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Warri Wolves: shocked by Rivers United Warri Wolves Football Club on Sunday suffered a 1-0 defeat to visiting Rivers United FC at the Warri Township Stadium, in a 2015/2016 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) fixture. Ovoke Bernard scored the lone goal for the visitors in the 52nd minute of the game. Warri Wolves dominated in the first half and created a lot of goal scoring chances which went unconverted. While soaking the pressure, the visitors relied on counter-attacks which were also thwarted by Warri Wolves’ goalkeeper Dele Ajiboye. At the resumption of the second, Rivers United changed their pattern of play to pile pressure and torment the Warri Wolves defence. Bernard, during one of their raids, scored the lone goal when he utilised a pass. Speaking during the post-match interview, Rivers United’s coach Stanley Eguma commended his players for the victory. “It was a good game. Warri Wolves did not do badly. But I think we had a better plan and it paid for us. “Ri...

Nigerian passenger train The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) said on Sunday that four people died in the train accident that occurred in Jebba on Saturday. The Assistant Director in charge of Publicity in the corporation, Mr Rauf Akinloye, told newsmen that three other passengers sustained injuries in the accident involving the Lagos-Kano train. He said the corpses of the deceased were deposited at the mortuary while those injured were discharged after receiving treatment. The NRC spokesman said the damaged tracks were being repaired in order to restore North-South services. He said the rear portion of the train that derailed lead to the death of the four persons. Akinloye, however, assured travellers of safety of life and properties while travelling on the trains in spite of the incident. Already, Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara had commiserated with the families of the deceased. The governor, in a condolence message issued in Ilorin on Sunday by his Chief Press Secretary, A...

President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria By Garba Shehu President Muhammadu Buhari arrives in London on Tuesday to join 50 other world leaders at a landmark international anti-corruption summit called by Prime Minister David Cameron. The “Anti-Corruption Summit London 2016” will bring together world leaders, business and civil society to agree a package of practical steps to: expose corruption so there is nowhere to hide punish the perpetrators and support those affected by corruption drive out the culture of corruption wherever it exists put in place infrastructure and tools that can be used by international organizations,countries and national institutions to fight corruption. In a remarkable recognition of his ongoing war against corruption in his own country, President Buhari will speak twice at this event,first as a keynote speaker at a pre-conference meeting called by the new Commonwealth Secretary-General, Baroness Patricia Scotland and the second for eight minutes allocated...