Day: June 17, 2020

UCL 2020: Mini-league To Be Introduced

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UEFA have today confirmed plans to finish this season’s Champions League with a mini-tournament in Lisbon over 12 days in August Europe’s premier club competition will complete its 2019-20 edition with a final-eight World Cup-style tournament, held in the Portuguese capital, from August 12 to August 23. After the four outstanding last-16 ties are completed at the scheduled home stadiums, the quarter-finals onwards will be held on neutral territory, with no fans present and, most notably, over just one-leg. As things stand, teams will not have to quarantine either, with…

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NNPC Begins Crude Oil Exploration In 11 LGAs In Niger, Kwara, Kogi

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The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Wednesday said it has commenced crude oil exploration along the Bida Basin spreading across eight local government councils of Niger state, two in Kwara state and one in Kogi state. Group managing Director (GMD) of the NNPC, Mallam Mele Kolo Kyari, who disclosed this when he paid courtesy call on Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger on Wednesday said the Corporation is to unveil the 2D seismic data acquisition in the Bida Sokoto basin. Progress is being recorded in the ongoing exploration of…

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Covid-19: Missing patient found in private hospital, infects workers in Pleateau

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Rayfield Medical Services Limited, a private hospital in Plateau State, has been shut down for breach of COVID-19 protocol. It was learnt on Wednesday that the private hospital located at the Rayfield axis of Jos was shut down on the orders of the state Task Force on COVID-19 following the discovery that a COVID-19 patient, who earlier absconded from one of the state’s facilities, was receiving treatment in the hospital. A health worker from the private hospital confirmed the closure of the private facility in Jos on Wednesday. She said…

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Popular radio host, Dan Foster is dead

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Popular radio host, Dan Foster is dead. It was learnt that Foster, who was receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness, died on Wednesday at a medical facility in Lagos State. Many Nigerians on social media have since rolled out tributes in his honour, describing his death as painful and unbelievable. Gboyega Akosile, Chief Press Secretary to Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, tweeted, “Dan Foster was a good colleague in my days at Cool 96.9 fm, Lagos. He couldn’t pronounce my name well at the time so he changed it to G-Boyega!…

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Rape: Village Head arrested for defiling 11-year-old

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The village head of Ikot Inyang in the Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government in Akwa Ibom State, one Eteidung Stephen Uyoe, has been arrested by Police for allegedly raping an 11-year-old girl. The command, in a statement by its Public Relations Officer, Nnudam Fredrick, on Tuesday, said the village head was arrested on Saturday. According to the statement, the village head bought beans cake from the victim and asked her to follow him to his house to collect money, where he allegedly defiled her. “Investigation revealed that the suspect bought beans…

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