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Luis Enrique, former Barcelona coach, has agreed to replace Conte at Chelsea. The 47-year-old stepped down from Barca last summer and vowed to take a year off from football before returning to the game next term. Enrique, who led Barcelona to their 5th Champions League title in 2015, has been tipped to replace troubled Antonio Conte at the Stamford Bridge this summer. El Confidencial reports that Enrique has settled terms with Chelsea to succeed Antonio Conte at the end of this season. They also suggested that Chelsea’s board has run out of patience with Conte after his constant sniping this…

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, reportedly Sunday, March 11 fired members of the state executive council and the 21 administrators of the local government areas and in a paranoid manner reversed the decision few minutes later. Straightnews reported Sunday that Bello announced the decision at an on-going meeting he held with all political appointees at the Government House, Lokoja, the state capital. The report quoted a source as saying the governor directed all the 15 commissioners and 21 local government administrators to submit the keys to their official vehicles to the Secretary to State Government (SSG). Of recent, the governor…

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s ex-president said research had proven that the Boko Haram insurgency started as a means of fighting hunger and joblessness, saying that the federal government can use the same problems to crush the menace. Obasanjo made the observation in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, where he presided over a meeting of the Zero Hunger Forum, a social development goal programme of both the Nigerian government and international development partners. The meeting was attended by the host governor, Kashim Shettima, and officials from the federal ministry of agriculture, as well as others from Borno, Benue, Sokoto, Ogun and…

In its resolve to guarantee liquidity in the market, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) injected $355.43 million into the Retail Secondary Market Intervention Sales (SMIS) on Friday, March 9. The figure was to meet requests in the agricultural, airlines, petroleum products and raw materials and machinery sectors. Mr. Isaac Okorafor, the Bank’s Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, who confirmed the figures, reiterated that the CBN interventions in the market were aimed at sustaining liquidity in the market as well as boosting production and trade. Okorafor said with increasing accretion to the country’s reserve, the Bank is in a much…

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command and critical stakeholders from Etim Ekpo and Ukanafun local government areas rose from a security meeting Saturday to call for the establishment of joint patrol/crack teams with proper funding for effective operation. The meeting was convened to find lasting solutions to the worsening months-old cult war resulting in wanton killings, rapes, kidnappings and robbery incidents in the two local government areas. At the meeting held in Uyo, the state capital at the police headquarters in Ikot Akpan Abia, the stakeholders also called for the establishment and proper funding of neighbourhood watch in all the communities as…

A Nigerian bank has offered 51 first class graduates of Gombe University an automatic employment. Mr. Herbert Wigwe, Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Nigeria PLC, who received an Honorary Doctor of Administration award, said the bank was ready to engage the graduates if they accepted the offer. Wigwe, who with three other Nigerians received the honorary doctor’s degrees from the university at its 6th,7th, 8th and 9th combined convocation on Saturday in Gombe, congratulated the graduates on the feat they achieved in their academic pursuits. According to News Agency of Nigeria, Wigwe also commended the University Administration…

The Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has sent all members of the state executive council and all 21 local government administrators packing. The announcement was made by the governor at an on-going meeting he is holding with all political appointees at the Government House Lokoja, the state capital. The governor has “directed all the 15 commissioners and 21 local government administrators to submit the keys to their official vehicles to the Secretary to State Government (SSG), as he dissolves State Executive Council,” a source in Government House hinted. The source, who declined to be named because he is not permitted…

A Nigerian university don has advocated the use of New Humanism that anchors on such human values as truth, goodness, love and respect as panacea for conflicts, inter-ethnic and inter-religious conflicts facing the Nigerian society. Udo Etuk, a retired professor of Philosophy, University of Uyo while delivering a public lecture Sunday at Centre for Leadership Development and Conflict Resolution, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, said this new philosophy is imbued with human values and appreciates the worship of God who created the universe and all therein. Etuk, who presented a lecture, entitled The New Humanism: The Basis of the Universal…

A member of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in Lagos State died Thursday after a train on Ikeja axis of the rail line hit her. Punch reports that while she was trying to walk across the rail track, Nneka Odili, the young woman, who wore head phones could not hear the horn of the train. A friend of the victim said Odili was popularly known as Nini by her friends. According to her, the incident occurred on Thursday while they were heading home from the monthly clearance exercise by corps members at the Ikeja local government Secretariat. Oma said,…

A total of 230 royal fathers comprising one clan head and 229 village heads in Akwa Ibom State have been issued certificates of recognition by the state Government and tasked to redouble efforts in ensuring security in their respective domains. Governor Udom Emmanuel, speaking Saturday during the event held at Banquet Hall, Government House, Uyo, lauded the traditional institution for playing the role of maintaining peace and security in the state. The Governor traced threats to security in communities to cultism and charged the royal fathers to assist the state government in the provision of adequate security measures in their…