Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has conceded that the Premier League title race is over, after his side’s 3-2 defeat at Wolves on Friday. City are third in the Premier League, 14 points behind leaders, Liverpool, and a point below Leicester City, who are second. Asked if the title race is over, Guardiola told BBC […]
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Chief Press Secretary to Kwara State Government, Rafiu Ajakaiye said on Friday, that a piece of land being used by the Saraki Family in Ilorin has been taken over by government. A release by the Kwara Governor, that a new secretariat would be built on the land. Ajakaiye said the land was originally meant for […]
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The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has urged Nigerians not to allow insurgents divide them along religious lines. Buhari said this in reaction to the killing of 10 Christians in Borno state by the Islamic State (IS). According to a statement released by Garba Shehu, presidential spokesperson, Buhari described the execution […]
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The recent vituperations of the misguided and opposition sponsored so-called activist Mr. Deji Adeyanju has been described as “the level of desperation and even the frustration of the opposition and the manifest failures of their antics which are aimed at destabilizing the present government.” Mr. Segun Adenuga in a statement made available to journalists in […]
Continue ReadingLiverpool in a sense ended the Premier League’s title race in Week 19, by beating second-placed Leicester City 4-0 on the road to open up a 13-point gap at the top of the table. Elsewhere Carlo Ancelotti got his Everton career off to a winning start, but Arsenal’s Mikel Arteta wasn’t so lucky. Manchester United […]
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The government of Kano state has barred persons of opposite genders from entering same commercial tricycle. The ban will take effect from January 2020. Governor Abdullahi Ganguje of Kano, disclosed this on Wednesday at the 77th annual Islamic vacation course (IVC) at Bayero University, Kano. The governor was represented by Harun Ibn-Sina, commander-general of Hisbah […]
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The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Governor of Edo, Adams Oshiomhole, has rejected Christmas gifts from Edo State Government. Crusoe Osagie, the Special Adviser to Edo State Governor on Media and Communications, disclosed this in a statement in Benin on Wednesday. Osagie said the conventional Christmas presents reserved for former governors […]
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Former National Security Adviser (NSA), retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki has thanked his teeming well-wishers and other Nigerians who prayed and stood by him during his travails while he was in detention. He was released Tuesday evening by the Federal Government after spending four years in the custody of Department of State Service (DSS). The ex-NSA, […]
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A popular mobile application developed in the United Arab Emirates has been removed from both Apple and Google’s online marketplaces following a report it was used for widespread government spying. The moves come after The New York Times reported on Saturday that the app ToTok allowed the UAE government to track the conversations, movements, and […]
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The Lagos State Government on Monday said its 32,000-metric-tonnes Imota rice mill would about 250,000 jobs when completed in June 2020. Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, Gbolahan Lawan made the disclosure during an inspection visit to the rice mill at Imota, Ikorodu. Mr. Lawal said the economic importance of the rice mill was very huge, […]
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