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Tottenham consider ex-Inter boss Conte as Mourinho’s successor
Tottenham have held talks with former Inter Milan boss Antonio Conte as they look for a permanent successor to Jose Mourinho, according to reports on Wednesday. Spurs chairman Daniel Levy has been searching for a new boss since sacking Mourinho in April. Ryan Mason was put in caretaker charge until the end of the season…
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136 students test positive for COVID-19 Delta variant in Ghana
No fewer than 136 students in a high school have been infected with the COVID-19 Delta variant, the Ghana Health Service has confirmed. During the latest national COVID-19 update, 136 out of 550 samples taken among students in Achimota School came out positive, said Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, Director-General of the GHS. Aboagye said that three students…
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BREAKING Open grazing ban: Sanwo-Olu receives 16 Southern governors in Lagos
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has started receiving 16 of his colleagues from Southern Nigeria, The PUNCH has learnt. The governor arrived at Alausa, Ikeja, the venue of their meeting on the state of the nation. The meeting is holding eight weeks after the governors met in Asaba, the Delta State capital, on May 11,…
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Saudi Arabia, UAE in discord over oil deal
Saudi Arabia is engaged in a rare public spat with its Emirati allies over a critical oil output deal, escalating tensions ahead of another meeting of the OPEC+ alliance on Monday. The United Arab Emirates has bitterly opposed a proposed deal by the alliance of oil-producing countries to raise production, causing a stalemate that could…
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Troops battle terrorists in Borno, recover gun trucks, AK-47 rifles
Army troops of 82 Division Task Force Battalion, in a battle with terrorists, have recovered gun trucks, AK-47 rifles, amongst other ammunition. The Army Director of Public Relations, Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this in a statement titled,’ Operation Hadin Kai: Troops on trail of terrorists recover arms and ammunition, truck of petroleum oil and lubricants’, stating…
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One dead, 27 injured in Bangkok factory explosion
An explosion near Thai capital Bangkok’s international airport Monday left a plastic’s factory in flames, killing at least one firefighter and wounding 27 people, officials said. Heavy plumes of black smoke could be seen rising up to the sky from the city’s downtown 35 kilometres (21 miles) away, as rescuers continued to evacuate residents near…
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BREAKING: Bandits invade Kaduna school, kidnap scores of students
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers in the early hours of Monday invaded Bethel Secondary School, Maramara in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, kidnapping unspecified numbers of students. A source told one of our correspondents that the hoodlums stormed the school premises, located in the outskirts of the metropolis, around 1:00 am, shooting indiscriminately…
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Amnesty office redesigns scholarship scheme to focus on STEM
The Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Col. Milland Dikio (retd.), said he was stunned by the discovery of huge misapplication of human and material resources upon his assumption office. According to him, a quality education-driven survey he carried out on the types of schools that beneficiaries of the PAP’s scholarship scheme were sent…
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Kwara North deserves 2023 governorship slot –Forum
The Chairman, Kwara North Stakeholders Consultative Forum, Abdullahi Lade, has said that it would be the turn of the zone to produce the next governor of the state in 2023. He said this while addressing journalists, in Ilorin over the weekend, after a peace meeting of members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Central…
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Our meters not for sale, Kano electricity company warns
The Kano Electricity Distribution Company has warned that meter deployment and installation by its field officials remain free and not for sale. A statement signed by KEDCO Head of Communications, Ibrahim Shawai, on Monday, in Kano, said the clarification had become necessary in view of the recent claims by some online platforms that customers in…
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