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No fewer than 46,000 persons displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency have returned to Borno state, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said. Alhaji Mustapha Maihaja, Director General of NEMA, who distributed relief materials to the displaced persons in Banki, Bama local government council of Borno on Saturday said the people fled to Cameroun, Chad and Niger Republic at the peak of the insurgency. Maihaja said that the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) returned following the success recorded in the counter-insurgency campaign. “About 46, 000 displaced persons are registered here and we are receiving them on a daily basis in…

Manchester City have agreed a £52m deal for Monaco defender Benjamin Mendy. The 23-year-old France left-back, who joined Monaco from Marseille last summer, played 34 times for the club last season and helped them to their first Ligue 1 title in 17 years. His fee would eclipse the initial £45m paid by City for right-back Kyle Walker earlier this month and the £47.5m deal for centre-back John Stones last summer. City have not yet confirmed the deal. Mendy would become the Premier League club’s fourth major signing of the summer and take their spending to more than £175m, following the…

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Michy Batshuayi is proving to be a worthy successor to Diego Costa and a competition to new signing Alvaro Morata as he scored two sublime goals in Chelsea’s 3-0 win against Arsenal at the Bird Nest in China. Chelsea dominated their English rivals who beat them in the FA Cup when Willian put them in front before Batshuayi rounded off the scoring with two girls. Here is Willian's goal in the Bird's Nest…#CFCTour pic.twitter.com/vbgldoNyxa— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) July 22, 2017 The Chelsea line-up had a familiar look to it with every player who started having had a significant impact on…

Indian musician Abishek Prasad stunned his doctors at a hospital in Bengaluru, India as he strummed on his guitar as the doctors performed a brain surgery on him to cure his crippled fingers of a rare movement disorder. The successful brain operation — the first in India — was conducted recently by surgeons at the Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain Hospital, in southern India, on 37-year-old Abishek Prasad who was fully awake during the surgery and gave live feedback to the doctors by playing the guitar. Prasad, who had been suffering from “guitarist dystonia” for quite some time, has now been cured…

Americans are humans too like Africans in choosing Donald Trump as president, former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo said in a rare reflection that appeared to have mocked the US election last November. “The fact that America can produce a Trump in this day and age, it means Americans are as human as we are,” he was quoted to have said. The octogenarian who ruled Nigeria in 1976-79– first as a military ruler and then a civilian leader in 1999-2007 said he was happy about the turn of events in the US. “I am not justifying what African leaders are doing.…

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has directed Major General Ibrahim Attahiru, the Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Maiduguri, to capture Abubakar Shekau, self-styled leader of the Boko Haram sect, “dead or alive”. Buratai further directed the Theatre commander to do so within 40 days. A statement issued by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, on Friday night, said that Attahiru should “employ all arsenal at the disposal of the Theatre Command to smoke out Shekau wherever he is hiding in Nigeria.” READ: Heavy downpour slows accreditation, Lagos council polls “The general public is please requested…

Downpour which began at 5:00 a.m. in many parts of Lagos State slowed accreditation as flood affected early commencement of voting in the local government polls. The rain, accompanied with thunderstorms, lasted for more than two hours, confining many residents to their apartments, until it later subsided. The flooding of the roads compelled road users to drive against traffic in some areas as people rushed to beat the 7a.m. restriction of movement time. At the Berger end of Lagos-Ibadan expressway, many motorists trying to get out of Lagos, apart from contending with the rain, were caught up in the restriction…

French and Chelsea defender Kurt Zouma have joined English Premier League side Stoke City on a season-long loan. The Blues also announced the 22-year-old has signed a new six-year deal with the club as he joins the Potters for the 2016-17 campaign. Zouma, a France international, joined Chelsea from Saint-Etienne for £12m in January 2014. READ: AC Milan unveils £35.1m signing Leonardo Bonucci He played 13 times for Antonio Conte’s Premier League champions last season, having recovered from a knee injury he suffered in February 2016. See you soon, @KurtZouma… ???? pic.twitter.com/9TMI51UzYa— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) July 21, 2017 Stoke manager…

Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) will be ranked based on an assessment of the ease of doing business within each location for the period 2014-2018. This was disclosed on Thursday in a presentation to the National Economic Council (NEC) by the Honourable Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okechukwu Enelamah, and the Secretary to the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC), Dr. Jumoke Oduwole. The Subnational Rankings will be undertaken by the World Bank Group, with the Enabling Business Environment Secretariat (EBES) and the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council (NIPC) providing support to the state governments…