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The Premier League returns this midweek, following a weekend of FA Cup matches. Arsenal welcome Cardiff City on Tuesday, as they continue their quest to finish in the top four. Manchester United host Burnley and Wolves clash with West Ham. Manchester City travel to Newcastle United. Tuesday, January 29 20:45 Arsenal vs Cardiff City 20:45 Fulham vs Brighton & Hove Albion 20:45 Huddersfield Town vs Everton 20:45 Wolverhampton Wanderers vs West Ham United 21:00 Manchester United vs Burnley 21:00 Newcastle United vs Manchester City Source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/01/livescore-latest-premier-league-results.html

Italian Serie C team Lucchese coach Giancarlo Favarin has been slapped with a five-month ban by the Serie C disciplinary tribunal after he head-butted a member of the opposing team's staff. He also told a player to break an opponent's legs. Footage of the match showed the shaven-headed Favarin knocking the daylights out of Gaetano Mancino, assistant coach of rivals Alessandria, with a headbutt during a brawl at the end of a 2-2 draw between their teams on Sunday. Mancino was caught off-balance and knocked to the ground by the blow. The Italian manager, 60, lost his cool in the sixth minute of the added time in the match even as his team had risen from a 2-0 deficit to make it 2-2 in the 93rd minute of the match. Serie C's disciplinary tribunal said in a statement that Favarin made "blasphemous remarks" during the match and "invited his own player to 'break the legs' of an opponent." He also "began a slanging match wit

Hassana and Huseina Edili Ogaji A set of beautiful twins, Hassana and Huseina Edili Ogaji have made history as Nigeria’s first twin female pilots. The twins are Canada based Nigerians from Kogi State (Igala). According to reports, they have a successful 7 years experience and are both senior Aviation Officers working with Aero Contractors – an airline commended for having more female pilots in the system. Source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/01/meet-sisters-who-made-history-as.html

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has formerly announced his defection from All Progre-ssives Congress, APC, to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Speaker Dogara The Speaker made the announcement yesterday during plenary, alongside two other legislators, Edward Pwajok and Ahmed Yerima. Dogara, in September 2018, laid to rest speculations of his defection from APC to PDP as he visited the national secretariat of his new party in Abuja, where he submitted his forms for the House of Representatives election. His actions came a week after hundreds of supporters from his Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa federal constituency of Bauchi State presented him a PDP nomination and expression of interest forms, urging him to leave the ruling APC. The Speaker, who has been having running battle with his state governor, Mohammed Abubakar, has been long expected to leave APC for PDP. Unlike other members of the National Assembly, who made public their defe

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Akwa Ibom state command said it has arrested about 120 drug dealers in Mbo Local Council of the state together with one Okon Bassey, and recovered 244 Permanent Voters Cards bearing different identities from him. The 120 hard drug dealers were found to have variously been in possession of 51 kilogram’s of cannabis, 259 grammes of heroin,17 grammes of cocaine and 500 grammes of Tramadol diazepam and polypro, respectively. This was revealed in a statement signed by the commandant, Mohammed Sokoto and made available to newsmen in Uyo the state capital on Tuesday. He said all the suspects were arrested during the pre-election raid operations carried out by the operatives between September 2018 and January 2019. The statement added that one, Joy Adams, a notorious heroin dealer in the state was also arrested by the operatives for allegedly being in possession of 239grammes of heroin. The statement read partly, “The

Investment mobile application (App), which allows users to purchase Treasury Bills (T-Bills) directly from their smartphones has recorded over 70,000 downloads on Apple App Store, and Google Play Store in less than 10 months of its entry into the market, according to a statement in Lagos. The App, known as i-Invest, was swiftly embraced by investors, who had been yearning for a fast and convenient means to access investment products in a secure manner using technology. Today, millions of customers are able to perform most of their banking transactions from the comfort of their homes. Developed by Parthian Partners, a pan-African inter-brokerage services firm, in partnership with Sterling Bank Plc, the i-Invest App provides a level playing ground for investors regardless of status or category. The developers said equal opportunities now exist for working-class or retiring people and pensioners as well as experienced and institutional investors to save money, and improve their mo

Oliver Gierlichs                                                                                                           Mohammed Jimoh Senior Bayer Representative & Chief Financial Officer – West & Central Africa, Oliver Gierlichs, and Managing Director, Bayer Middle Africa Ltd, and Head of Marketing & Sales PH/CH Nigeria, Dr. Mohammed Jimoh, in this interview with ADELOWO ADEBUMITI explain how their firm would bring its innovative and effective products to the Nigerian market as well as enable the country to become more self-sufficient in providing high-quality food to a growing population. In 2015, Bayer AG returned to Nigeria after divesting from the country’s economy for 22 years. What areas of your business focus do you think would be of benefit to the Nigerian people? Bayer is a research and development (R&D)-based life science company that is active in the areas of crop protection and seeds, the area of pharmaceuticals (prescription drugs) and Over-the