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West Ham United will make a January loan move for Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas, 29. The Spanish midfielder has played just 87 minutes in the league this season. (Daily Mirror) Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho’s criticism of defender Luke Shaw’s fitness before Sunday’s win over Swansea has left the 21-year-old baffled. (The Sun) Everton will face a fight to keep striker Romelu Lukaku as Paris St-Germain are ready to make a big-money offer for the 23-year-old. (Daily Mirror) Full-back Matteo Darmian, 26, says it is too early to think about a transfer away from Manchester United, despite only playing five times…

Stephen Curry’s 3-point shot returned Monday night, and he came with a vengeance. One game after the end of his streak of 157 consecutive games with at least one 3-pointer, Curry buried 13 triples in a 116-106 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans at Oracle Arena. That snapped the single-game record of 12, held by Kobe Bryant, Donyell Marshall and Curry. Curry’s record-breaker came on a pass from Draymond Green with 2:23 left in the game and pushed his points total to 46. Your browser does not support iframes. Curry is breaking more records with the Warriors after they dropped…

Voters in a New Hampshire hamlet, Dixville Notch have kicked off voting in the US presidential election. Residents of the hamlet cast their votes at midnight. Out of the six votes cast, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump four votes to two, a result that may foreshadow voting trends hours later in the rest of polling stations across America. Libertarian Gary Johnson received one vote, and Mitt Romney received a surprise write-in ballot, USA Today reported. According to New Hampshire law, communities with fewer than 100 voters can open their polls at midnight and close them as soon as all registered…

Oyo State Government has announced 50 percent reduction in the salaries of political office holders, their compensation, approval limits and government’s spending with immediate effect. Alhaji Olalekan Alli, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), disclosed this at a news conference held in Ibadan on Monday. Alli said that the decision was taken at the State Executive Council meeting held on Friday, Nov. 4. He said that it was a measure to shore up the dwindling revenue base of the state. The SSG said that the state had been spending its monthly allocation from the federation account on payment of…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Benin inaugurated the remodeled 200-bed capacity ultra modern central hospital. Buhari noted that the edifice was ”the best way to do things and the best thing to do for the people” by any government. While commending Gov. Adams Oshiomhole’s efforts at uplifting the lives of the people, Buhari said “I respect his sacrificing his personal comfort to constructing the edifice”. He said that he was in the state for the third time to inaugurate projects executed by the governor. Earlier, Oshiomhole said that since the hospital was established in 1902, successive governments had tried…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has attacked the Somali community in the US state of Minnesota saying “some of them [are] joining Isis and spreading their extremist views”. Trump promised to ensure that local communities were consulted before refugees settled. Around 50,000 Somalis are in Minnesota. Next week nine ethnic Somalis from Minnesota will be sentenced on terror charges for plotting to join the Islamic State group. Trump cited a recent knife attack by a Somali immigrant who stabbed 10 people at a Minnesota shopping centre before being shot dead by a police officer. He said at the rally on…

Some financial experts and stakeholders in the nation’s economy have advised the Federal Government to enact a law prohibiting keeping of money at home. They gave the advice in a national survey conducted by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on why prominent Nigerians keep money in their homes. They said that the law should, among others, specify the cash that could be kept in peoples’ homes as part of efforts to fight corruption. In South-South, they said the practice, if not urgently nipped in the bud, would worsen the economic situations of Nigerians. An Onitsha-based industrialist, Chief Ugonna Okegbue,…

The trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki continued before Justice Danladi Umar at the Code of Conduct Tribunal on Monday in Abuja. The trial followed the dismissal of Saraki’s application seeking to stop the trial by the Appeal Court in Abuja. The embattled Senate President had filed a petition before the Appeal Court challenging the jurisdiction of the Code of Conduct Tribunal to try him. In a considered judgment on Thursday 27 October, Justice Abdul Aboki led other four justices of the Appeal Court to hold that the appeal lacked merit. Saraki is standing trial on allegations of false asset…

The first woman to be US attorney general, Janet Reno, has died at home in Miami from complications linked to Parkinson’s disease, US media say. Ms Reno, 78, was at the centre of several political crises while serving under President Bill Clinton between 1993 and 2001. She was criticised for a deadly raid on the Branch Davidian cult compound in Waco, Texas after just weeks in office. Sect leader David Koresh and some 80 followers were killed during the raid. Questions were asked afterwards about the legality of the FBI raid and why it was that so many people were…

The foreign direct investment imported into Nigeria, the most populous black nation in the world has crashed by 53 per cent as it continues to grapple with the effect of recession, foreign exchange and inflation. The value of capital imported into Nigeria in the third quarter fell 34 per cent year on year to $1.822 billion, data showed on Monday, as Africa’s biggest economy grapples with its first recession in more than 20 years. With low crude prices causing the OPEC member state’s revenues to plummet, the central bank imposed forex controls last year to prevent a collapse of the…