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Raila Odinga Kenya’s veteran politician has been confirmed as the main opposition coalition’s presidential candidate for August’s election. Mr Odinga, 72, is set to face incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta, the man who beat him in 2013. This will be the fourth time Mr Odinga runs for president. He also ran in the disputed 2007 poll. The violence that followed led to the creation of a unity government in which Mr Odinga served as prime minister. Raila Odinga will represent the National Super Alliance (Nasa), which is a coalition of the country’s main opposition parties including the candidate’s Orange Democratic Movement.…

Guinness Nigeria Plc, the nation’s leading alcoholic beverage manufacturer and a subsidiary of Diageo Plc, has released its unaudited results for the nine months ended 31 March, 2017. The results detail revenue growth of 29% and a 6% increase in gross profit when compared to the same nine-month period in 2016. While the first half volume growth continued in the third quarter, the third quarter also benefited cycling a weak third quarter last year. Cost of sales increased by 47% in the nine months due to the challenging economic environment. Finance costs also increased significantly versus last year. As a…

The Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative(NEITI) on Thursday said it had commenced a comprehensive independent audit of the nation’s oil and gas sector that would cover the periods of 2015 and 2016. Mr Waziri Adio, Executive Secretary of NEITI, announced this in Lagos at a workshop organised for major oil companies in Nigeria. Adio said that the independent audit was in line with the principles and standards of the global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). According to him, relevant government agencies are expected to participate in the exercise. He said that the workshop was designed to acquaint participants with the…

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola’s first season in English football shows how his predecessor Manuel Pellegrini was under-estimated, says former City defender Martin Demichelis. Guardiola appears set to finish a season without a trophy for the first time in his managerial career. “You only have to look at City today to see nothing comes very easily even with a fantastic coach,” Demichelis said. “As time goes on everyone will value the work that Manuel Pellegrini did.” Pellegrini won the Premier League and League Cup in his first season at the club after joining from Malaga in June 2013. He finished…

Gabon defender Moise Brou Apanga died on Wednesday from cardiac arrest, the Gabonese Football Federation have confirmed. He was 35. According to a statement released by FegaFoot, Brou Apanga suffered the heart attack during a training session with his current club, Football Canon 105 de Libreville. The Ivory Coast-born stopper spent time in Europe with French side Brest and Italian outfits Perugia and Brescia after originally beginning his career with FC Politehnica Timisoara in Romania. He also featured for Mangasport in his homeland, and was enjoying his second spell with Canon after returning earlier this year. “I have collapsed,” former…

The Nigerian navy has arrested 10 suspects after intercepting a vessel carrying stolen crude oil off the coast of the Niger Delta, a senior military official said on Wednesday. The suspects – a Nigerian, two Pakistanis, three Ghanaians, one Indonesian, one Beninois and two Ukrainians – had siphoned about two thousand metric tonnes of crude oil from a loading facility belonging to Shell Petroleum, the official said. “The suspects were caught in the early hours of Tuesday while siphoning crude oil into the vessel from Afremo A platform, a loading jacket belonging to the Shell Petroleum and Development Company in…

Vice Chancellor of Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Prof. Aize Obayan, says the National University Commission (NUC) has accreditation six undergraduate courses in the institution. Obayan said, in Omu-Aran, on Thursday, that the NUC letter conveying the approval of the courses was received by the management on April 3. She disclosed that the approval was the fall out of NUC team’s visit to the institution for the November/December 2016 accreditation when the courses were presented. Obayan listed the accredited courses and programmes as Computer Science, Economics, Biochemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Sociology. She further said that the approval was significant, showing clear demonstration…

A commercial motorcyclist popularly known as Okada rider, was crushed to death by a heavy duty truck at Daleko area of Lagos on Thursday. The passenger on the motorcycle, who survived the accident, was dragged from the wheels of the truck with a broken leg. A crowd of sympathisers made frantic efforts to rescue the two victims of the accident which occurred at about 9.15 a.m. on the Mushin-Isolo Road, Lagos. Officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency promptly responded with rescue vehicles which lifted the truck, allowing the removal of the cyclist’s lifeless body stuck between the wheels.…

The Nigeria Union in South Africa has confirmed the killing of its member, Mr Chinedu Eze, allegedly by a Somalian in the Western Cape Province of that country. The Chairman of the union in the province, Mr Mike Ibitoye, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone from Cape Town, South Africa, that Eze, 35, was shot on April 25 during an argument over cell phone. “Chinedu Eze is a native of Umuchu, Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State. He deals in cell phones. “Reports at our disposal said that on the fateful day, there was an argument…

Nigeria’s former President, Goodluck Jonathan has blamed Barack Obama for his 2015 presidential election defeat to Muhammadu Buhari, alleging the former US president headed a global conspiracy to get rid of him. Jonathan made the allegations in a new book out on Friday called “Against The Run of Play”, which documents how he became the first Nigerian incumbent head of state to lose an election. He said Obama and his officials “made it very clear to me by their actions that they wanted a change of government in Nigeria and were ready to do anything to achieve that purpose”. “They…