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http://ift.tt/2rpbcw6 Arsenal's French manager Arsene Wenger gestures from the touchline during the English Premier League football match between Arsenal and Everton at the Emirates Stadium in London on May 21, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Justin TALLIS /  Chelsea manager Antonio Conte does not believe Saturday’s meeting with Arsenal in the FA Cup final will be Arsene Wenger’s last game as manager of the north London club. Wenger is yet to extend his contract with Arsenal, which runs out at the end of the season, and has come under fire from fans after failing to secure Champions League qualification for the first time in 20 years. But Conte believes it is unfair to suggest Wenger’s time at the Emirates Stadium will soon be up and says the achievements of the Frenchman’s 21-year Arsenal tenure should not be overlooked. “I know very well Arsenal’s history in the FA Cup and also with Arsene,” Conte said of Wenger, who is bidding to win a record seventh FA Cup. “They won a lot of ...

http://ift.tt/2qc3V2A Star of the newly released movie The Mummy, Tom Cruise poses for photos with fans in Sydney on May 23, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / WILLIAM WEST Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise revealed Wednesday he plans a sequel to the cult action film Top Gun, with filming set to begin next year. Rumors have swirled for years that he would revisit the 1986 movie that made him a household name, and Cruise finally spoke out while in Australia to promote his latest flick “The Mummy”. Asked by a Channel Seven breakfast TV host about whether a second installment of the action drama was in the cards, he replied: “Yes, it’s true.” “I’m going to start filming it probably in the next year. “It’s happening, it’s definitely happening.” The original Top Gun, which also starred Val Kilmer, Kelly McGillis and Tim Robbins, received mixed reviews but was a huge commercial hit. It was the top grossing film stateside in 1986, raking in $356.8 million globally. Directed by Tony Scott, Cruis...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The UN will on Wednesday honour 117 peacekeepers, among them three Kenyans, at the global organisation’s headquarters to mark the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers. A statement from the UN Information Centre (UNIC), in Nairobi said Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will lay a wreath to honour all fallen peacekeepers during the ceremony. Guterres said the Dag Hammarskjold Medal will be awarded posthumously to 117 military, police and civilian personnel who lost their lives while serving in peacekeeping operations during 2016. Corporals Joseph Kandie and Albert Nziu Muthui served with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS); and Charles Nyawara Sidede served as a civilian staff member in the UN Operation in Cote d’Ivoire (UNOCI). In a video message, Guterres said peacekeepers helped to bring peace and stability to war-torn societies around the world. He added that the UN pays tribute to the more than 3,500 peacekeepers who have given ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Kano State police Command, on Tuesday said it had arrested a total of 96 suspected rapists in the state between April and now. The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer(PPRO), DSP Magaji Majiya, said at an interaction with newsmen in Kano that 77 of the suspects had been charged  to court, while eight cases were under investigation. He gave the average age of the suspects to be from 75 to 23. “It is disheartening to note that from April to date we have recorded 85  incidents  of rape and other  related offences. “A total number of 96 suspects were arrested and 77 cases have already been charged to court for Prosecution”. Majiya expressed regret that indecency and unnatural offences have been on the increase in the state. He said the Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Yusuf, has made it a priority to ensure that all such cases were thoroughly  investigated and prosecuted. The PPRO assured the public that the police would ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Some stakeholders in the tourism sector on Sunday advised the Federal and Lagos State Governments to dissuade Pastor Temitope Joshua, popularly known as, TB Joshua, from relocating the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) to Israel from Nigeria or risk losing billions. They told newsmen that Nigeria would lose billions of naira to religious tourism if Temitope Joshua and SCOAN should make the plan real. Recall that TB Joshua, during one of his church services , recently, said he was planning to relocate to Israel from Ikotun, a suburb of Lagos. It was reported that TB Joshua was in Israel recently where he held meetings with the mayors of Jerusalem, Tiberia and the Jordan Valley. He was quoted as saying that he was offered different facilities very close to the biblical site of the Sea of Galilee where he could organise meetings for international pilgrims. SCOAN, established in 1994 does not have another branch in Nigeria outside its international head...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J   Adamawa State has concluded arrangements to start relocating Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from NYSC Orientation Camp to Malkohi Camp in Yola South Local Government Area. Mr Haruna Furo, Executive Secretary, Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency, made this known in an interview with Newsmen  on Friday. He confirmed that about 1,000 IDPs, who indicated interest to be relocated from the NYSC Orientation Camp, would be merged with IDPs at Malkohi Camp. Furo said that the decision would enable the state government to reopen the NYSC camp which was turned to an IDP camp in the last three years. “We have already concluded arrangements to commence relocation of interested IDPs from NYSC camp to Malkohi Camp,’’ Furo said. According to Furo, who is also the Permanent Secretary, Special Duties, the relocation will enable the IDPs, mostly farmers, to start farming again. He urged that the IDPs should be assisted with inputs that would help them to...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Justice A. M. Talba of the Federal Capital Territory, High Court sitting in Gudu, Abuja has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to remand into prison custody pending the determination of a bail application by the Ex- FCT minister Bala Mohammed who has been arraigned over a 6-count charge bordering on abuse of office, false declaration of assets and fraud to the tune of N864million. The EFCC, on Wednesday, May 10, 2017, arraigned the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Bala A. Mohammed before Justice A. M. Talba. Bala, while in office as minister, allegedly received N550million as bribe from the Aso Savings and Loans Limited with respect to some properties in the Asokoro area of Abuja. Mr. Bala is said to have corruptly abused his position as Board Chairman of Aso Savings by allocating four numbers fully detached duplexes and 11 numbers semi-detached duplexes valued at N314million through the Presidential Taskforce on Sale o...

http://ift.tt/2aySjLk By Chinedu Adonu A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain in Enugu State, Hon. Emmanuel Okwuchukwu Nebo has said that former governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State who recently defected to APC, did so to avoid being quizzed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Nebo, who is also the President General of Agbudu Community, Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State, said that Chime may deceive some people but not all the people that he joined APC because PDP was at the brink of collapse as he claimed. The party chieftain who disclosed this in an interview said that Chime was a deceiver who couldn’t win senatorial seat when he was a sitting governor but told APC and the world that APC would win all the political seats in Enugu State come 2019. He said that the people of Udi have disassociated themselves from joining APC, saying that Chime was totally on his own. Recall that all the traditional rulers, leaders of thought and people of Udi Loca...