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Nigeria’s Henry Onyekuru makes his return at Anderlecht

April 26, 2018 Admin

Nigeria international Henry Onyekuru made his long awaited return from injury at his Belgian club RSC Anderlecht on Wednesday. The forward has been out nursing a knee injury which he sustained in a Belgian First Divison A match against his former side KAS Eupen in December 2017. Onyekuru was expected to miss the reminder of the season, but the 20-year-old featured for Anderlecht as they thumped Lokeren 4-1 in a reserve league game on Wednesday. The Belgian giants released the following statement on their official Twitter account: “After winning the…

Shell profits rise on back of soaring oil prices

April 26, 2018 Admin

Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday reported a 42 percent rise in first-quarter profit, its highest in over three years, boosted by higher oil prices and production. Expectations are high for Shell to continue to generate strong profits and cash flow after the Anglo-Dutch company beat larger rival Exxon Mobil on both fronts in 2017 thanks to cost cuts and higher efficiencies. The world’s top oil companies are expected to generate more cash in 2018 than at any other time this decade after three years of cuts, but boards remain cautious…

Nintendo annual profits soar 36 percent to $1.27bn on Switch sales

April 26, 2018 Admin

Nintendo on Thursday said its annual net profit soared 36.1 percent, thanks to the immense popularity of its Switch console, and announced it was appointing a new president. Shuntaro Furukawa, 46, who currently oversees marketing and other divisions at the Kyoto-based video game giant, will succeed 68-old-year Tatsumi Kimishima, who has headed up the firm since 2015. Nintendo has been on a winning streak, with its Switch console flying off the shelves since its launch last year. The company said its net profit for the year to March reached 139.6…

Another comedy of shame

April 26, 2018April 26, 2018 Admin

Legislative rascality has a long, chequered history. Perhaps one of the most dramatic in the Senate in the last 18 years happened on the watch of Chuba Okadigbo, when former President Olusegun Obasanjo tried by means fair and foul to remove Okadigbo as president of the Senate. After several attempts to remove him, including the executive offering bribes to senators, the Oyi of Oyi, as Okadigbo was fondly called, took matters into his own hands. He removed the mace, the symbol of authority, and took it to his residence in…

Singer, Olamide hits Abuja for Kings Meet

April 26, 2018 Admin

Popular Nigerian singer, Olamide will hit Abuja Thursday April, 26, 2018 for the maiden edition of ‘Kings Meet’, an event organised for elite fun seekers in Abuja by the Kings of the North Group. This is contained in a statement issued by the organisers in Abuja and made available to the News Agency of Nigerian (NAN) on Wednesday. The statement said Olamide will feature at the event holding at a popular fun spot in the Wuse II Area of Abuja known as Moscow Underground and is supported by the distinctive Hennessy xo.…

Dilemma of the Nigerian youth

April 26, 2018 Admin

Reaching a consensus about who a youth is in Nigeria is a fundamental challenge which may blur every other discussion about this demography. The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation says youthfulness is an attribute of people who are in the 15 and 24 age grade. It promises though that given the peculiarities of each member state, it would concede to their individual definitions of the nomenclature. To that effect, UNESCO, when considering youths in the African context, adopts the African Youth Charter definition that youth means “every person…

Be my best man, Harry asks William

April 26, 2018 Admin

Britain’s Prince Harry has asked his elder brother Prince William to be his best man at his wedding to U.S. actress Meghan Markle next month, his office said in a statement on Thursday. Harry was William’s best man at his own glittering wedding to wife Kate Middleton in 2011. “The Duke of Cambridge is honoured to have been asked, and is very much looking forward to supporting his brother at St George’s Chapel, Windsor on May 19th,” Kensington Palace said. Some 600 guests are expected to attend Harry and Markle’s…

In Yobe, 1, 296 IDPs risk cholera outbreak

April 26, 2018 Admin

There are indications that the 1, 296 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Pompomari camp, Damaturu, may face cholera outbreak and other water-borne diseases due to absence of water and sanitation facilities. According to the inmates, they get water once a day, while their toilet facilities are not being maintained. NAN correspondent on a delegation of the Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Emergency Working Group, further reports that inmates of the camp said the coming rains would compound the problems as their makeshift homes are in tatters. One of the…

Trump to get rid of nuclear deal – Macron

April 26, 2018 Admin

French President Emmanuel Macron has said he may have failed in efforts to persuade Donald Trump to retain an international nuclear deal with Iran. “My view is… that he will get rid of this deal on his own, for domestic reasons,” Mr Macron said at the end of a three-day state visit to the US. Mr Trump has until 12 May to decide on the deal, which aimed to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. He has been a strong critic of the deal, calling it “insane”. Under the agreement reached…

Diego Costa, Arsenal’s tormentor in Atletico squad

April 26, 2018 Admin

Atletico coach, Diego Simeone has warned Arsenal: Diego Costa is coming to make you suffer again. Having initially been ruled out of the Europa League semi-final first leg with a hamstring injury, Costa recovered sufficiently to travel to London with Atletico Madrid, the Mirror newspaper has reported. And the fiery frontman’s potential involvement tonight is bad news for the Gunners as he was their worst nightmare during his time at Chelsea. He was public enemy No.1 whenever he faced Arsenal because of how he tormented and got under their defenders’…