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Home Nigeria World Politics Sport Opinion Business Technology Guardian Life Guardian Arts Features Guardian Woman Guardian Angels Property Saturday Magazine Sunday Magazine #EndSARS Guardian T Ratcliffe makes late £4.25billion bid to buy Chelsea British billionaire businessman, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, has made a late bid of £4.25bn to buy Chelsea. Ratchiffe Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich put the club up for sale before he was sanctioned for his alleged links to Russian President Vladimir Putin following the invasion of Ukraine. Three bidders were in the running to buy Chelsea for about £2bn. Ratcliffe’s bid would mean £1.75bn invested into the club over 10 years. A further £2.5bn has been committed to a charitable trust to support victims of the war in Ukraine. Ratcliffe, 69, founded the chemicals group Ineos in 1998. The company is best known in the sporting world for its sponsorship of the British cycling outfit Team Ineos. “This is a British bid, for a British club,” read an Ineos statem

  It was a mistake: Oshiomhole denies presidential ambition Oshiomhole Former National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has denied social media reports he was gunning for the presidency in 2023. Oshiomhole in a Facebook post on Friday, said he would make a declaration at Cyprian Ekwensi Arts Centre in Abuja on Friday, live on TV. But the event was called off. In  an interview, the former Edo state governor said the report must be a mistake. He said whenever he makes up his mind to go for any office, he would speak directly to Nigerians. “I will not declare on the pages of Newspapers. If I will declare, it will be to people”

  PDP screens 56 gov candidates in S’South, concludes exercise PDP National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu     The Peoples Democratic Party Governorship Screening Committee for the South-South has concluded its task, having successfully screened 56 aspirants from four states. The Chairman of the committee and Governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri, while speaking with newsmen at the end of the exercise on Friday, said the process was hectic but transparent. Diri disclosed that a total of 57 aspirants from four states were received, but that one of them did not turn up as of Friday evening when the two-day exercise ended. Meanwhile, a governorship hopeful from Rivers State,  Farah Dagogo, was arrested shortly after he arrived at the PDP South-South zonal secretariat in Port Harcourt 24 hours after he was declared wanted by Governor Nyesom Wike. Diri stated, “This was a tedious but purely democratic, quite transparent and a family affair. And men of integrity in this committee and the panel ha

  Use me, I already have 11 million votes: Atiku tells PDP Atiku Abubakar making a pitch for his candidacy on Thursday A  presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, made a strong pitch for the party’s ticket as he claimed he has 11 million votes already. He said this Thursday when he spoke at a meeting with the National Working Committee of the party. Abubakar was making reference to the votes he won in the 2019 election, when he was beaten by President Muhammadu Buhari. Atiku, a former vice-president said he is the best candidate to win the 2023 presidential election for the party. “I urge you to provide the right kind of leadership so that the best candidate can emerge,” he said. “I dare say, Mr Chairman, I am the best candidate. “Under normal circumstances, this is a guy who already has 11 million votes in his space, and I think as a party, you should give me the right of first refusal. “In fact, we are in a democracy. All I urge you is to make sure

  UI student disappears from Lagos construction site, family panics The family of a 22-year-old undergraduate at the University of Ibadan, Samson Ajayi, are in despair after he went missing while going to work on a construction site in the Ajah area of Lagos. Related story: https://www.edoborsblog.com/2022/04/missing-corps-member-on-abuja-found.html   The  incident happened on March 9, 2022 and the case was reported at the Ogombo Police Station. Samson’s uncle, Taiwo Ajayi, said the victim stayed with his parents in the Alagbado area of Lagos State due to the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. He explained that Samson went to work on the construction site so as not to be idle, adding that efforts by the family to find him were abortive. The relative said he suspected foul play from co-workers on the construction site. Taiwo said, “His colleagues reported his absence to his mother on the telephone. On Thursday, March 10, I and his mother went to the construction

2023 Presidency: Why Jonathan can’t contest —Falana Mr Falana said this in a statement in response to growing calls on Mr Jonathan to throw his hat into the ring ahead of the 2023 election. Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, said Thursday, that former President Goodluck Jonathan cannot contest in the 2023 presidential election, citing constitutional provisions barring the ex-president from seeking re-election. Popular post: https://www.edoborsblog.com/2022/04/thieves-steal-75000-at-apc-headquatrets.html The senior lawyer said this in a statement in response to growing calls on Mr Jonathan to throw his hat into the ring ahead of the 2023 election. He said Mr Jonathan, who was Nigerian president between 2010 and 2015, would breach constitutional term limits of two terms of eight years if he runs for the presidency and wins again. He recalled that Mr Jonathan became the President of Nigeria in 2010 following the sudden death of President Umaru Yar’adua, Yaradua and later contested and won