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Paul Pogba targets Manchester United silverware

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Under-fire Maurizio Sarri doesn’t fear the sack

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OLAMIJU ALAO-AKALA

Olamiju Alao-Akala suspended as Ogbomoso council chairman

Police arrest 950 suspected political thugs in Kano

Gunmen abduct saw millers in Ondo, demand N5 million ransom

President Buhari attends APC Caucus Meeting at the APC Headquarters in Abuja on 18th Feb 2019-4

Activist: President Buhari remains common man’s best choice

President Buhari attends APC Caucus Meeting at the APC Headquarters in Abuja on 18th Feb 2019-5

Presidency defends President Buhari’s threat to ballot snatchers

Nigeria’s opposition urges military to stay away from election

MAURIZIO SARRI CHELSEA

Chelsea hold discussions over Maurizio Sarri’s future

business

Nigerian Stock Exchange NSE

NSE All-Share Index rebounds by 0.67 per cent

SEC shuts firm over illegal management fund operations

Marylin Amobi

Coalition seeks federal government’s action against NBET chief

Naira down to N362.03 to the dollar in I&E window

FAAN: Touting in Abuja airport under watch

Dubai International Airport

Dubai airport disrupted after reported drone sightings

Wim Vanhelleputte

Uganda deports MTN chief executive over security concerns

NAMA: Airports operated 24 hours on February 15 to distribute INEC...

nigeria

NAF arrests 10 armed bandits, recovers 57 livestock

Court declines ex-NSA Dasuki’s request for intervention of ‘friends of the court’ in trial

Nigerian Army rescues 14 children from traffickers

Boko Haram insurgents kill 18 firewood merchants in Borno

Governor Fayemi assures workers of prompt salaries

africa

Egyptian policemen carry wreaths as they attend the funeral of policeman Mahmud Abu el-Yzied, one of three policemen killed in a bombing a day earlier, in the Embaba district of the capital Cairo, on February 19, 2019. – A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in the heart of ancient Islamic Cairo, killing three policemen who were chasing him through its narrow alleyways, medical and security sources said. (Photo by Ahmed Hasan / AFP)

Suicide bomber kills three police in historic heart of...

Minister denies corruption charges in court

Sudan protesters remain resilient, but President al-Bashir unbowed

President Sall set for re-election in Senegal presidential poll

New species of Angolan ‘horned’ spider unearthed

world

Bernie Sanders speaks at a rally during his previous presidential campaign in Santa Monica, California on 6 June 2016. Jonathan Alcorn-AFP-Getty Images

Bernie Sanders: Donald Trump racist, sexist, homophobe, xenophobe

Imran Khan: Pakistan ‘ready to talk’ on Kashmir, warns India against attack

Britain’s Theresa May in Brussels for Brexit talks Wednesday

Bernie Sanders to seek US presidency again in 2020

UK deeply disappointed by Honda’s decision to close plant

sports

South African 800 meters Olympic champion Caster Semenya arrives for a landmark hearing at the Court of Arbitration (CAS) in Lausanne on February 18, 2019. – Semenya will challenge a proposed rule by the International Athletics Federation (IAAF) aiming to restrict testosterone levels in female runners. (Photo by Harold CUNNINGHAM / AFP)

Caster Semenya unleashes team of professors to battle IAAF,...

MAURIZIO SARRI CHELSEA

Chelsea hold discussions over Maurizio Sarri’s future

Taiwo Ogunjobi

Taiwo Ogunjobi to be buried on March 15

Nigeria Referees Association suspends 18 referees

Phil Foden celebrates after scoring Manchester City’s second goal. Tom Jenkins-The Guardian

Manchester City end Newport County’s FA Cup dream to reach quarter-finals

Moses Simon has praised his Levante teammates for their 'good' fighting spirit after thrashing Celta Vigo 4-1 in Saturday's La Liga encounter.

Moses Simon praises Levante’s fighting spirit after Celta Vigo win

Family, friends, supporters and former teammates paid tribute to striker Emiliano Sala in his small Argentine hometown overnight, almost four weeks after he died when the plane he was in crashed into the English Channel.-15

Emiliano Sala finally laid to rest in Argentina

Taiwo Ogunjobi

Ex-Governor Orji Kalu mourns Taiwo Ogunjobi

art

1959 FIRST EDITION THINGS FALL APART Chinua Achebe

First edition of Chinua Achebe’s ‘Thing Fall Apart’ sold...

Michelle Obama, Diana Ross, others lead female solidarity at Grammy awards

The Favourite is the biggest winner at BAFTA 2019

Winners in key categories at 2019 Grammy Awards

Childish Gambino wins four Grammys for ‘This Is America’

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up north

‘Up North’ to screen at Facebook’s headquarters

African filmmakers to market films at 2019 Cannes Film Festival

Ben Affleck officially bows out of The Batman film

Black Panther wins top prize at Actors Guild Awards

BBNaija’s Nina features in new Nollywood movie

people

The desecrated grave of Karl Marx in London’s Highgate Cemetery. Maxwell Blowfield-PA

Tomb of popular philosopher Karl Marx vandalised again

George Clooney: Meghan Markle criticised by press like Princess Diana

Lawyer: Rapper 21 Savage granted immigration bond

M-Net scriptwriter Osang Abang dies in road accident

Confusion as 2baba apologises to wife on Twitter

technology

Yariv Bash, right, Yonatan Winetraub, middle, and Kfir Damari, the founders of SpaceIL, inserting a time capsule into the Beresheet spacecraft, December 17, 2018 (Yoav Weiss)

Israel seeks to be fourth country to land on...

Ren Zhengfei, founder of Huawei

US cannot ‘crush’ Huawei – founder

Yobe State University Damaturu

Yobe university to become center of robotics and artificial...

British MPs: Facebook ‘knowingly’ violated data privacy laws

Study: Artificially sweetened beverages increase stroke risk

Facebook taps user data to defend workers from threat

Facebook promises to fight fake election news in Africa

Scientists develop molecules that may reverse memory loss

opinion

INEC: The election postponement challenge

Simon Kolawole

INEC’s bolt from the blue

President Muhammadu Buhari has lauded Nigerians for curbing excessive taste for foreign products, which has positioned the country for food self-sufficiency, and resulted into savings of over $21 billion.

Full text of President Buhari’s election broadcast

President Buhari participates at the signing of 2nd National Peace Accord in Abuja on 13th Feb 2019-6

Buhari vs Atiku: The inconvenient truth

Femi Adesina, spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari

Things that pertain to our peace