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Tony Nwoye has been declared winner of the Anambra State governorship primary election of the All Progressives Congress, APC. The 42-year-old medical doctor and politician scored 2,146 votes to beat his closest rival, politician Andy Uba, who scored 931 votes. The Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, announced the result in Awka on Sunday after the keenly contested primary by 11 candidates for the November 18 governorship election. Mr. Nwoye, now a member of House of Representatives (Anambra East/West constituency) was a student union activist before becoming a politician. A twin, he was born in Onitsha on September 13,1974 to Lawrence and Christiana Nwoye of Offianta Nsugbe in Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra State. He attended Metropolitan Secondary School, Onitsha, for his secondary education from where he proceeded to study medicine at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. In 2006, Mr. Nwoye became the substantive Chairman of the State Executive Co...

Saturday morning turned out to be social-media-free for a number of Facebook and Instagram users, albeit involuntarily. Some people reported difficulties accessing the two social platforms beginning at about 9 a.m. ET, according to Down Detecto r, a site that tracks real-time outages and other online issues. Facebook acknowledged the outage in a statement sent to CNNMoney. "Earlier today, a technical issue caused some people to have trouble accessing Facebook services. We quickly investigated and are currently restoring service for everyone. We're sorry for any inconvenience," a Facebook spokesperson said. It's unclear what caused the technical issue. Many took to Twitter to air their frustrations with not being able to use the popular social media platform. One Twitter user shared a login error screenshot that read, "Facebook is down for required maintenance right now, but you should be able to get back on within a few minutes....

Arsenal's summer has been largely dominated by Alexis Sanchez's future - and will continue to be until Thursday's transfer deadline has passed - but Sunday's demoralising defeat at Liverpool showed there are bigger issues to deal with. In losing 4-0 at Anfield, Arsenal showed tactically they are nowhere near their rivals for a top-four place in the Premier League. More worryingly, they lacked hunger and they don't look like a team. I genuinely don't know what Arsene Wenger is saying to them on the training ground. It is unbelievable what we watched against Liverpool. They are making such basic mistakes. Were there any positives for Arsenal? No. Absolutely none. Before the start of the season I predicted Arsenal would finish outside of the top four. Obviously I haven't changed my mind. It was a just a shambles from a team which wants to develop after missing out on Champions League football for the first time in 20 years. It is the same old...

  Conor McGregor is a showman, a tough customer and a brilliant mixed martial artist. On Saturday night in Las Vegas he showed he could box too. But not nearly well enough to beat Floyd Mayweather, one of the all-time greats of the game. Mayweather, out of retirement at age 40, won the fight on a 10th round TKO to take his record to 50-0. McGregor, a 4-1 underdog with bookies, but 100-1 with many boxing experts, proved he wasn’t hopelessly overmatched in a sport he had never before competed in professionally. Mayweather’s strategy seemed to be to frustrate McGregor for long enough to exhaust him, then finish the job. It worked. “Our game plan was to take our time, then take him out at the end, down the stretch,” Mayweather said after the fight. McGregor looked sharp in the first rounds, landing some blows, although also missing many because of Mayweather’s vaunted defense. As the rounds went by, though, he began to get sluggish, leaving opening...

President Trump with his wife, Melania, and son Barron before departing for Camp David on Friday. Credit Tom Brenner/The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump wrapped up a sparkling late-summer weekend at Camp David on Sunday. But his Twitter feed and the photos and statements released by the White House indicated that he did little other than monitor the catastrophic storm in Texas. On Friday, as Hurricane Harvey began lashing the Gulf Coast, and throughout the weekend, Mr. Trump posted regular updates on the status of the storm and praise for the government’s response. He held two teleconferences with members of his cabinet, announced that he would travel to Texas on Tuesday, and signed a federal disaster proclamation for the state. It was a calculated display of energetic presidential leadership — one hardly unique to the Trump administrati...

THREE months after winning La Liga, Real Madrid were finally awarded with the trophy before their clash with Valencia. As the strange Spanish football tradition continues, the winners are made to wait until the start of the next campaign. Reuters 4 Skipper Sergio Ramos shows off the La Liga title before their match Reuters 4 He lifts aloft the trophy with left-back Marcelo at the Bernabeu Stadium After beating Deportivo La Coruna away last week, Los Blancos could finally be presented with the title as they play their first home game of the season at the Bernabeu. Captain Sergio Ramos showed off the trophy to the adoring fans inside the historic stadium. Cristiano Ronaldo paraded the UEFA Super Cup following the 2-1 victory over Manchester United, while Marcelo proudly held the Spanish Super Cup after their two-legged victory over Barcelona. Zinedine Zidane’s side got off to the dream start as starlet Marco Asensio scored a s...

he Blancos finally got their hands on silverware for emerging victorious in the 2016-17 campaign before their match against Valencia on Sunday Sergio Ramos and Marcelo were presented with the La Liga trophy for Real Madrid's triumphant 2016-17 season ahead of their clash with Valencia at the Santiago Bernabeu on Sunday. Madrid usurped Barcelona for their first league title in five years last term, finishing three points ahead of the Catalan giants after winning away at Malaga on the final day before also claiming the Champions League for the second year in succession in June. Ramos was suspended for the visit of Valencia but donned the famous white jersey to ascend the steps at the Bernabeu and lift the trophy with deputy Marcelo.

ABUJA- The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC has refuted the report that it banned songs by major Nigerian musicians: Olamide, Davido and 9ice having considered them offensive for broadcast. Olamide, Davido and 9ice Some of the banned songs includes: the Olamide’s “Wo” and “Wavy Level”, Davido’s “Fall” and “If (Remix)”, and 9ice’s “Living Things”. The NBC according to the report contained in some major new outfits released the list Tuesday, saying it banned the five songs from being aired across the Nigerian airwaves. The report had quoted the Federal Ministry of Health to have in a tweet on Friday, said the video to Olamide’s “Wo” violated the Tobacco Control Act. “This is our position: the video contravenes the Act. Innocently or otherwise, Tobacco promotion advertising sponsorship is banned in all forms,” the NBC said. ‘‘The song was banned from being played on the airwaves for its “obscenity, being indecent, vulgar language, lewd and profane expressions,” said the report....

The governorship primary of the United Progressives Party, Anambra State on Saturday claimed the life of a member of the party who died in a pandemonium that erupted during accreditation. The deceased, Maduabuchi Uwakwewas, was the UPP chairman, Owerre-Ezukala ward 1, Orumba-South local government area of the state. There are however conflicting reports as to what led to his death. While a source who pleaded anonymity blamed the police for his death, the spokesman of the police in the state, Nkiruka Nwode, however blamed thugs who stormed the venue of the accreditation for his death. The source said Mr. Uwakwe lost his life following a pandemonium that erupted when the men of the state police command sprayed tear-gas at the venue of the event in Geogold hotel, Awka, to disperse a group who allegedly wanted to disrupt the accreditation exercise. The source, who is a UPP member from Owerre-Ezukala ward 1, stated that Mr. Uwakwe was asthmatic, and, that he probably died as a...

President Muhammadu Buhari arrived Nigeria Saturday, after nearly four months in the United Kingdom where he received medical treatment for an undisclosed ailment. The Nigerian Airforce plane carrying Mr. Buhari landed at the Abuja international airport at exactly 4.36 p.m. Nigerian time. Dozens of state officials were at the airport to receive the president. The governors at the airport included governors of Kano state, Abdullahi Ganduje, Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara, Muhammed Abubakar of Bauchi, Abubakar Bello of Niger, Nyeson Wike of Rivers, Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi and Deputy governor of Kaduna state, Barnabas Bala. Among those at the airport to welcome the president included members of the National Assembly, service chiefs, Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, as well as other presidential aides. Others at the airports are the National Security Adviser to the President (NSA), Babagana Monguno; the Director-General, Sta...

Olamide’s song Wo! has caught the attention of the Federal Ministry of Health over what the ministry described as contravention of Nigeria's health laws  Taking to its Twitter account, the ministry revealed that Wo which featured a line were Olamide mentions cigarettes contravenes Nigeria’s laws on Tobacco advertising, promotion & sponsorship. According to them, the video promotes a dangerous habit that encourages second-hand smoking. The risks from this include cancers, respiratory & cardiovascular diseases.

Image copyright REUTERS Image caption White nationalists gathered on Friday at the University of Virginia, ahead of the "Unite the Right" rally on Saturday A university professor has been wrongly described as a white supremacist by amateur internet detectives on social media wishing to publicly shame those who took part in rallies in Charlottesville. Professor Kyle Quinn who works at the University of Arkansas was mistakenly identified as one of the unmasked protesters taking part in far right protests on Friday. The professor's ordeal began on Saturday when thousands began sharing an image of a bearded man posted by Twitter user Yes Youre Racist . It has been publishing photos of those who attended the rally under the hashtag #ExposetheAltRight. Skip Twitter post by @YesYoureRacist Report End of Twitter post by @YesYoureRacist The request didn't go unheard. The internet's digital detectives found an image of Professor Quinn and claimed he ...