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A middle-aged man was, yesterday, killed in a road accident in Imiringi axis along the Yenagoa-Ogbia Road in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Continue...

Mikel/ Iheanacho MANCHESTER City starlet Kelechi Iheanacho is now the top Nigeria earner in the Premier League on £85,000-a-week to knock off Chelsea star Mikel Obi. This month, Iheanacho signed a new two-year contract extension at City till 2021, saying his new contract will “change the lives of his family”. Mikel, who moved to England 10 years ago, has been the biggest earner from Nigeria for many years and he is now on 70,000 pounds a week at Stamford Bridge. It was further gathered that Iheanacho’s new handlers negotiated this bumper deal even though they are still locked in an ownership tussle with the player’s previous representatives, who are based in the United States of America. Iheanacho’s former agents had proposed a new contract of 50,000 pounds-a-week for the 19-year-old forward. He earned less than 18,000 pounds-a-week when he first joined Manchester City.

John Kerry The United States Mission in Nigeria has opened communication with the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, towards clarifying allegations of religious and sectional partisanship in last week’s visit to Nigeria of the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry. Continue...

Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg, yesterday, arrived Nigeria unannounced. The 32-year-old tech enterpreneur surprisingly made a sudden visit and inspection of activities at the Co-Creation Hub, Yaba Lagos. Continue...

Rock star, Paul David Hewson, (aka Bono) and Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, yesterday met with the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa to discuss the possibilities of a global partnership to address the humanitarian crisis in North-eastern part of the country through international advocacy. However, the new partnership will help amplify the calls of million of Nigerian ONE members, who have been campaigning for years on issues including health, anti-corruption and agriculture. This year’s Make Naija Stronger campaign calls for the government to deliver on its commute, net to invest more in healthcare. ONE campaign is a powerful global advocacy group which was instrumental in Nigeria’s debt cancellation, which led to its exit from the Paris Club and it’s incursion into the country at the request of Dangote is expected to produce more concrete results in the rebuilding of the North-east.

                                  Drake professed his love for Rihanna at the MTV VMAs the previous night. And though they have remained mum on whether or not they are official, it certainly looked like they were getting on well on their latest outing together. The 28-year-old singer and 29-year-old rapper were spotted after an intimate dinner date at Nobu in New York City on Monday night. Continue...

Yesterday there were 284 arrests at the carnival, including 108 drugs offences, 64 offensive weapon (blade) offences, 26 public order offences, 18 nitrous oxide offences, 17 assaults on police and six sexual offences. Meanwhile there were also arrests made for drink driving, theft, actual bodily harm, grievous bodily harm, criminal damage, robbery and going equipped for theft. Monday marked the Grand Finale of the event's 50th anniversary, which has this year hosted 60 bands and 38 sound systems, but it was marred by scenes of mayhem could be seen throughout the west of the capital. Metropolitan Police l Continue....