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Arsenal fought back from two goals down to salvage a 2-2 draw against Tottenham in a pulsating north London derby on Sunday which both sides will feel they should have won. Spurs preyed on the Gunners’ vacant midfield early on as Christian Eriksen tapped home at the end of a flowing counter-attack before Harry Kane’s […]
Richarlison bagged a brace as Everton earned a dramatic 3-2 win over Wolves on Sunday. Brazil forward Richarlison scored the winner with 10 minutes left at Goodison Park to hand the Toffees their second win of the Premier League season. It was an encouraging day for Everton boss Marco Silva, who handed first Premier League […]
Liverpool recorded a club record 13th consecutive Premier League win to move back to the top of the table with minimal fuss courtesy of a 3-0 victory at Burnley on Saturday. Two goals in four first-half minutes swung the game decisively in the visitors’ favour as Chris Wood deflected Trent Alexander-Arnold’s cross into his own net […]
Manchester City cruised to the top of the Premier League with a 4-0 win over Brighton on Saturday as Manchester United and Chelsea lost further ground in disappointing draws with Southampton and Sheffield United. Leicester moved up to third as the Foxes unbeaten start to the season continued in a 3-1 win over Bournemouth thanks […]
The Speaker of the House of Representatives Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila is leading the Nigerian delegation to the 50th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), Africa Region, Conference taking place in Zanzibar, Tanzania from September 1. Members of the Nigerian delegation include the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and lawmakers from both chambers of the National Assembly. […]
President Muhammadu on Saturday sent a delegation to Katsina to condole with a prominent son of the State, Ambassador Ahmed Rufa’i Abubakar, the Director-General, National Intelligence Agency (NIA) following the death of his sister, Hajiya Fatima Aliyu. In a message to the bereaved family, and to the government and people of the State, President Muhammadu […]
The police have released the 121 indigenes of Jigawa State arrested in Lagos State. Mr Bala Elkana, the Police Public Relations Officer of the State Police Command, confirmed this in a statement on Saturday. The persons were arrested on Friday by a team of policemen attached to the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental Sanitation and […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after his participation at the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (#TICAD7) in Yokohama, Japan. The Special Assistant to the President on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, made the announcement through his Twitter handle. He said the President’s aircraft NAF 001 landed in the country at about 11:37 […]
The Nigerian Bar Association, Jigawa State branch has condemned what it calls unlawful arrest of 123 Jigawa State indigenes in Lagos State. The chairman of the association, Mr Bashir Usaini, faulted the arrest in a statement sent to Channels Television on Saturday. According to him, the people were on their way to Lagos for a lawful business […]
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says it has completed the airlifting of relief materials to Mozambique and Zimbabwe to further assist victims of the massive flooding that affected some communities in the countries in April. NAF’s Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday. He explained […]
