Pep Guardiola will assess Ilkay Gundogan before deciding whether to hand him a Premier League debut against Bournemouth, with David Silva set to miss today’s
match.

An eight months old baby, a nursing mother including an eight-year-old boy and ten others have been confirmed dead in a bloody robbery attack in Sengev council ward of Katsina/Ala local government area of Benue state.

The Federal Govern-ment, yesterday, revealed measures including two failed swap deals it had so far taken to return the 219 kidnapped Chibok Girls. The Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who spoke on the issue yesterday, cited the last minute change of mind by the Boko Haram leaders and infighting within the group for the failure to exchange the girls despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval of the exchange of some of the captured terrorists for the girls.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday said that with the population of over 70 million people and a total area of over 29,400 square miles, Biafra was big enough to be a sovereign nation.

TROUBLED by the unwholesome activities of herdsmen on its Eastern flank, destabilised by the actions of militant groups in the South and disappointed at the perceived failure of its leaders, the southern part of Nigeria seems to be in distress. Of the 11 states in the region that is split into South East and South South geopolitical zones, only a few appears to be succeeding while others are struggling to attain key parameters of governance.

Midfielder Cesc Fabregas must continue to sharpen the defensive side of his game to earn a place in Chelsea’s starting line-up, manager Antonio Conte has said
“Cesc is in my plans and in Chelsea’s plans,”

Experiments by Bath University researchers hint at a future in which children are born from embryos made from skin cells rather than eggs.

Residents of Maiduguri and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPS) in various camps in Borno State yesterday, warned the Federal Government against granting amnesty to repentant Boko Haram insurgents, saying it will pose a dangerous threat to displaced persons who are returning to their homes.

THE self-confessed spokesman of the Boko Haram sect, Ali Sanda Umar Konduga, who was recently freed after serving a three-year jail term, has been rearrested at the Maiduguri residence of Senator Ali Ndume.

The Lagos State chapter of Urhobo Council of chiefs and Urhobo Progressive Union, UPU has scheduled an important meeting for it members today in Lagos. The event will hold at the UPU secretariat in Ajegunle, Apapa, Lagos.