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Barcelona will have their eyes on a big three points against visitors R. Valladolid on Saturay night, coming into the game on the back two successive draws in LaLiga Santander. e game at the Camp Nou will also be extra special for Ronaldo Nazario, now president of Valladolid, who won LaLiga’s pichichi topscorer award during his stint at Barcelona in 1996/97. Real Madrid, meanwhile, are going for a sixth consecutive LaLiga victory at home when they face Girona on Sunday lunchtime with key players including Vinicius Junior and Karim Benzema bang in form. Santi Solari’s side moved second in the table following last weekend’s 3-1 derby victory at Atletico de Madrid, while an out-of-form Girona have fallen to just one point above the drop zone. Atletico, who dropped into third, make the short trip across the Spanish capital to Rayo Vallecano on Saturday afternoon for a second city derby, with both teams looking to get back on track after defeats in their last two league outings. T

update by Sahara Reporters To reach its conclusions, the report examined a string of issues, including the timeline of the President's international travels alongside medical assessment, the travel patterns. President Muhammadu Buhari is suffering from a combination of prostate cancer, sickle cell anaemia, Crohn’s disease and dementia, a confidential study on his health made available to SaharaReporters has revealed. The report also revealed that the prostate cancer afflicting the President “may have become incurable”. To reach its conclusions, the report examined a string of issues, including the timeline of the President’s international travels alongside medical assessment, the travel patterns, information from sources in independent private hospitals and a list of doctors considered the best in the UK for the treatment of prostate cancer. A detailed review of data as part of the study revealed that Buhari sought medical treatment abroad (mainly in the UK) multiple

A bomb hidden on a corpse dressed in military uniform has killed two soldiers in Burkina Faso, the military said Friday. The booby-trapped male body had been left just outside the northern town of Djibo, near the border with Mali, and a team was sent to investigate, a statement from the armed forces general staff said. “The body, which turned out to be a trap, exploded when it was handled, killing two soldiers and wounding six, three of them seriously,” it said. A security source told AFP that the corpse exploded on Thursday when soldiers tried to turn it over, killing an army doctor on the spot, and wounding others. Burkina Faso, in the heart of Africa’s vast Sahel region, is struggling with a bloody Islamist insurgency as well as bouts of social unrest. More than 300 people have been killed in Burkina Faso in four years of jihadist attacks, according to an AFP count. Last week there were three attacks, one of which killed five members of the security forces on the same

Everything you need to live well We always regard Europe as the perfect destination for a romantic city break. Once a romantic getaway comes to mind, the first place we think about are Paris-the city of eternal love, or Prague, or even Venice where everyone becomes a passionate lover, but there are romantic places you should think of right in Africa. Discover Mother Africa romantically. Celebrate Valentine’s Day, a wedding anniversary, a birthday present, a honeymoon trip, a wedding or a romantic getaway with your beloved right in Africa. Namib Desert, Namibia Think romance, think Namibia. In the desert oasis. just two of you, in a hot air balloon, seeing one of the oldest deserts in the world from above. The Namib Desert offers a romantic African honeymoon in the perfect picture scenery. Namibia is a haven in which to cement those special romantic occasions. Be it a honeymoon, a special anniversary or birthday, or just for romantic indulgence. Victoria Falls, Zimbabw

It was a day of joy in Bayelsa State Thursday as the first airplane marked 5N-BUV, touched down at the newly-built Bayelsa International airport in Amassoma, Southern Ijaw, the heartland of the Ijaw nation. A second flight operated by Air Peace Airline also landed at the airport, which has a 3.5 – kilometre runway, said to be the longest in the country, where a jubilant crowd eagerly waited to receive Governor Seriake Dickson. Also accompanying the governor on the flight was his wife, Dr. Rachel Dickson; Deputy Governor, Rear Admiral John Jonah (rtd); Chairman of the state Traditional Rulers Council, King Alfred Diete Spiff, among others. Speaking at the event, Dickson described the airport as one of the best in the country, noting that it would serve as a free trade zone not only in the Niger Delta but also for the Gulf of Guinea. He said the airport was executed in fulfillment of his promise of bringing the world to Bayelsa and vice versa. Dickson said under his leader

Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court, sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on Thursday, February 14, 2019, sentenced Festus Ojomola, an internet fraudster to one year imprisonment with hard labour for possessing fraudulent documents and engaging in dating scam. Ojomola was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, in May 2018 following intelligence report the Commission received on the activities of some persons alleged to be involved in love scam. He was arraigned on February 13, 2019 on an amended two-count charge. The first count reads: “that you, Festus Olaoluwa Ojomola (a.k.a Lizzy Miller), on or about the 29th June, 2018, in Lagos within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, had in your possession hang-out chats wherein you presented yourself as Lizzy Miller to David Waters, a representation you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 318 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State.” The second count r

•Protest, highest level of rascality —PDP •Arrest, prosecute electoral offenders – MAJI tells police •‘We’re pleased with INEC’s move to relist our candidates’ •Police deploy 15,544 personnel for polls By Egufe Yafugborhi & Davies Iheamnachor PORT HARCOURT :—Candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the 2019 elections in Rivers State have said they will not allow elections to hold in the state if the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, does not relist them in the ballot for the general election. APC Missing oil revenue: Court fixed April 30 for FG’s suit against Oil Companies The candidates made the disclosure in Port Harcourt, yesterday, when they took thousands of their supporters on protest to INEC’s office in Port Harcourt. However, men of the police dispersed the protesters with teargas, after the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Obo Effangha, had addressed them and left the scene with party big wigs. Speaking, former