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Granit Xhaka’s goal and a Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang penalty saw Arsenal beat Manchester United 2-0 at the Emirates and inflict a first Premier League defeat on United caretaker boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Xhaka opened the scoring after 12 minutes when David De Gea appeared to be deceived by his swerving long-range shot, with Aubameyang sealing the points from the spot after the break. “We are going to play some difficult matches and being consistent is very important,” Arsenal manager Unai Emery told Arsenal.com. “At the moment I think we are playing consistent in each match and [Sunday] we showed everybody that.…

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Akwa Ibom state, has declared Mr. Udom Emmanuel, candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, winner of the governorship election held on Saturday March 10, 2019 in the country. Emmanuel won in 30 out of 31 local government areas of the state to return to Hilltop Mansion, Uyo for a second term in office. He scored a total of 519,712 votes to emerge winner, while Obong Nsima Ekere, his closest Challenger, of the APC polled a total of 171,978 votes. Declaring Emmanuel winner of the governorship election in Akwa Ibom state, Professor Faraday Osarere…

The Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has called for more women inclusion in the nation’s extractive industry. She made the call at the weekend on the heels of the 2019 International Women’s Day with the theme: ‘#BalanceforBetter’, Mrs. Ahmed said in a statement by her Special Adviser (Media and Communications), Mr Paul Abechi, that women possessed great potentials which could transform the extractive industry value chain but largely unutilized. According to her government needed to develop policies, regulatory frameworks and programmes that target women, so as to remove the socio-economic and cultural barriers that prevented them from participating fully…

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has reiterated its call on telecom consumers to eschew patronage and usage of counterfeit handsets and other substandard mobile devices in the country. This was the focus of a one day event, tagged: “Sensitization programme on hazardous effect of non-type approved handsets and impact on quality of service and e-waste”, held at Paiko, Niger State. Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, while addressing the audience at the event that also featured questions and answers between the consumers and the regulator, said the Commission is worried by the continuous proliferation of substandard mobile…

The Nigerian Army has regretted that political thugs were being viewed and addressed as real soldiers in the media, saying the development had brought its reputation on several occasions to disrepute. The Army also said it was in possession of credible information that politicians were not only kitting their thugs with military uniforms but also arming them to impersonate soldiers and perpetrate various crimes in the country “for their depraved selfish gains.” The acting Director of Army Public Relations,Col. Sagir Musa, said in a statement yesterday that the Army understood “that most civilians caught in the callous onslaught of these murderous…

Suspected armed bandits weekend killed 16 people and injured 18 others at Dumama community in Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State, the lawmaker representing Zurmi/Shinkafi in the House of Representatives, Husseini Moroki, has confirmed. One person was also confirmed killed, while another declared missing in the volatile Kajuru district of Kaduna State. Several houses were also razed. Moroki said of the Zamfara attack: “Just yesterday (Friday) by the time election materials were being distributed, I was at Zurmi INEC office where I got a report that there is an incident of banditry attack at Dumama community. “Sixteen people were…

A total of 157 people on board an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on Sunday morning en route to Nairobi from Addis Ababa perished, the airline said. The victims were Kenyans, 18 Canadians, nine Ethiopians, eight Chinese, eight Americans, and seven British citizens were among the dead, according to the airline. Four of the victims held United Nations passports. Group CEO Tewolde GebreMariam “deeply regrets the fatal accident,” the airline said on its Twitter account. The group CEO, who had travelled to the scene of the crash, expressed his “profound sympathy and condolences” to the families of all victims, the statement…

The incumbent governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, has won the governorship election announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state. INEC, Sunday, announced results in the 31 local government areas in the state, though Emmanuel is yet to be officially pronounced. Mr Emmanuel, who was seeking re-election under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), scored 519,712 votes in the 31 local government areas, representing more than 83.9 per cent of the total votes cast in those areas. His main opponent, Nsima Ekere of the All Progressives Congress (APC), polled 171,978 votes in the…

It was a sad Saturday as Nsima Ekere, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom State, lost the election in Ikot Abasi, his own local government area. Mr Ekere, immediate past managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), scored 7,549 votes, while the incumbent governor, Udom Emmanuel of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 9, 335 votes, according to the result announced on Sunday in Uyo by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). INEC said the number of registered voters in Ikot Abasi in the governorship election was 54,752, the accredited voters were 17, 693,…

The MTN group says it will be listed on the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE) before the first half of 2019. The telecommunication giant said this in a mailed statement which shows positive trade numbers in 2018 fiscal year. The results showed a total revenue of 37,971,000,000 South African rand (N965.3bn), the cable reports. “MTN plans to list by introduction on the Nigeria Stock Exchange during the first half of 2019 and is looking to simplify the capital structure ahead of this listing,” MTN said. “The company’s listing on the Exchange will create a new telecoms asset class for investors and…