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Manchester United coach advised to sign Super Eagles hopeful instead of Borussia Dortmund star
Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been advised to sign Super Eagles hopeful Bukayo Saka from Arsenal instead of £120m top target Jadon Sancho in the summer transfer window.
AfDB appoints Nourredine Lafhel as acting chief risk officer
The African Development Bank Group, AfDB, has appointed Nourredine Lafhel as acting Chief Risk Officer, effective 6th April 2020.
Odion Ighalo reveals former Nigeria superstars’ impact on his career
Nigerian forward Odion Ighalo says Austin Okocha, Kanu Nwankwo, Dwight Yorke, and Andy Cole were his football heroes while growing up and learned a lot from them.
Lagos governor appoints new LASHMA chief
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu has appointed Dr. Emanuella Zamba as the new Acting General Manager for Lagos State Health Management Agency LASHMA.
Antonio Conte wants two Chelsea defenders at Inter Milan
Inter Milan wants two Chelsea defenders at Sansiro, as the Serie A team is keen on signing the Blues left-back duo Emerson Palmieri and Marcos Alonso.
Centre chides coronavirus taskforce on inter-ethnic cohesion
The Centre for Social and Inter-Ethnic Cohesion, CENSIC, has chided the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19, over its indifference to multi-ethnic compositions of the country.
English singer Adele to pay ex-husband half of £144 million fortune
It will cost English singer and songwriter, Adele half of her $180 million (£144 million) fortune to finalise her divorce proceeding with ex Simon Konecki after a judge ruled in her favour to have the divorce proceedings kept private.
Coronavirus: Yobe Stars slash players, technical crew salaries by 75 percent
Rising from a meeting held on Friday, the club said players and technical crew of the main team will be receiving 25% of their monthly allowance while the feeder and Under-15 teams will receive 50% of their allowances.
Nduka Ugbade: Kelechi Iheanacho not an outright striker
Former Super Eagles star and Golden Eaglets Assistant coach, Nduka Ugbade, has revealed why Kelechi Iheanacho has not been playing to his full potential at the English Premier League.
Coronavirus: Edo begins televised classes for SSCE, NECO students
Following the disruption in academic activities by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Edo State Government will on Monday, April 6, 2020, begin state-wide broadcast targeted at students in Senior Secondary Schools preparing for West African Senior School Examination (WASSCE) and National Examinations Council (NECO).
Odion Ighalo confirms he wants to stay at Manchester United
Ighalo, 30, has scored four goals in eight appearances and quickly became popular with supporters before English and European football was suspended amid the coronavirus pandemic.
English Premier League will not resume early May, wage cuts discussed and £125 million...
The latest update from the Premier League has confirmed there will be no top flight football at the beginning of May.
Nigerian Army arrests soldiers who threatened to rape women
Newsmen reported how two soldiers in the 26-second video claimed that a soldier was killed on Thursday by residents of Warri, Delta State. The soldiers said in the video they would attack Warri women as a ‘revenge’.
PFA: Players must ‘share financial burden’ during virus
The Professional Footballers’ Association insist they are aware players must “share the financial burden” during the coronavirus as the row over wage cuts for Premier League stars mounted on Thursday.
Wole Soyinka: Coronavirus is not ‘fiction writing’ – Presidency
The Presidency has urged Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, to stick to his field of expertise – English and Literature – instead of dabbling into the coronavirus disease and the legality of President Muhammadu Buhari’s 14-day lockdown order under the Quarantine Act.
Presidency faults Wole Soyinka over comments on President Buhari’s actions against coronavirus
The presidency has responded to Monday’s rebuke by Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, who criticised President Muhammad Buhari’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying the president had been conspicuously absent as the virus gained a foothold across the country.
MultiChoice donates N250 million, test kits, others to fight coronavirus
The managers of DStv and GOtv, Multichoice Nigeria, has announced a donation of N200 million and N50 million to federal and Lagos State governments respectively to support efforts in ameliorating the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in Nigeria.
President Buhari mourns Nigerian author Phoebean Ogundipe
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday mourned the death of a foremost Nigerian educationist and author, Phoebean Ogundipe.
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Coronavirus: We will not wait for Nigerian government – Governor Wike
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that the State Government will not wait for the Federal Government in its commitment to provide palliatives for Rivers people during the trying period of checking the spread of coronavirus.
Manchester United coach advised to sign Super Eagles hopeful instead of Borussia Dortmund star
Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been advised to sign Super Eagles hopeful Bukayo Saka from Arsenal instead of £120m top target Jadon Sancho in the summer transfer window.
Coronavirus: Lekki-Epe expressway on traffic lockdown
The Lekki-Epe Expressway was on traffic gridlock, yesterday, for the second day, despite the lockdown introduced by the Federal Government to check the spread of coronavirus pandemic.
Coronavirus is the end of globalisation as we know it – German media
The COVID-19 pandemic shows no sign of abating in more than 200 countries as the World Health Organisation’s latest updates put global confirmed cases at least 1,282,931.
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Coronavirus: Bill Gates calls for global solution
Life can only fully return to normal once a vaccine to combat the new coronavirus is available globally, according to Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates.
UK debunks 5G-coronavirus link after conspiracy theorists burn cell tower
While there’s zero factual support for a conspiracy theory linking the COVID-19 virus to 5G cellular technology — and the scientific community has concluded that 5G is safe — the UK government was forced today to explicitly address the topic after arsonists burned down a cell tower over 5G, and used Facebook to encourage others to follow suit.
Ghana goalkeeper joins police to fight coronavirus pandemic
Ghana goalkeeper Fafali Dumehasi has announced she will be teaming up with the Police Force to combat the spread of the coronavirus in the West African country.
Ogun: Coronavirus relief packages meant for poor, vulnerable
The Ogun State government, yesterday, insisted that the target of the distribution of its COVID-19 relief food items is poor and the vulnerable, hence its insistence on direct distribution to the intended beneficiaries.
Manchester United star Odion Ighalo is officially without football action
Manchester United centre-forward Odion Ighalo has stated he is bored without football action and eager to play again.