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Manchester City’s Erling Haaland scored an early goal to take the champions provisionally top of the Premier League with a 1-0 victory over Southampton on Saturday at Etihad Stadium that had boss Pep Guardiola praising their last-placed opponents. City are two points ahead of Liverpool, who are second and visit fourth-placed Arsenal on Sunday. Southampton are still without a win in their first campaign back in the top flight after a season away and sit bottom on one point. “Important thing is being there,” Guardiola said. “We created chances. As always Erling had two or three clear ones. But I’m…

A fire outbreak has occurred on a section of the Lagos Blue Line track opposite the NEPA station, near the Eko bridge in the Apogbon area of Lagos. Gboyega Akosile, spokesperson for Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, said the incident happened at 4:12 pm on Saturday. He said the incident was a minor one, adding that no casualties were involved and train service was not in operation at the time of the incident. He said a team of safety and emergency personnel have completely extinguished the fire. “There was a fire outbreak on a small section of the Lagos Blue…

Manchester City went back to the top of the Premier League as Erling Haaland’s early effort proved enough to beat struggling Southampton. When Haaland shrugged off Jan Bednarek to turn Matheus Nunes’ fifth-minute cross beyond Saints keeper Aaron Ramsdale for his 11th league goal of the season, the visitors seemed set for a heavy defeat. But a combination of their own dogged defending and some poor finishing from City, with Haaland the chief culprit, ensured a few home nerves before the final whistle. The result extended City’s unbeaten Premier League record to 32 games. They are now only six weeks…

Iranian Military said Israel attacked its military facilities across the country Saturday morning, causing “limited damage” in some areas. Israel “attacked parts of military centres in the provinces of Tehran, Khuzestan and Ilam,” state news agency IRNA reported, adding that “the attack has been successfully intercepted and countered” by Iran’s “integrated air defence system.” Iranian officials earlier said air defences were deployed “in several areas around Tehran and the country,” according to IRNA. Chronicle NG reported that IDF “conducted precise strikes on military targets in Iran,” According to a statement on Saturday by the IDF, after reports emerged of explosions…

Liverpool and England’s Trent Alexander-Arnold says he wants to be the first full-back to win the Ballon d’Or and be remembered as the “greatest right-back to have played football”. No full-back has won the world player of the year award, which was first presented in 1956. Alexander-Arnold, 26, said he would choose winning the Ballon d’Or over the World Cup. “I believe I can,” Alexander-Arnold, told Sky Sports, external. “I want to be the first full-back to ever do it. “It’s only the morning after you retire that you’re able to look in the mirror and say, ‘I gave it…

Super Eagles captain William Troost-Ekong has hailed the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) for its verdict over the forfeited Libya Vs Nigeria game of 15 October 2024 in Benghazi. Chronicle NG reports that CAF fined Libya Football Association $50,000 following investigation in the dismal treatment of the Nigerian football team. Following the verdict, the Super Eagles captain described the move as justice served. “JUSTICE: CAF awards three points and three goals to Nigeria. Libya fined $50,000,” Troost-Ekong said. “Plane was diverted 300km from scheduled airport even when the pilot told them he was low on fuel. One step closer to…

British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver on Saturday urged cheese lovers to help police catch scammers who conned a London dairy out of 22 tonnes of English and Welsh Cheddar. Oliver described the theft as a “brazen heist of shocking proportions”. He told followers on Instagram to be alert if they heard anything about “lorry loads of very posh cheese” being offered “for cheap”, adding that the cheddar would have originally been worth around £300,000 ($388,000). The appeal comes after the Neal’s Yard Dairy said it delivered more than 950 wheels of cheddar to the alleged scammers posing as a wholesale…

Former militant leader, Asari Dokubo, has vowed to form an alliance with the North ahead of the 2027 presidential election against President Bola Tinubu for alleged betrayal. Dokubu made the remark while accusing  the former Lagos state governor of betrayal, having worked toward his emergence as Nigerian president in 2023. The ex-militant leader recounted how he spent his money canvassing for votes for Tinubu during the 2023 presidential election, only to be betrayed. Addressing his followers in a viral video, he recalled charging Nigerians to hold him accountable if Tinubu failed as president. He said, “I apologise to our fathers…

Local vigilante group officials guarded Kano State residents during the ongoing local government elections on Saturday with sticks and locally forged swords. This was after the Kano State High Court granted the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) the authority to proceed with the local government elections, nullifying all attempts by political parties to stop the exercise. The Constitution empowers KANSIEC to conduct, supervise, and oversee local government elections across the 44 local government areas (LGAs) in Kano State, according to Justice Sanusi Ma’aji, who presided over the case. KANSIEC initiated the case against the All Progressives Congress (APC) and…

US-based multinational tech giant, Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel’s war with Hamas. The two employees told The Associated Press they were fired by phone call late Thursday, several hours after a lunchtime event they organized at Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington. Both workers were members of a coalition of employees called “No Azure for Apartheid” that has opposed the tech giant’s sale of its cloud-computing technology to the Israeli government. But they contended that Thursday’s event was similar to other Microsoft-sanctioned employee giving campaigns…