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In the opening of Premier League for 2020/2021 football season, Arsenal made a flying start as Gabriel Magalhaes grabbed a debut goal and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored a stunner in Saturday’s 3-0 win at Fulham. Just 48 days after last season’s delayed conclusion, the Premier League is back and Arsenal hit the ground running with the kind of confident display that has become their hallmark since Mikel Arteta took charge. Arsenal’s free-flowing attack was too incisive for promoted Fulham and Alexandre Lacazette gave the visitors an early lead at Craven Cottage. Brazilian defender Gabriel scored Arsenal’s second after the break in…

September 11 remains an unforgettable day in the history of United States of America and constantly is embalmed in the hearts of Americans. Though it was a day Osama Bin Laden-led Al-Qaeda struck and sent thousands to their early graves, the puzzling aspect of the attack was beating the security network of a country aptly regarded as the “most powerful nation in the world.” The September 11 attacks – commonly referred to as 9/11- were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda gainst the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.…

“Please, pray for me. I have reasons to believe that my life is in danger and that some powerful political forces want to silence me forever for speaking the truth,” Dr. Obadiah Mailafia raised the alarm. A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mailafia  in a statement on Friday after he was invited for another round of interrogation by the Department of State Services, alleged that some powerful political forces are after his life. He alleged that the politicians who are bent on killing him do not want him to say the truth, calling on Nigerians to…

At least, seven persons died, thousands displaced and whole towns destroyed by the furious 100 wildfires that raged in the Western US states. California, Washington state and Oregon have been the hardest hit by the blazes, fuelled by heat waves and windy conditions. BBC NEWS reports that Oregon’s governor said this “could be the greatest loss of human life and property” to fires in state history. Nine other states in the region are also seeing wildfires raging. Three deaths have been blamed on the wildfires in Oregon, with another three in California and one in Washington. According to the National…

Nigeria, Thursday, notched 197 more COVID-19 cases even as the number of people who have recovered from the pandemic inches to 44,000. Plateau State which has now become the pandemic epicentre in the country had the highest infections for the day – 83 – according to a tweet, Thursday, by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The agency said the new infections were reported in 12 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Of the new cases, Lagos had 48 infections, Kaduna – 17, FCT – 16, Ogun – 11, Katsina – 7, Imo– 4 and Edo – 3. Nasarawa had three…

As reported rape cases spread like epidemic across Nigeria, Kaduna State House of Assembly has okayed castration as punishment for anyone convicted of the crime in the state. This follows the passage of a bill to amend the Kaduna State Penal Court Law, 2017, by the lawmakers during Thursday’s plenary. The assembly, which announced the development via its Twitter handle on Thursday, said the bill was passed into law on Wednesday. The majority leader of the assembly, Haruna M A Inuwa tweeted about the development on his official twitter handle. “A bill to amend the Kaduna State Penal Court Law…

As the October 10 Governorship election in Ondo State draws nearer, more than 5,000 Smart Cards Thursday were gutted by fire in the state. The fire burnt was said to have razed a section of the Ondo state Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) complex in Akure, the state capital has destroyed a container loaded with smart card readers. The cause of the fire outbreak is not known as at the time of writing the report while the fire is still raging as 8:55 p.m. on Thursday. The inferno which was noticed around 7:03 p.m. affected the ICT unit of the…

P&ID has entered muddy water as a United Kingdom judge has ordered the company to make an interim payment of more than £1.5 million to Nigeria within 21 days. This money is to cover legal costs the country incurred as part of its successful application for the extension of time to challenge the arbitration award of $9.6 billion to the company. The judge gave the order on Thursday when Nigeria appeared before in a hearing held to decide procedural and costs issues relating to the FRN’s applications to challenge the arbitration award and to determine the short-term directions to trial.…

Following an agreement reached with Federal Government, National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended the nationwide industrial action. Confirming this to Channels Television on Thursday evening, Dr Aliyu Sokumba, the President of NARD stated that the union would review the progress made in talks with the Federal Government in two weeks. The Federal Government and the doctors reached an agreement on Wednesday to end the industrial action. During the meeting which almost took the entire day, NARD had stated that it will liaise with the executive council with a view to calling off the strike. Both parties had been…

After a three-day statewide blackout, Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED), in Akwa Ibom State has restored electricity supply to its teeming consumers. The truce was brokered by Nigerian Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) at the national level between the NUEE at the state level and PHED management on Thursday. Though members of NUEE in Akwa Ibom State Council have called off their three-day strike, their grievances have not yet been settled. The members began the strike Tuesday morning after the management of PHED, Akwa Ibom was alleged to have turned deaf ears to their five-point grievances. As at Thursday…