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Alexis Sanchez made a goalscoring return to Arsenal to set Manchester United on their way to a fourth-round FA Cup win which makes it eight straight wins for interim manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Sanchez has struggled to produce his best form since swapping Emirates Stadium for Old Trafford a year ago but was at his sharpest to take Romelu Lukaku’s superb reverse pass in his stride and round Petr Cech to give United a 31st-minute lead. Lukaku was the creator again two minutes later as Jesse Lingard’s precise finish doubled United’s advantage – and even though Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang pulled one…

The suspension of Justice Walter Onnoghen, Chief Justice of Nigeria and the swearing in of an acting Chief Justice of Nigeria has continued to reverberate across the country, forcing the Senate to reconvene on Tuesday, January 29 to look into the matter. The Red Chamber after deliberations on the New Minimum Wage Bill 2019 adjourned its plenary on Thursday, January 24 to reconvene on February 19, 2019. But the decision to reconvene next week followed the suspension of Justice Onnoghen by President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday The National Assembly would hold a leadership meeting on Sunday over the matter, a…

The suspension of Walter Onnoghen, Chief Justice of Nigeria and subsequent swearing in of an acting Chief Justice by President Muhammadu Buhari has drawn the bile of some prominent Nigerians including Nigeria Bar Association (NBA). Buhari had Friday suspended the Chief Justice of Nigeria and swore in Justice Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed as an acting Chief Justice of Nigeria. While some Nigerians call it “coup against democracy”, others see it as “executive interference.” This is as Nigerian Bar Associationj (NBA) lambasted “The action of the Executive portends a slide into anarchy and complete deconstruction of the Rule of Law and due…

President Donlad Trump on Friday signed a short-term spending bill to re-open the government, ending the longest partial federal government shutdown in U.S. history. Trump signed the stop-gap spending bill just hours after the measure passed the Senate and House, respectively. The second shutdown began on December 22, 2018, and became the longest in US history on January 12, 2019 surpassing the 21-day shutdown of 1995–1996 after failed attempts by Trump administration to reach a truce with Democrats on the funding of US-Mexico border- closure of the border being one of the electioneering campaign promises of Trump. “On Friday, Jan. 25,…

Japan’s Naomi Osaka beat Czech Petra Kvitova in a seesaw Australian Open final to win back-to-back Grand Slams and become the new world number one. The US Open winner, 21, missed three championship points in the second set but regrouped to win 7-6 (7-2) 5-7 6-4. The fourth seed broke for 2-1 in the decider, then served out to clinch victory in Melbourne. Eighth seed Kvitova, 28, was bidding for her first major title since being stabbed in a knife attack. The two-time Wimbledon champion, who said she was fortunate to be alive after the incident in December 2016, showed…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has scheduled the conduct of presidential and governorship elections in the country for February 16 and March 2, 2019. The INEC timetable is in the public domain and has been released to the 91 political parties including candidates and stakeholders. However, there are plots by INEC to postpone the elections by two weeks to accommodate what an insider in INEC called “logistics problems,” Straightnews has gathered. “The presidential/National Assembly elections expected to hold on February 16 may be postponed to March 2 and the governorship/state House of Assembly slated for March 2 may be…

President Muhammadu Buhari has dissolved the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and appointed an acting Managing Director to oversee the duties of the commission. He is Professor Nelson Braimbraifa who was Bayelsa State representative in the dissolved board. With this appointment, Mr. Nsima U. Ekere, who is Akwa Ibom governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress, becomes immediate past managing director/chief executive officer of NDDC. Ekere took over from Barr. Bassey Dan-Abia after the board was dissolved by President Buhari. Following a Federal Executive Council (FEC) resolution, Buhari has equally vested the supervisory role of the commission on the Minister of…

The Federal Government, states and local governments have shared N649.19 billion as revenue for December 2018. The Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr. Ahmed Idris, who stated this on Friday in Abuja, said the figure showed a decline of N163.57 billion, compared to the N812.76 billion that was shared in November 2018. Idris said this while addressing newsmen on the outcome of the Federal Account Allocation Committee meeting. Giving a breakdown of December revenue, Idris said that the Mineral revenue reduced from N421.8 billion in November to N354.22 billion. Also, the Non-Mineral Revenue decreased from N227.7 billion in November to N193.24…

The Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, has kicked against the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen, by President Muhammadu Buhari. The president had earlier on Friday suspended Onnoghen as CJN and sworn in Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad from Bauchi state as a replacement. Buhari, who said that the suspension was based on the order of Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on January 23, 2019, maintained that Muhammad is the next to Onnoghen in the order of seniority. But in a statement signed by Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, CUPP spokesperson, and made available to the press late Friday…

The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, returned N7 billion operating surplus to the treasury at the end of its 2018 fiscal year. Speaking at the inauguration of the NDIC Board on Thursday in Abuja, Mallam Umaru Ibrahim, Managing Director of the Corporation, said the money paid into the Consolidated Revenue Account of the federal government was a demonstration of the organisation’s adherence to the provisions of the Fiscal Responsibility Act. The Minister of Finance, Hajiya Zainab Ahmed charged members of the board to demonstrate a high sense of responsibility in the discharge of their duties. Mrs. Ahmed told them to…