Author: Vincent Osuwo

Thousands of Galatasaray fans gathered at Istanbul Airport in Turkey to enthusiastically welcome Napoli talisman Victor Osimhen on Monday.  Despite arriving around 3:30 a.m., Osimhen was greeted with applause and chants. He seemed overjoyed as supporters cheered and yelled his name, creating an unforgettable moment. The positive greeting signalled the start of Osimhen’s loan move from Napoli to Galatasaray, which was completed after the European transfer market closed. The Turkish club will cover his €10 million salary, allegedly paying €8.8 million with a January release clause for top clubs. Osimhen’s arrival was widely anticipated, with supporters waiting all night for…

A school bus crashed into a crowd outside a middle school in eastern China on Tuesday, killing 11 parents and pupils, according to official media.  CCTV said that the driver “lost control” of the vehicle as it neared the school in Shandong province’s Tai’an city around 7:27 a.m. (2327 GMT Monday). The bus collided with a group of parents and children on the side of the road, according to CCTV. “As of now, (the incident) has caused the deaths of 11 people, of whom six were parents and five were students,” the broadcaster reported in an update just after 11:30…

A Lagos State High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square will, on October 15, 2024, resume the trial of Chidinma Ojukwu, charged with the murder of Michael Usifo Ataga, the Super TV Chief Executive Officer. Ojukwu, a 300-level Mass Communication student at the University of Lagos, is charged with the murder of Ataga alongside her sister, Chioma Egbuchu, and Adedapo Quadri. The defendants were charged on October 12, 2021, by the Lagos State Government. Ojukwu and Quadri are charged with conspiracy, murder, and stabbing on counts one through eight, while her sister, Egbuchu, is charged with taking the late…

Napoli striker Victor Osimhen is on the verge of joining Galatasaray after the former Italian champions and the player agreed on a loan move to the Turkish giants on Monday. After his unsuccessful move to Chelsea, the 25-year-old still has a chance of leaving Napoli before the Turkish transfer window ends on September 13. The news was first reported by Italian publication Corriere dello Sport on Monday, and certain Nigerian sources connected to the player, including Wazobia FM OAP, Buchi Laba, and Sulaiman Adebayo, also known as Pooja, provided updates as the trade progressed. Sky Sport Italia and RMC Sport…

The South African Consulate in Abuja has denied visas to players from Nigeria’s U-18 boys’ basketball squad for the 2024 FIBA U18 Afrobasket tournament. This decision jeopardises Nigeria’s participation in the biannual event, which begins in South Africa on Tuesday (today), with the team scheduled to face Egypt in Pretoria later that day. The players, who practiced and camped in Abuja after returning from Abidjan, are in complete astonishment, tears, and pain as they watch their aspirations of competing in the FIBA World Championship evaporate due to the South Africans’ refusal to allow them access. Ugo Udezue, Vice Chairman of…

Senator Ishaku Abbo, the Adamawa State-born politician, is once again entangled in controversy after a video of an alleged sexual scandal went viral.  Abbo attacked a breastfeeding woman at an Abuja sex toy shop just two years ago during his first term in the Senate. A leaked viral video from late last week showed a light-skinned man having sexual intercourse with a married woman. Court fines Senator Abbo 50m for assault Surprisingly, Abbo’s name was linked to the identified man in the sex tape, a claim that has yet to be confirmed or supported by any trustworthy sources. Following the…

Luis Suarez, Uruguay’s record goalscorer, who also plays for Inter Miami, will play his final match for La Celeste this Friday. Suarez announced his retirement from the Uruguay national team on Monday, capping off an illustrious international career that included 142 caps and 69 goals, the most in La Celeste history. The former Barcelona striker will play his final match in Uruguay’s World Cup qualifier against Paraguay on Friday at Estadio Centenario, the team’s main home stadium. Suarez is one of Uruguay’s top players, and he has made numerous contributions to the South American team. Suarez made his national team…

Galatasaray have agreed to cover €9/10m as the salary of Victor Osimhen until the end of the season, according to Fabrizio Romano. Galatasaray’s agents are currently in Naples to get the ”green light” of the current African Footballer of the Year. The loan deal agreed with Napoli, according to Romano, does not include any buy option/obligation clause. Osimhen’s highly anticipated summer move to Chelsea hit the rocks.  The deal fell through with only two hours left before the transfer window closed, after the Nigerian forward and the Premier League club were unable to reach an agreement. His chances of transferring…

Habibat Akinsanya, an 18-year-old girl who had been reported missing, was found dead on her father’s farm at Obasa, Mile 6, along Ajebo Road in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State. It was gathered on Monday that Akinsanya was discovered dead on Sunday, with multiple machete slashes to her head and other parts of her body, and her hands bound behind her back. According to trustworthy police sources, the victim was sexually molested before being killed. A police source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told our correspondent that the gruesome murder could be linked to a vengeance assault…

The Nigeria Police Force, on Monday, declared a British national, Andrew Wynne, AKA Andrew Povich, and a Nigerian, Lucky Obiyan, wanted for allegedly plotting to overthrow the President Bola Tinubu government. The police accused the British national of establishing a network of sleeper cells with the intention of overthrowing the government and causing widespread disorder. ACP Muyiwa Adejobi, the Force spokesperson, told media in Abuja that Wynne rented a place at Labour House and set up a school to serve as a decoy. He said, “The Nigeria Police Force has launched a comprehensive investigation into the activities of foreign national…