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A former Senator Representing Katsina East Senatorial Zone, Alhaji Kanti Bello has been confirmed dead. He died in a hospital in Abuja early morning of Tuesday at the age of 72 in a brief illness. Senator Bello would be buried in the evening in Katsina Town according to Islamic rites. The Senator was the former General Manager of Katsina Steel Rolling Mills and Served as the manager for over 10 years. READ: Wealthy cocaine users funding slavery, says Tony Sagger Senator Kanti Bello is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a two- term senator representing Katsina East…

Manchester City have made Arsenal a bid of Raheem Sterling plus cash in exchange for Alexis Sanchez in an extraordinary offer – with Arsene Wenger’s men also asking about the availability of Sergio Aguero. It comes as Sanchez asks to leave the Chile national team camp in order to sort out his club future, according to reports in the South American country. City are determined to sign Sanchez before Thursday’s transfer deadline and have been linked with the Chilean forward all summer, while Sterling is said to be keen on the move. Arsenal are desperate to keep Sanchez, who has…

Middle-class cocaine users are turning a blind eye to the link between their drug habit and sex trafficking, slavery and murder, said the former head of UK drug strategy. “These are middle-aged, middle-class people at dinner parties,” Tony Saggers, former head of drugs threat at the National Crime Agency, told The Times on Tuesday, in his first interview since leaving the post. “They will find sweatshops abhorrent, slave labour a brutal, terrible thing to be happening in their neighbourhood, and the news that a 16-year-old has been knifed to death in London will shock them,” he added. Britain has one…

Arsenal are in “crisis from top to bottom” and manager Arsene Wenger should leave, according to former Gunners striker Ian Wright. Arsenal’s 4-0 defeat at Liverpool on Sunday left them with one win from their first three Premier League games. “It’s an absolute nightmare,” said Wright, who scored 128 goals for Arsenal. “Why can’t we get the players to play for us? Wenger carries the can,” he told BBC Radio 5 live. Wright, a member of Wenger’s league and FA Cup double squad of 1997-98, added: “It comes back to his door. We are three games in and are at…

Manchester City have made an incredible player-plus-cash offer for Alexis Sanchez. They have offered to put Raheem Sterling into the deal to try and sign Sanchez before Thursday’s transfer deadline. Arsenal have insisted that Sanchez is not for sale even though he only has one year left on his contract. READ: Chelsea agree fee to sign Arsenal’s Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain But Mirror Sport understands there has now been direct contact between the clubs – and City have made the shock offer involving Sterling. England star Sterling has started the season well, scoring the winner at Bournemouth and equaliser against Everton. But…

The Pentagon notified the United States Congress on Monday of the sale to Nigeria of 12 Super Tucano A-29 planes and weapons worth $593 million, which the West African country wants for its fight against the militant group Boko Haram. The move on the sale, which included thousands of bombs and rockets and was originally agreed by former President Barack Obama’s administration, was announced by the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency. READ: Almajiris are scholars not illiterates – NOUN VC The Super Tucano A-29, an agile, propeller-driven plane with reconnaissance and surveillance as well as attack capabilities, is made by…

Chelsea have agreed a fee with Arsenal for England international winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Sky Sports News understands. The 24-year old is with the England squad at St George’s Park and Sky Sports News understands large parts of a medical could be carried out at England’s training centre. Oxlade-Chamberlain is out of contract at the end of the season, along with Arsenal team-mates Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil. READ: Inter Milan to sign Mustafi, Mbappe joins PSG on loan As with Sanchez and Ozil, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has consistently said he wants Oxlade-Chamberlain to stay at the Emirates in the…

Prof. Abdalla Adamu, the Vice-Chancellor of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has said that Almajiris are not illiterates contrary to widely held view. Adamu expressed this viewpoint while answering questions from newsmen at the sidelines of the opening ceremony of the 11th Edition of Literature in Northern Nigeria Conference on Monday in Abuja. The theme of the 4-day conference being hosted by NOUN in collaboration with Kwara State University is “Literature and Contemporary Developments in Northern Nigeria. Adamu said that one of the aims of the conference was to bring to the fore the fact that Northern Nigeria produced…

A nurse serving a life sentence for murdering two patients in northern Germany is now a suspect in at least 84 other murder cases, police say. The 40-year-old, named only as Niels H under German reporting rules, was convicted of attempted murder in 2006 and murder in 2015. His victims received lethal drug doses at units where he worked. Relatives of patients who died in clinics where he worked had urged police to investigate further. A commission was set up in 2014 to investigate the scale of his crimes, which could make him Germany’s worst post-war killer. The medication caused…

The Chairman, Zinox Group, Mr Leo Stan Ekeh, on Monday appealed to those affected in the demolition of Ekeukwu Market in Owerri, Imo, to allow peace to reign. Ekeh also announced a N50-million donation to be disbursed to those directly affected by the exercise as well as the families of the victims who allegedly lost their lives from it. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that residents of the state had continued to condemn the demolition of the market and the alleged loss of lives. Ekeh said that he hoped the donation would help cushion the effect of the…