SPAIN. NEYMAR will only swap PSG for Real Madrid if Gareth Bale moves to Manchester United, reports in Spain have claimed. Real would love to keep Bale and play him alongside Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Neymar in what would be a truly formidable attack. But in order to comply with Financial Fair Play regulations, Gareth Bale will be sold.
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NIGERIA. A religious group, the Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, on Monday described the 2018 examinations timetable recently released by the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, as volatile, warning that the timetable is capable of causing a disturbance of public peace if it erodes the Jumat period. WAEC recently scheduled Chemistry for 2 pm to 4 pm on Friday April 20,
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LONDON. The UK government has said that people with right-wing leanings pose a bigger threat to the British public than the Islamic State (ISIS). As American Conservative and Christian voices have taken a hammering in the USA following the Parkland shootings, so fearmongers, pushing the “answer” of censorship, have been equally active in the UK over the last few days.
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Brazil. Astonishing details of Brazilian superstar and PSG player Neymar’s contract with the American sportswear giant Nike, which ties both from 2011 to 2022 and which the company can expand unilaterally until 2024, have been published. Nike divides teams into categories (A, B, C and D) and, depending on this, the remuneration of the Brazilian varies. Nike qualified in 2011 that Chelsea,
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NIGERIA. The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa ’ad Abubakar III, and The Jama ’atu Nasril Islam, has attacked the President Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Government and security agencies for the handling of the abduction of 110 Dapchi school girls. The school was attacked on February 19, 2018 , while the whereabouts of 110 pupils were yet to be accounted
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In a tweet on Saturday, the president said: “If the EU wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on US companies doing business there, we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the US. “They make it impossible for our cars (and more) to sell there. Big trade imbalance!” A second tweet
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The Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria, DAPPMAN, has petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari and Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, over the non-payment of their outstanding subsidy, in excess of N650 billion, Guardian reports. The Marketers issued a fresh 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to pay up, failing which they would shut down their depots
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“God forbids that we are indeed missing daughters who went to School once again. God forbids that anything resembling a re-enactment of the torture of the nearly four years of our #ChibokGirlsTragedy has happened to Nigeria.” Former Minister of Education and co-Convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Group, Oby Ezekwesili, has called out the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government,
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The Edo State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, insisted that the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration must account for the missing 4,781 bags of rice of the 6,822 approved for the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camp, at Uhogwa, in Ovia North-East Local Government Area of the State, by the Federal Government, Vanguard reports. It will be recalled that the
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The Nigerian Army, has on Wednesday night, ‘rescued’ some of the abducted Yobe schoolgirls. They were rescued at Jilli-Muwarti, a border village between Gaidam in Yobe State and Borno State. Daily Trust learnt from a security source that the Students are on their way to Gaidam, in Yobe State, for a medical check-up, before proceeding to Damaturu, the State capital.
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