Sokari, Junior Ajayi go down at Esperance

Nigeria U-23 stars, Kingsley Sokari and Junior Ajayi started and finished for CS Sfaxien as they lost 2-1 at Esperance in a Tunisian league clash on Sunday.

Sokari and Junior Ajayi were transfer targets for Esperance this year before they eventually signed for Sfaxien.

Sunshine Stars Players Protest Unpaid Wages

Sunshine Stars

Sunshine Stars players have threatened to take to the streets if the club management refuses to settle their outstanding salaries and match bonuses.

The Akure Gunners finished sixth in the just concluded Nigeria Professional Football League season, and the players claimed they have been abandoned by the Akin Akinbobola led board owing to their inability to grab a continental ticket.

Mikel not surprised by Ighalo’s form

Chelsea midfielder, John Obi Mikel, has said he is not surprised by Watford striker, Odion Ighalo, top form in the English Premier League.

Ighalo has scored 13 goals in 18 Premier League games this season, but Mikel, who has played alongside the Hornets forward on international duty with Nigeria, insists that he is not surprised by the form of the former Granada man.







The 28-year-old told the club’s official website: “I am not surprised Odion Ighalo is doing what he is doing. I have chatted with him and played with him in the national team and I can see the talent he has, and even before I have the ball in those games he is already making his run.

“He is a player who likes to exploit the space behind the defence and is a good finisher around the box. He is someone we need to watch out for.”

Real Madrid reinstatement appeal rejected

Real Madrid defender, Sergio Ramos has ended speculations linking him with a move away from the club by signing a new five-year contract with the club.

Spanish giants, Real Madrid, have been expelled from the Copa del Rey competition after their appeal for reinstatement rejected by TAD.

Manchester United v Chelsea: live updates, team news and photographs

A Manchester United fan poses with a scarf outside the stadium before the Barclays Premier League match between Manchester United and Chelsea at Old Trafford on December 28, 2015 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Alex Livesey/Getty Images)

Manchester United take on Chelsea at Old Trafford as speculation mounts that Louis van Gaal's reign at the Red Devils could be set to end. Chelsea are unbeaten in their last eight league and cup games against Manchester United. Kick-off: 17:30 

Police command arrests policemen involved in killing UNIPORT student

Witnesses say that the policemen attempted a hit-and –run, but people around the scene of the occurrence compelled them to take the victim to the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, where he eventually died.

 

Police command arrests policemen involved in killing UNIPORT student

The Rivers State Police Command has apprehended the policemen in the patrol van which was said to have killed Oghenekevwe Edah, a final year engineering student of the University of Port Harcourt. The policemen are now reportedly being detained at the command headquarters.

The victim was said to have been knocked down while on his way back from Church yesterday, Sunday. He was standing at the Assemblies of God Church Junction, Alakahia, Port Harcourt, when a police van driving against traffic hit him.

Witnesses say that the policemen attempted a hit-and run, but people around the scene of the occurrence compelled them to take the victim to the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, where he eventually died.

Deadly Storms Move Across the U.S. At least 43 people killed, including 11 in Texas tornadoes

 

 

Power company linemen repair damage after a string of tornadoes ripped through North Texas. Photo: Mike Stone/European Pressphoto Agency

A cluster of deadly tornadoes in North Texas was the latest in a succession of freakish winter-weather events over the Christmas holiday that led to at least 43 deaths in parts of the nation.

But as Texas residents assessed the damage Monday, the storm has moved northeast toward the Midwest, exacerbating flooding that already had claimed 13 lives, according to the Associated Press.

Double Bombing Kills at Least 19 in Homs Target was Shiite Muslim-linked Alawite-dominated neighborhood

 

 

Syrians check the rubble at the site of two bomb attacks in the Al-Zahra neighborhood of the central Syrian city of Homs on Monday. According to the state media at least 19 people were killed. Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

 

BEIRUT—A double bombing killed at least 19 people and wounded dozens on Monday in the central Syrian city of Homs, local officials and state media said.

Shehu Sani Adopts 60 Orphans

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator representing Kaduna state at the National Assembly, Shehu Sani has adopted 60 orphans as his children from the Adonai Orphanage Home of the state.

 

 

Senator Shehu Sani 

Shehu Sani vowed to take up the bills of 2 of the children from the orphanage home to continue their education in China. He also said he will take up all the expenses of all the orphans in the Home.


The Kaduna-born senator made this known on Sunday, December 27 when he visited the orphanage home to offer food items in the spirit of the festive period.

Deadly Storms Move Across the U.S.

The former presidential adviser on Niger Delta affairs to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan is set to contest Ondo state gubernatorial election.

 

 

Kingsley Kuku said he will run for governor on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),

No Discriminatory Fees In Sokoto Schools- Tambuwal

The Sokoto state governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has told Christians in the state that his administration will sustain the policy of non-discriminatory fees in public schools

 

 

Primate, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) Most Reverend Nicholas Okoh, Deputy Governor of Sokoto State, Ahmed Aliyu, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal when the clergy visited Sokoto Government House.

Obasanjo urge Nigerians to develop their communities

 

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged Nigerians residing in towns and city centres to develop their rural communities.
He advised tham against waiting endlessly for the government to develop their communities.

Obasanjo said in his ancestral village, Ibogun,  in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, there was neither a single toilet nor clinic for the villagers in his growing-up era, urging the people to embark on “village renewal” projects.

Fire razes Jos firm, Kwara market

 Scene of the Kwara fire. Photo: Success Nwogu

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Jude Owuamanam and Success Nwogu

Goods estimated at about N300m were lost on Sunday as fire razed a section of the Oja-Tuntun Market, Baboko, Ilorin West Local Government Area, Kwara State.

It was gathered that huge cash left in some of the shops were burnt to ashes.

LOST: Goods worth over 80M burnt by fire in Jos Market

A Jos-based jelly-making factory, Bowlis Industries Nigeria Limited, situated at Rafin-Pa area of Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau state, was weekend, gutted by fire with goods and property worth over N80 million burnt down.

According to the General Manager of the industry, Malam Abubakar Muhammad, who explained the situation to newsmen, the fire which gutted the industry that employs 40 permanent staff and 60 casual workers, started at about 11:00 pm in the wee hours of Friday due to a surge in electricity supply in the area.
Muhammad said workers had closed from work early that day and there was no power supply at the time they left, but he got a call from neighbours who told him that fire had engulfed the factory.

Igbo Woman Writes Open Letter To Buhari

 
Ij Onuigbo, an ex-US army captain and an Igbo, writes an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice Yemi Osinbajo appealing to them to release the Biafra leader.

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