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Manchester United are set to land Alexis Sanchez from Arsenal by making him the Premier League’s highest-paid player, according to several reports on Thursday. The Chilean striker would earn between 400,000 and 500,000 pounds ($555,000 and $690,000) a week before tax by moving to Old Trafford...

via Punch Newspapers – http://ift.tt/2mOjHNt A landlord, Segun Abiodun, who allegedly beat up his tenant’s son and punched off his teeth for not greeting him, was on Wednesday brought before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court. The accused, 45, a fashion designer, who resides at 82, Capitol Road...

‎Alexander Okere, Benin ‎The Edo State Police Command has arrested three persons in connection with an explosion which left one person dead in Okpella, Etsako East Local Government Area of the state. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Johnson Kokumo, identified the suspects as Idris Ibrahim, Zainab...

Saudi Arabia on Wednesday announced it would transfer $2 billion to Yemen’s central bank, after desperate calls for funding from the war-torn country’s president and prime minister. “To address the deteriorating economic situation faced by the Yemeni people as a result of the actions of the...

Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will on Wednesday arraign Mohammed Adamu, the son of the ex-Nasarawa State governor and current lawmaker representing Nasarawa-West senatorial district, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, with alleged fraud to the tune of N92m. The EFCC...

A marriage of nine years was dissolved on Monday in Lagos after Mr Michael Ayinde, a 39-year-old man, had taken his wife, Glory, to court over her penchant for unbridled procreation. Ayinde had earlier told the court that his wife, whose name he gave as Glory, enjoyed “giving births at … via...

Nizibone Meyaphi pulled a shocker at everyone in the court when she pleaded with her ex-husband, Fikile Mathonsi, to surrender all the panties she left at his house when he sent her packing. Meyaphi claimed that when Mathonsi divorced her, he didn’t give her the chance to pack some of her …...

An aide to former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has revealed how generals warned him to step aside as protests against him grew, or face being “lynched” like Libya’s Moamer Kadhafi. Massive street protests against 93-year-old Mugabe erupted after the military briefly took power in November...

An Upper Area Court in Kasuwan Nama, Jos on Monday sentenced a farmer, Auwal Audu, to two years imprisonment for raping a four-year-old girl. The 20-year-old farmer was sentenced by the Judge, Yahaya Mohammed, after he pleaded guilty to the charge. Mohammed, in a ruling, rejected the convict’s...

Justin Tyopuusu, Jalingo Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, on Sunday said he would not fall for “cheap blackmail and propaganda” of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association. Ishaku stated this while reacting to the allegations by the National Secretary of Miyetti Allah, Baba Usman, that...

Dr. Sylvester Ikhisemojie Oxygen is a very essential ingredient of normal life on the earth. It constitutes roughly 21 per cent of the air we breathe which indicates that for normal life to go on that percentage of oxygen in the air is sufficient. Every mammal depends on it including … via...

Hajiya Aisha Wakil, known as Mama Boko Haram because of her closeness to the members of the sect, tells KAYODE IDOWU that the insurgents are tired of fighting What is the relationship between you and the Boko Haram members? People started calling me Mama Boko Haram when insurgency was at …...

A bare-breasted woman ambushed pro-Russian Czech President Milos Zeman on Friday as he was about to vote in an election that could win him a second term, calling him “Putin’s slut.” The woman, wearing only blue jeans, was swiftly overpowered by the president’s bodyguards, an AFP journalist saw...

Anthony Joshua’s highly anticipated fight with Joseph Parker could be confirmed this week, according to the WBA and IBF heavyweight champion’s promoter Eddie Hearn. Hearn confirmed on Tuesday that further talks will take place with Parker’s representatives in the coming days in the hope of...

Look out, women’s tennis. Serena Williams isn’t quite back on tour, but she says she wants more Grand Slam titles and may be an even better player after becoming a mother. In an interview with Vogue magazine published Wednesday, Williams also recounts the harrowing medical ordeal she went...

Spanish morgue workers were given a major fright when a prisoner who had been declared dead after an apparent suicide attempt woke up just as they prepared to perform an autopsy, authorities said Wednesday. In jail near Oviedo in northern Spain, the man, whom Spain’s prison authority refused to...

A traditional ruler, Nojimu Abioye, and his son, Wahab Abioye, were on Wednesday arraigned in an Ikeja High Court, for the alleged murder of one Alhaji Olatunji Rasak in 2015. Rasaki was said to be an informant for the Economic and Financial Crime Commission. The duo was charged with a … via...

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, on Monday, said that Nigeria earned $31m from the sale of purple hibiscus, popularly known as zobo leaves, in the last one year. Ogbeh also said the Federal Government would also engage in establishing both cashew and cocoa...

Mauricio Pochettino has warned that Tottenham cannot force Harry Kane to stay at the club, saying Philippe Coutinho’s move from Liverpool to Barcelona shows there can be no room for complacency. Tottenham’s star striker underlined his value again on Sunday by scoring twice in a 3-0 win over AFC...

Iran has banned the teaching of English in primary schools, a senior education official said, after Islamic leaders warned that early learning of the language opened the way to a Western “cultural invasion”. “Teaching English in government and non-government primary schools in the official...