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Pep Guardiola says Manchester City need to “learn to be more clinical” after they made difficult work of reaching their third successive Carabao Cup final. Guardiola’s side will face Aston Villa at Wembley on 1 March – despite losing the second leg of their semi-final against Manchester United, advancing 3-2 on aggregate. Leading 3-1 from the first leg at Old Trafford, the holders pushed forward in search of a goal to put the tie to bed but could find no way past an inspired David de Gea. Instead, United put things back in the balance before half-time when Nemanja Matic…

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp doesn’t feel as “though anything is done” despite his side reaching 70 points before the end of January and moving 19 points clear at the top of the Premier League. Mohamed Salah’s first-half penalty and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s second-half effort delivered a 23rd victory in 24 matches for the Reds at West Ham. The 2-0 victory was their 15th consecutive win as they maintained their relentless march towards a first top-flight title since 1990. However, while Liverpool, who are now unbeaten in 41 league games and could go on to reach several top-flight milestones, Klopp played down…

Christian Eriksen made his Inter Milan debut as they beat Fiorentina on Wednesday to reach the Coppa Italia semi-finals. The Denmark midfielder joined Inter from Tottenham for a fee of around £16.9m on Tuesday. He came on as a second-half substitute, replacing on-loan Manchester United forward Alexis Sanchez. Late Trezeguet goal sends Aston Villa into Carabao Cup final Antonio Candreva and Nicolo Barella got the goals for Inter with Martin Caceres scoring for Fiorentina. Chelsea winger Victor Moses, who joined Inter on loan for the rest of the season last week, also made an appearance in the second half. Inter will play…

The Federal Government has approved the payment of N33,000 as monthly allowance for members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). The Director-General of NYSC, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, disclosed this during a session with some corps members at the service’s Bauchi State Secretariat. Brigadier General Ibrahim, who was on a working visit to the state, cleared the air on the amount approved as monthly allowance for corps members. READ ALSO: Fire Guts 7 Buildings In Balogun Market He explained that the approval was made in line with the implementation of the new National Minimum Wage by the Federal Government.…

The management of Halogen – Nigeria’s leading security risk group has congratulated Nigerian World wrestling medalist and two times Commonwealth champion, Odunayo Adekuoroye for winning Nigeria’s only gold medal at the recently held Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series tournament in Rome, Italy where she defeated her Indian opponent 10-0 through technical superiority in the final to land gold. According to the Group Managing Director of Halogen Group, Mr. Wale Olaoye, “Halogen Group is proud to celebrate with Adekuoroye Odunayo and Nigerians globally, as she defeated India’s Anshu Anshu, 10-0 to win gold in the women’s 57kg at the 2020 Matteo Pellicone…

Goods and properties worth millions of naira have been destroyed in an early hour inferno that gutted a plaza, affecting seven buildings beside Great Nigeria Insurance building Leventis Bus Stop, Balogun Market, Martins Street, Lagos Island. At press time, no casualty recorded. Recall that similar incident occurred sometime last year September, when several properties were destroyed in an inferno that gutted a section of the market that lasted for about four days before it was finally put out by fire fire fighters. Director General of Lagos State Emergency Management Authority, LASEMA, Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, who confirmed the incident, assured that…

By David Dimas In a country where Nigerians are invariably losing their lives, livelihood and right to free speech, many government officials earn their paychecks propagating duplicitous commercial messages intended to deflect this truth. One of such officers is presidential media aide Femi Adesina. His response to questions in a recent interview with Channels TV concerning growing insecurity in Nigeria deeply exposed his romance with denial and embodies the grossest form of class solidarity. When confronted with statistics depicting the upsurge of insecurity, Mr. Adesina answered saying “It is not as bad as you make it seem…because we know what…

Trezeguet’s injury-time winner fired Aston Villa into the Carabao Cup final with victory over Leicester City on a dramatic night at Villa Park. The game had entered four minutes of stoppage time and penalties were looming when substitute Ahmed Elmohamedy sent over a superb cross for Trezeguet to drill a far-post finish across Leicester keeper Kasper Schmeichel. It sparked wild scenes of joy and a pitch invasion at Villa Park, as the hosts reached their first showpiece final since the FA Cup in 2015, when they lost 4-0 to Arsenal. We’re going to Wembley… AGAIN! ????#AVFC pic.twitter.com/swXjb40e4T — Aston Villa…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja said no one in government should be afraid of audit if they have done the right thing. The President, therefore, encouraged public servants to see audit as a means of improving their performance and not as a threat. Declaring open the second edition of the conference of Auditors-General in Nigeria, President Buhari challenged auditors to adhere to the professional code of conduct guiding their operations, while ensuring timely and quality review of financial performance of public officers. He also charged Auditors-General in Nigeria to maximize the use of their constitutional powers in the…

The operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) have arrested seven suspects posing as Local Government Traffic officers for extorting motorists in LASU – Igando Expressway. The suspects, who claimed they were on contract with the Ikotun-Igando Local Council Development Area in Alimosho Local Government, were arrested yesterday afternoon after receiving complaint from a victim. The suspects arrested include: the gang leader, Taiwo Falodun (48), Mukaila Atanda (48), Adedire Olaniyi (40), Chibuzor Eze (26), Akinseye Alex (48), Rasak Eko (50) and Aro Dotun (46). The suspect had last week Thursday extorted N41,000:00 from the victim for not speeding on the…