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Chelsea place a world-record fee in excess of £200 million for the sale of Eden Hazard this summer. Real Madrid remain the favoured destination for Hazard, but Chelsea will not sell their star man cheaply knowing that the price tag will act as a deterrent at this stage of the window. Though Hazard is not pushing for a move to nay club, Chelsea head coach, Maurizio Sarri is keen to work with him. However, there is growing concern that the Belgian will not extend his contract at Stamford Bridge. He has two years remaining on his current deal but has…

The Biblical allusion ‘’whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed’’ fulfilled as four police officers from Akwa Ibom State Police Command were, Friday, sentenced to death for killing a motorcyclist in Uyo. The condemned officers are Inspector Moses Akpaete, Inspector Idoko Sampson, Corporal Enobong Udo and Corporal Godwin Nnana attached to ‘C’ Division of the state police headquarters. They were sentenced to death by the state High Court where the presiding judge, Justice Ifiok Ukana found the four guilty of conspiracy and murder of one Kenneth Felix Akpan, a native of Mbiabam in Ibiono local government…

As the aircraft zoomed and landed at the Benin Airport, the captain and the co-pilot never gave occupants of the aircraft an inkling of their next line of action. The adorable pilot with a pair of black glasses excorted by a bearded co-pilot and husband all in their colourful uniforms shoved aside the parked aircraft and posed. The airport personnel on hand to wheel away luggage and disembarking passengers melted in sight and watched admirably as the first Akwa Ibom female pilot and her co-pilot, husband took some photographs and hugged themselves. Shortly, the onlookers realised that they were couple…

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang, has criticized Nigerian State Houses of Assembly for allowing the executives to dictate the tone of deliberations and passage of bills into law. Enang, who had represented his people in the defunct Akwa Ibom House of Assembly, however, disparaged the prevalence of what he described as Ete abodie (whatever the governor says) politics in Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly. He recalled as ‘’When I was in the state House of Assembly, Dr. Emmanuel Akpanobong, Dr. Ita Udosen, Sen. Effiong Bob, Grace Edim Inyang, as Deputy…

Life is no longer rosy for the British-Nigerian Labour MP, after committing an offence and blaming it on someone else. British-Nigerian Labour MP, Fiona Onasanya, has been charged with two counts of seeking to pervert the course of justice by allegedly blaming someone else for speeding offences committed by herself and her brother, prosectors have said. The 34-year-old former solicitor, who narrowly won the Peterborough constituency at the 2017 election, faced a two-count charge jointly with her younger brother, Festus Onasanya, a 33-year-old singer from Cambridge. The pair appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court on July 12 and were due to…

The baroness of Dudley and widow of the late billionaire Anthonio Dehinde Fernandez, remarried on Wednesday in Kano three years after the death of her husband. Halima Maude Fernandez, who was married to Ambassador Plenipotentiary, from 2003 till his death in 2015, married her younger Rwandan lover, Zubair Rudasingwa. Chief Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez, a Nigerian business magnate, diplomat and Permanent Representative of Central African Republic to the United Nations, was rated one of the richest men in Africa. He died on September 1, 2015 in Belgium after an undisclosed illness of several months and his remains were buried at Ixelles…

The list of nominees for the 5th Edition of the 2018 edition of the Africa Muzik Magazine Awards & Music Festival (AFRIMMA) has been released. The list includes artists like Davido, Wizkid, Fally Ipupa, DJ Spinall, Tiwa Savage, Diamond Platinum among others. This year, AFRIMMA added a new category tagged ‘AFRIMMA Achievers Award’. This category was created to celebrate the achievements of Africans in the fields of entertainment and sports. This year’s awards will be held at the ‘House of Blues’, Dallas, Texas on October 7th, 2018. Go to www.afrimma.com now to vote for your favorite artists. See the full list of nominees below:…

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook,  is now the sixth-richest person with $70.6 billion, down three rungs on billionaires index, Bloomberg revealed Friday. Zuckerberg is said to have lost $15.9 billion on Facebook’s drop. However, a plunge in Facebook shares erased almost $120 billion of the social media giant’s market value Thursday, snapping a three-day winning streak for the S&P 500 index. Facebook’s 19 per cent tumble was the worst in the company’s history and led a sell-off in technology companies that offset solid gains in other areas of the market, including industrial and energy stocks and consumer goods companies.…

Africa is expected to experience the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century today Friday 27 July, 2018. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, two partial eclipse of the sun will appear in the sun this summer but their viewing conditions will be less than ideal. The total lunar eclipse is sometimes called a blood moon, as the moon turns red. “The duration of the total phase of the eclipse will span 1 hour 42 minutes and 57 seconds; a contrast to the shortest total lunar eclipse of this century, which occurred on April 4, 2015 and lasted 4…

The embattled Dino Melaye representing Kogi West senatorial district, Thursday, failed to appear in court in Lokoja for continuation of his alleged gun-running trial. His lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, who was represented in the court by Bar. Yemi Mohammed, told the trial Magistrate, Suleyman Abdalah, that he had it on good authority that Senator Dino Melaye was attacked in Gwagwalada on his way to the court. Meanwhile, spokesperson of the senator, Ayodele Gideon, confirmed the attack, saying the whereabouts of the senator was yet unknown. Mohammed said in the court, “I learnt that he was attacked…