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Cristiano Ronaldo marked his return from injury with a precious away goal as Juventus drew 1-1 with an excellent Ajax in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final in Amsterdam on Wednesday. Ronaldo subdued the 50,000 home fans in the Johan Cruyff Arena when he headed Juventus in front on the stroke of half-time to take his record goal tally in the competition to 125. Brazilian winger David Neres conjured a stunning equaliser almost immediately after half-time to give Ajax a draw that was the very least they deserved. However, it is Juventus — for whom substitute Douglas Costa…

Nigeria has established Cultural Centres in China and Brazil to market the country’s image and make the outside world to appreciate Nigeria and Nigerians better. This is as the 2019 edition of Abuja Cultural Carnival coordinated by the Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism would gulp N82.109 million. Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, stated this Wednesday while defending the Ministry’s 2019 budget proposals and the 2018 estimates before the Senate Committee on Culture and Tourism, told the Senators. Earlier, the Committee headed by Senator Fatimah Raji–Rasaki, had taken the Minister to task on why N82 million…

The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, may have bowed to the intense pressure from governors and politicians from the North Central geopolitical zone over the adoption of Femi Gbajabiamila as the Speaker of the incoming 9th House of Representatives. Already, three lawmakers from the zone are in the race to succeed Speaker Yakubu Dogara. They are Mohammed Bago from Niger State, Idris Wase, the current Deputy Majority Leader from Plateau State and John Dyegh from Benue State who is likely to formerly declare his interest on Wednesday at the National Assembly. At the moment, Bago’s candidacy is gathering momentum as…

A former Nigerian Senate President, Senator Ken Nnamani has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to implement the recommendation of the Mohammed Uwais Committee report on the nation’s electoral system. Nnamani who made the plea, Wednesday, in his keynote address at the third Oronto Douglas Memorial Dialogue in Abuja noted, “It is obvious that the Uwais Report represents a high point in the search for an electoral system that will suit Nigeria’s peculiar circumstances. “The eminent members of that committee proposed many innovations that could restore credibility and fairness to our electoral system. Unfortunately, many of these innovative proposals were not…

The Federal Government has approved the some of N100 billion for the completion of sections 1 to 4 of the East West highways finalisation project. Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani stated this at a meeting with the Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas, HOSTCOM, led by its National Chairman, Chief Style Tamaranebi, in Abuja, Wednesday. It will be recalled that the findings from a Presidential Inter-Ministerial team on assessment tour of Sections 1 to 4 of the East West Road from Warri in Delta State to Oron in Akwa Ibom State, in the year…

R. Kelly, the Grammy award-winning singer, who stays in his home state of Illinois, raked in $22,000 (N7,917,580) by showing his face at a nightclub and hanging out for an hour. Despite the multiple charges of sexual abuse facing him,  the embattled singer came out of hiding last Saturday for a paid club appearance at the Dirty South Lounge in Springfield, Illinois, where he interacted with the small crowd and belted out the opening line to his hit song “Bump N’ Grind.” According to earlier media reports, Kelly, RnB star, took home $20k (N7,197,800) and paid his booking agent $2k…

Dementia has increased astronomically in Nigeria by 400 per cent in  the last two decades, a study published by the University of Edinburgh, Scotland,  in the Journal of Global Health Reports, has shown. Dementia is a broad category of brain diseases that cause a long-term and often gradual decrease in the ability to think and remember that is great enough to affect a person’s daily functioning. The global epidemic that has been found to occur more in low-and-middle-income countries is closely linked to ageing. It is estimated that about 47.5 million people are living with dementia globally, with over two-thirds…

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has hailed Monday’s verdict of the Supreme Court, which struck out the ill-conceived suit seeking the nullification of the Governorship, National Assembly and State Assembly elections which held in the state. The party said in a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, Tuesday, that “The decision of the Supreme Court in striking out the All Progressives Congress, APC’s attempts to reopen the issue of its already nullified primaries in Rivers State has reinforced the confidence Nigerians repose in it to protect our hard-earned democracy. “This defeated attempt at abuse of court process has further exposed…

The Organised Private Sector has been charged to help in commercializing viable inventions and innovations in the country. Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Science and Technology made the call when an inventor, Dr. Roland Amadi, the inventor of Iwu Crystal Ceiling Board, ICCB, presented his invention to the Minister in his office in Abuja. Onu affirmed that the Federal Government will continue to encourage Nigerian Inventors and Innovators in a bid to put in place a science and innovation driven economy. He noted that the government has a programme that encourages inventors all over the country by giving financial grants to…

The Kaduna state police command, Tuesday, said 21 persons were killed while 50 cows were rustled in an attack by armed bandits in Banono and Anguwan Aku in Kajuru local government area of the state The State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Yakubu Sabo, said three other persons were injured while ten houses were burnt by the bandits, who he said “came in large numbers on motor bikes”. No arrest has been made. Sabo said the said incident happened on April 8, at about 0930Hours. “We received a distress call that a group of armed men in large number on…