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Alexandre Lacazette is in London ahead of a club-record move to the Premier League, and he is set to be confirmed as an Arsenal player in the next 48 hours. The Frenchman was due to undergo his Gunners medical at their London Colney training ground on Tuesday prior to finalising a £44million switch from Lyon, MailOnline reports. The transfer fee eclipses the £42.5m spent by Arsenal on Mesut Ozil in 2013. READ: Romelu Lukaku picks Man Utd over Chelsea Arsenal made an unsuccessful £29m bid to sign the 26-year-old a year ago and saw an opening offer of £39.5m rejected…

Africa’s leading industrialist, Aliko Dangote has an advice for the committee set up by the Kano State House of Assembly to probe a bribery allegation against its former speaker: ‘Don’t waste your time, it’s all falsehood’. Dangote Group spokesman, Mr. Tony Chiejina said the allegation has no foundation whatsoever and is an ‘outright falsehood”. On 17 June, an online portal, DailyNigerian.com, ostensibly fishing for traffic first published the unsubstantiated allegation that Dangote gave the former Kano Assembly Speaker, Alhaji Kabiru Rurum N100 million to kill a probe of Emir Muhammadu Sanusi. The portal, with no address or names of its…

Wantaway Everton striker Romelu Lukaku seem to prefer a move to Manchester United over English League Champions Chelsea according to report by a BBC reporter. A tweet by Richard Askam claimed that Romelu Lukaku’s representatives have suggested the 24-year-old Belgium striker would prefer a move to Manchester United rather than Chelsea if he leaves Goodison Park this summer. Could be bargaining tool but good source tells me Lukaku camp seem to favour move to Man Utd over Chelsea #efc #mufc #cfc— richard askam (@richaskam) July 4, 2017 Transfers: Chelsea to pay club-record £60m for Alex Sandro Lukaku says remaining at…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has secured two billion dollars discounts in the last one year from renegotiated Upstream contracts being executed by its various service providers. In a statement signed by Mr Ndu Ughamadu, Group General Manager, Group Public Affair Dvision, on Tuesday Abuja , it said the feat was achieved in the quest to continually drive down the high cost of production in the industry. According to the statement the NNPC Group Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti Baru, disclose this in a podcast message to the Corporation’s Staff to mark One-Year Anniversary of his appointment Baru, who took…

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Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) who are the liquidator of Metropolitan Bank Limited, has renewed its legal battle against, a Lagos business man Iwajuokwu Samuel and his company Corporate Oil and Gas Limited, over an alleged unpaid debt of N40,536,457,.89. Joined as co-defendant is a Director of Corporate Oil and Gas Limited Iwuajokwu Uche. In an amendment witness statement in proof of claim sworn to by an assistant manager of NDIC, Mr Oguntoyinbo Oluborode, and filed before a Federal High Court in Lagos by a Lagos lawyer, Barrister Okey Uzoho it was alleged that following the request for credit facilities…

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on Monday donated $1 million to the African Union Commission. The money was proceeds from the sale of cattle belonging to him and is friends. “You see, as an African and a farmer, the donation of cattle came to me naturally, given that our continent is rich in cattle,” he said as he handed over the $1 million cheque at the opening of the African Union Heads of Summit in Addis Ababa. President Mugabe noted that he made the promise in Johannesburg, South Africa in June 2015 to donate 300 head of cattle to the…

Chelsea and Spain striker Diego Costa, 28, wants to leave the club in his own time, but that is holding up the Blues’ move for Everton’s 24-year-old Belgium forward Romelu Lukaku. (Daily Mirror) Argentina forward Lionel Messi, 30, will sign a new Barcelona contract when he returns from his honeymoon later this month. (Goal) Arsenal are planning a £70m double move for Sporting Lisbon’s Portugal midfielders William Carvalho, 25, and Gelson Martins, 22. (A Bola, via the Sun) Everton are confident of bringing England forward Wayne Rooney, 31, back to the club from Manchester United this summer. (Talksport) West Ham…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the timetable and schedule of activities for the recall of Sen. Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West Senatorial District. The commission released the timetable in a statement Mrs Augusta Ogakwu, Secretary of the Commission, on Monday in Abuja. Ogakwu said that on July 10, INEC would issue verification notice to be pasted at Melaye’s constituency and at INEC Local Government Office in Lokoja. On July 30, she said, is the last day for submission of application by interested observers at INEC headquarters office. According to her, INEC has fixed August 10 as the…