The Gunners winger scored the opening goal as Mikel Arteta’s side beat Molde 3-0 in the Europa League but faces an upcoming Premier League suspension As responses go, this was as good as it gets from Nicolas Pepe. With the spotlight firmly on Arsenal’s club-record signing following his sending off at Leeds on Sunday, he

The Portuguese tactician will miss the phone calls he received from the Argentine hero after bad results Tottenham coach Jose Mourinho says he will miss receiving phone calls from Diego Maradona that were made to lift his spirits after losing matches. The football world is in mourning after the passing of the iconic former player

A retired Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mrs Caroline Afegbai has filed an appeal at the Federal High Court, Benin demanding for a stay of further proceedings in the petition by the family of late Mr Ibrahim Momodu, at the Edo State Judicial Panel of Enquiry on police brutality, pending the determination of the interlocutory appeal

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has formally received a repatriated Ife Terracotta head from his Foreign Affairs counterpart, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, in the company of the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Nigeria, Mr Harry van Dijk. While receiving the artefact in his office in Abuja on Thursday, Mohammed

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has posited that the North is the worst place to live in the country. He made this known on Thursday during the 4th Quarterly Meeting of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC). Sultan Abubakar who is co-chairman of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council lamented on the rising cost

Nigeria’s former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has denied ‘looting half of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),’ saying he is not guilty of the money laundering allegation against him by a member of the British parliament. General Gowon was accused by UK lawmaker, Tom Tugendhat, on Monday during the hearing of a petition against

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Thursday afternoon shot dead the First Class traditional ruler of Ifon, the Olufon of Ifon in Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State, Oba Israel Adeusi. The traditional ruler, who was returning to Ifon from Akure after a meeting, ran into the barricade of the kidnappers along Elegbeka area

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 169 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 66,974. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Thursday. “169 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Kaduna-74 FCT-42 Lagos-17 Kano-8 Ogun-6 Oyo-6 Rivers-6 Ekiti-3 Bauchi-3 Katsina-2 Delta-1 Ondo-1,” the NCDC

THE government on Monday raised the hope that Nigeria will exit its second recession in five years within a short time. It also listed measures that will take the economy out of the slowdown which it said was caused by the severity of the global downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice

IN 2016 the Nigerian economy went into recession. The government spent its way out of the experience and by 2017 against many odds the economy picked up. While still recovering from the experience the coronavirus pandemic struck in early 2020 forcing many governments around the world to shut down entire countries for months. Nigeria was