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Commonwealth leaders Friday acceded to the request of allowing Prince Charles to succeed his mother Queen Elizabeth II as the next head of the group, the BBC and other media reported. Queen Elizabeth on Thursday told leaders from the 53 member states that she wanted her eldest son to succeed her in the symbolic figure-head role. Leaders, gathered at Windsor Castle for private talks, agreed that Charles, heir to the thrones of 16 Commonwealth nations, should follow the monarch in the non-hereditary position, the BBC, Sky News television and the domestic Press Association news agency reported. Following Queen Elizabeth’s public call as she…

Arsene Wenger, Arsenal’s French manager, will finally bring his 22-year stay as Arsenal manager to a close at the end of the season, the Frenchman announced on Friday. “After careful consideration and following discussions with the club, I feel it is the right time for me to step down at the end of the season,” he stated. Wenger said in a statement posted on the club’s website “I am grateful for having had the privilege to serve the club for so many memorable years.” Wenger, 68, won three Premier League titles, leading the only side to go a full league…

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has given President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration up to the end of July to stop incessant killings and return displaced persons to their homes or be seen as a total failure. Soyinka who made the statement during the inauguration of the 2018 OAU Ife Festival of Foods and Identity at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun state gave the administration till the end of July to stop killer herdsmen insurgency. He warned that Nigeria’s food security could be jeopardized by the rampant killings, pointing out that farmers were the most affected victims of the herdsmen and…

Portugal head coach , Fernando Santos has written off Nigeria’s chances of advancing to the knockout stage of the 2018 World Cup. The Super Eagles were the first African side to qualify for the Mundial ahead of the four other representatives Senegal, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia. However, Morocco play in Group B alongside Portugal, Spain and Iran while the Nigeria face Croatia, Iceland and Argentina in Group D, but Santos does not feel both sides will progress from their respective groups. “Morocco and Nigeria will not have it easy in their respective groups as they face top footballing sides and…

A wife was tied to a giant tree. Dozens of men, women and children watched helplessly as the local “film” unfolded. The husband, armed with a leather belt, beat his wife…one, two, three, four to 100 times. She gnashed her teeth but the public could not help her as she was crying profusely. The woman was flogged 100 times by her husband following a ‘kangaroo court’ ruling that she was guilty of adultery. The beating, which took place in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh near Delhi in India, saw the unidentified woman becoming unconscious. The 73-second video shot on a mobile phone…

Ahead of 2019 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party is said to be considering the possibility of changing its name. Punch reports that it is said to be one of the conditions given by those who left the party before the 2015 general elections. Name change is also believed to be one of the issues to be discussed by the party as it has called an emergency meeting of the National Executive Committee meeting on Thursday, April 19. Kola Ologbondiyan, the national publicity secretary of the party, in a statement said the NEC meeting would hold at the party’s national…

The Kaduna State Government has sacked 4,562 newly-recruited teachers described as incompetent a few weeks after they were issued with employment letters to replace those sacked for failing a competency test. Briefing the press on Wednesday, Alhaji Ja’afaru Sani, the state Commissioner for Education, said the teachers were dismissed because they found their ways into the service of state government through dubious means. The state government had sacked 22,000 teachers that failed competency test based on questions meant for primary four pupils few months ago. It had announced that it would replace them with competent teachers, based on a competitive…

Alabama Court in the United States has sentenced 83-year-old Walter Moody, an American to death earlier convicted of 71 charges in 1991 for killing the federal appeals judge, Robert Vance and civil rights lawyer, Robert Robinson in 1989. Moody has maintained his innocence. According to the Death Penalty Information Centre, a group that specialises in tracking capital punishment, Moody will be the oldest inmate killed in the modern history of the US. It is gathered that his appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States was rejected and he is expected to appeal to the Supreme Court again Thursday.…

With the average lifespan of the human race expanding more than ever due to health-care advances, it is not unlikely that people will be retired for 20 or even 30 years. Retirement itself is as much a journey as the journey it took to get there. Here are five steps to take to ensure you put the glow on the golden years. Take charge of your financial buckets If you want to live off your savings for 20 years, it is imperative to make sure all the parts fit together. What do you have and what changes need to be…

The House of Representatives threatened Monday to invoke section 89 of the 1999 Constitution to arrest some senior officials of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government. The officials include the Senior Adviser to the President on Prosecution, Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla who doubles as the Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel, SPIP, on Public Assets Recovery, Office of the Vice President;  Abubakar Malami, the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation,; Kemi Adeosun, the Minister of Finance, and Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF. Others are Winifred Oyo-Ita, the Head of Service of the Federation; Ibrahim Idris, Inspector-General of…