Day: May 9, 2017

Chelsea on brink, Boro relegated

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Cesc Fabregas sparkled as Chelsea moved to within touching distance of the Premier League title and condemned Middlesbrough to relegation with a breezy 3-0 home win on Monday. Fabregas made sure Chelsea capitalised on Tottenham Hotspur’s 1-0 defeat at West Ham United on Friday by supplying assists for Diego Costa and Nemanja Matic, with Marcos Alonso also finding the net. It left Chelsea seven points clear of Spurs at the summit and means they will be crowned champions for the second time in three seasons if they win at West…

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Chiobok Girls: UNICEF, UNFPA ready to offer comprehensive psychosocial support

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The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF and United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA has expressed readiness to provide comprehensive psychosocial support and other specialized services needed to 82 Chibok girls newly released by Boko Haram group. The two United Nation organisations said they are on standby to support the Nigerian authorities to provide emergency reproductive healthcare, psychosocial counselling and other critical support to the survivors. UNICEF described the released of the girls as heartening even as it lamented that the girls will face a long difficult process to rebuild their lives…

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Macron victory gives Brussels confidence boost over EU’s future

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With existential threat posed by French election averted, EU leaders appear assured and see opportunity to reset project Europe When Emmanuel Macron walked across the courtyard of the Louvre on Sunday evening to the rousing finale of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, the EU anthem, few doubted it was a win not only for his untested political movement, but for the European project too. After the recent defeat of the far right in Austria and disappointment for the rabble-rousing populist Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Brussels hailed the Macron victory as…

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I will never exchange anything for Biafra – Nnamdi Kanu vows

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  Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOP, on Monday paid a visit to the Eastern Consultative Assembly, ECA in Enugu, vowing never to give up his agitation for Biafra. He was received by top members of the ECA, including Chief Mrs. Maria Okwor, Rev. Fr. John Odey, among others. Kanu also visited the founder of the Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, Evang. Elliot Ugochukwu-Ukoh. While expressing his gratitude for support showed to him by the two groups, Kanu said he chose the option of fighting to liberate the people…

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