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Arsenal continued their resurgence with a comfortable Premier League win over Leicester City at King Power Stadium thanks to Aaron Ramsdale’s heroics. The visitors capitalised on a lacklustre start from the hosts to dominate the early exchanges and were rewarded with a two-goal lead inside 20 minutes. Gabriel put the Gunners in front, climbing above several static Leicester defenders to head in from Bukayo Saka’s corner, while Emile Smith Rowe picked his spot when the ball broke to him after good work from Saka and Alexandre Lacazette. Mikel Arteta’s side are now unbeaten in seven top-flight games and climb from…

Tongans have been rushing to vaccinate themselves against coronavirus after the Pacific island nation confirmed its first case on Friday. The infection was detected in a fully vaccinated person who had arrived on a repatriation flight from New Zealand. Tonga’s Prime Minister Pohiva Tu’i’onetoa warned that residents on the main island of Tongatapu face a possible lockdown next week. Tonga was one of the last countries not to have reported Covid infections. Over 100,000 people live on the island nation, located north-west of New Zealand. Only a third of Tonga’s population have been fully vaccinated. But national immunisation co-ordinator Afu…

Ahead the 2023 general elections, presidential campaign posters of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo have taken over the streets and corners of Makurdi, the Benue State capital. Our correspondent who went round the town observed that the posters which were positioned in strategic locations carries the inscription; ‘Osinbajo For All, 2023’ courtesy of the Osibanjo Volunteers Group (OVG) Makurdi branch. In an interview with the Benue State coordinator of the group, Ahule John Iorhemba and the state secretary, Joe Akpode, they said neither the vice president nor any of his relations or staff had any hand in how the organization was…

Britain’s Prince Andrew insisted his sexual assault accuser was out to profit from a “baseless lawsuit” against him as he asked a New York court to dismiss the case Friday. In a filing in Manhattan, the Duke of York’s lawyers accused Virginia Giuffre of suing the prince “to achieve another payday” from her accusations against the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. “Most people could only dream of obtaining the sums of money that Giuffre has secured for herself over the years,” wrote attorney Andrew Brettler. “This presents a compelling motive for Giuffre to continue filing frivolous lawsuits against individuals such…

U.S. intelligence agencies said on Friday they may never be able to identify the origins of COVID-19, as they released a new, more detailed version of their review of whether the coronavirus came from animal-to-human transmission or leaked from a lab. The Office of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said in a declassified report that a natural origin and a lab leak are both plausible hypotheses for how SARS-COV-2 first infected humans. But it said analysts disagree on which is more likely or whether any definitive assessment can be made at all. The report also dismissed suggestions that…

Recover AK-47 Rifles, vehicles, ammunition Troops of 82 Division Nigerian Army conducting Exercise GOLDEN DAWN have neutralised four gunmen of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra/ Eastern Security Network (IPOB/ESN) in a fierce encounter at Nnobi Junction, Idemili South Local Government Area on Friday 29 October 2021. In a statement on Saturday, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, director army public relations, Nigerian troops engaged the IPOB/ESN fighters as they fled. He said, “This followed the assailants’ armed attack on personnel of security agencies deployed at Ekwulobia roundabout in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State, during which troops swiftly mobilised to…

The Gombe State government has suspended the payment of salaries of 781 workers for being absent from work in the month of September. Muhammad Gambo Magaji, the state’s commissioner for Finance and Economic Development, stated this at the monthly news conference on Implementation of the Biometric Attendance Verification for Civil Servants, on Friday in Gombe. Magaji said another 820 workers were to be investigated, adding that the state government saved N50 million from the suspension of salaries of the affected workers for the month. According to Magaji, the 820 staff with salaries amounting to N56 million are to be investigated…

President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Nigeria after attending an economic summit in Saudi Arabia. Buhari who departed for the Middle-Eastern country on Monday, also used the opportunity to perform some religious rites. He attended a series of meetings where he participated in the opening ceremony of the event on Tuesday and the three-day plenary sessions focused on the theme for the 5th edition of the summit, “Invest in Humanity”, along with other world leaders present at the summit. Buhari also met with business executives from Nigeria, bankers, captains of industry and energy experts to discuss issues on the future…

The National Examinations Council (NECO) has revealed that 23,003 of the candidates who wrote the examination were involved in examination malpractices. This was announced by the NECO Registrar and Chief Executive Prof Ibrahim Wushishi, in Minna, Niger state. Wushishi apologised to Nigerians for the delay in the release of the results. He revealed that 878,925 candidates made five credits and above including Mathematics and English language. SS1, SS2 students banned from writing WASSCE, NECO, NABTEB Prof Wushishi explained that the figure represents 71.61 percent of the candidates. Meanwhile, 1,226,796 candidates scored five credits irrespective of Mathematics and English language, representing…

The United Nations (UN) has pledged continuous partnership with the Nigerian Army in tackling security challenges in the country and the Sahel region. The Representative of the UN Secretary General for Central Africa, Mr Mahamat Saled, made the pledge when he paid a courtesy call on the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, on Thursday, in Abuja. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Saled commended the efforts of the army in stemming the security challenges and activities of insurgents in Nigeria and, by extension, the Sahel region.…