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The eyewall of Hurricane Irma has hit southern Florida islands as category four storm, US meteorologists say. They say Hurricane Irma’s eyewall has reached the Florida Keys. The US National Hurricane Center in Miami says the storm’s northern eyewall reached the lower Florida Keys Sunday morning. READ: Plateau: Buhari calls for calm after herdsmen kill 19 The eyewall is a band of clouds surrounding the center of the storm that has intense winds and strong rain. The hurricane center says Key West International Airport has measured sustained winds of 50 mph (80 kph). According to AP reports, hundreds of thousands…

President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed for calm and an end to communal violence on Saturday after police said armed herdsmen killed 19 people in the central state of Plateau. Local police said Fulani herdsmen attacked Ancha village, in the Bassa local government area of Plateau state, in the early hours of Friday. They said it was thought to be a reprisal attack after a boy from the herding community was killed. Police provided details of the attack, in which five people were injured, late on Friday. READ: 19 dead in Kano ghastly motor accident – FRSC Fighting between semi-nomadic cattle…

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says 19 persons have died in a ghastly motor accident along Kano – Katsina Road. The Public Relations Officer of the FRSC Sector Command in the state, Mr Kabir Ibrahim-Daura, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Saturday. Kabir-Daura said that the incident occurred near Lambun Garban Bichi, on the outskirts of Bichi town, around 8:30 a.m. on Friday. READ: Hurricane Irma to hit Florida in hours According to him, the incident happened when a Peugeot J5 bus and a Toyota C20 bus had a head-on collision when one…

Wind gusts close to hurricane force are battering islands in Florida’s south as Hurricane Irma is due to hit the mainland in the coming hours. Water levels are already rising on the coast of the US state where a huge storm surge is expected. Some 6.3 million people had been told to evacuate, but the state governor said on Saturday it was now too late to leave for anyone remaining. At least 24 people have died after Irma earlier hit several Caribbean islands. With maximum sustained winds of 120mph (193km/h), Irma hurricane has now weakened to a category three hurricane…

Sloane Stephens completed a spectacular return from injury by beating fellow American Madison Keys to win the US Open at Flushing Meadows. Unseeded Stephens, ranked 83rd, beat 15th seed Keys 6-3 6-0 in the final. The 24-year-old was ranked as low as 957th six weeks ago, having only returned from 11 months out with a foot injury at Wimbledon. She becomes only the fifth unseeded woman to win a major title in the Open era. Both women were making their Grand Slam final debuts, and their combined ranking of 99 was the lowest for a US Open final since the…

Danny Welbeck scored twice as Arsenal returned to winning ways at the Emirates Stadium and condemned winless Bournemouth to a fourth successive defeat. The Gunners came into the game on the back of two costly defeats by Stoke and Liverpool, but made the perfect start when Welbeck headed them in front after six minutes. Record signing Alexandre Lacazette doubled the lead on 27 minutes, bending a shot past Asmir Begovic from the edge of the area. Welbeck than added a third just after half-time, scoring from a tight angle into Begovic’s far corner. Alexis Sanchez, who was close to joining…

Brighton recorded their first top-flight win for 34 years as two goals from Pascal Gross helped them to an emphatic victory over West Brom. The German’s twin strikes and an effort from Tomer Hemed were also the first goals scored by Chris Hughton’s side since their promotion to the Premier League. It was an exemplary attacking display against a side who had only conceded one league goal in their first three matches this season. Gross scored the opener just before the break when he converted Solly March’s cross from close range. Three minutes after the restart the 26-year-old made it…

Chelsea stood firm to see off a late Leicester challenge as the Premier League champions climbed into the top three with a third straight victory. Both sides struggled to find a finishing touch before Alvaro Morata nodded in Cesar Azpilicueta’s searching pass to put Chelsea ahead before half-time. The visitors pressed home their advantage after the break as former Foxes midfielder N’Golo Kante, gifted time and space, drilled home low from 30 yards. READ: Everton ‘Kaned’ at Goodison Park by Tottenham A foul by Thibaut Courtois gifted Leicester a penalty that Jamie Vardy converted, sparking Leicester into life in a…

Harry Kane brought up a century of Tottenham goals with a double at Goodison Park as Everton were dispatched in ruthless fashion. The forward opened his account for the season with an effort that may well have been an attempted cross but looped over home keeper Jordan Pickford. Christian Eriksen scored Spurs’ second before Kane sealed the game with a neat finish 47 seconds after the break. READ: Mane sees red as Man City thrash Liverpool In truth, it could have been have ended 6-0 to a totally dominant away side. Tottenham’s win takes them to seven points and propels…

At least seven people were killed when Boko Haram jihadists attacked a camp for people displaced by the conflict in northeast Nigeria, militia members and locals said Saturday. The attack on Friday evening in Ngala, near the border with Cameroon, came as two people were killed in an explosion outside another camp in Borno state capital, Maiduguri. In Ngala, a civilian militia member, Umar Kachalla, said jihadists in two pick-up trucks fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the camp, which houses some 80,000 people. “They fired an RPG into the camp from behind the fire fence, killing seven people and injuring…