Abuja Media Circle

Manchester United have confirmed the world record transfer of Paul Pogba from Juventus. The Frenchman completes a sensational return to Old Trafford, the club he walked away from in 2012, for £90million. Pogba has put pen to paper on a five-year deal as he confirmed his return to the Premier League. And the Frenchman is delighted to have returned to the club four years on. “I am delighted to rejoin United. It has always been a club with a special place in my heart and I am really looking forward to working with José Mourinho. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at Juventus and have some fantastic memories of a great club with players that I count as friends. But I feel the time is right to go back to Old Trafford. I always enjoyed playing in front of the fans and can’t wait to make my contribution to the team. This is the right club for me to achieve everything I hope to in the game,” he said.

The factional chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kano State, Hussaini Mairiga, yesterday came down hard on President Muhammadu Buhari, describing him as a total failure. Mairiga, who spoke with journalists in Kano, said “from the looks of things, President Buhari has betrayed the confidence of the Nigerian masses who voted for him massively into power.” The factional chairman said it was not an exaggeration that members of many families in the country go to bed without at least one square meal, while others had fled their homes because they could no longer provide the basic needs of life for their loved ones. Mairiga, who is known for his bluntness, expressed worry that after one year of the Buhari administration in power, there was nothing to show while poverty in the country had reached an unprecedented level. He lamented that while a bag of rice now sold for N16, 000, prices of other essentials commodities had tripled. Mairiga noted with dismay that prices of goods we...