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The leaders of North and South Korea have agreed to work to rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons after holding a historic summit. The announcement was made by the North’s Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in of South Korea after talks at the border. The two also agreed to push towards turning the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953 into a peace treaty this year. It comes just months after warlike rhetoric from North Korea. Details of how denuclearisation would be achieved were not made clear and many analysts remain sceptical about the North’s apparent enthusiasm for engagement. Following…

The Speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Michael Adeyemo, is dead. He died on Friday, multiple sources confirmed. Adeyemo, a lawyer, was elected on the platform of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to represent Ibarapa East in the state assembly in 2011. Until then, he was an associate at the law chambers of Olujinmi & Akeredolu & Co in Ibadan. He was re-elected in 2015 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and elected the speaker of the Assembly. He hails from Lanlate. He attended IMG School, Oke Ado, Ibadan for his primary education…

Jose Mourinho says it was not his decision to sell Egypt forward Mohamed Salah when he was Chelsea manager. Salah, 25, left Stamford Bridge for Roma in 2016 and has scored 43 goals in all competitions for Liverpool since joining the club last summer. Mourinho, now manager of Manchester United, says the Blues opted to cash in on the player to fund other signings. “People say that I was the one that sold Salah and it is the opposite,” said the Portuguese. “I was the one that bought Salah. I was the one that told Chelsea to buy Salah,” Mourinho…

Imam Imam, the media adviser to Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal has died in Abuja at the age of 42 after a brief illness. The former Thisday staff died this morning, according to a tweet from Sokoto Government House. “Innallillahi wainah illahi rajuun. We regret to announce the death of Mallam Imam Imam who until his death was the Special Adviser Media to H.E @AWTambuwal. He died in the early hours of Friday at Nizamiye Turkish Hospital in Abuja, after a brief illness,” the tweet read. Innallillahi wainah illahi rajuun. We regret to announce the death of Mallam Imam Imam…

Nigerian telecoms company Globacom and China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd are laying an undersea cable that will provide high-speed internet to oil platforms in the country’s Niger Delta region. The 850 kilometre-long (528 miles) cable, connecting southwestern commercial capital Lagos with the southern Delta region, is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2020, the companies told Reuters in an interview on Thursday at Globacom’s Lagos headquarters. The Niger Delta, the OPEC member’s oil production heartland, was rocked by attacks by militants on energy facilities that contributed to Nigeria falling into a recession in 2016 since oil sales…

Nigeria’s presidency says President Muhammadu Buhari is pained by the persistent violence across the country especially in the Middle Belt state, Benue. Buhari described the repeated acts of mass killings and destruction in parts of the country as an evil design of enemies of peace and unity who have desperately been trying to bring the country to this sorry point. “A brother killing brother, a neighbor killing a neighbor and a community attacking and killing members of another community,” Buhari said in a statement by his spokesman Garba Shehu. He then strongly warned citizens against playing into the hands of…

Blasts and gunfire were heard on Thursday in Maiduguri, the city in northeastern Nigeria that has been the hardest hit by the Boko Haram insurgency, witnesses said. Witnesses reported a heavy military presence and crowded streets as people attempted to flee to safety in the Jiddari Polo area of the city. “People in our general area of Molai, Polo, Giwa Barrack, Galtimari and New GRA are evacuating as sounds of gunshots and bombs have been heard,” said Maiduguri resident Fati Abubakar. “I’ve been hearing non-stop loud sounds for hours.” BREAKING: Bill Cosby, 80, found guilty of sexual assault in retrial…

Marseille captain Dimitri Payet set up both goals as they beat Austria’s RB Salzburg 2-0 in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final at Stade Velodrome. The Ligue 1 side have won eight of their nine games at home in this season’s competition. Florian Thauvin headed their opener from ex-West Ham forward Payet’s free-kick and Cameroon winger Clinton Njie doubled the lead from a Payet pass. Fredrik Gulbrandsen hit the post for the Austrian Bundesliga leaders. READ: Griezmann scores equalizer for Atletico as Arsenal fail to capitalise at the Emirates Marseille, who have now scored 34 times in this…

Antoine Griezmann punished Arsenal’s lax defence late on as 10-man Atletico Madrid’s rearguard action salvaged a draw from the Europa League semi-final first leg at the Emirates. The visitors were on the back foot for almost the entire game after defender Sime Vrsaljko was dismissed for two yellow cards in the first 10 minutes. Their defence survived unscathed to half-time with Alexandre Lacazette clipping the post with a half-volley in the hosts’ best chance. Lacazette nodded in Jack Wilshere’s cross just after the hour to apparently edge the Gunners closer to a Europa League final send-off for outgoing manager Arsene…

US comedian Bill Cosby has been found guilty of three counts of sexual assault, each of which carries a potential 10 years in prison. The actor, 80, has been on trial for drugging and assaulting ex-basketball player Andrea Constand in 2004. Cosby, the first major black actor on primetime TV, will remain out of jail until he is sentenced, the judge ruled. He unleashed an expletive-filled rant after the verdict, as prosecutors argued he should be denied bail. It was the second time the actor had stood trial for the allegations, after an earlier jury failed to reach a verdict…