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Premier League league leaders Manchester City have signed Aymeric Laporte for a record £57m from Athletic Bilbao after he passed a medical. Laporte who arrived England with his girlfriend was unveiled shortly after his medical and will wear the number 14 shirt. City manager Pep Guardiola was keen to bring in a new centre-half this month. The club’s current transfer record is the £55m paid for midfielder Kevin de Bruyne in 2015. It would take the club’s spending on defenders since the end of last season to £190m. Looking ???? in ????, @Laporte! pic.twitter.com/sSane5qhlI— Manchester City (@ManCity) January 30, 2018…

“Are there bookshops in Nigeria?” The question posed by a French journalist last week incensed acclaimed Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. At an event held in a ritzy Paris government building under crystal chandeliers, Adichie launched a blistering assault on perceived French arrogance. “I think it reflects very poorly on French people that you have to ask me that question,” said Adichie. “My books are read in Nigeria. They are studied in schools. Not just Nigeria, across the continent in Africa.” The subsequent outrage on social media was perhaps predictable: insults hurled at the French journalist amid accusations of racism…

President of the Wellbeing Foundation, Mrs Toyin Saraki, has commended the African Union (AU) for the commitment made by the union in the area of Healthcare. Saraki who is the wife of the President of the Nigerian Senate and Global Goodwill Ambassador for the International Confederation of Midwives welcomed the commitment of the AU to focus on health. The 30th African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia had as its theme: “Winning the Fight against Corruption: A Sustainable Path to Africa’s Transformation,”. The summit set the scene for declarations of stronger international cooperation from the leaders of the United…

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has adjourned till February 22, 2018 for the trial of the Managing Director of a limited liability company and two others alleged to have committed forgery. The suspects, Tochukwu Iwuoha, Jude Unagha and Sidol Investment Limited Company were arraigned on a six count criminal charge by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, before Justice S.O Solebo presiding at a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja. In the charge number ID/6109/17 filed by the EFCC, the Managing Director of Sidol Investment Limited, Tochukwu Iwuoha, Jude Unagha and the company, Sidol Investment Limited, were…

Leicester City misfit striker Ahmed Musa has joined Russian club CSKA Moscow on loan until the end of the season. The Nigerian International had a medical on Monday and signed a six-month deal. “I am very happy and proud to be back. This is truly my home, champion team that fights for the top awards and occupies highest places. “I am back to red-blue family! I promise that I will give everything for this club in order to make PFC CSKA champion again. I will work very hard”, Musa told the club’s website. Ahmed on his return to #CSKA pic.twitter.com/2bfFpDoyPl—…

Liberia’s President George Weah has called for the removal of a “racist” clause in the constitution which restricts citizenship to black people. The clause was “unnecessary, racist and inappropriate”, the ex-football star said in his first State of Nation since being elected president. He also pledged to scrap the law which prohibits foreigners owning land. Liberia was founded by freed US slaves in 1847 as “a refuge and a haven for freed men of colour”. The citizenship restrictions introduced at the time were no longer necessary, Mr Weah said, adding that he also wanted a ban on dual citizenship to…

Striking workers of the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) have protested against the Federal Government’s continuous delay in implementing the agreement reached with their unions since 2011. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that part of the agreement includes improved funding, improved conditions of service and retirement age elongation to 65 years of research institutes workers. The protest which took place on Jan. 29 at Sheda Science and Technology Complex (SHESTCO), near Kwali, saw three unions of NERDC protest along the Abuja-Lokoja road chanting solidarity songs. The protesting unions under the auspices of JORAISU are the Senior…

The head of the US Consulate in Nigeria’s capital says United States support for Nigeria’s economy will continue given the African country’s demographics, noting that, Nigeria is ripe for investment. United States Consul General F. John Bray spoke with The Associated Press on Monday after participating in the closing gong ceremony at the Nigeria Stock Exchange House in Lagos. Bray says the US private sector invests $8.1 billion a year in Nigeria and the country’s population of 180 million provides a tremendous base of consumers. Bray said that businesses without a strategy for Nigeria don’t have an investment strategy for…

Nigeria’s air force killed at least 35 people in attacks on villages in the northeastern state of Adamawa in December, Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday. Residents of the villages described being fired upon by a fighter jet and military helicopter as they attempted to flee, at the same time as hundreds of herdsmen took part in a revenge attack on the communities for earlier killings, Amnesty said. “Launching air raids is not a legitimate law enforcement method by anyone’s standard,” said Osai Ojigho, Amnesty’s country director for Nigeria, in Tuesday’s report. “Such reckless use of deadly force…

At 29, Paddy Adenuga sought to become one of the biggest names in the oil and gas industry globally. He was close to clinching the deal of his life but it just didn’t happen. This is a must read for those who have other ideas of who Paddy Adenuga is. A LION IN THE NORTH SEA: THE BATTLE FOR CHEVRON NETHERLANDS It was October 2013, two years had passed since I had left the family business in Lagos, Nigeria and moved to London, England to start my own oil trading company. My time in the family business, as a director…