Author: Chronicle Editor

President Donald Trump is “very well” after spending his first night in a hospital where he is being treated after testing positive for coronavirus. His personal doctor Dr Sean Conley said he was not on extra oxygen for now and had been fever-free for 24 hours. However, conflicting reports have emerged suggesting concern over Mr Trump’s health, the time he was diagnosed or whether he was on oxygen. Doctors, Nurses and ALL at the GREAT Walter Reed Medical Center, and others from likewise incredible institutions who have joined them, are AMAZING!!!Tremendous progress has been made over the last 6 months…

Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored his ninth goal of the season and James Rodriguez netted twice as Everton beat Brighton to make it four Premier League wins from four for the impressive table-topping Toffees. However, it was another game that will prompt questions about the quality of goalkeeper Jordan Pickford for both club and country. All was going well for the home side after Calvert-Lewin rose highest to head in at the back post to cap another excellent week that saw him score his second hat-trick of the season and earn a first call-up to the senior England squad. But in the closing stages of…

The difficulties Nigerian entrepreneurs endure in the hands of foreign private equity firms and venture capitalists have been blamed on the clever tricks deployed by investors. Sources on the Nigerian business landscape disclosed that the tricks used by equity partners easily deceive Nigerian business founders into their embrace and eventual takeover of such businesses from founders. A source familiar with relationships between foreign equity firms and Nigerian businesses revealed that private equity companies are adept at using tax avoidance entities, registering their investment vehicles in places such as Mauritius. The source also explained that the equity firms insist on the…

Summer signing Ben Chilwell scored one and assisted another on his first Premier League start since his £45m move from Leicester City as Chelsea returned to winning ways against Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge. Having made his first appearance on Tuesday as Frank Lampard’s side were knocked out of the Carabao Cup on penalties by Tottenham, Chilwell marked his 100th Premier League appearance by firing in at the back post following Mamadou Sakho’s failed clearance. Chilwell, 23, then delivered an excellent cross from the left to allow Kurt Zouma to head in a second after 66 minutes, before Jorginho stepped…

Liverpool forward Sadio Mane has tested positive for coronavirus and is self-isolating. The news comes three days after the club said midfielder Thiago Alcantara had tested positive for Covid-19. Liverpool say the Senegal winger has “displayed minor symptoms of the virus but feels in good health overall”. Mane, 28, played for the Reds in a 3-1 win over Arsenal on Monday but was not in the squad for the EFL Cup defeat on penalties to the Gunners on Thursday. A statement on Liverpool’s website added: “Like with Thiago Alcantara, Liverpool are – and will continue to – following all protocols…

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Dr Funmi Adewara, a UK-based Nigerian Medical Doctor on winning World Bank SDGs And Her Global Award 2020, thus hoisting Nigeria’s flag proudly in the international arena once again. The award came in the same season that the President in his national day broadcast just applauded Nigerian professionals at home and abroad, whom he said ranked among the very best in the world. Dr Adewara is one of the seven winners of the award globally, among 2,400 women, a feat that President Buhari describes as “an attestation once again of the stuff Nigerian professionals are…

With a month to go before the presidential election, voters around the US are digesting the news that President Donald Trump is infected with Covid-19. Mr Trump is currently experiencing mild symptoms – but aged 74 and within the clinical definition of obesity, he has risk factors that raise his chance of having a severe reaction. We asked some older members of the BBC voter panel how they felt when they heard the news. Mark Falbo is a retired higher education administrator who recently moved to Windham, Maine. He is a Democrat voting for Joe Biden. I am very concerned…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 126 confirmed new coronavirus cases in the country on Friday. The 126 cases announced by the Centre for Disease Control takes the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 59,127. The NCDC also announced the discharge of 141 patients from isolation centers across the country with no new death reported. Lagos state, the epicentre of the virus in Nigeria reported 62 new confirmed cases taking the total number of confirmed cases in Lagos alone to 19604. Nigeria announces 153 new coronavirus cases Rivers state reported 22 new cases, Ogun state recorded…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) have again hit the brick wall in talks of an alliance ahead of next weekend’s governorship election in Ondo State. The All Progressives Congress (APC), which is the target of the uneasy pact, declared yesterday that it was unmoved by the talks between the two opposition parties. The APC dismissed it as a reactionary contraption that will not work. Some PDP governors, including Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, are said to be piling pressure on former Ondo State governor Segun Mimiko to make…

Bayern Munich are in talks with Chelsea about taking 19-year-old England winger Callum Hudson-Odoi on a season-long loan. (Sport Bild, via Mail) France forward Ousmane Dembele, 23, has had a change of heart about joining Manchester United – but his club Barcelona have not yet sanctioned any potential move. (L’Equipe via Mirror) Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba, 27, has called France team-mate Dembele to convince him to move to Old Trafford. (Mundo Deportivo – in Spanish) Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is prepared to sell winger Daniel James, 22, to help fund a late bid for 20-year-old Borussia Dortmund and England winger Jadon Sancho. Solskjaer, however, has yet to convince the club’s…