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Real Madrid beat Barcelona 3-1 in the Clasico to overtake their fierce rivals at the top of La Liga on Sunday. Karim Benzema opened the scoring in the 12th minute by converting a rebound after Marc-Andre ter Stegen saved from Vinicius Junior, with Fede Valverde drilling home the second from the edge of the box before the break. Ferran Torres pulled one back for Barcelona in the final stages after good work by Ansu Fati, but Rodrygo won and converted a late penalty to ensure Carlo Ancelotti’s reigning champions inflicted Barcelona’s first domestic defeat of the season. Related news Ancelotti…

Atiku Abubakar, former Nigeria’s Vice President, says northerners need a president who hails from the North. Abubakar, who is the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), spoke Saturday at the interactive session of the Arewa townhall policy dialogue in Kaduna. This was as the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu Friday called Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ”a termite party.” Abubakar, who hails from Adamawa in the north-east, told his audience which included a significant percentage of persons of Hausa and Fulani extraction, that they don’t need an Igbo or Yoruba as president but “someone from the…

As the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) deepens, Nyesom Wike, Rivers State governor, and his allies have jetted to Madrid, Spain for political jaw-jaw in apparent move to strengthen forces over the 2023 presidential election. Wike left the country early Saturday morning with Samuel Ortom, Benue governor; Seyi Makinde of Oyo, and Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Enugu governor, who is also an associate of Wike is expected to join them later. Related news Wike, Ortom, three other governors shun PDP flag-off presidential campaign in Uyo Despite BoT Chairman’s resignation, Wike wants Ayu to go Crisis: Wike,…

Two brothers were on Friday jailed for 40 years each for the car bomb murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Galizia uncovered corruption in high places and her killing sparked an international furore and forced the resignation of the prime minister. Galizia, 53, was one of Malta’s most prominent public figures. Once described as a “one-woman WikiLeaks,” she was a vocal critic of the country’s political elite in her blog, accusing them of cronyism and corruption. Read also: FG vows to get justice over killing of physically-challenged in Italy “There are crooks everywhere you look now,” she wrote, hours before the…

Commuters voyaged with canoes on the East-West Road, a flooded federal highway in Niger–Delta, Wednesday, as raging flood waters submerged the Ughelli-Patani axis in Delta State. The latest incident is coming three years after a similar natural disaster in which flood swamped a different section of the East-West road, 2012, in Delta State. This is as a commercial bus plying the Ughelli/Port Harcourt section of the East-West Road plunged into a river at Umeh Junction in Delta State on Thursday evening. The road initiated by former President Olusegun Obasanjo administration in 2006 is still under construction. The unfortunate incident turned…

November 28 is set aside as the day for Federal High Court to give final verdict on the long-drawn legal battle between Mr Umo Eno and Mr Akan Okon bordering on alleged certificates scandal.  Eno, the Akwa Ibom Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate is being challenged by Okon, the state governorship aspirant over his eligibility to contest the 2023 general elections.   At the resumed hearing at Federal High Court, Uyo on Friday, October 14, counsel to Umo Eno urged the Court to dismiss the suit filed against him by Mr Akan Okon, for it is “frivolous, tendentious and wholly…

Nigeria’s Flamingos walloped New Zealand 4-0 in their second group B game to record their first win at the 8th FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in India on Friday. Following the 2-1 loss to Germany in the opening game of their competition, Nigeria needed to pick up the maximum three points to increase their chances of advancing to the quarterfinals. Nigeria were obviously the dominant team in the game as Flamingos won the first half 2-0 thanks to a powerful header from Bello in the 17th minute. Related news: FIFA U-17 World Cup: Brazil Are Champions After Beating Mexico 2-1…

Some nurses in a private hospital in Lagos State are in trouble as the state government is investigating their unprofessional conduct the death of a reality TV star, Patrick Fakoya, aka Rico Swavey. Swavey, Big Brother Naija star, was involved in a motor accident that later claimed his life while some nurses were videotaping instead of attending to his health. A 30-second viral video is showing some nurses at a hospital in Lagos State being lackadaisical with their duties while Rico was in a critical condition has sparked outrage on social media. Related news: Parents Decry Negligence as Student Dies At FGC in Akwa…

Nigerian public universities are to resume academic activities following conditional suspension of an eight-month-old strike by Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU), a member of the union’s National Executive Committee told Channels TV on Friday. The union decided to suspend the strike during a meeting of its leadership that started on Thursday night and lasted into the early hours of Friday. The meeting was called by the union to determine its next line of action after its state branches met over the Court of Appeal ruling last week. ASUU is expected to make a formal announcement about the suspended strike…

An award-winning Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, recently decorated with Harvard University’s iconic W.E.B. Du Bois Medal, has explained why she did not attend the Tuesday’s conferment of National Honours. The ceremony was anchored by President Muhammadu Buhari at the International Conference Centre, Abuja. Putting the records straight, a member of Chimamanda’s communications team, Omawumi Ogbe, told The Guardian that the author declined the honour. Ogbe said in a statement: “Following the recent conferment of national awards by the President, there have been conflicting reports about one of the announced recipients, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Some social media users say the…