Source: Guardian UK With this victory Manchester City surely killed any lingering hopes Manchester United had of competing for the league title. José Mourinho’s side made a fight of it but City always appeared a class – at least – above and left United staring at a 12-point gulf to the leaders and seven from a Champions League berth. Pep Guardiola made one change from the previous league outing, preferring Riyad Mahrez to Leroy Sané, a surprise considering the German’s flying form. Alexis Sánchez could also count himself unlucky to be dropped for similar reasons as Mourinho made four changes…
Author: Orientalnews Staff
Gerard Izuora A Mega Tribute Concert will be hosted by Baba Sala’s daughter, and Gbenga Adeyinka as co-host and King Sunny Ade as chief host. The Chairman of the event will be the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, while Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and His wife will be the guests Of honour. The event will have several artistes and actors present as well as the captains of industries. Moses Olaiya Adejumo popularly known as Baba Sala is the pioneer of the Nigerian comedy film industry who brought happiness into many homes. Baba Sala was a movie writer,…
Yemisi Izuora The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has appealed to traders to desist from using chemicals for food preservation and fruit ripening. Speaking in Otukpo, Benue, the minister said the act was detrimental to human health and the environment. “Sniper is very dangerous; people also use carbide to ripen bananas and some other fruits; people do all kinds of things. “Suddenly, people are developing different diseases, something is wrong,’’ he said, in reaction to the reported use of 2,2-dichlorovinyl dimethyl phosphate, otherwise marketed and known as sniper, to preserve beans by retailers. He appealed to…
Yemisi Izuora The Federal Government has said the new terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, will be completed and put to use by the first quarter of 2019. The Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, who stated this at a stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja, said the terminal would be delivered before the general elections in February. “Lagos airport terminal will run into next year. Hopefully, we will deliver it before the elections,” he said. The Federal Government envisages that the new terminal, upon completion, will help to ease passengers’ facilitation at the airport as well as…
Yemisi Izuora Air Peace has fingered aviation politics as delaying the kickoff of its flights to long-haul routes, including London, Guangzhou-China, Houston, Mumbai, Johannesburg, Dubai and Sharjah. Speaking at the 5th Aviation Stakeholders’ Forum organised by the Federal Ministry of Transport in Abuja on Thursday, Air Peace Chief Operating Officer, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Olajide said authorities of most of the international destinations the carrier had been designated to operate to were either deliberately foot-dragging in processing its application or imposing frustrating conditions to discourage it from flying into their domains. Some of the destination countries, she said, responded to the airline’s…
Our Correspondent Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has said that a plot to embarrass the People Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on arrival early hours on Sunday from Dubai has failed. Frank said Atiku, who returned to Nigeria around 1am on Sunday morning from his vacation in Dubai was thoroughly searched by a Special Squad of security men deployed by the presidency for some hours with recording gadgets on them and in and around Atiku’s aircraft. “Nothing, was however found on him or in his aircraft.” According to Frank,…
Agency Report This is a mischievous attempt to grab the headlines. Nigerians need to know that one of the resolutions of the Atiku team at their recently-concluded, opulently-held Dubai retreat was to embark on scaremongering. This is one of such. For the records, all incoming passengers on international flights go through customs, Immìgration, health and security screening. Where the aircraft is using the private, charter wing, as the PDP Candidate did, such arrivals are met by a team of the Immìgration, customs and other security agencies. They go to the arriving aircraft as a team. The airport authorities confirm that…
Yemisi Izuora The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Third Capital Market Committee (CMyYC), will be discussing issues bordering on implementation of the Ten Year Capital Market Master Plan as well as others relating to the capital market and the economy. Oriental News Nigeria, reports that the ten-year master plan for the Nigerian capital market which is expected to refocus the market and help double its size over time and grow the economy was unveiled November 2014. The Commission has vigorously implemented some initiatives in the Master Plan with the aim of attracting more investors to the market. Some of the…
Hyacinth Chinweuba A 25 year old man identified as Keyinde was Wednesday killed by operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Ebute, Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State. Keyinde, farmer and son of a retired military officer and armed with cutlass was shot dead by officers who mistook him as smuggler. Incidentally, the customs officers were said to be chasing a military truck being smuggled into the country in the Ebute area. The source added that on shooting Kehinde, the customs operatives had left the scene, but returned immediately with 15 patrol vans to carry the corpse.…
Agency Report Vice President. Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Friday rubbished the report of the House of Representatives Committee on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness, which indicted the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and himself on the illegal approval of N5.8 billion for emergency intervention of food security to the Northeast in June 2017. The House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness had on Thursday indicted the governing board of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo allegedly fingered in the scam. The board, chaired by Osinbajo, was accused of illegal approval of N5.8 billion north-east intervention fund.…
