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Gunners skipper Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored a hat-trick to help Arsenal secure the first win of the season as they beat a young West Bromwich Albion side to reach the third round of the Carabao Cup. Aubameyang marked his first start of the season with two solid first-half tap-ins and a curling finish after the break He also acrobatically set up Nicolas Pepe for the third, with Bukayo Saka slotting in the fourth goal. Alexandre Lacazette came off the bench to fire in the sixth. The win could have been even bigger too, with Martin Odegaard hitting the outside of the…

Former Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger has been pictured at Liverpool’s AXA training centre handing Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp and four Liverpool stars their Best FIFA Men’s awards from the 2019/2020 campaign. On Tuesday, August 24, Wenger, who now works as FIFA’s chief of global football development, handed over the 2020 Best FIFA Men’s Coach prize to Klopp and also gave Alisson Becker, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk and Thiago Alcantara trophies to mark their inclusion in the 2020 FIFA FIFPro Men’s World11 team. Klopp had been awarded best men’s coach after securing the Reds’ first Premier League title in thirty years during the 2019/2020 season with Trent Alexander-Arnold, Alisson…

In the last few days, an average Nigerian got familiar with the name Bichi Emirate just like the other day when Oba the home of obi Cubana the billionaire landlord of cubana Groups became popular on the streets in the nation. Guess what , Yusuf Buhari the son of president Mohammad Buhari got married to Zahra Ado Bayero the daughter of the Present day Emir of Bichi, one of the newly created four Emirates in Kano state. For the ready to die supporters of various politicians in the country,those who are ready to chop off your head when ever you…

Nigerian comedian and entertainer, Bright Okpocha, better known by his stage name Basketmouth has opened up about his rift with colleague, AY Makun, popularly known as AY. For years speculations have been rife about the relationship between the two comedian who have never worked together and are hardly seen together. There were even reports that both comedians had their own camps of comedians who were associated with them. Basketmouth has now opened up on the alleged beef, saying AY ‘messed with loyalty’ but that he has apologized and they are now cool. Speaking at Ebuka Obi-Uchendu’s Black Box Interview series…

President Buhari has vowed that the attack launched on the facility of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) on Tuesday, August 24, will not dampen the morale of our Armed Forces as it is intended to, but instead will burst their determination to make a decisive end of criminality in the country. Noting that the attack, which led to the loss of lives, came at a time that the military had put insurgents, bandits, kidnappers, and other types of criminals on the retreat, the President says the heinous action would accelerate the total uprooting of evil in the polity, which members…

The Nigerian Army has denied media reports claiming its officers manning the CCTV at the Nigerian Defense Academy NDA in Kaduna were asleep before the bandits attacked the institution in the early hours of Tuesday, August 24. A report by The Cable alleged that the officers who were assigned to observe the CCTV of the institution were allegedly sleeping on duty before the attack. A statement released by the spokesperson of the Defence Headquarters, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Olufemi Sawyerr, says the allegation is false. The statement in part reads ”The attention of the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) have been drawn to…

Suspected bandits have abducted the widow of Alhaji Rabe Bello Kofa, the former head of Kofa village in Kusada Local Government Area of Katsina State who died on Tuesday, August 24. The armed bandits stormed the widow’s residence and abducted her in the early hours of today Wednesday, August 25. A resident, who spoke anonymously to DailyTrust, said the bandits went straight to the house of the village head, who died on Tuesday and abducted some members of the bereaved family, including his widow. “The village head of Kofa, who was an elder brother to a former Speaker of the…

Real Madrid have made a £137m (€160m) bid to sign Kylian Mbappe from Paris Saint-Germain. The La Liga giants reportedly made the offer on Sunday August 21, and Paris Saint-Germain are yet to respond to their proposal. Mbappe is out of contract at the Parc des Princes next summer and he has so far refused to sign a new deal, despite PSG’s attempts to get the France international to commit his future to the club. The 22-year-old has told PSG that his dream is to play for Real Madrid, who have been linked with a move for the World Cup…

Afropop superstar Mayorkun reveals the visual to his new and trending music single, “Let Me Know.” Let Me Know is Mayorkun’s first music single for the year 2021 and the music video premiere is toeing the line from the single launch on Friday when it went live on digital stores. The visual encapsulates the track’s energy, with Mayorkun and his partner enjoying the stunning sights of Cappadocia, Turkey in a very dreamy experience as directed by Sam Kirk & Omar. Let Me Know will feature on Mayorkun’s forthcoming sophomore album, out later this year, a follow-up to acclaimed 2018 debut LP, The Mayor of Lagos.…

A video of operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at the home of Big Brother Naija star, Dorathy Bachor’s home on August 23 has been shared online. One of the EFCC operatives was also seen in the video trying to snatch Dorathy’s sister, Cynthia’s phone after she went live on Instagram. Recall that while Dorathy said the forced entry left her shaking and sent her mother to a panic state, EFCC in a statement released yesterday, stated that they were only executing a search warrant. The anti-graft agency which gave an excuse of forcing themselves into Dorathy’s home to stop possible suspects from escaping or destroying…