MultiChoice Africa, through SuperSport, has acquired the rights to air the 2018/19 Emirates FA Cup season on DStv and GOtv in Sub-Saharan Africa. The season, which kicked off in August 2018, will commence in 2019 with third-round matches from 4 January 2019.

GOVERNOR Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has thanked the Nigerian Army for its contributions in restoring peace in Ukanafun, Etim Ekpo and Ika communities that were engulfed  in violent crimes for nearly two years.

Prominent sons and daughters of Akwa Ibom State, cutting across the political class, traditional institutions, the academia, and cultural groups gathered recently to celebrate and extol one of their own, 89-year-old Dr. Akpan Abasi Ikoiwak for his contributions to the development of the state and humanity.

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Adewale Adeyipo is the Executive Director of Sales and Marketing Development, CWG Plc. In this interview with SAMSON ECHENIM, he speaks on the company’s challenges and feats in 2018, as well as its forecast for 2019. Excerpts :

ANALYSTS in the capital market have said that the equities market will record bouts of gains this week after a mixed performance in the last week of December.

The Edo State Government has warned marketers of petroleum products across the state against hoarding of the products, noting that government will not tolerate marketers who are out to shortchange members of the public during the festive period.

ONE of the fallout of the cashless policy and rapid deployment of electronic payment channels is online payment.

THREE persons   lost their lives in a multiple car accident while 10  others sustained injuries at Ewu hill, on the Benin-Auchi-Abuja Road, weekend.

THERE are apprehensions in the insurance industry over allegations that some insurance operators have cleverly created means of giving out discounts on compulsory classes of insurance thereby bypassing the pricing policy by the National Insurance Commission, NAICOM.

A TOP young Russian swimmer has been brutally stabbed to death by her boyfriend moments after dumping him.

ASABA—THE Paramount Ruler of Seimbiri Kingdom, Burutu Local Government Area, Delta State, King Charles Ayemi-Botu, weekend, said the agitation for better deal for the Niger Delta region has become part of him, despite challenges most times confronted in the struggle.

BENIN CITY – THE chairman of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Edo State chapter, Bishop Mon Igbinosa has charged politicians to refrain from conducts and utterances that could instigate violence in the country as the nation goes to the polls.

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State and his Taraba State counterpart, Darius Ishaku, have resolved to constitute a joint security force to check the spate of kidnappings, armed robbery, and banditry in their respective states.

Alhaji  Bala Shagari, eldest son of late President Shehu Shagari has expressed appreciation to President Muhammadu Buhari over his condolence visit to the family in Sokoto State, even as he noted that his father told them that he had pardoned everybody before his death.