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The official website of Unai Emery has carried an image bearing the slogan: “Proud to be part of the Arsenal family.” The former Paris St-Germain manager is set to be unveiled as Arsene Wenger’s successor this week. The London club has yet to confirm Emery as the new head coach. But on Tuesday an image of Emery alongside an Arsenal crest and carrying the slogan appeared on his official website – before being removed. It is not yet known if the image appeared in error or was the work of hackers. READ: Guzman to replace injured Sergio Romero in Argentina…

Director of government-owned radio station has told Ohaneze Ndigbo that he is paving the way for an Igbo to emerge President in the 2023 polls. Chief Osita Okechukwu, Director General of Voice of Nigeria, (VON), said the return of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 would make Igbo presidency a reality in 2023. “Ohaneze Ndigbo should work towards plucking the low hanging fruit; which is President of Nigeria of Igbo extraction in 2023, than chase elusive theorems,” Okechukwu said on Tuesday in Enugu. The president of Nigeria of Igbo extraction in 2023 will assuage the lamentation of marginalisation and return Ndigbo…

Compared to their US and European peers African tech startups are minuscule but they are finally gaining momentum and attention in some of the world’s most promising economies. “There are little glimmers of light everywhere” in Africa, said Gilles Babinet, a digital technology expert with the European Commission. The World Bank recently counted some 443 African incubators — firms that back new businesses with funds and expertise — compared with around just 10 at the beginning of the decade. Investment fund Partech Ventures estimates African startups raised $560 million in 2017, up more than 50 percent as the number of…

Nahuel Guzman has been called into Argentina’s World Cup squad on Tuesday as a replacement for Sergio Romero after the Manchester United player was cut from the team with a knee injury, the country’s football federation (AFA) said. Guzman, who plays for Mexican side Tigres, joins Chelsea’s Willy Caballero and uncapped River Plate stopper Franco Armani in Argentina’s 23-man squad for Russia. Coach Jorge Sampaoli took just minutes to decide on Guzman after Romero’s exclusion was announced on Tuesday. Romero, who was widely expected to be Argentina’s first choice keeper, will need surgery on his right knee, the AFA said.…

Lawyers for the Bodo community in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta, which was devastated by two major oil spills a decade ago, went to court in London on Tuesday to fend off what they said was an attempt by Shell to kill off their litigation. The Bodo oil spills have been the subject of years of legal wrangling. In 2015, Shell accepted liability for the spills, agreeing to pay 55 million pounds ($83 million at the time) to Bodo villagers and to clean up their lands and waterways. Oil spills, sometimes due to vandalism, sometimes to corrosion, are common in the…

Former Nigeria President Olusegun Obasanjo has labelled President Muhammadu Buhari as ‘ignorant’ for claiming he wasted $16 billion on a failed power project. Obasanjo said Buhari should learn to read but if he cannot, he should get an aide to do so for him. He said the incumbent President’s statement earlier today were based on ignorance, as he was relying on the unsubstantiated allegations against him by the then leadership of House of Representatives over the project. Speaking on behalf of Obasanjo, his aide, Kehinde Akinyemi said lack of proper understanding made the President to make such comment. “It has…

Rivers Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Kenneth Kobani and a politician, Mr. Samuel Okposo were docked today in Port Harcourt for a six-count charge of money laundering. The amount involved was N750million, part of the $115million pilfered from the treasury by former oil minister, Diezani Alison Madueke. All the three men appeared before Justice B. Bilikisu of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. According to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the accused collected the money from the Garrison branch of a new generation bank in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on the eve of the…

President Muhammadu Buhari has told critics he does not care the opinion they have of late dictator Sani Abacha claiming that during his rule Nigeria achieved significant progress in construction and education. Buhari said this when he received members of the Buhari Support Organisations (BSO) led by the Comptroller-General of Customs, Colonel Hameed Ali (retd), at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. “I went to the CBN Governor, with my cap in my hand, and asked if we had savings. He told me we had only debts, no savings. Some of the roads were not repaired since the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF)…

US President Donald Trump has said there is a “very substantial chance” a historic summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un next month may not happen. He said the North must meet conditions for the summit to go ahead though if it did not, it might happen “later”. He was speaking as he received South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in at the White House. The North has said it may cancel the summit if the US insists on it giving up nuclear weapons unilaterally. Mr Trump did not say what conditions the US had set for the summit but, asked by a…

New West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini as promised to deliver attacking football to the London side after he was unveiled as David Moyes’ replacement. The Chilean becomes West Ham’s 17th permanent manager on a three-year contract, spoke of his vision for a team which will enthuse the Claret and Blue Army throughout his tenure. Speaking after his appointment, Pellegrini said he felt wanted by the Hammers and outlined his ambitions for a successful future which he shares with Joint-Chairman David Sullivan and the Club’s supporters. “I’m very happy because I return to a league that, for me, and I always…