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Champions Manchester City face a trip to Tottenham on the opening weekend of the 2021-22 Premier League season. The first fixtures will take place on 14 August and newly promoted Brentford will host Arsenal in their first top-flight game since the 1946-47 season. Norwich and Watford, who were also promoted last season, face Liverpool and Aston Villa respectively. Manchester United play Leeds at Old Trafford, while Champions League winners Chelsea host Crystal Palace. Premier League clubs were able to host fans at reduced capacity when Covid-19 restrictions eased late in the 2020-21 campaign. It is not yet known how many…

Major Gen. Faruk Yahaya, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), says addressing security challenges in Nigeria required joint stakeholders’ efforts. Yahaya disclosed this when he appeared before the joint House of Representatives Committees on Defence and Army for screening on Tuesday in Abuja. The COAS said he hopes to bring his thirty-six years of experience in the Army to work with other service chiefs and all stakeholders to tackle security challenges in Nigeria. “From my experience, this job can’t be done by a single service or entity, the Army itself is a group work, not individual and that’s why we’re…

World champions France started their Euro 2020 campaign with a win over Germany thanks to a Mats Hummels’ own goal in a high-quality heavyweight Group F match. Hummels – recalled for this tournament after being told by coach Joachim Low in 2019 that his international career was over – diverted Lucas Hernandez’s cross into his own net in the first half of a fascinating contest in Munich. Tournament favourites France were marginally the better of the two sides, but appeared to be in third gear for much of it. Paul Pogba sent the ball over the bar from a corner…

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, on Tuesday said that the Federal Government was hopeful of 80 per cent eradication of Child Labour by 2025. Ngige said this at a news conference to mark the World Day Against Child Labour in Abuja. The theme for 2021 World Day Against Child Labour was entitled:  “Act Now: End Child Labour”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that ILO and UNICEF recent releases estimated 160 million children in child labour. Ngige said that no government had made efforts to eradicate Child Labour in Nigeria like the current administration, with…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says confirmed cases of COVID-19 from 55 African countries, as at June 14, have reached over five million, while 28.2 million vaccines have been administered across the continent. According to WHO, 4,475,763 people have recovered in Africa with 234,662 deaths. Second batch of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine expected in July – FG The world head body said that South Africa has the most reported cases of 1,747,082, with 57,765 deaths. According to WHO, other most affected countries are Morocco (523,890); Tunisia (368,908); Ethiopia (274,187); Egypt (273,182); Libya (189,059) and Kenya (175,337). “The numbers are compiled by the…

The Federal Government on Tuesday disclosed that it is expecting the delivery of the second batch of 3.92 million doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine between the end of July and early in August this year. It noted that the vaccines which will be gotten through the COVAX facility will be from non-Indian sources like South Korea, due to the pandemic situation in India. It further stated that the administration of the second dose of the covid-19 vaccine will end by June 25, 2021, while it resumes the administration of the first dose of the vaccine in the second phase of…

Cristiano Ronaldo has become the first player to play in five men’s European Championships. He also broke the record of being the top scorer in men’s European Championship history as Portugal beat Hungary in front of more than 60,000 fans in Budapest. Ronaldo converted an 87th-minute penalty for his 10th goal in the competition, overtaking France’s Michel Platini on nine goals. His 11th came only a few minutes later when he took the ball around goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi for Portugal’s third. Hungary had looked on course for an unlikely draw until they conceded three times late on. The deadlock was…

*VP also inaugurates FRSC’s National Traffic Radio, gives live traffic update After driving Kona, the assembled-in-Nigeria electric car at the ongoing Made-in-Nigeria exhibition, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, concluded that the drive was fantastic and the making of the innovative car is a showcase of what is possible in our country. Prof. Osinbajo stated this in Abuja today shortly after the unveiling of the Made-in-Nigeria fair featuring the exhibition of the first electric car assembled in Nigeria, among other locally manufactured products. Aside touring the exhibition stands accompanied by top government officials, the Vice President drove the electric car alongside…

Arsenal have rejected Roma’s 15m euros (£12.9m) bid for Swiss midfielder Granit Xhaka. The Italian side’s bid fell short of Arsenal’s valuation of the 28-year-old, who joined the Premier League club in 2016 for a reported £35m and has a contract until 2023. New Roma manager Jose Mourinho is keen to take Xhaka to Serie A after being appointed last month. Roma are also interested in Aston Villa midfielder Douglas Luiz. Messi scores stunner as Argentina draw with Chile Xhaka has had a mixed career at the Emirates, revealing he and his family had received abuse on social media after…

President Muhammadu Buhari has said the Boko Haram menace in Nigeria is due to the instability in Libya. Buhari made the remark while urging countries in the West African sub-region and the Sahel to team up against insecurity. He spoke while receiving the new Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mr Mahamat Saleh Annadif, a Chadian, at the State House on Tuesday. The president said: “You are our neighbour. You have vast experience on matters affecting the Sahel, having served for five years in Mali. I hope you will get the countries to…