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The home-based Super Eagles on Tuesday whipped Equatorial Guinea 3-1 after coming from behind in Agadir, to advance into the quarter-finals of the 5th African Nations Championship (CHAN) holding in Morocco. The Nigerian side dominated the game with many goal scoring chances being wasted as they had earlier done in each of their first two matches against Rwanda and Libya. They had only Sunday Faleye’s 79 minute goal in the 1-0 win against Libya to point to before Tuesday’s match, and they soon looked like having to regret their wastefulness. From a corner kick, Equatorial Guinea took the lead with…

Arsenal legend Thierry Henry has denied he told Alexis Sanchez to leave the Gunners and join Manchester United. Sanchez, who joined United on Monday in a swap deal with Henrikh Mkhitaryan, said he had spoken to the Frenchman. “I remember today, a conversation I had with Henry, who changed club for the same reason and today is my turn,” Sanchez wrote on Instagram. Henry, who left for Barcelona in 2007, responded on Tuesday: “At no time did I tell Alexis Sanchez to leave Arsenal.” I know I don’t need to explain this to the majority of Arsenal fans but contrary…

Former Chelsea, Arsenal and Real Madrid midfielder Lassana Diarra has joined Paris St-Germain on an 18-month deal. The 32-year-old – who spent four seasons at Real Madrid after switching from Portsmouth in 2009 – mutually terminated his contract with Emirati club Al Jazira in December. Diarra was also a target for Manchester United despite playing just six games during 2017. “I am very happy to have signed for my hometown club,” said Diarra. READ: Aaron Lennon joins Burnley from Everton Diarra – who has battled long-term knee problems – won three trophies during his time at the Bernabeu, including one…

Senator Dino Melaye has accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of unlawfully operating an account for one of its Joint Venture Companies partnership with Keystone Bank with a current balance of $137 million. “A company named Brass LNG Limited, was registered for the JVC with the federal government owning 50 per cent controlling shares, with some Italians, Belgians and French firms as shareholders,” he said. Melaye while raising a point of order at plenary yesterday, noted that any account for JVCs are statutorily required to be domiciled at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). “But in this case, that…

Closes $40m fraud case against Azibaola, Jonathan’s cousin The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to revoke the bail earlier granted former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh. EFCC’s Prosecution Counsel, Sylvanus Tahir, who also asked the court to send Metuh to prison, was reacting to Metuh’s absence in court twice over reports of ill health. Metuh was said to be sick and undergoing treatment at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi, Anambra State. A letter was, however, sent to the court informing it that…

No fewer than 10 persons have been feared killed during clashes between Fulani natives and farmers in two villages of Dandi and Suru council areas of Kebbi State. An eyewitness, Issa Kamba, told newsmen that the casualties followed an attack by some Fulani people on the farmers in their farms. The affected villages include Sabo-Gari in Dandi local council and Giroki under Aljanare, a district town under Suru council area. It was gathered that the clashes were engendered by a land dispute at Sabo- Gari, a border settlement between the two local councils.The Guardian learnt that seven farmers and three…

Two people have been killed and 17 injured in a high school shooting in the US state of Kentucky. A 15-year-old girl died at the scene at Marshall County High School in the town of Benton and a 15-year-old boy died in hospital, said Kentucky’s governor. The unidentified attacker was a 15-year-old male student, who was arrested and is in custody. State police said he was detained about 15 minutes after opening fire at 08:00 local time on Tuesday. The lone attacker was a student at the school who opened fire in a common area before classes started, according to…

Chief Olisa Metuh, former Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been admitted at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi. There were fears over Metuh’s state of health when an anonymous source disclosed that he was rushed to a medical facility in Anambra following a sudden breakdown. It would be recalled that Metuh, who is facing corruption charge, could not appear for his trial at an Abuja High Court on Jan. 22 on health grounds. Prof. Anthony Igwegbe, Chief Medical Director (CMD) of NAUTH, who confirmed that Metuh was on…

Two chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande, on Tuesday in Abuja met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the APC chieftains were in the presidential villa barely some hours after the release of a statement written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, advising President Buhari not to re-contest the 2019 presidential villa. NAN reports that both Tinubu and Akande, who met with the president for about an hour, declined to speak to State House correspondents after the meeting. The two chieftains were…

Nigeria can generate over 700, 000 jobs from the leather industry, Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, said on Tuesday in Sokoto. The minister, who made the remark in a message to the National Leather and Leather Products Policy Validation Workshop, said that the leather industry generates N24.5 billion annually. Onu described the leather industry as Nigeria’s next gold mine which holds the key to industrial growth, jobs and wealth creation. The minister, who was represented by the Director General, National Centre for Technology Management, Prof. Okechukwu Okwumma, said that the leather industry was strategic to Nigeria’s economic…