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Monaco 3 Manchester City 1 (6-6 agg, Monaco win on away goals): Bakayoko has final word as Guardiola’s men pay for feeble opening Leroy Sane appeared to have Man City heading into the Champions League quarter-finals but Tiemoue Bakayoko won a thrilling tie for Monaco. Tiemoue Bakayoko dumped Manchester City out of the Champions League as a swashbuckling Monaco progressed to the quarter-finals on the away-goals rule thanks to a 3-1 win at the Stade Louis II. Leonardo Jardim’s Ligue 1 leaders attacked with the inventive verve they brought to a first-leg thriller at the Etihad Stadium but, unlike when…

Nipple hair. It’s the nemesis of many a woman, and another entry on the long list of body hair woes. Human beings are mammals, and you don’t qualify as a mammal without a certain necessary amount of body hair. It’s just how we’re built. That said, there are some kinds of body hair that just make us feel icky. Why couldn’t we just have hair on our heads, and skip unwanted chin hair entirely? We all have some unwanted body hair, though you may have more than others depending on a few situations. Genetics play a major role in how…

(Reuters/NAN) The U.S. government is expected to unseal charges against two Russian spies and two criminal hackers for allegedly pilfering 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The indictments, to be unsealed during a news conference in Washington, represent the first time the U.S. government has criminally charged Russian officials for cyber offenses. According to the source, they are not related to the hacking of Democratic emails that took place during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Intelligence agencies have said they were carried out by Russia in order to help the…

By Okey Ndibe (okeyndibe@gmail.com) I awoke a week ago to an email from C.Don Adinuba, one of my closest and most long lasting friends. The email bore dismal news: Benedict Ebele Obumselu had died two days earlier. I suspect that many readers of this column are unfamiliar with the name. And therein, I suggest, lies the profound pity, indeed the source of the deep pain I felt on learning about Obumselu’s passing. I did a quick online audit, curious to see what kind of ripples had been triggered by the man’s death. To my consternation, but hardly much surprise, Obumselu’s…

A Court in Australia on Wednesday found a wellness blogger, Belle Gibson, guilty of deceiving and misleading people on using natural remedies and nutrition to cure cancer. The disgraced health personality, who made tens of thousands of dollars selling books and a mobile app about her miraculous recovery, was taken to court by Consumer Affairs Victoria after it was revealed that she never had the disease. Justice Debra Mortimer said during the judgment that Gibson, 25, may have “remained under some kind of delusion that she had cancer.” “She may have had other psychological or psychiatric issues. “Those possibilities are…

Tanzanian public broadcaster TBC has suspended nine staff after it aired a fake story saying that US President Donald Trump had praised President John Magufuli’s performance. The article appeared on a website called Fox Channel. The story, which was broadcast last week, said Mr Trump called Mr Magufuli an “African hero” compared to other leaders who are “doing nothing”. A statement from TBC said editorial procedures had not been followed. The broadcaster’s Director General Ayub Chacha said that the station should have verified the information before broadcasting. The story said that the US president had called on other African leaders…

The Nigerian Senate has again stalled the confirmation of the acting Economic and Financial Crimes Commission chairman, Ibrahim Magu, instead the upper chamber ordered that he faces a Department of States Service screening. Magu who had previously faced the Senate for confirmation on two occasions suffered yet another defeat in the hands of the senators when they failed to confirm him. In a series on tweets on social media, the official Twitter account of the Nigerian senate it said Magu’s confirmation was rejected after the senators voted. “By popular votes, the nomination of acting Chairman of @officialEFCC is hereby rejected,”…

The Senate has agreed to issue warrant of arrest to compel the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), retired Col. Hammed Ali, to appear before it on Thursday. The senate unanimously passed the motion at their plenary on Wednesday. The decision of the Senate came at the time that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) suspended the implementation of its policy for duty payments on old vehicles. The Customs service said that the suspension was placed in order to resolve issues with the Senate Committee on Customs. The Acting Public Relations Officer of the NCS, Mr Joseph Attah, said Wednesday…

US President Donald Trump paid $38m (£31m) in tax on more than $150m (£123m) income in 2005, a leaked partial tax return shows. The two pages of tax return, revealed by US TV network MSNBC, also showed he wrote off $103m in losses. It gave no details on income sources. The White House said publishing the tax return was against the law. Mr Trump refused to release his tax returns during the election campaign, breaking with a long-held tradition. How was it found? On Tuesday evening, MSNBC announced that it had a copy of one of Mr Trump’s tax returns,…

Leicester’s Wes Morgan praises ‘impossible’ Champions League achievement Leicester City “achieved the impossible again” according to captain Wes Morgan, after a stunning win over Sevilla sent them into the Champions League quarter-finals. The Foxes won 2-0 at the King Power Stadium on Tuesday to progress 3-2 on aggregate. It continues a fairytale 12 months for Leicester following their Premier League triumph last season. “I’m not sure if it will happen again but we did it,” Morgan told BT Sport. “We proved a lot of people wrong and pulled off the impossible again.” Leicester, who are still battling for survival in…