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Liverpool were held to a frustrating draw despite dominating Manchester United at Anfield and have now won just once in eight games. The Reds were on top for long periods and peppered the United goal with 19 shots, but a combination of outstanding goalkeeping by David de Gea and poor finishing denied them a decisive moment. The most noteworthy incident of an uneventful first half was De Gea denying Joel Matip from close range with a brilliant reflex save with his outstretched left boot, before Mohamed Salah fired the rebound wide. United offered very little quality in attack although Simon…

Kano state government, in collaboration with the Nigerian Army has concluded arrangement to establish six Command Secondary Schools across the three senatorial zones in the state. To this end, sites have been identified for the schools at Yadakwari, Garun Malam local government, Dausayi, Ungoggo local government, Rimin Gado, Rimin Gado local government, D/Tofa, D/Tofa local government, Riruwai, Doguwa local government and Kiru in Kiru local government area. Already, the state government has gone far in erecting classrooms, offices, laboratories, dormitories and other infrastructure, besides putting in place facilities at the sites, in addition to providing ample space for future expansion.…

FOX Network Group (FNG), owners of the FOX television channels, has denied that it has any agreement with new pay-television service provider, TSTV, to carry its channels in Nigeria. The position of FNG was made known in a statement issued on Thursday. The statement, signed by Jeremy Griesel of Jeremy Griesel Communications on behalf of FOX Network Group Africa, TSTV’s advertisement of FOX channels on its platform is inappropriate. “Despite advertised claims regarding FOX channels, FOX does not have any agreement with TSTV regarding distribution of channels, but remains confident that TSTV will normalise the situation prior to the launch…

Kano state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has disbursed N540 million interest free loans to 2, 600 civil servants across several cadres in the state Civil Service, under the second phase of the State Vehicle Loan Scheme. Similarly, the governor launched start-up kits worth millions of naira to 550 youths who were trained to acquire several skills by the state government, in conjunction with the Industrial Training Fund, under the National Industrial Skills Development Programme. Speaking during the occasion, which was attended by participants of the National Defense College Geo-Strategic Study Course 26, at the Kano Government House, Governor Ganduje…

Tottenham and England midfielder Dele Alli, 21, is set to test his club’s strict wage structure in order to earn major pay increase – with Real Madrid monitoring developments. (Daily Mail) Liverpool and Brazil midfielder Philippe Coutinho, 25, is Barcelona’s top transfer target in the January transfer window. (Marca, via Daily Mirror) The Reds should have sold Coutinho in the summer, says former Liverpool defender Mark Lawrenson. (Ask Fans) Arsenal are watching 25-year-old Napoli defender Nikola Maksimovic and could bid for the Serbia international in January. (Guerin Sportivo, via Talksport) Juventus are prepared to wait until next summer to sign…

YouTube has lifted restrictions from videos showing Swaziland’s reed dance, which feature bare-breasted women. A spokesperson for the video-sharing platform told the BBC that YouTube allows nudity when “culturally relevant or properly contextualised”. Users who had uploaded reed dance videos were angered when it was classified as age-restricted content. YouTube has denied accusations of racism, saying it was keen to be culturally sensitive. The move was in response to a campaign led by Lazi Dlamini, the head of TV Yabantu, an online video production company, featuring Africa’s “finest culture… as seen, and recorded by the African people”. READ: Pope Francis…

Pope Francis have began intercession for Italian priest, Fr Maurizio Pallu, 63, who was kidnapped with four others after arriving Benin City, Edo state on Thursday. According to report on Twitter by Ines San Martin, an Argentine covering the Vatican, the “Papal spokesman on Twitter said Pope Francis has been informed of the kidnapping, and he’s praying for the priest”. Fr Pallu was taken in Benin City, south of Nigeria, the news agency ANSA and Avvenire, newspaper and website of the Italian Catholic Bishops Conference, first reported. Kidnappings for ransom are common in Nigeria, with ordinary residents and even schoolchildren…

Nigeria will soon begin to issue visas on arrival for all Africans, the African Union said Friday, in a major step toward the goal of free movement on the continent. The continental body’s deputy chairman Kwesi Quartey praised the action as a “laudable move towards Africa’s integration agenda” in a Facebook post. The AU has advocated for a “single African passport” that aims to improve intra-African trade and has called for “the abolishment of visa requirements for all African citizens in all African countries by 2018.” A spokeswoman for the AU chairperson, Ebba Kalondo, told The Associated Press they were…

A Federal High Court sitting in Kainji, Niger State, has sentenced 45 Boko Haram members to between 3 and 31 years in jail, and also freed 468 suspects. The jailed men were among the 575 Boko Haram suspects arraigned under the first phase of the mass trial of the suspects. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the Kainji court also struck out 34 cases while 28 suspects were remanded for trial in Abuja and Minna. Read Also Nigeria’s .ng domain name adoption hits 100,000 The Court ordered that the 468 discharged persons should undergo deradicalization and rehabilitation…

Northern California’s wildfires have now killed 31 people, making this the deadliest week of wildfires in state history. Sonoma County sheriff Robert Giordano said Thursday night that two more people have been confirmed dead there. That raises the statewide death total from 29 to 31. The Oakland Hills fire of 1991 killed 29 people by itself. While no one fire currently burning has killed that many, collectively this is the deadliest series of simultaneous fires in the state since records have been kept. The blazes, most of them in wine country, broke out almost all at once on Sunday night.…