Chelsea will seek to ease the pressure on coach, Graham Potter and end their six-game winless run when they welcome relegation-threatened Leeds United to Stamford Bridge in the Premier League today. The two teams have endured similar runs of form since the turn of the year, with the Blues winning just one of their last nine top-flight matches and the Whites picking up maximum points in only one of their last eight. Following a disastrous run of just three wins in his last 17 games in charge, Graham Potter reportedly faces two make-or-break fixtures to save his job as Chelsea…
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A massive earthquake and aftershocks in February caused an estimated $5.1 billion in direct physical damage in Syria, said the World Bank on Friday. The earthquake that struck on February 6 hit Turkey and Syria, devastating scores of cities and killing more than 50,000 people in both countries. Millions have been left needing urgent help with accommodation and medical care. “The current value of the damaged and destroyed capital stock is estimated at about 10 per cent of GDP,” said the World Bank in its latest estimate. Also Read: Turkey Earthquake: Nigerian students undergoing Post-trauma analysis, says NANS https://meridianspy.com/2023/02/07/turkey-earthquake-nigerian-students-undergoing-post-trauma-analysis-says-nans/ “The…
The All Progressives Congress Campaign Council has accused the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, of taking advantage of the emotions of the Nigerian youth and riding on the wave of religiosity and ethnicity. Also Read: Court grants Obi, Atiku’s request to Inspect INEC Election Materials It said Obi would go down in history as the country’s “most dangerous and divisive politician”. The Special Adviser on Media and Communication of the PCC, Dele Alake, stated this at a press conference in Abuja. The president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was announced the winner of the keenly contested February 25 presidential…
Several people have been reportedly injured following an attack by suspected thugs at the House of Representatives collation centre for Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Constituency in Bununu town in Bauchi State. Vanguard learned that more than 10 vehicles were affected, most of which belonged to members of the ruling party, People’s Democratic Party, PDP. A former Senior Special Assistant on Media to Yakubu Dogara, the immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, Iliya Habila made this known in an interview with journalists on Friday. He said he narrowly escaped being lynched by the thugs who were very armed. The Independent National…
Twenty three people were allegedly kidnapped while one was killed by bandits at the Dogon-Daji community along the Abuja-Kaduna road near Kagarko in Kaduna State. Although the police could not be reached for comments as at press time, a local said the bandits raided the community on Wednesday around 12pm. “They moved from house to house, shot sporadically and kidnapped 23.people.When one tried to escape,they shot him and he died,” he said.
Erik ten Hag says Manchester United are prepared to “suffer” and “sacrifice” at a hostile Anfield as they seek a win against Liverpool that would keep them on the fringes of the Premier League title race. Victory on Sunday would keep alive United’s slim hopes of catching leaders Arsenal while defeat would bolster Liverpool’s hopes of a late push for the top four. “I’m looking forward to it, the ambience, the atmosphere,” said Ten Hag, fresh from winning the League Cup last weekend to end the club’s six-year trophy drought. “It will be great, it will be hostile against us,…
Seven Peoples Democratic Party-led states, which filed a suit against the Federal Government at the Supreme Court challenging the victory of the President-Elect, Bola Tinubu, at Saturday’s presidential poll, have discontinued the suit. In the suit, which had the Attorneys-General of the seven states as plaintiffs and the Attorney-General of the Federation as defendant, the seven states, which include Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Taraba and Sokoto states, had asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the just concluded presidential election, claiming that the declaration of Tinubu did not follow the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022 and the…
Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi has urged all his supporters to come out en mass and vote for all candidates of the party in the forthcoming Gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections slated for Saturday, March 11. In his fourth public speech since the official results were announced, Obi said he remains absolutely undaunted and deeply committed to this project of a New Nigeria. “Please do not despair at a time when we can still achieve massive victories in the forthcoming elections on the 11th March 2023. Thank you all and God bless The Federal Republic of Nigeria,”…
…Hails El-Rufai, Bello, Mattawale for challenging FG policy The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has asked the Central Bank of Nigeria to comply with the judgment of the Supreme Court, which nullified the naira redesign and cash withdrawal limit policy of the apex bank. Gbajabiamila, in a statement issued in relation to the judgment on Friday, also hailed Governors Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, Yahaya Bello of Kogi State and Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State for challenging the Federal Government and the CBN in court over the policy. It was titled ‘Statement by the Speaker of…
The All Progressives Congress has denied reports that the party received about N2 billion in financial support from the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, for its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, prior to the election. Meridianspy reports that Tinubu, who emerged winner of the presidential election held last Saturday, also won Rivers State ahead of the Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party’s Peter Obi. There were reports that Wike had released about N2 billion to enable the APC to organise the presidential campaign in the state and ensure the victory of Tinubu in the…
The candidate of Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, on Friday, secured leave of the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja to have access to all the sensitive materials the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, deployed for the conduct of the presidential election held on February 25. The appellate court, which will sit as the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, equally ordered the electoral body to also grant the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar access to the election materials. A panel of the appellate court led by Justice Joseph Ikyegh made the orders after it heard…
The Supreme Court, on Friday, nullified the ban on use of the old N200, N500 and N1000 banknotes as legal tenders. The apex court, in a unanimous decision by a seven-member panel of Justices, held that the old banknotes should remain valid legal tenders until December 31. It held that the old Naira notes should be used alongside the redesigned currencies. It faulted President Muhammadu Buhari for introducing the demonization policy, without due consultation with the Council of States, the Federal Executive Council, the Civil Society and other relevant stakeholders. In the lead judgement that was delivered by Justice…