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SuperSport viewers on DStv and GOtv can look forward to Round 21 action from the 2020-21 Serie A, La Liga and Premier League season, with matches scheduled for 5th – 8th February 2021. The pick of matches from Serie A this weekend sees Juventus host Roma at the Allianz Stadium in Turin on Saturday, 6th February at 6pm on SuperSport Football (DStv Channel 205) and SuperSport GOtv Select 1 (Channel 33). These two teams are on the fringes of the title race and could push for glory should they string together a strong run of form, but it seems more likely that they are battling for a berth in the top…

Christopher Plummer, the distinguished Canadian actor best known for his role as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, has died at the age of 91. He won an Oscar in 2012 for the film Beginners and was also nominated for The Last Station in 2010 and All the Money in the World in 2018. In the latter film he replaced Kevin Spacey, whose performance as billionaire J Paul Getty was removed. His many other films included The Man Who Would Be King and Knives Out. He was a memorably villainous Klingon in the sixth Star Trek film and…

Bandits have opened fire on six commuters along the Kaduna-Birnin Gwari road. Kaduna Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. He said the bandits, who were on the run from aggressive patrols by security agencies in the Birnin Gwari general area, took to the highway around Ungwan Dangedda, adding as they retreated, they shot at several vehicles. The driver of one commercial vehicle was said to have been hit and lost control of the vehicle, which somersaulted several times before coming to a stop. According to the Commissioner, the bandits then…

Former President Donald Trump refused Thursday to testify in his looming impeachment trial after being called by House prosecutors to give evidence, branding the process “unconstitutional.” Trump’s lawyers ridiculed the request in a letter by lead House prosecutor Jamie Raskin to answer questions over the January 6 attack on the US Capitol as a “public relations stunt.” “Your letter only confirms what is known to everyone: you cannot prove your allegations” against Trump, attorneys Bruce Castor and David Schoen said in their reply. While the attorneys did not say whether he would testify, a senior advisor to Trump, Jason Miller, said flatly that he…

An Orthodox Church was facing growing pressure on Thursday to change baptism rituals in Romania after a baby died following a ceremony, which involves immersing infants three times in holy water. The six-week-old suffered a cardiac arrest and was rushed to hospital on Monday but he died a few hours later, the autopsy revealing liquid in his lungs. Prosecutors have opened a manslaughter probe against the priest in the northeastern city of Suceava. An online petition calling for changes to the ritual had gathered more than 56,000 signatures by Thursday evening. “The death of a newborn baby because of this…

The World Bank approved $500 million to support the government of Nigeria in improving its electricity distribution sector. The project will help boost electricity access by improving the performance of the Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOs) through a large-scale metering program desired by Nigerians for a long time. In addition, financial support would be provided to private distribution companies only on achievement of results in terms of access connections, improved financial management and network expansion. 85 million Nigerians don’t have access to grid electricity. This represents 43% percent of the country’s population and makes Nigeria the country with the largest energy…

The Central Bank of Nigeria has notified Deposit Money Banks, Non-Financial Institutions, other financial institutions against doing business in Crypto and other digital assets. In a circular dated 5th February 2021 and distributed to regulated financial firms, the apex bank of Africa’s largest economy warned and reminded local financial institutions against having any transactions in crypto or facilitating payments for crypto exchanges. In addition, the apex bank instructed the financial institutions to immediately close the accounts of such persons or entities transacting in or operating cryptocurrency exchanges. The Apex bank further warned the Nigerian Financial Stakeholders that any breach of this directive…

Amnesty has been offered to militant Islamists in Mozambique. The President of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi offered amnesty to citizens who joined the Islamist insurgency in the gas-rich northern province of Cabo Delgado. Sources disclosed that President Nyusi who made a pledge on Wednesday as the country paid tribute to its national heroes promised that there will be no retaliation against those who surrender and return to their families. Renamo, another local militant organisation allied to the opposition party, also benefited from the amnesty offer. Going memory lane, about 570,000 people have been forced to flee their homes after hundreds were…

Seven Fulani hersmen, in Bassa Council area of Plateau State, have been killed in two separate attacks by yet to be identified gunmen while rearing their cattle, In Maiyanga Community of Kwall District. More than a hundred Cows were also killed with others hacked by the gunmen, as Confirmed to TVC News on phone by the Chairman Miyyeti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria Plateau Chapter. Two of the fulani hersmen were first attacked while rearing their cattle and killed on Tuesday 26th of January this year and one week later another 5 persons were murdered in the same manner by…

South Korean trade minister Yoo Myung-hee on Friday abandoned her bid to become head of the World Trade Organization, Seoul said, clearing the way for Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to become the global body’s first woman and first African director-general. Yoo had consulted with the United States her prime backer and other major countries and “decided to renounce her candidacy”, South Korea’s trade ministry said in a statement. The process to name a successor to Roberto Azevedo had been deadlocked since October when key WTO ambassadors tapped Okonjo-Iweala as the best pick to lead the organisation but the Trump administration maintained its…