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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been named the Premier League’s Player of the Month for September after scoring five goals in four matches. The Arsenal striker topped an eight-man shortlist after a vote by the public, as well as by the 20 club captains and a panel of football experts. Aubameyang’s goals during September were worth five points to Arsenal – he scored twice in their 2-2 draw at Watford, the equalisers in draws with Tottenham and Manchester United and the late winner with a free-kick against Aston Villa. The 30-year-old, who was the joint Golden Boot winner last season, now has…

Following the sack of Dino Melaye, the Senator representing Kogi West in Kogi State by the Appeal Court on Friday, the Senator has lost his seat in the Red Chambers. The National Assembly Elections Tribunal had on August 23 nullified Melaye’s election and ordered Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct fresh election in the senatorial district. In a tweet on his official Twitter handle, Melaye said that the appellate court had ordered fresh elections in his senatorial constituency. He, therefore, called on his supporters to be law-abiding and assured them that they would overcome. Melaye tweeted, “I just lost…

A 16-year-old child bride from Anambra State forced into early marriage by her parents returned to school on October 8. Miss Chikwendu’s forced marriage sparked widespread condemnation online and offline after a facebook user shared her story in January this year. Vivian Queenstine Diora, an angry woman, who wrote on her Facebook page, slammed the marriage between a young girl said to be 16 years old and a mentally unstable man in his late 50s, from a wealthy family in Ozubulu, Anambra State. Her post reads: “This man in the picture carrying this girl on his leg is by name…

A 27-year-old woman has been handed a 10-year jail sentence for killing her 33-year-old fiancé over her refusal to wear an engagement ring he gave her. Blesing Edet who was arraigned before an Ikeja Special Offences Court was found to have killed Edet Ebong during a fight between them. New Telegraph reported that Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo convicted Edet on a commuted sentence of involuntary manslaughter over the offence committed around 12:15 a.m. on August 18, 2015 at her apartment in Lekki area of Lagos state. Giving her account of the incident in court on February 7, she said the deceased wanted her to…

By Akanimo Sampson As part of Greece’s ongoing effort to decongest the overcrowded North-Eastern Aegean islands, another 700 vulnerable refugees and migrants have been safely transported from the Greek islands to the mainland. The group arrived in Piraeus, the largest port in Greece, where the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) then transported them to designated accommodation sites that have been set up on the Greek mainland. Majority are families with children from Afghanistan and came from the islands of Lesvos, Samos, Chios, Leros and Kos. The latest arrivals bring to 3,887, the number of people that IOM has transferred from…

By Akanimo Sampson To help keep waters clean, new international standards for sustainable diving have just been released by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), an independent, non-governmental international organisation with a membership of 164 national standards bodies. Through its members, ISO brings together experts to share knowledge and develop voluntary, consensus-based, market relevant international standards that support innovation and provide solutions to global challenges. However, recreational diving offers the opportunity to explore a whole new world rich in underwater treasures. It also has an impact on the environment. Diving is attractive for many reasons and it is no wonder that millions…

Henceforth, offenders of hate speeches, inciting comments and indecency in the country are to pay N5 million fine no longer N500,000. This follows the approval of review of the National Broadcasting Code and extant broadcasting laws by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed stated this on Thursday in Abuja while inaugurating the National Broadcasting Commission Reform Implementation Committee. Mohammed said stiffer penalties await violators of broadcasting regulations as the President has endorsed the implementation of reforms to end all forms of monopoly detrimental to the actualisation of the immense potential of the broadcast industry.…

By Akanimo Sampson The adoption of the Law N° 2015-36 which criminalises the smuggling of migrants in Niger, and the closing of several gold mines, once magnets drawing job seekers, have left many people living along northern Niger’s migration routes in search for alternative income-generating activities. Together with local authorities, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has been working hard in recent years on strengthening the socio-economic development of communities living in the migratory zone. Last week, IOM completed a fish farming project in Bilma, in the Kawar region in northern Niger, to the benefit of more than 6,500 people, through…

By Akanimo Sampson Women are currently battling to shake the table at the technology and e-commerce industry largely dominated by men. There is a surge in women demanding seats at the table, and effectively delivering goods online. Interestingly, a handful of women disruptors from developing countries are challenging the status quo to narrow the gender gap at home and further afield. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is working with some of these inspiring women to reshape how trade happens online. Seven women from across the developing world were announced as UNCTAD’s first “eTrade for Women Advocates”…

A 97-year-old John Goodenough has emerged the oldest Nobel Prize winner across all fields. Goodenough from the United States is one of three researchers who won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for the development of lithium-ion batteries, paving the way for smartphones and a fossil fuel-free society. He was born on 25 July 1922, less than two months before the birth of 2018 Physics Prize laureate Arthur Ashkin. Ashkin was born on 2 September 1922. Goodenough, Britain’s Stanley Whittingham, and Japan’s Akira Yoshino will share the nine million Swedish kronor (about $914,000 or 833,000 euros) prize equally, the Royal Swedish…