Paul Pogba is expected to return to playing professional football after his ban of four years was reduced to 18 months. Pogba was banned from football by Italy’s anti-doping tribunal after testing positive for testosterone last August. However, in a new development, the French midfielder will now return to football by March 2025 after a successful appeal. As per Daily …

Lagos State Government on Wednesday debunked a viral fake news on social media, stating emphatically that the State has not re-introduced the monthly environmental sanitation and is not starting any movement restriction by July ending. In a statement signed by the State Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, he stated that the viral news is the work …

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba has advocated for the return to regional government rather than the creation of new states. He noted that state creation would increase the cost of governance as new offices would be formed, despite the harsh economic realities facing the nation’s populace. Agbakoba, a former President of the Nigeria Bar Association, expressed the …

The Swedish government has said it will return 39 pieces of Benin artefacts in its museum to the custody of Oba of Benin, Ewuare II. The Swedish Ambassador to Nigeria, Annika Hahn-Englund, on Tuesday night conveyed the Swedish government’s decision when she paid a courtesy visit to the Oba in his palace in Benin, Edo State. Hahn-Englund also said that …

A Royal Court in Jersey, United States, has reportedly ruled that stolen assets worth £6.9m ($8.9m) be repatriated to Nigeria. The said assets were allegedly diverted by Nigerian government officials in 2014 under the guise of purchasing arms to fight Boko Haram terrorists. According to BBC, the court ruled that the money, deposited in a Jersey bank account, was likely …

The Nigeria Police Force has refunded over N80 million allegedly extorted by the Anti-Cyber Crime Unit, attached to the State CID of Rivers State Police Command, to its owner, Davidson John Atubi, a chairman of a pipeline surveillance facility. Also returned are two plasma televisions worth over N5 million and a standing fan carted away from a victim. The money …