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Tottenham inflicted Maurizio Sarri’s first competitive defeat as Chelsea boss to leapfrog their London rivals into third in the Premier League with a 3-1 win at Wembley that barely reflected Spurs’ dominance. Dele Alli and Harry Kane put the hosts 2-0 in front inside 16 minutes and Son Heung-min’s brilliant individual run and finish early in the second-half hauled Mauricio Pochettino’s side back to within five points of league leaders Manchester City. Meanwhile, Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has accused his players of not showing “enough heart” after they limped to a goalless draw at home to Crystal Palace. At…

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen continued their onslaught by kidnapping 15 girls overnight in a village near Toumour, southeastern Niger, the local mayor said on Saturday The Vanguard reports that Boukar Mani Orthe, the mayor of the town in Niger’s Diffa region near the border with Nigeria, said about 50 unidentified armed men seized the girls in a village about nine kilometres from the town centre. On Thursday suspected Boko Haram fighters killed eight people working at French drilling company Foraco’s water well site in Toumour. Boko Haram has been waging an insurrection since 2009 aimed at establishing an Islamic state…

The Super Falcons of Nigeria zoomed into the semi-finals of the 2018 African Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON) by mauling the Nzalang Nacional of Equatorial Guinea 6-0 win at the Cape Coast Sports Stadium on Saturday, reports Completesportsnigeria.com. The defending champions finished second in Group B with six points behind the Banyana Banyana of South Africa who top the group with seven points from three games. The Super Falcons will face Cameroon in the semi-final on Tuesday at the Accra Sports Stadium. Reigning African women’s footballer of the year, Asisat Oshoala scored a hat trick in the game to lay…

Scientists are just beginning to recognize the connection between food and our brain. Eat these nutrients for a wave of calming feelings that keep worry away. Omega-3 fatty acids make your brain happy Yulia Furman/Shutterstock Doctors often know how to calm anxiety, or treat it, with therapy and medications, but the answer to calming the condition could be hiding in plain sight: the foods we eat. Doctors and nutritionists are starting to understand more about how certain nutrients, or lack of them, affect the brain. “Our brain has very high energy and nutrient requirements,” says clinical nutritionist and health coach…

Sandra Parks wrote an award-winning essay about the constant shootings in her hometown of Milwaukee and elsewhere, and the emotional toll they have on young people like her. Little children are victims of senseless gun violence,” she wrote. ” … I sit back and I have to escape from what I see and hear every day. When I do; I come to the same conclusion … we are in a state of chaos. Two years after she won an award for her essay, bullets shattered Sandra’s bedroom window as she watched television Monday night. The stray bullet fired from outside…

The claims by Nigeria’s government that terrorist group Boko Haram has been “technically defeated” continue to ring hollow. A renewed attack by the terrorist group on a military base in Metele, Borno State last Sunday led to the death of100 soldiers, Reuters reports. This is contrary to 44 soldiers, Nigeria’s Senate said, were killed leading to the adjournment of its plenary on Wednesday. The attack has been attributed to Islamic State West Africa (ISWAP), a breakout faction of Boko Haram that’s affiliated with the Islamic State terror group.  The attack is one of the deadliest by Boko Haram since President Muhammadu…

The security operatives, Friday, ended their siege on the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly premises. Recall that all entrances to the complex were barricaded since Wednesday morning by a combined force of Police, Army and Civil Defense, thereby barring even the House of Assembly staff from gaining entrance. The Assembly had been cordoned off by armed police personnel following a crisis that erupted on Monday. The Speaker, Onofiok Luke, had declared the seats of five lawmakers who had defected from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), vacant, a situation which later led to alleged thugs disrupting…

The grand-finale of Miss Nigeria 2018 will hold at the Eko Convention Centre of the Eko Hotels and Suites on November 25, 2018. Already, the organisers of Miss Nigeria, Nigeria’s foremost and most prestigious beauty pageant, have unveiled the 18 finalists contending for the highly coveted title in Lagos last week. This followed its recent auditions in Lagos, Owerri and Abuja. Among the celebrities who witnessed the unveiling were Mavin Records boss and veteran in the Nigerian Music Industry, Don Jazzy; popular song writer and performing artiste, Timi Dakolo; top actor, Gideon Okeke; the Country Director of WEConnect International Shade…

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Friday, blamed the demise of 11 students of University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) on the ongoing Academic Staff Unions of Universities (ASUU) strike. A total of 11 students of UNIMAID died in an auto crash on November 20 on their way to Damaturu from Maiduguri following the ASUU strike. The National Public Relations Officer of NANS, Mr Best Okereafor, who gave the condolence in a statement issued in Enugu on Friday, expressed sadness over the death of the students. Okereafor stated that “NANS mourns the fallen Nigerian students and in same vain attribute the…

The Senate, Thursday, appears to have dodged the report of the Senate Committee on Police Affairs to probe the sealing off the Akwa Ibom House of Assembly by the police, but directed the police to vacate the house without delay. Recall on Wednesday the Senate mandated its committee on Police Affairs to probe the incident and report back to the hallowed chambers within 48 hours. Instead of receiving the report of the Chairman, Senate Committee on Police Affairs after the end of 48 hours to be presented to the plenary, the Senate, Thursday, directed the police operatives allegedly sealing off…