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Theresa May has sacked her closest political ally after an investigation into claims that pornographic material was found on his Commons computer. Damian Green, who is a lifelong friend of Theresa May, was asked to step down from his official job as First Secretary of State for breaching the ministerial code. In a letter published on Wednesday night, Mrs May revealed a report cleared him of watching or downloading pornography. But it found he made two “misleading” and “inaccurate” statements about knowledge of the claims. Mrs May wrote: “While I can understand the considerable distress caused to you by some…

Manchester United crashed out of the Carabao Cup in a 2-1 defeat to Bristol City as Korey Smith scored a dramatic stoppage-time winner to send the Championship side into the last four. Despite naming a strong line-up that included Paul Pogba, Jose Mourinho saw his team fall behind to a spectacular opening goal by Joe Bryan before Zlatan Ibrahimovic fired home an equaliser. Substitute Romelu Lukaku had chances to win it for United but with extra-time looming, Smith struck the decisive blow with the last kick of the game to land them a semi-final tie with Manchester City. Bristol City…

Swansea have sacked head coach Paul Clement, the Premier League club announced on Wednesday. Clement joined Swansea in January and successfully guided the club to Premier League safety. However, after losing nine of his last 11 games, Clement has became the sixth Premier League boss to lose their job this season with Swansea bottom of the Premier League. The club confirmed in a statement that assistant managers Nigel Gibbs and Karl Halabi have also left the club. Swansea City chairman, Huw Jenkins, confirmed: “To change the manager, especially at only the halfway point of the season, is the last thing…

The former Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund star Tomas Rosicky sprung a surprise on Wednesday by announcing that he has played his last game of professional football. The 37-year-old played 105 times for the Czech Republic and spent a decade at Arsenal where he was known for stylish passing and slick skills. “I have never played either for the money or the glory – I just love football,” Rosicky, who appeared at four European Championships finals, told his club Sparta Prague’s website. Read Also GOtv Boxing Night 13: Fans to win 50 decoders “But I have realised I am no longer…

Observers are beginning to query what has happened to the $300m foreign facility obtained by indigenous auto manufacturing group, Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM) in 2016 for the local production and supply of a minimum Set-Top Boxes to support the FG’s Digital Switch Over (DSO) project being handled by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). This newspaper gathered that the amount was part of Innoson Group partnership with a Consortium of Chinese Investors to pump in $1billion into Nigeria information technology sector of the economy; to include 400 million Nigeria’s DSO Project Digital Satellite TV station and additional $600 million covering other…

Fans attending the 13th edition of the boxing and musical performances at GOtv Boxing Night 13 have the opportunity of going home with 50 GOtv decoders at the event holding on 26 December at Landmark Centre, Victoria Island Lagos. The decoders will be won through raffle draws to be held in between fights at the event, which will feature musical performances by Small Doctor, Simi, Reekado Banks and Falz The Bahd Guy. According to Flykite Productions, organisers of the event, the decoders are to be given out by the sponsors, GOtv, in appreciation of fans’ support for the event since…

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Lagos on Wednesday sealed Oando filling station in Lekki area over alleged molestation of its officials while on enforcement visit. Mr Usman Ndanusa, the Deputy Director and Head of Downstream Division of DPR, made this known to newsmen in Lagos. Ndanusa said that operators of the station, which belonged to Mr Basiru Fakorede, molested the DPR officials while on inspection visit to the station on Dec.7. “When the monitoring team of DPR visited the station on Dec.7, they were not selling petrol product to motorists. “The DPR officials then challenged the station manager…

A coroner has warned drunk parents about sleeping with their babies after a newborn child was found dead in his ‘smashed’ mother’s bed. Amy Leigh Howell, 30, admitted she had been drinking at home in Bolton, Greater Manchester, last December when she put her two-and-a-half month-old son Teneil into a Moses basket in her bedroom at 11pm. Bolton Coroner’s Court heard she and partner Blessing Mayo continued drinking before going to bed, but when the couple woke the child was lying motionless between them. When Miss Howell checked her son she found him lifeless after he was accidentally smothered by…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC plans to build power plants with combined capacity of 4600 megawatts in Abuja, Kaduna and Kano States. The NNPC’s Group Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti Baru, who disclosed this during a courtesy call on him by the Executive Governor of Niger State, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, Tuesday in Abuja. The planned plants would be a fallout from the recently approved contract for the construction of Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Gas Pipeline project, dubbed AKK Pipeline. Baru said the Corporation in partnership with private investors would build the power generating plants to support the Federal Government’s effort to provide…

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Wednesday said his administration had given approval to the Nigerian Legion to take over the security of all public primary and secondary schools in the state. Ambode made the disclosure at the launch of the 2018 emblem and appeal fund in commemoration of the Armed Forces Rememberance Day celebration, held at the Lagos House in Ikeja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Jan. 15 of every year is marked as the Armed Forces Rememberance Day. “We have taken it as a policy that all our public primary and secondary schools will…