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Swansea seek three in a row against Manchester United, Chelsea face further defensive issues and a crunch early-season stramash at Villa Park   José Mourinho, Scott Sinclair, Jesús Navas and Ander Herrera all face big weekends in the Premier League. Composite: PA/Getty Images/Rex Shutterstock 1) Thauvin’s time as Arsenal come to Toon

There was outrage in the ruling All Progressives Congress party on Thursday over the announcement of new appointments by President Muhammadu Buhari. Leaders of the APC complained that the appointments were mostly in favour of the North and Northerners. "The President does not consult before making most of these appointments and I can tell you that Nigerians are going to term the party and the President as a northern party and the President of Northern Nigeria," a leader of the party said on Tuesday.

After a long silence, a former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, has opened up on the ongoing corruption allegations hanging around the neck of his successor, Babatunde Fashola. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Tinubu distanced himself from Fashola’s ordeals, saying that he was not working against him from being appointed by President Buhari.

President Mohammadu Buhari has appointed Engr. Babachir David Lawal as Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, in what appears to be the end of speculation that the position had been zoned to the South East or the South-South by the All Progressive Congress, APC.

Social network hit 1bn user milestone on Monday, but Mark Zuckerberg maintains it is still ‘just the beginning of connecting the whole world’   Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the social network’s 1bn milestone. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images As the fictional Sean Parker might put it: ‘A million people logging in to Facebookon a single day isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion people’.

Ikechukwu The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has apprehended an Arik Air crew member, Chibuzor Oliver Ikechukwu over his alleged role in the 20 kilogramme of cocaine seizure by the United Kingdom Border Force at Heathrow Airport. Ikechukwu, 35, who works as a catering loader was found to have subverted airport security by concealing cocaine in catering supplies.

Quinn Swales was killed in the same Zimbabwean park where Cecil the lion was illegally hunted. Photo / Supplied Five New Zealanders were shielded from a marauding lion by an experienced Zimbabwean safari guide who was killed in the strike. The Kiwis emerged unscathed and have been hailed for their bravery in Monday's attack in the Hwange National Park, in Zimbabwe.

State Security Minister David Mahlobo. File photo. Image by: Foto24 / Brendan Croft / Gallo Images Fifteen South African teenagers have been prevented from joining overseas terrorist groups through government intelligence operations, State Security Minister David Mahlobo said yesterday. In April, a 15-year-old girl was intercepted at Cape Town' s airport intending to join Islamic State . The terrorist group had recruited her through social media .

The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has announced the nullification of the purported suspension of the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh. This was contained in a statement by the PDP National Legal Adviser, Victor Kwon, on Thursday in Abuja. It noted that contrary to the suspension of the National Publicity Secretary, the party‘s NWC, at its Wednesday meeting, reiterated its implicit confidence in his ability and actions that had stabilised the party so far.

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State on Thursday said he had bought his private jets before his election as the state governor in 2011. Okorocha was reacting to the report that he bought two private jets since he was elected into office. Civil servants in the state had earlier called on the governor to sell his private jets and use the proceeds to pay their salary arrears.

Bodies were found in a truck parked on one of the main migration routes from eastern to western Europe Forensic police officers inspect a parked truck in which migrants were found dead off a highway outside Vienna on Thursday. PHOTO:REUTERS The number of migrants found dead in a truck off a highway outside of Vienna has been raised to more than 70, from an initial estimate of between 30 and 50, spokesmen for the Austrian interior ministry and police said Friday.

Former Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen | credits: govtoday.com.ng A former Minister of Works, Mr. Mike Onolememen, has denied the allegation by the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, that the Goodluck Jonathan-administration paid the sum of N140bn to consultants for the construction of the Second Niger Bridge.

Nigeria's Warri refinery has been shut down temporarily and operations will resume by Tuesday, a spokesman for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said on Thursday. Oil sales account for about 70 percent of government revenue in Africa's top crude producer. It imports most of the fuel used by its 170 million inhabitants, however, because of its ageing, inefficientrefineries in Warri, Kaduna and Port Harcourt.