Ronaldo receives record fourth Golden Shoe Award

     Real Madrid forward, Cristiano Ronaldo has collected a record fourth Golden Shoe award at a ceremony on Tuesday, after scoring 48 goals in the 2014/2015 season.

The prize is usually given to Europe’s highest goal scorer and the Portugal captain beat rival Lionel Messi, who scored 43 times, to the award.

I will not quit Holland – Van Persie

Robin van Persie has insisted that retiring from the Dutch national team is not an option right now.

BREAKING: Buhari withdraws Ibeto from Ministerial Nominees

 

President Muhammadu Buhari has withdrawn the nomination of Ahmed Ibeto from Niger State as a Minister, bringing the total number of nominees to 36 from 37 earlier submitted.

This was just announced by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki at today’s plenary.

NNPC Records N378bn Loss In 8 Months

 

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has announced a loss of N378.49 billion in its operations for the first eight months of the year.

Ibe KachikwuOne of NNPC’s subsidiaries, the Products and Pipeline Marketing Company Limited, PPMC, accounted for majority of the losses, as it spent over N300 billion on subsidy and in the repairs and management of its pipelines between January and August.

Landlord Rapes 10 Year-Old Girl At Bonugo Village, Abuja

    A 46-year-old landlord, simply identified as Sunday, was last Friday arrested for allegedly raping a 10-year-old daughter of his tenant at Bonugo village in Kwali Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

A source who craved anonymity disclosed this to our reporter on Sunday, saying the incident happened after the victim’s parents, who are tenants in Sunday’s house, went out to visit a relative.