud Abubakar takes over the Agriculture portfolio, while Abubakar Aliu, Minister of State for Works, takes over from Mamman Sale as the Minister of Power.

    President Buhari announced the minor reshufflement during the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting.

    Details later…

  • Mikel Arteta gets deadline to avoid Arsenal sack

    Mikel Arteta gets deadline to avoid Arsenal sack

    Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, has been given until October to save his job, according to the UK Telegraph.

    The Gunners have started the 2021/2022 season miserably losing their first two matches.

    Arteta’s men lost 2-0 to newly-promoted Brentford on the opening day, before another 2-0 defeat at the Emirates against Chelsea on Sunday.

    Although Arteta has claimed silverware in successive seasons since his arrival in 2019, with FA Cup and Community Shield triumphs, he is now under pressure.

    The Spaniard was heckled by furious fans after the Chelsea game, with the supporters asking him to resign.

    However, the board will remain patient with the 38-year-old until after the international break and give him a chance to turn things around.

  • Replacement threats: Striking doctors hit back at Ngige, Ehanire; say they should resign or be sacked

    Replacement threats: Striking doctors hit back at Ngige, Ehanire; say they should resign or be sacked

    President of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) Dr. Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, has said that the people who deserve to resign or be sacked from their duties are those who have put the doctors in a position where they have to embark on industrial actions to drive home their demands.

    Okhuaihesuyi said this on Sunday on a monitored Channels Television in reaction to comments by the Labour Minister, Chris Ngige, about replacing the striking doctors.

    The Minister on Friday, had said that he had invoked Section 43 of the Labour Law which states, in part, that for the period a worker withdraws his services, the government or his employers are not entitled to pay.

    “Their employer has a right to replace them. It doesn’t matter what you want to term it. We can use Locum doctors or medical officers,” he added.

    But in reaction, the NARD president said: “I want to ask Nigerians to tell those that are the cause of the strike and have not done their work that they should be sacked or resign from the positions they hold”.

    When asked who those persons are, he said: “The Minister of health, the Minister of Labour, the NDCM Registrar, Sanusi; they are the ones that should be held responsible for the strike we are on and something needs to be done to them. If they can do that to them, then they can implement the no-work no-pay policy”.

    Monday marks the expiration of the one-week ultimatum given by the Labour Minister for the striking doctors to resume work.

    Their failure to resume would result in the escalation of other measures by the minister.

    “Next week, I will escalate it because the conciliation has failed and the law says that if conciliation fails on my own side, I can move it up.

    “There are other things that are permitted by law. I will invoke other things,” Ngige had vowed on Friday.

    But the NARD President has insisted that the strike will continue “fully and indefinitely”.

    “You can’t be threatening someone when you have not done your part,” Okhuaihesuyi stressed.

  • CNN fires 3 staffers for working at headquarters without vaccination

    CNN fires 3 staffers for working at headquarters without vaccination

    CNN has dismissed three employees for entering its New York headquarters without being vaccinated for protection against the Coronavirus (COVID-19), according to a memo from the cable news network’s president.

    “In the past week, we have been made aware of three employees who were coming to the office unvaccinated,” said the memo sent to CNN staff on Thursday and obtained by the Times.

    “All three have been terminated. Let me be clear — we have a zero-tolerance policy on this.

    “You need to be vaccinated to come to the office. And you need to be vaccinated to work in the field, with other employees, regardless of whether you enter an office or not. Period,” the memo added.

    The names of the dismissed employees were not revealed, according to two staffers at the WarnerMedia unit.

    Vaccinated employees have been allowed to return to CNN offices on a voluntary basis.

    They have used the honor system to confirm their vaccination status through the company’s pass-card system and have not been asked to show proof.

    Zucker said that might change in the weeks ahead.

    Zucker also said CNN “is delaying a formal return date to the office”, located at Hudson Yards on the west side of Manhattan.

    Employees were expected to return Sept. 7, but due to the recent surge in COVID-19 cases, largely caused by unvaccinated individuals, the date has been pushed to mid-October.

    Companies throughout the country are taking a harder line on allowing unvaccinated individuals to work.

    More than 150 people at Houston Methodist resigned or were fired after the hospital system required a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment.

    A number of media organisations -including CBS News, where staffers work closely side by side – require visitors to show proof of vaccination before entering a company facility.

    About a third of CNN’s news personnel are working on-site after more than a year of working remotely because of the pandemic.

    Employees are allowed to return to the office two weeks after completing the vaccination process.

  • I have right to sack unprofitable pastors – Oyedepo

    I have right to sack unprofitable pastors – Oyedepo

    President, Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo blew hot on Sunday as he said he has right to sack pastors who are sick and unprofitable, warning critics to face their jobs.

    Oyedepo, during a service at Faith Tabernacle, Ota, Ogun State justified the sack of some pastors in his church, saying that even in the secular, workers who are not profitable are always sacked.

    “Rural Church is going on. All the offerings from rural Churches for the next 40 years cannot build what they are building for them because I learnt some fellows were saying that, “It is because they don’t have offering that is why they said they should go.”

    “It is because you are sick, you are unproductive, you will be plucked out. We sent you to go to the villages to reach out to minimum of 12 souls in a week and ensure that minimum 6 of them come to Church. Then 6 months, you don’t have 10. You are unprofitable, you shouldn’t survive.

    “Sound management brought us here Sir. Keeping unprofitable servants makes you a poor manager. Businessmen hear me now: keeping unprofitable servants makes you a poor manager. You have a right to resign, we have the right to sack you. It is a system, it works like that everywhere,” he stated in a post by Church Gist.

    Oyedepo also spoke on the church’s ongoing 100,000 capacity auditorium, warning critics to stay clear as the church was not using their money to build the massive edifice.

    According to him, “We are building 100,000 seat auditorium; did they collect money from you? ‘They should have built a factory’: who told you? Do you budget for somebody’s resources? Keep quiet my friend and face your job.

    “They enjoy hearing from me, so I like speaking to them. Even UK government agree that our Churches are one of the best run charity in UK. Well, God is faithful.

    “That is how your business will be. You will never keep unprofitable stewards in your system. If you have a driver who is always bashing your car, will you retain him? Before he will bash you yourself.”

  • Oyedepo confirms mass sack of Winners Church pastors, gives reasons

    Oyedepo confirms mass sack of Winners Church pastors, gives reasons

    President and Founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, also known as Winners Chapel Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo on Wednesday shed light on the sacking of some ministers on the payroll of the church.

    The outspoken cleric while confirming the development that has dominated the social media space for some days now justified the sack of pastors saying they were “unfruitful” in their assignments.

    In a video that has now gone viral Oyedepo said, ”When we employed 7, 000 pastors at once, social media was dead. We have more employees than most states in Nigeria and we have neither owed them or taken bank overdraft once.

     

    ”The pastors were asked to go because they were unfruitful. Many of the churches built can never pay for the church building in 30 years. We have no patience for failure here.

     

    ”We have built more than 1,000 churches in rural areas where in the next 30 years, they can never generate such fund, with each costing more than N14 million. We are hunting after souls, not income.

     

    ”People are confused about our Ministry. I learnt some fellows said, ‘you know, they are not bringing income, that is why they asked them to go.’

     

    ”We asked you to go because you are unfruitful. Unfruitful! Blatant failure. Doing what there? We have no patience with failure here.

     

    ”When we employed 7,000 people at a time, social media was dead.We have more employees in this organisation than most of the states.

     

    ”No one is owed a dime salary and we don’t borrow, we don’t beg. Ask our bank whether we take overdraft. We are covenant bound, working in the light of God’ Word, enjoying an open Heaven.

     

    ”Money: Nonsense! We have never lacked it and yet we have never prayed for it, we are just simply obeying God and He is backing up what He is asking us to do. Awesome God.

     

    ”Now the next set is about to be flagged off, just certifying the landed property issues, nothing else. We have no lack of anything. The world is confused. Walking in the light of God’s Word. Please, obey God to the full and watch out for His manifestations in your life.

     

    ”Well, you don’t need so much mathematics to know a thousand buildings; that is not N1,000 each, that is not N10 million each, that is not 12 Million (naira) each, that is not 14 million (naira) each. Some are 35 million (naira). At a go!

     

    ”We have never seen it ourselves. We just watch God doing it. The only criteria: How many souls have they gotten there? Then, build for them. How many souls? Not once: how much money do they have?

     

    ”You want to see what we see, go and do what we do. But if you are not saved, there is nothing you do that matters.”

  • Defection to APC: PDP approaches court, seeks removal of Mattawalle as Zamfara governor

    Defection to APC: PDP approaches court, seeks removal of Mattawalle as Zamfara governor

    The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to sack Zamfara Governor Bello Muhammad Matawalle over his defection from the party to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    The request forms part of the reliefs being sought in a suit, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/489/2021 filed in the names of two PDP members from Zamfara State – Sani Kaura Ahmed and Abubakar Muhammed.

    The plaintiffs are contending that, in view of an earlier judgment of the Supreme Court, to the effect that the APC had no candidates in the 2019 governorship election in Zamfara State, having not conducted valid primaries, it would be unlawful for Matawalle to retain his office while defecting from the PDP to the APC, and thereby transfer PDP’s victory to the APC.

    They want the court to,among others,declare that Matawalle must resign from his office before his defection to allow the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct fresh election, within three months, for the PDP to replace him.

    On Monday after listening to plaintiffs’ lawyer, Kanu Agabi (SAN) moved his ex-parte motion, Justice Inyang Ekwo granted an order of substituted service of the originating processes on the Governor.