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Arsenal have sacked manager Unai Emery following the disastrous sequence of results that culminated in Thursday’s 2-1 home defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League in front of a largely empty Emirates Stadium. The club’s board had publicly backed their manager during the recent international break saying he was...

Prof. Lawrence Ezemonye, the Vice Chancellor of Igbinedion University Okada, has urged the Federal Government to formulate strategic policies to address climate change challenges. Prof. Ezemonye made the call while delivering a lecture during the 17th Convocation of the university at Okada, Edo on Thursday. He spoke on the topic,...

After spending more than 1,000 years in Rome, a wooden fragment worshipped by Catholics as part of the crib in which Jesus was born will be welcomed back to the Holy Land on Friday. The fragment, part of a relic stored in the Italian capital’s Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore,...

  The Lagos State Government has announced the adjustment in closing date for first term year 2019/2020 and resumption date for second term Y2019/2020 school calendar. The state government through State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, announced the adjustment in a circular dated November 27, 2019. The circular was signed...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dino Melaye, candidate in the Kogi West Senatorial rerun election, has raised the alarm ahead of Saturday’s supplementary election. Melaye alleged that his State Governor, Yahaya Bello and Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna, were represented at the meeting held in Lagos State, which was aimed at...

  The board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved the Transmission Company of Nigeria's, TCN's, NTEP -1 projects in a board resolution in Abidjan. The NTEP is one of the projects under TREP financed by AfDB that is targeted at rehabilitating and expanding parts of the transmission grid...

Trading on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) rallied on Thursday following renewed positive sentiment in banking and oil and gas stocks after dropping for two consecutive days. Specifically, the All-Share Index which opened at 26,790.10 increased by 34.40 points or 0.13 per cent to close at 26,824.50. Also, the market...

  Financial experts on Thursday said that the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC’s ) decision to retain all rates was aimed at protecting  the nation’s external reserve being threatened by oscillation in oil prices. The experts said this in separate interviews with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, while reacting...

  The World Bank Group says Nigeria is improving on the provision of digital platforms for services. The bank made this known in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday. The bank explained that the government created a central portal to improve the delivery and quality of public services. It...

The Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) has released about N5.4 billion to some cooperative societies to build 664 houseing units. The Managing Director of the bank, Mr Ahmed Dangiwa made this known at the 4th Annual Conference of Federal Civil Service Staff of Nigeria Cooperatives (FEDCOOP) in Abuja on...