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The soccer upset continues as Liverpool extended their lead at the top of the Premier League to an imposing nine points with a devastating attacking dismissal of Arsenal at Anfield – with hat-trick hero Roberto Firmino the inspiration. Arsenal took the lead after only 11 minutes when Ainsley Maitland-Niles slid in at the far post to score from Alex Iwobi’s cross – but it was a false dawn for Unai Emery’s side. Liverpool, lifted after title rivals Tottenham’s home defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers earlier, responded with an explosive display that saw them 4-1 up by the interval and on their…

Former first lady Michelle Obama was voted the woman most admired by Americans this year, knocking Hillary Clinton from the top spot on the list for the first time in 17 years, according to a Gallup poll released Thursday. When asked by Gallup in an open-ended question to name the woman they admire most, 15% of Americans mentioned Obama, who has been touring the United States promoting her best-selling memoir “Becoming.” Oprah Winfrey finished second in the Gallup poll, followed by Clinton and current first lady Melania Trump. Clinton has appeared in the top ten 27 times, finishing as the…

As police laid siege, Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West in the National Assembly dramatically hiding in a room in his residence tweeted for public intervention to evade arrest and detention over what police called “attempted homicide case.” While a detachment of the police paced the crannies of his compound along Mississippi Maitama, Abuja, Melaye holed himself in an undisclosed room sending minute-by-minute tweets on the police action to the public. The force spokesman, acting DCP Moshood Jimoh, alleged in a statement on December 28 that the embattled Senator and his armed thugs shot and injured one Sgt Danjuma Saliu,…

Condolence messages have continued to pour into the family of the departed elder statesman, Alhaji Shehu Shagari who passed onto eternity on Friday, December 28. Shagari, the second republic president from 1979 to 1983, died at the National Hospital, Abuja at the age of 93. His grandson, Bello Shagari, who confirmed this tweeted “I regret announcing the death of my grandfather, H.E Alhaji Shehu Shagari, who died right now after brief illness at the National Hospital, Abuja.” Among prominent Nigerians who commiserated with the bereaved family was President Muhammadu Buhari, the man who once overthrew Shagari’s government in 1983. “On…

President Muhammadu Buhari arrived at the Victor Attah International Airport on Friday’s afternoon to a rousing welcome for the flag-off of the South South zonal presidential rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Buhari’s presidential aircraft landed at the airport at about 3.40 p.m. He was received by Akwa Ibom state governor Udom Emmanuel. The President was accompanied by the National Chairman of the APC Comrade Adams Oshiomole, National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Minister for Transportation Rotimi Amaechi and Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi, among others. However, there was no protocol glitch between officials of the state…

A former Aviation Minister has risen in support of police who absconded after deployment to fight Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria’s North East region. In recent, years, thousands of policemen have been consumed by the insurgency. In his Twitter handle on Thursday, Femi Fani-Kayode alleged that the runaway policemen drafted to fight Boko Haram are mainly Christians from the Southern Nigeria. Premium Times reported on December 26 that 167 policemen who were on training at the Nigerian Army Special Forces Training School in Buni Yadi, Yobe State, Wednesday abandoned their duties and fled with their respective riffles for fear of…

As the 2019 fast approaches, a Nigerian clergyman has urged politicians in the country to stop overheating the polity on account of desperation to become elected into their different offices. The spiritual leader of Christ Deliverance Ministries Inc. (CDM), Lagos, Prophet Ekong Ituen, also told the political gladiators not to see politics as a do-or-die affair. Speaking with newsmen in Lagos, Ituen enjoined “I, therefore, urge the religious leaders in the country to refrain themselves from making inflammatory utterances that promotes conflicts and disunity because God gives power to whoever He pleases.” The cleric, however, advised politicians and lawmakers to…

The immediate past Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has declared that elections are not usually won by engaging in image-tarnishing venture of other persons who have a track record of impressive performance. In recent times, Akwa Ibom Government has allegedly paid agents using mass media, social media and persons to denigrate the image of Akpabio as a villain and label his administration with unprintable names. Consequently, the government has forgotten to tell the people its achievements over the past three years and to sell its programmes to the electorate as 2019 general elections are fast approaching. Akpabio who is…

Senator Godswill Akpabio has doubted the claim touted by the state government that Akwa Ibom is the safest state in the country. Akpabio representing Akwa Ibom North West in the Senate dropped the bomb Wednesday in an interview in Comfort 95.1 FM, Uyo as part of preparations by members and stakeholders of All Progressives Congress, APC, to receive President Muhammadu Buhari in Uyo, the state capital on Friday, December 28. Governor Udom Emmanuel who during his 2018 Christmas broadcast in radio and television to Akwa Ibom people declared that “Three and a half years as your Governor, no one has…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Wednesday, announced a trading surplus of N9.85 billion for the month of September 2018, a significant rebound from the N3.90 billion deficit recorded in August 2018. In a statement on its Monthly Financial and Operations Report for September 2018, the NNPC attributed the N13.75 billion improvement in its bottom line to higher revenue by its upstream subsidiary, the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC. In the statement signed by Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, its Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, NNPC said NPDC’s production had been on the rise as a result of success recorded…