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Liverpool superstar, Mohamed Salah has confirmed that this will be his last season at the club. In an exclusive interview with Sky News, he was asked if he felt this was his final season with the Reds, and Salah responded: “So far? Yes. It’s the last six months.” “There is no progress there, we’re far away from any progress, so we just need to wait and see.” Salah said he aims to win another Premier League title for the English club. “I want to win the Premier League with Liverpool. It’s my last year in the club, so you want…

South Korea’s political leadership was in uncharted territory Saturday after the sitting president resisted arrest over a failed martial law decree days before the warrant expires. In scenes of high drama on Friday, Yoon Suk Yeol’s presidential guards and military troops shielded the former star prosecutor from investigators, who called off their arrest attempt citing safety concerns. The South Korean president was impeached and suspended last month after the bungled martial law declaration — a political move swiftly overturned by parliament — with a separate warrant later issued for his arrest. “There was a standoff. While we estimated the personnel…

CBN Confirms Exit Of 1000 Staff In December, Denies Forced Resignation.The apex bank in Nigeria, the Central Bank has confirmed the exit of 1000 staff in December, 2024. The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso who confirmed on Friday saying that the 1000 staff members who left the institution in December 2024 did so voluntarily and were not forced to resign. Cardoso made the clarification on Friday during an investigative hearing by the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee, which is probing the reasons behind the staff exits and the N50 billion severance package offered to those…

The Nigeria Police Force has vowed that it will no longer tolerate any assault on his officers and men let alone killing any officer, no matter the situation. The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, who gave the warning in Enugu State on Friday, during his official visit to the Enugu State Command, unequivocally stated that there must be appropriate response from the Force. “We will not tolerate any assault on our police officers not to talk of killing. An assault on a policeman is criminal, is an assault on the IGP and we are not going to kindly any act…

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is throwing his weight behind growing calls in the United Kingdom for a new investigation into the scandal of child abuse by grooming gangs, going so far as to back calls for King Charles III to intervene. “National inquiry now!” Musk stated on X on Friday, declaring the scandal “the worst mass crime against the people of Britain ever.” The U.K. has for years been dealing with the revelation that a number of grooming gangs, often consisting of men of South Asian or British Pakistani heritage, exploited children for decades across the north of England in cities and towns…

THOUSANDS of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) residents will witness a two-week blackout from Monday, January 6, as the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) announced an imminent disruption in power supply. The disruption is due to the relocation of the 33KV DC Airport Feeder and 132KV Kukwaba-Apo Transmission Line Towers along the Outer Southern Expressway by the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) The AEDC disclosed this in a statement on its official X handle on Friday, January 3. According to the company, the operation would occur from January 6 to 21. The statement listed areas to be affected by the outage…

Ghana’s outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo Friday announced visa-free travel for all African passport holders from the start of this year, marking a step towards continental economic integration. The announcement came during his final state of the nation address as he prepares to step down on January 6 after two terms in office. “I am proud to have approved visa-free travel to Ghana for all African passport holders, with effect from the beginning of this year,” Akufo-Addo said in his speech to parliament. “This is the logical next step to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the workings of…

The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, on Thursday, January 2, paid a visit to former Nigerian leader, Ibrahim Babangida. Obi who disclosed this on social media, said the visit was a chance to share thoughts on national issues with the elder statesman. “From Jigawa state, I travelled to Minna, Niger State to pay a visit to a father figure, elder statesman and leader, the former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, at his residence in Minna, Niger State. he wrote The visit was an opportunity to wish him a happy New Year and to…

Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, in a stunning show of power, signed the 2025 appropriation bill into law. Fubara signed the N1.18 trillion appropriation bill at the government house in Port Harcourt on Thursday, January 2, 2025. On Monday, the governor presented the budget proposal to the four-member Rivers State House of Assembly led by Victor Oko-Jumbo. This is a repeat of what happened last year, where Governor Fubara presented the N800 billion 2024 budget before a four-member assembly and assented to it within 24 hours. The majority of the state lawmakers sidelined from the assembly because of the…

President Bola Tinubu has tasked the 36 state governors with leading development at the grassroots, saying the financial autonomy granted to local governments is not an attempt to snatch the third tier of government from governors. The President said the leadership of governors at the subnational level is central to achieving food security, economic prosperity and rapid national growth. Tinubu stated this on Wednesday when members of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) led by Kwara State Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazak paid him a New Year homage at his Ikoyi residence in Lagos. The President stressed the importance for grassroots development and…