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Two world-class players showing exemplary soccer skills in the UEFA Champions have been nominated for the Santander Player of the Week crown. Juventus talisman, Cristiano Ronaldo wooed millions around the world with a stunning hat-trick against Atletico Madrid on Tuesday night. His treble predictably saw him become one of the four nominees for the coveted UEFA Champions League Player of the Week crown, sponsored by Banco Santander. Ronaldo will go toe-to-toe with three-time Player of the Week winner, Lionel Messi following his wondrous display against Lyon at Camp Nou on Wednesday night.

By: Israel Umoh In the just-concluded state House of Assembly election held on Saturday, March 9 in Akwa Ibom, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP swept the 25 seats in the house, remaining Essien Udim State constituency whose election was inconclusive. The All Progressives Congress, APC, being an opposition party in the state, won none. Indeed, PDP in the state polled 519,374 votes representing per cent 75.7 per cent while APC scored 166,434 representing 24.3 per cent of the total votes cast for the two parties. In all, the two major political parties polled 685,808 votes during the state House of…

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said his team proved ‘the club is back where it belongs’ on the grandest European stage after their emphatic win over Bayern Munich. Klopp did not disguise the magnitude of the 3-1 victory, suggesting the calibre of opponent made it one of the statement triumphs of his reign. “It is a big night,” said Klopp. “We set the bar for Liverpool, for this wonderful club,that we really are back on an international landscape of top football. We all think that is where the club belongs and I am really happy about the result. I knew we…

Lionel Messi scored two goals and set up two more as Barcelona moved into the Champions League quarter-finals with a 5-1 win over Lyon at the Nou Camp. Three weeks after the sides battled out a goalless first-leg draw in France, Messi opened the scoring with a 17th-minute Panenka-style penalty, and Philippe Coutinho then made it 2-0 just after the half-hour mark. Lucas Tousart pulled a goal back for Lyon in the 58th minute, before Messi added his second in the 78th and then teed up Gerard Pique and substitute Ousmane Dembele. While he could not match Cristiano Ronaldo’s hat-trick…

President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, said the Federal Government was doing its best to correct and reverse the terrible mismanagement the country had experienced in previous administrations in the country. President Buhari, who stated this when he received a delegation of non-career Ambassadors, who were at State House, Abuja, to congratulate him on his re-election, said: “With some luck, our best will be good enough.” He said Nigeria was trying to live within its means, adding that government was determined to upgrade the country’s profile, both locally and internationally. The President said it would be inexcusable for government not to take…

A principal suspect in the controversial Malabu oil scandal, Wednesday, appeared as a witness before an Italian Court in Milan. Abubakar Aliyu is alleged to have acted as a “middleman” for top officials of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in the long-running controversy. He is being questioned in Italy over his role in what had been described as one of Africa’s most controversial corrupt oil deal. The Malabu scandal involved the transfer of about $1.1 billion by Shell and ENI through the Nigerian government to accounts controlled by Dan Etete, a former Nigerian petroleum minister. From accounts controlled by Mr…

The Federal Government, Wednesday, joined eight other countries in the world to ban the use of Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 planes by any airline operator in Nigeria airspace. The Ethiopian Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane had on Sunday crashed a few minutes after take-off in Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people aboard, including two Nigerians. But Air Peace Airline in a swift reaction, Wednesday, said the federal government’s order banning the use of Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft from flying in Nigeria’s airspace does not affect it since it had no such aircraft type in its fleet.…

An International Election Observer group, Pan African Women, PAN, projects that monitored the general elections in Nigeria has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to assent to the amended Electoral Act. The call came on a day protesters, under the aegis of Save Nigeria Democracy Group, SNDG, yesterday stormed the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, declaring that the results from the just-concluded elections ‘did not reflect the true voting direction of Nigerians’ and queried the high incidences of non-conclusion of the processes. Publicity Secretary of PAN project 2019, Ms Mphoentle Keitseng, who monitored the Governorship and House of…

A 400-level Civil Engineering student of Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH) Calabar, has been knocked down and killed by a reckless driver in the main campus of the university. Joseph Agbo was said to have died when a drunk driver who was on speed lost control and rammed into pavement where he was sitting. Confirming the story, DSP Irene Ugbo, Cross River Police spokesperson, said the accident was caused by the reckless driving of the alleged 200-level student of the same institution. “Agbo was reported to have sat by an empty gutter waiting for the commencement of his lecture when the…

A 10-year-old boy who cried profusely “Mummy, I don’t want to go to school” is among the 13 primary school pupils who died and had been so far retrieved from the rubble of a three-storeyed building at Ita Faji, Lagos Island, that collapsed around 10.25 a.m. A middle-aged woman (name witheld) was rolling on the ground as the dead child was retrieved from the wreckage that trapped more than 40 pupils and had so far injured 43. The woman narrated to TVC NEWS reporter “My little son cried this morning. Mummy, don’t take me to school. I did not understand.…