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Young United Talent Gives Solskjaer Food For Thought

November 30, 2019 2:20 pm

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will continue the difficult balancing act of integrating Manchester United’s exciting young talent into a first team still struggling to find consistency when they take on Aston Villa on Sunday.

United faced a marathon trek to play Astana in Kazakhstan on Thursday although, having already qualified from their Europa League group, the United manager was able to rest his entire first team squad.

Striker Jesse Lingard was the only regular first team player to make the trip as Solskjaer kept one eye on the Villa game and an increasingly frustrating domestic campaign.

United are presently nine points …

Emotional Debutant Martin Gives Pellegrini A Lift

November 30, 2019 2:19 pm

West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini insisted the speculation he was on the verge of being sacked was no distraction after a dream debut for an emotional David Martin inspired Saturday’s shock 1-0 win at Chelsea.

Pellegrini’s decision to give Martin his first Premier League start proved a successful gamble and left the 33-year-old goalkeeper crying tears of joy at the final whistle.

While Martin’s moment in the spotlight was as heart-warming as it was unexpected, West Ham’s first win in eight league games made the trip to Stamford Bridge even more significant for Pellegrini, who was reportedly give two matches …

Contract Extension: Rohr Gives NFF 2-Month Ultimatum

November 23, 2019 3:25 am
Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, has threatened to quit his job if the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) fails to extend his contract within two months. His current contract with the Nigerian Federation is expected to expire in June next year.

Recent reports claimed that Rohr had held talks with the Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Sunday Dare, where the German tactician demanded the extenuation of his contract by two or three years.

The Super Eagles are unbeaten since the conclusion of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, registering back-to-back impressive draws against Ukraine and Brazil and have maximum

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Obiano Gives Over ‎₦100m To Onitsha Tanker Fire Victims

November 20, 2019 5:45 pm
Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State has disbursed over ‎₦100m to the victims of the Onitsha Ochanja market fuel tanker inferno that happened on Wednesday October 16, 2019.
Obiano who disbursed the cheque at governor’s lodge Awka said that six people lost their lives, 10 people injured while about 763 people lost their wares, shops and plazas to the fire.
According to the governor six deceased families got the sum of ‎₦1m each, 10 injured persons with broken legs got the sum of ‎₦500, 000 while other victims got the sum of ‎₦100, 000 each.
He said the money was
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Ogoni: MOSOP Gives Conditions For Oil Resumption

November 20, 2019 5:08 pm
Ogoni ethnic nationality has released a memorandum on benchmarks for engagement between them and companies desiring to take over the operatorship of Ogoni fields in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 11.
This was contained in a draft document made available to journalists yesterday, by the Ogoni Oil and Gas Production Committee chaired by Professor Ben Naanen in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The draft memorandum of understanding (MoU), which was signed by 20 persons, outlined 27 conditions that should be looked into by prospective oil operators.
Delivering the document to notable Ogoni groups and individuals, Professor Naanen stated that a prospective oil
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US Vice President Gives Deadline To Boeing, SpaceX

November 15, 2019 2:42 pm

United States Vice President Mike Pence has announced that Boeing and SpaceX, the private US aerospace companies contracted to provide NASA’s astronauts their ride to the International Space Station (ISS), would begin their Commercial Crew space transport operations within roughly four months.

The vice president made his announcement on Thursday at the same time that NASA’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a damning report depicting a space agency willing to accept serious delays and to pay Boeing hundreds of millions of dollars for cost overruns.

Pence told a crowd of engineers and scientists working at NASA’s Ames Research

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Supreme Court Gives Reason For Dismissal Of Atiku’s Appeal

November 14, 2019 3:48 am

The Supreme Court has fixed friday for delivery of reasons for its judgment that dismissed the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the 2019 general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, against the declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari as the winner of the contest.

The apex court had in a unanimous judgment delivered on October 30, dismissed the appellants suit for lacking merit.
Atiku and PDP had in their joint appeal filed in September, challenged the entire judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, which had affirmed the election of President Muhammadu Buhari.

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Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu Gives FG Fresh Conditions For Dialogue

November 10, 2019 9:20 am

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has given the Federal Government fresh condition upon which he would sit at a round table with Nigerian Government officials to discuss the issue of the Biafran struggle.

Kanu who was arrested and detained by officials of the Department of Security Service (DSS) and granted bail by the court, had his home in Umuahia invaded by soldiers on September 17, 2017, which necessitated his escape from the country two years ago.

A statement made available by the media and publicity secretary of IPOB, Emma Powerful quoted Kanu as saying …

FG Gives Conditions For Reopening Of Nigerian Borders

FG Gives Conditions For Reopening Of Nigerian Borders

November 1, 2019 4:14 pm

The federal government is not in a hurry to reopen the country’s shut land borders as it unveiled yesterday the conditions that Nigeria’s neighbouring countries must meet before their pleas are heeded.

The government’s position on the border closure was disclosed yesterday in Abuja by the governor Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House.

Some officials of the neighbouring countries have visited Nigeria since the border closure came into effect to plead with the federal government to review it.

But Emefiele insisted that the borders would remain closed …

Labour Gives Government 21 Days To Pay New Minimum Wage

Labour Gives Government 21 Days To Pay New Minimum Wage

October 8, 2019 1:21 pm

Organised labour yesterday gave the three tiers of government October 31 as deadline to pay the ₦30,000 new minimum wage.

Following series of stalemated talks, both the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) had last week issued an ultimatum urging federal government to conclude negotiations on the consequential adjustment on the new minimum wage on or before October 16.

NLC and TUC also gave federal government till Wednesday (tomorrow) to reconvene and conclude negotiation on consequential adjustment for the new minimum wage.

The two labour centres warned that if their demands on the full implementation of the …

Kanu exposes those behind fake Buhari, gives detailed facts

Kanu exposes those behind fake Buhari, gives detailed facts

August 29, 2019 12:46 am

Following the brouhaha surrounding the true identity of Jubril Al-Sudani, the impostor camouflaging as Nigeria’s president and his recent visit to Japan, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu yesterday, the 28th of August, made a broadcast to reveal those behind the imposition of  the Sudanese impostor on Nigeria, Africa Daily News, New York gathered.

In almost a two-hour broadcast, Kanu explicitly explained how Jubril was shopped for and brought to Nigeria, as well as the fellows behind him. He further condemned the photoshopped images of the purported Buhari in Japan, which the Nigerian government …

Poor development in Sahel Region gives concern to UN

Poor development in Sahel Region gives concern to UN

July 2, 2019 12:05 pm

The United Nations Economic Commission (ECA) has expressed concern over the poor state of development in the Sahel region, including Nigeria.

In a statement on Tuesday by the ECA, the acting Director of the ECA Sub-Regional Office for West Africa, Mr Bakary Dosso said this in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso at a dialogue on the Sahel 2043 Prospective Study.

Dosso said the overall goal of the UN Support Plan for the Sahel, targets 10 countries namely Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal.

He said the goal is to scale up efforts to accelerate shared …

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