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Leicester City’s home Premier League game with Tottenham on Thursday has been postponed because of Covid-19 in the squad of The Foxes. The match, scheduled to kick off at 19:30 GMT, would become the fourth top-flight fixture to be cancelled in the past week. The Premier League in a tweet on Thursday afternoon said, “Leicester vs Tottenham has now been postponed due to an increase in positive COVID-19 cases in Leicester’s squad today.” Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers said on Wednesday the club had asked for the game to be called off because of the number of positive cases in his…

Senate President Ahmad Lawan felicitated with President Muhammadu Buhari on the occasion of his 79th birthday, noting that, he is passionate about the unity and prosperity of Nigeria. Lawan acknowledges Buhari’s purposeful leadership, vision, courage and steadfastness in the pursuit of the right cause and common good. “I join the multitude of fellow Nigerians and your other well-wishers across the globe in thanking Allah for His great gifts of good health and long life to you. “This benevolence of Allah has enabled Your Excellency to continue to provide purposeful leadership to our country in this time of unprecedented challenges across…

Rock legend Bruce Springsteen has sold the master recordings and publishing rights for his life’s work to Sony for a reported $500m. The deal gives Sony ownership of his 20 studio albums, including classics like Born To Run, The River and Born In The USA, according to multiple US reports. A 20-time Grammy winner, Springsteen’s music generated about $15m in revenue last year. His deal follows similar sales by Bob Dylan, Blondie and David Bowie. Warner Music bought the worldwide rights to Bowie’s music in September, and Dylan sold his catalogue of more than 600 songs in December last year…

Five children have died and four others are injured after falling from a bouncy castle that was blown into the air in Australia, police say. The accident – caused by a wind gust – happened on Thursday at a primary school fun day in Devonport, Tasmania. Police said the children had fallen from 10m (32ft), with both girls and boys among the victims. Authorities did not give their ages but said all were in grades five or six – typically for children aged 10-12. “A wind gust had reportedly caused the jumping castle and inflatable balls to lift into the…

On Sunday December 19th SuperPicks will give away a guaranteed 50 million naira jackpot, in what is being billed as #SuperSunday. SuperPicks, Nigeria’s fastest growing free-to-play football predictor game has already generated over 20 N1m winners to date but on SuperSunday, one lucky player is guaranteed to walk away with the N50m jackpot. For free. That’s because on SuperSunday, the player who comes closest to predicting the 6 correct scores in the listed high profile European matches taking place on that day, will scoop the jackpot. For free. Hence why it’s being called SuperSunday. SuperPicks has really caught the public…

China has offered to send a high-level delegation of criminal investigation experts to meet with Nigerian security agencies following the growing insecurity across the country. Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Cui Jianchun disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja while speaking to journalists on the sideline of the Oct. 1, China-Nigeria friendship award to students of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. Cui said that the move by China is part of its support to tackling the insecurity bedeviling Nigeria, disclosing that the security experts are expected to arrive Nigeria soon. “China’s Central government is really concerned about the security situation in…

Headline inflation decreased by 0.59 per cent to 15.40 per cent in November, the Statistician-General of the Federation, Mr Simon Harry says. Harry, who made the announcement on Wednesday in Abuja during a media conference, also stated that the rebasing of the nation’s economy would take place in 2022 after completing the National Agricultural Sample Census (NASC). According to him, there has been a consistent decrease in inflation rate in the last eight months and the figure for November is a decrease from the 15.99 per cent recorded in October. “With this, it means that the declining trend for about…

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) said that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited’s (NNPC Ltd) approach of direct allocation of Premium Motor Spirit to IPMAN was a jinx breaker that led to product availability. The IPMAN said decentralisation and direct distribution of products to independent marketers and monitoring would solve the fuel scarcity permanently if sustained. IPMAN President, Elder Chinedu Okoronkwo, said this on Thursday in Abuja while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Okoronkwo, while reacting to the sudden disappearance of queues at the filling stations in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) after prolonged…

Manchester City have tabled a bid of 90m euros (£77m) for RB Leipzig’s Josko Gvardiol, 21, with the Croatia defender described as Pep Guardiola’s “dream player”. (Sky Sport Germany – in German) Villarreal’s Senegal forward Nicolas Jackson, 22, is set to seal a 35m euro (£30m) move to Chelsea after completing a medical at the club on Sunday. (Athletic – subscription required) Mikel Arteta says he is happy at Arsenal and has played down reports linking him with Paris St-Germain. (Marca – in Spanish) Saudi Pro League side Al-Hilal want to sign Jamaica winger Demarai Gray, 26, from Everton, with negotiations planned for next week. (Mail) Colombia centre-back Yerry Mina, 28, who is a free…

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved $1.9 billion for the procurement of equipment for the nation’s power sector to boost power supply across the country, through the Presidential Power Initiative. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed made the disclosure on Wednesday, when she briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the Council meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. She said: ”Today, the Ministry of Power and the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, presented two joint memos regarding the Presidential Power Initiative. “The first memo that we presented to council was seeking Council’s…