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Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said his players could avenge their thrashing earlier this season by Barcelona to win the Spanish Super Cup on Sunday, if they avoided making the same mistakes. Hansi Flick's Barcelona routed Los Blancos 4-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu in October in La Liga, although a slump before the winter break…
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At least 21 government militiamen were killed in an ambush by criminal gangs in Nigeria's northwest Katsina state, police said late on Friday. A convoy of government militia returning from paying condolences to the family of a dead colleague came under fire from bandits in Baure, a village in the Safana district, Katsina police spokesman…
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Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has assured traders of expanding their trading scope by building more markets for them, noting four of the markets would be ready this year. The governor said this at the commissioning of a network of roads in Somolu, Ifako and Bariga axis of the state, stressing that one of…
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A Thai man suspected of killing a former Cambodian opposition lawmaker in Bangkok confessed to the crime Saturday in a livestream video. Wearing a white T-shirt under a bulletproof vest, Ekkalak Paenoi told police and media, "I confess that I did wrong", after being charged with premeditated murder and unauthorized gun ownership. "If I dared…
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The daughter of Dominique Pelicot, the Frenchman found guilty of drugging his ex-wife so dozens of strangers could rape her, said in comments released Saturday that her father "should die in prison". In her first television interview since Pelicot was jailed for 20 years last month following a trial that horrified France, Caroline Darian told…
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David Moyes returned for a second spell as Everton manager on Saturday, following Sean Dyche's sacking by the struggling Premier League club. Moyes, 61, made his name during an 11-year stint in charge at Goodison Park from 2002 to 2013, a period that included a fourth place Premier League finish in 2005 and an FA…
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The Police Command in Borno has arrested a suspected drug peddler in possession of 116 wraps of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp. The command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP, Nahum Daso, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Maiduguri. He said that the arrest was made by the command’s Anti-Vice Squad following credible…
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The Chairman of the Media and Publicity Directorate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Presidential Campaign Council during the 2023 election, Mr. John Mayaki, on Saturday, declared that any plot by detractors against the Edo State APC chairman Jarret Tenebe is destined to fail and come to naught. Mayaki spoke in Benin City during a…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has invited the sons of businessman Razaq Okoya, Subomi and Wahab, following a trending video of them allegedly abusing the naira. The duo appeared in the video alongside a police officer who had since been detained by the Nigeria Police Force. “The policeman captured in the recent viral…
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