Month: December 2017

Philippe Coutinho hits hat-trick as Liverpool rout Spartak to top group

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Brazilian Philippe Coutinho struck a hat-trick as Liverpool crushed Spartak Moscow 7-0 on Wednesday to move into the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League as Group E winners. Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp fielded an attacking line-up with Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah in attack. This left Coutinho playing behind them, and it was simply too much for the Russians to handle. The five-times European champions took the lead in the fourth minute with a Coutinho penalty kick after Salah was pulled down by Georgi Dzhikiya. Spartak allowed…

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Jerusalem: UN insists on two-state solution

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António Guterres, UN secretary-general, on Wednesday said there was no alternative to the two-state solution to the lingering conflict between Israel and Palestinian. Guterres made the remarks in the wake of the announcement by the US President Donald Trump recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The UN chief said Jerusalem was an issue that must be resolved through direct negotiations between the parties. “In this moment of great anxiety, I want to make it clear: there is no alternative to the two-state solution. “There is no Plan B,” Guterres…

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PDP bars ex-VP Atiku Abubakar from voting at convention

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The Peoples Democratic Party has said that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar will not vote at its December 9 national convention, which holds at Eagles Square, Abuja. It said this is because of the provision of the Constitution that deals with new entrants into the party. However, the party said he would be allowed to speak at the convention. Spokesperson for the party, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, who spoke with journalists at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, said the party’s constitution should be used as a guide on the…

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Buhari restates commitment to fight against corruption, insurgency

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Kano reaffirmed the commitment of his administration towards the fight against insurgency in the country. Buhari, who made the remark when he paid a courtesy visit to the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, said the Federal Government was also committed to the fight against corruption. NAN reports that Buhari was on a two-day official visit to Kano state. According to him, Kano was the commercial hub of the northern Nigeria, adding that commercial activities in the state has been paralysed by the…

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Trump ignites Arab fury over Jerusalem

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Arabs have denounced as a slap in the face, President Donald Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a tectonic shift in US policy for the past decades. In a speech at the White House, Trump said his administration would begin a process of moving the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which is expected to take years. The status of Jerusalem — home to sites holy to the Muslim, Jewish and Christian religions — is one of the thorniest obstacles to reaching a peace…

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French court sets $47m bail bond for Kerimov Russian billionaire

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An appeal court in southern France ordered billionaire Russian businessman Suleyman Kerimov to post bail of 40 million euros ($47 million) on Wednesday pending a tax fraud investigation. Kerimov, 51, also a senator in Russia, was arrested in late November in the city of Nice over suspected tax evasion related to the purchase of luxury properties on the French Riviera, provoking an angry reaction from Moscow. He posted bail of five million euros and handed over his passport after he was charged with tax fraud on November 23, but prosecutors…

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FG, World Bank, others verify gas flare sites

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The Programme Coordinator of the Nigerian Gas Flare Commercialisation  Programme, Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Mr. Justice Derefaka, says the federal government has commenced the verification of  gas flare sites across the country. Derefaka disclosed this at the Gas Buyers’ Forum, organized by the Gas Aggregation Company of Nigeria,in Abuja, on Wednesday. He said that the federal government had discovered that there were at least 178 sites where gas were flared, as opposed to 140 sites listed in the past. He said the verification exercise was conducted in conjunction with the…

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Africa world fastest growing mobile phone market- Expert

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The African continent has been described as the fastest growing mobile phone market in the world, and that seven of the ten fastest growing internet populations in the world are in Africa. This was one of the submissions of Mr Idris Ayodeji Bello, who was the Guest Lecturer at the 4th Biennial Lecture of the Africa Regional Centre for Information Science (ARCIS), University of Ibadan (UI), with the theme, Africa’s Footprints in the Digital Age, which took place at the Trenchard Hall of the institution last week. Bello, who is…

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2019: Marwa endorses Buhari, says Atiku no threat

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Former Military Governor of Lagos State, Gen. Buba Marwa has aaid tat there was no better candidate for the 2019 election than President Muhammadu Buhari. Marwa, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said on Tuesday that after his analysis of all aspirants so far, Buhari remained the best of all of them so far. Speaking in Yola after a meeting of stakeholders organised by the Buba Marwa organisation, the former military governor officially endorsed Buhari for re-election in 2019. Marwa said Buhari’s administration within the past two years,…

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Ministry condemns publication on illegal mining

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The Ministry of Mines and Steel Development has described the publication of the BUA Group cement as an unwarranted campaign of calumny against it and the office of the Minister. Alhaji Mohammed Abass, Permanent Secretary of the ministry, said in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja that the publication by the company to blackmail the ministry into granting a free pass for illegal operations, was unwarranted. He alleged that a top official of the Group signed a publication that was published in several newspapers as an open letter to the…

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