Haaland Hits Brace As Man City Defeat Brentford 2-1

ADEOLA YUSUF

Erling Haaland delivered a commanding performance, scoring twice to secure a 2-1 victory for Manchester City over Brentford at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday. The win ensures City maintains its position at the top of the Premier League table. The match got off to a dramatic start with Brentford taking an early lead. In the 1st minute, Yoane Wissa pounced on a rebound inside the six-yard box and headed the ball past Manchester City’s goalkeeper, Ederson, to put Brentford ahead 1-0. City soon responded, with Nathan Michael Collins almost doubling…

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1,2,3,-0; How Man U Disgraced Southampton At St Mary’s Stadium

ADEOLA YUSUF

Manchester United claimed a comfortable 3-0 win over Southampton in an action-packed Premier League clash, with goals from Matthijs de Ligt, Marcus Rashford, and Alejandro Garnacho sealing the points. The drama began in the 31st minute when Diogo Dalot clumsily fouled a Southampton player inside the box, leading referee Stuart Attwell to award the hosts a penalty. Cameron Archer stepped up to take the spot kick, but his low effort was expertly saved by United goalkeeper Andre Onana. Archer tried to make amends with a follow-up header, but Onana denied…

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CBN Directs Service Providers To Commence PoS Transaction Tracking

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed payment service providers to begin the tracking of all Point of Sale (PoS) transactions. In a circular to all Payment Service Providers (PSPs) on connectivity to payment terminal service aggregators, the apex bank handed a 30-day deadline to PSPs to regularise with Payment Terminal Service Aggregators (PTSA). The circular, dated September 11, 2024, was signed by CBN’s Director of Payments System Management, Oladimeji Taiwo. “As part of efforts to mitigate the concems regarding channeling all Point of Sale (PoS) transactions through a…

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Oil Marketers Buy 518,500 Metric Tones Of Dangote Diesel, Aviation Fuel In Five Months

ADEOLA YUSUF

Marketers of petroleum products have lifted 518,500 metric tonnes of diesel and aviation fuel (Jet A1) from Dangote Refinery, representing 60 percent of national truck-outs in five months. Documents obtained from the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, indicated that independent local marketers lifted the products between April and September. They include Asharami, MRS Oil and Gas, AA Rano, Rainoil, Prudent, NIPCO, Aym Shafa and Danmarna, among many others. Further analysis of the transactions indicated that marketers lifted 489,500 metric tonnes of diesel and 29,000 metric tonnes of…

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When Men Go Hunting, By Funke Egbemode

ADEOLA YUSUF

Monogamy is a tough call. One-man-one-woman can only be the title of a book, it can’t be law or most men end up in jail. Fine, women cheat too but for today, let’s just concentrate on the men. Men are used to hunting. They see a woman endowed with a beauty queen waist that tapers into South-African hips and dive right into it. It’s what they do. And it is what we know. But when a man gets propositioned, when he is hunted or toasted, he starts singing in tongues.…

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Niger House Of Assembly Member Dies

ADEOLA YUSUF

The member representing Munya Constituency in the Niger State House of Assembly, Joseph Haruna, is dead. It was learnt that he died on Friday evening after a brief illness. The deceased was the Chairman of the House Standing Committee on Security and Intelligence. The Head of Media and Public Relations of the Niger State House of Assembly, Farouq Isah, confirmed his death. READ ALSO Eid-ul-Mawlid: Nigeria Declares Monday Public Holiday ‘All Starts With Ps,’ Six Things To Consider Before You Buy, Use Any Drug Dangote, Witches and Why We Need…

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Eid-ul-Mawlid: Nigeria Declares Monday Public Holiday

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Federal Government has declared Monday, 16th September 2024 as a public holiday to mark the Islamic festival of Eid-ul-Mawlid, the birth of the Holy Prophet Muhammad. Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government. He congratulated Muslim Ummah both at home and in the Diaspora on this occasion. READ ALSO ‘All Starts With Ps,’ Six Things To Consider Before You Buy, Use Any Drug Dangote, Witches and Why We Need Yams, By Dare Babarinsa Maiduguri Flood Receding, Normalcy Beginning To Return, Says…

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‘All Starts With Ps,’ Six Things To Consider Before You Buy, Use Any Drug

ADEOLA YUSUF

You have heard an alarm raised by NAFDAC on fake drugs – including anti-asthma inhaler, pain-relieve, and blood pressure drugs – in the market. As a part of Platforms Africa’s solution journalism series, we present what Dr. Omotuyi Mebawondu said on the “six Ps” to consider for you not to be a victim of fake drugs that kill 500,000 people yearly in Africa. The health expert speaks at Platforms Africa e-Discourse where he revealed how he, as a Youth Corper in Shendam General Hospital in 1992, detected that the repeated…

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Dangote, Witches and Why We Need Yams, By Dare Babarinsa

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Dangote’s new battle is not going to end in a hurry.   In the months and years ahead, Nigerians and Africans would have a choice of buying refined petroleum products produced on our soil. In North and West Africa, only Libya and Algeria have functioning refineries. Nigeria, in the past 20 years, has expended enormous resources in trying to revive its four comatose refineries. In the last few years, Aliko Dangote and his team have finally built the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemical Complex; the largest industrial project in…

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Maiduguri Flood Receding, Normalcy Beginning To Return, Says NEMA

ADEOLA YUSUF

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said that the widely reported flooding in Maiduguri, Borno State is beginning to recede, and normalcy is returning to the metropolis. Director General, NEMA, Zubaida Umar revealed this in a statement on Thursday, while giving an update on the current situation in the worst flooding occurrence in the history of Nigeria. She said, “Though our work is far from being done and our round-the-clock emergency response, monitoring, and assessment continues, it’s important to provide some updates. “First is the relieving observation that the…

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