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Jarrell Miller has made an offer to fight Anthony Joshua in 2019, according to a report in The Standard, the British daily. Joshua is still in search of an opponent for his April 13 at Wembley Stadium. It had been hoped that Joshua will take on the winner of the WBC showdown between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury. But it remains unlikely as the bout between the Bronze Bomber and Gypsy King ended in a controversial draw in Los Angeles last December. Dmitry Salita who is one of Miller’s promoters work alongside Matchroom’s Eddie Hearn and believes a fight across…

The World Bank Thursday said it has commenced a process that will lead to the selection of a new president. The commencement of the process follows the sudden exit last Monday of the incumbent president, Jim Yong Kim, who announced he would be stepping down from his position effective February 1. Mr Kim’s announcement came more than three years ahead of the scheduled end of his tenure in 2022. Since the announcement, World Bank’s CEO, Kristalina Georgieva, was announced as the person to assume the role of the interim president effective February 1. The bank in a statement, said its…

The All Progressives Congress, APC, is prepared based on the achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari’s achievements to win the general elections slated for February 16 and March 2, this year in the country. The former Senate Minority leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, who spoke with journalists after the APC’s meeting Thursday in Abuja, said “I will say that APC is very poised not just to undertake very smooth and scintillating and enjoyable campaign but also very poised to win the next election.” Akpabio who is the immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State, noted, “As you are aware, so far so…

Senator Dino Melaye has been allegedly whisked away from the Police Clinic in Garki, Abuja, by masked persons suspected to be policemen. According to Punch, Melaye was whisked away from the hospital this afternoon at about 2:15pm in a commando style. Recall that the police had laid seige around Dino’s home in Abuja after the senator failed to honor their invitation. Dino was rushed to the hospital last Friday January 4th after he surrendered to the police. A statement from the police said Dino failed to respond to repeated invitation for questioning on allegations that himself and his thugs fired…

As the electioneering campaign hots up by candidates to capture the soul of Hiltop Mansion, Uyo, an Akwa Ibom governorship candidate has heaped curses on government treasury looters in the state. Speaking on Planet 101.1 FM, Uyo on Friday, Ezekiel Aniekan Nyaetok, the state governorship candidate under the platform of Young Democratic Party, YDP, declared “It shall not be well with people who divert public funds to their private use while the masses are living in poverty.” Nyaetok, an architect, was careful in not directing the curses to any public office holder so that, according to him, most people may…

A non-political organisation in Akwa Ibom State has expressed sadness over malfeasances by public officers bordering on impunity and outright rascality in the state. This is as the group has called Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly Public Accounts Committee to engage the services of external auditors to verify all public incomes and expenditures with a view to determining the leakages and malfeasances perpetrated by various military administrators, governors and public office holders. Since the creation of Akwa Ibom State on September 30, 1987, 11 administrations comprising six military administrators, one police commissioner, four civilian governors have presided over the…

Like a hare cooling off its thirst at a waterbrook, leaders of Akwa Ibom South Senatorial District after searching said they have found the state All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate if he wins the March 2 general election as a man capable of restoring the district to the legendary home of their past transformational leaders. Coming under the aegis of Akwa Ibom South Senatorial District Strategic Leadership Forum based in Eket, they declared “WE COVENANT with Obong Nsima Ekere that while we shall canvass for votes and vote for him and elect him as governor come March 2, 2019,…

Two Nigerians have emerged as as the richest Africans for 2019, according to American magazine- Forbes. While Aliko Dangote, President of the Dangote Group is leading, Dr. Mike Adenuga, the Chairman of Globacom, is second. Dangote managed to remain the richest man in Africa for the eighth consecutive time, seeing his wealth dropped from $12.2 billion in January 2018 to $10 billion in 2019. Adenuga, with interests in oil exploration and real estate, moved up to be Africa’s second richest man. The shift was informed by the astronomical increase in his fortunes from $5.3 billion to $9.2 billion. Another Nigerian,…

Lady Gaga has vowed to remove a duet she recorded with R&B singer R.Kelly from streaming services and never collaborate with him again. Her comments, in a lengthy Instagram post late on Wednesday, followed a new television documentary in which multiple women accuse Kelly of sexual misconduct, sometimes with minors. Kelly, 52, the Chicago singer and record producer best known for hit song “I Believe I Can Fly,” has repeatedly denied accusations in recent years of abuse, including those made in the new documentary. The Grammy-winning singer was tried and acquitted on child pornography charges in Chicago in 2008. His…

President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, said Federal Government will go into negotiations for salary review for all the workers already earning above the new minimum wage. This is as Buhari appointed Bismarck Rewane as head of the newly inaugurated Technical Advisory Committee on the implementation of new National Minimum Wage. Speaking at the inauguration of the technical committee at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa Abuja, the President said after passage of the new minimum wage into law, government will negotiate with workers for salary review for all the workers already earning above the new minimum wage. He said it was important to…