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Mateo Kovacic has joined Chelsea from Real Madrid on a season-long loan deal without an option to buy

Manchester City have signed Australia international midfielder Daniel Arzani from Melbourne City.

Senator Godswill Akpabio is now the leader of the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom State.

Guaranty Trust Bank plc has released its audited financial results for the period ended June 30, 2018 to the Nigerian and London Stock Exchanges. A review of the results shows positive performance across all financial indices, reaffirming the Bank’s position as one of the most profitable and well managed financial institutions in Nigeria. Gross earnings for the period grew by 5.9% to ₦226.6 billion from ₦214.1 billion reported in June 2017.  Profit before tax stood at ₦109.6 billion, representing a growth of 8.4% over ₦101.1 billion recorded in the corresponding period of June 2017. The Bank’s Loan Book dipped by…

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), has alleged that some members of the National Assembly were planning to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari. But he warned the plotters to drop their sinister move because it is not “possible for a lizard to wrestle an antelope’’. Tinubu spoke on Wednesday at the formal defection of ex-senate Minority Leader, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, at a packed full Ikot Ekpene township stadium in Akwa Ibom. He described what is happening in the country now as a war between progressives and the conservatives. “We believe in government of the people, for…

Controversial Senate President Bukola Saraki has described former head of state, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida as his father and his leader. Saraki visited Babamgida who is popularly called by his initials, IBB, in Minna, Niger state capital on Wednesday, hours after addressing a world press conference in Abuja. Dropped in to pay my respects to General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida. Always happy to be with a father and leader. pic.twitter.com/IbV2WI2sds — Bukola Saraki (@bukolasaraki) August 8, 2018 Saraki who declined questions from journalists who asked why he was in Minna, tweeted a picture of himself and IBB afterwards with the caption, “Dropped…

Chelsea has signed Kepa Arrizabalaga on a seven-year deal from Athletic Bilbao for a world record fee believed to be around £71 million. The 23-year-old Spanish international goalkeeper arrived ahead of the new Premier League season having signed a seven-year contract at Stamford Bridge. He repleaces Thibaut Courtois who forced a move to Real Madrid after refusing to return to training after the World Cup with Belgium. Kepa is a Chelsea player! ????#WelcomeKepa pic.twitter.com/Tt2kLIOqU8 — Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) August 8, 2018 Kepa has played over 100 career league games, has solid experience at the highest level having made more than…

Nigerians have continued to react to the sack of the Director-General of the Department of State Service (DSS), Lawal Daura, by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) on Tuesday. This comes after the DSS and men of the Nigerian Police Force had laid siege on the National Assembly on Tuesday, even as the Senate leadership had scheduled a meeting to hold in the chambers in the afternoon. Lawmakers who came with the hope of attending the meeting were denied entry into the Assembly by the security operatives. In a social media storm that followed, Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief as…

Senator Godswill Akpabio has formally defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at a mega rally held at the Ikot Ekpene township stadium

The diplomatic row between Saudi Arabia and Canada appears to have escalated with the Middle East country selling off its assets in north American country