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Mfon Udoh, an ace striker for Akwa United, gave the team a lead in the Nigerian Professional Football League, NPFL before the final stoppage time on Sunday. However, relegation-bound Gombe United equalised in the 90th minute after playing a 2-2 draw with Akwa United all in Group B. In the match played at Pantami Stadium, Gombe, Gombe United were leading one goal to nil in the first half but equalised in the second half through goals scored by Musa Usman in the 26th and 90th minutes respectively. For Akwa United, Udoh scored for the team in the 78th minute while…

Barcelona have recorded their second Clasico victory in the space of four days by beating Real Madrid 1-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday. Having stormed to a 3-0 triumph at their home of their fiercest rivals in the cup on Wednesday, Barcelona edged to a more closely-fought win at the same venue on Saturday night to move 12 points clear of Los Blancos in La Liga and 10 above Atletico Madrid at the top of the table. Ivan Rakitic scored the only goal of the game as Barca took another big step towards a second consecutive league title, essentially…

The country’s trade value rose to N32.26 trillion year-on-year in 2018, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported. The amount contrasted with N23.16 trillion trade value, representing 39.3 per cent increase over the corresponding period in 2017. In Foreign Trade in Goods Statistics for Fourth Quarter of 2018 posted on its website, the bureau said the volume of total merchandise trade in 2018 was the highest recorded since 2014, nearly double pre-recession levels. During the fourth quarter of 2018, the bureau said a total merchandise trade stood at N8.60 trillion compared to its value of N9.06 trillion recorded in third…

No fewer than 17 former and serving state governors were elected senators in last Saturday’s National Assembly election. This represents 15.6 per cent of the 109-member Senate of the National Assembly, Daily Trust Saturday has gathered. Of the 17 former and serving governors going into the 9th Senate in June, Daily Trust reports that 11 were former state governors while the remaining six are currently serving their respective second terms, which ends on May 29. The six serving governors, who have won senatorial seats, are Kashim Shettima (Borno), Tanko Almakura (Nasarawa), Ibrahim Geidam (Yobe), Rochas Okorocha (Imo), Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun),…

US pop star, Ariana Grande, has topped Billboard Hot 100 for the fifth consecutive week with her song: ‘7 rings’ The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard Magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, both physical and digital, radio play, and online streaming in the United States. Hasley ‘Without you’, Post Malone and Swae Lee ‘Sunflower’  and Ariana Grande ‘Thank you Next’ were rated second, third and fourth  respectively on the chart. Cardi B ‘Please me’ featuring Bruno Mars debuts is occupying the fifth position giving…

In the euphoria of victory, some world leaders have joined many Nigerians in felicitating President Muhammadu Buhari on his re-election for another four years in the office. Buhari, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, polled 15,191,847 votes, winning in 19 states, and defeated other 72 candidates including Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 11,255,978 votes, to emerge winner in the February 23 presidential election. The United States has congratulated the Nigerian people on the successful conduct of the election. The brief congratulatory message from the U.S Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo,…

Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in last week’s election, has sought the Federal Government to withdraw the military from the Governorship/House of Assembly elections slated for March 9. “Deployment of the military was unconstitutional and in breach of Supreme Court judgment,” this formed one of the six-point demand presented to General Abdulsalam Abubakar (rtd), the former Head of State and Chairman of the National Peace Committee, (NPC). Top on the demand was unfreezing of opposition politicians’ bank accounts. Gen. Abubakar led members of the committee to a meeting with Atiku and his running mate,…

Top broadcast stations in the country are among the 45 stations sanctioned by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for alleged ethical infractions during the 2019 general elections. They are NTA, AIT, Channels and TVC News, among others. Director-General of the commission, Malam Is’haq Modibbo, who stated this at a news conference in Abuja on Friday, said the erring stations, cut across the country. They were said to have violated provisions of the Nigerian Broadcasting Code, and were fined N500,000 each. “Despite our various interventions, at the end of the Presidential election which was held on 23, Feb. 2019, 45 stations…

A Federal High Court that sat in Apo, Abuja, Friday, barred the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to stay action on the issuance of certificate of return to any candidate in respect of the election to the office of the Senator, Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial election held on February 23, pending the determination of suit before it. In the just-concluded National Assembly election, INEC had announced Engr. Christopher Ekpenyong the winner after polling 118,215 votes while Senator Godswill Akpabio recorded 83,158 votes. Akpabio was alleged to have contended that his votes in Essien Udim, his local government area were…

The Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, has accused Akwa Ibom State government and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of wasting the state’s funds that could better be used for developmental projects on vote buying. Enang, who is also the Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign in the state, said this while addressing the press in Uyo on Friday. He, however, urged the people to take the money from the PDP but vote for the APC in the forthcoming March 9 governorship/House of Assembly elections in order to connect the…