Jurgen Klopp has agreed to a contract extension with Liverpool until 2024, the runaway Premier League leaders announced on Friday. Klopp, who moved to Anfield in 2015, guided Liverpool to Champions League glory in June and they are currently eight points clear at the top of the Premier League. “For me personally this is a […]
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By Fredrick Nwabufo Jane Appleton Pierce, the wife of Franklin Pierce, 14th president of the United States, is perhaps, most remembered as the ‘’calamity first lady’’. She spent her years working against the political ambition of her husband. And when he eventually became president she still did not let up. Is Aisha Buhari ‘’calamity first […]
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A high court sitting in Adamawa has ordered the arrest of Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum resources, for giving a bribe of N362 million to INEC officials to influence the 2015 presidential election. The Presiding Judge, Nathan Musa, gave this order on Thursday while delivering judgement against Ibrahim Umar and Sahabo Hamman, two staff […]
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The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, on Thursday, assured his supporters that the rally to receive defectors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will still hold. The leadership of the party had organised the rally to welcome Osagie Ize-Iyamu, governorship candidate of the PDP in 2016, into its fold […]
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According to the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Shuabu Ibrahim, corps members will earn the new minimum wage as allowance starting next year. The NYSC boss said the allowance of corps members was being reviewed to reflect the new minimum wage of N30,000 per month by 2020 as it had been captured […]
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Arsenal won Group F in the UEFA Europa League on Thursday after a dramatic 2-2 comeback at Standard Liege. The Gunners maintained top spot after a surprise 3-2 victory for Vitoria de Guimaraes at Eintracht Frankfurt. Manchester United scored four in 11 minutes at the start of the second half to defeat AZ Alkmaar 4-0 at Old Trafford. […]
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The world’s first fully electric commercial aircraft took its inaugural test flight on Tuesday, taking off from the Canadian city of Vancouver and offering hope that airlines may one day end their polluting emissions. “This proves that commercial aviation in all-electric form can work,” said Roei Ganzarski, chief executive of Seattle-based engineering firm magniX. The […]
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A chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Prince Tonye Princewill has reacted to Governor Wike’s recent comment on how the chief executive of the State would build 10 flyovers in Ikwerre land if he had his way and nothing would happen. Mr. Princewill in a statement circulated to national and international online […]
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The inspector-general of police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the immediate suspension of the APC rally scheduled for Friday in Benin City. The rally was meant to welcome Osagie Ize-Iyamu, former governorship candidate of the PDP, to the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC). Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, Philip Shaibu, deputy governor […]
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The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari says all Africans travelling to Nigeria will get visa on arrival from January 2020. Speaking at the ongoing Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development in Africa holding in Egypt, the president said: “We in Nigeria have already taken the strategic decision to bring down […]
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