Day: September 28, 2020

Arik Resumes Lagos – Enugu Flight Operations Tuesday October 6

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The management of Arik Air, which is under the portfolio of Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has announced that it would be resuming operational services from the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Ikeja Lagos to the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu State. The flight resumption takes effect from October 6, 2020. Mr Adebanji Ola, Arik Air image maker said in a statement that the flights between Lagos and Enugu, which had its runway rehabilitated and recommissioned recently will operate three times a week on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday in…

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Arsenal Captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Urges Gunners To Sign Houssem Aouar

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Arsenal captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has urged the club to sign Lyon midfielder Houssem Aouar. The Gunners are eager to secure deal for Aouar before the transfer window closes on October 5, and Aubameyang described the 22-year-old as ‘a very good player’. Mikel Arteta’s side are to make an improved £34m bid for Aouar this week but have been warned it will fall short of his £45m value by Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas. ‘He’s a very good player,’ Aubameyang said, as reported by The Mirror. ‘I hope we will be lucky…

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Organised Labour Protest: NLC Says Strike Suspended For Only Two Weeks

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File photograph of Comrade Ayuba Wabba, the NLC President (left) with Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment Following the suspension of the planned strike action  by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), the leadership of the NLC has been trying to educate Nigerians on why they suspended the planned nationwide industrial action for two weeks. The strike, which were advertised to start this morning was in protest of the recent hike in electricity tariff and fuel pump price in the country. Comrade Ayuba Wabba, the…

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Is General Buhari From Niger Republic As Has Been Rumoured?

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By Reno Omokri This article was first published in Omokri’s column, #TheAlternative, in Sunday ThisDay of September 27, 2020. Any follower of Nigeria’s federal budget since May 29, 2015, may be forgiven if they thought that Nigeria, under General Buhari, had performed a Hitler style Anschluss, and had annexed Niger Republic as part of Nigeria, because of Buhari’s huge spending (of Nigeria’s money), to improve infrastructure in Niger Republic. While Seme Border-Badagry express road, the only road currently linking Nigeria to other West African coastal nations, remains in ruins and…

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Arsenal Face Acid Test Of Arteta Revolution At Anfield Today

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Arsenal striker, Alexandre Lacazette making a ‘fool’ of the Liverpool goalkeeper before scoring in a previous encounter Prologue by Andrew Onyejuruuwa Having blown away Fulham and Westham United in their first two opening games of the new English Premier League (EPL), which is in its early days, Arsenal fans believe that the trip to Liverpool today will be the Gunners first test of the level of work that the new manager Mikel Arteta has done in a very short time. Liverpool plays steel football and are the current champions. So,…

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