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Manchester United were disappointed by a VAR penalty controversy in their 0-0 draw at Chelsea, Premier League reported. Second-placed United had hoped to close the gap on Manchester City with a victory at Stamford Bridge. But instead they now sit 12 points behind the Premier League leaders as their title hopes fade following a run of one win from four games. Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel is unbeaten in nine matches in all competitions since replacing the sacked Frank Lampard, but the stalemate was a blow to his team’s top-four challenge. The fifth-placed Blues are one point behind fourth-placed West Ham and four ahead of sixth-placed Liverpool, who…

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has adjusted exchange rate of naira to dollar (N410/$1) at the official market, Godwin Emefiele, the CBN Governor has confirmed.  Addressing bankers at a summit on the economy in Lagos on Friday, February 26, Emefiele said the official exchange rate now stands at 410 to the dollar.  Emefiele also stated that the drop in crude oil earnings and the associated reduction in foreign portfolio inflows significantly affected the supply of foreign exchange into Nigeria. He expressed hope of increased exports helping to boost dollar supply. The CBN boss said “In order to adjust for the decrease…

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed June 15 as the deadline for the 2020 admissions into Nigerian tertiary institutions. JAMB made the announcement in a statement Sunday morning, noting that admissions are for the JAMB UTME examination held last year. In statement entitled: 2020 ADMISSIONS: HEADS OF TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS SET 15TH JUNE, 2021 DEADLINE, the examination body urged all candidates to conform to advisories on transfer, change of programmes and institutions. ”All admissions in the nation’s tertiary institutions for the 2020/2021 Academic Session would end by June 15, 2021. ”The decision was collectively taken at a virtual meeting…

Again, the security circle in Calabar, capital of Cross River State in Nigeria’s South-south, has been thrown into grief following the killing of four police officers by unknown gunmen on Thursday. Cross River police spokesperson, Irene Ugbo, confirmed the killing of the officers, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported. The officers were reportedly killed along MCC Road, Calabar, though their identity and details surrounding the killings are not yet known. In December 2020, an assistant commissioner of police, Egbe Edum, was brutally killed with a machete by some yet-to-be-identified hoodlums in Calabar. Ms Ugbo, a deputy superintendent of police, said…

The whereabouts of Salihu Tanko Yakassai, Special Adviser on Media to Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State, remains unknown. Yakassai was relieved of his appointment over what government alleged as his continued unguarded comments and utterances which are deemed contrary to the stand of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government which he is serving. Recall that he had on Friday, February 26, via his Twitter handle, called on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to either deal with bandits in the country or resign from office. He stated this on Twitter while reacting to the abduction of 317 schoolgirls in…

An Akwa Ibom-born educationist, Emmanuel Abraham, says he has helped in curbing rural-urban drift bedevilling many Nigerian communities owing to dearth of basic social amenities coupled with white collar job. Abraham, the proprietor of Topfaith University, Mkpatak in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, talked boldly that he has reversed the trend from rural-urban drift to urban-rural drift through establishment of top-flight schools in his village. Abraham, a PH.d holder bared his mind at the book launch, Village Boy by Anietie Usen, multiple-award winning journalist held at Sheergrace Arena, Uyo in Akwa Ibom on Friday, February 26.…

Ivory Coast has become the second country to receive a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines via COVAX, the global vaccine-sharing programme. The vaccines, 504,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India, arrived on Friday in the commercial capital, Abidjan, paving the way for the West African nation to launch a vaccination campaign next week. Ghana received the first COVAX shipment on Wednesday, marking the start of what the WHO and UNICEF call the largest vaccine procurement and supply operation in history. By the end of 2021, COVAX plans to deliver nearly two billion doses to more…

A Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho, Friday, escaped purported arrest by a detachment of security operatives. The ambush led by a team of 40 security operatives comprising of officers of the Department of Security Service (DSS), Nigerian Army and Nigeria Police along Lagos/Ibadan expressway. As the security operatives wanted to waylay him on his way to Lagos, but Igboho was seen pulling off his shirt and going bare on the Lagos-Ibadan Highway. Some hefty youths were seen escorting him while the security men stood aghast looking as the man was led away from the scene. Femi Fani-Kayode revealed the failed ambush…

A Benue man in Nigeria has regretted cutting off part of his genitals to stem his libido. Terhemen Anongo, popularly called Doc K or Bob Korna, is a resident of Gboko in Benue State. He thought since he could not control his insatiable thirst for women, he had to heed the Biblical advice by cutting off what causes him to commit fornication. Anongo is popularly called Doctor K since he was a student of the University of Ibadan Medical School. He dropped out in his final year in 2007 owing to psychiatric reasons and has been living alone in his father’s…

Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Thursday, showed profuse excitement for pioneering herbal cure for the deadly COVID-19. So far, the pandemic has killed more than 2.5 million people globally and 1891 Nigerians. As a result, some advanced countries depending on the variants of COVID-19 have proffered COVAX, MODERNA and other vaccines to curb the ravaging virus. However, Ooni while unveiling herbal drugs for the treatment of Coronavirus said the Federal Government is aware of the drug and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has approved it.  The drugs were researched and produced by…