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Manchester United’s French striker Anthony Martial celebrates after scoring their second goal during the English Premier League football match between Manchester United and Everton at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England, on October 28, 2018. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP) Anthony Martial can become one of the Premier League’s top players if he believes in himself, according to Manchester United teammate Nemanja Matic. Jose Mourinho’s men received a much-needed shot in the arm on Sunday by overcoming Everton. Martial’s delightful curling effort proved the difference in a 2-1 victory at Old Trafford, where he was crowned man-of-the-match after also winning the penalty that eventually led to Paul Pogba opening the scoring. The 22-year-old appears to have turned a corner at United, having struggled to earn the trust of Jose Mourinho and at times endured a testy relationship with the manager. Martial’s run of four successive starts has brought four goals and teammate ...

Governors under the auspices of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) have called an emergency meeting where decisions on minimum wage will be discussed. According to PUNCH, the meeting which will hold in Abuja on Tuesday, is said to be compulsory for all the 36 governors. A statement issued by the NGF secretariat in Abuja on Monday, said that all the governors must be present and that they should not send any representative. The statement read in part,  “Emergency meeting of governors over minimum wage will hold tomorrow at the NGF secretariat, Maitama, Abuja at 5pm. “In attendance will be all governors, no representation. Various stakeholders including the Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed and the Minister of Labour, Senator Chris Ngige.” Source: https://www.tori.ng/news/109433/36-state-governors-summon-emergency-meeting-over-m.html

Hand hygiene is a life saver and the easiest way of living the healthy lifestyle was the message communicated to Nigerians during this year's Global Handwashing Day on October 15 with the theme "Clean hands: healthy future". Dettol, the leading antibacterial brand celebrated the 2018 Global Handwashing Day in Abuja to motivate and mobilise people around the world and most especially in Nigeria to improve hand hygiene habits. The campaign was dedicated to raising awareness of hand washing with soap as a key approach to good hygiene and disease prevention. It was initiated to reduce childhood mortality rates, related respiratory and diarrhoeal diseases by introducing simple behavioral changes, such as hand washing with soap to reduce diseases. Below are 5 things we learnt from the global handwashing day event: 1. Hygiene-related diseases such as diarrhoea causes one in five Nigerian children to die each year. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and t...

THE  Norwegian Seafood Council has disclosed that Nigeria imported more than 9,000 metric tonnes of stockfish from Norway in 2017, valued at $51.6 million, making it the largest importer of Norwegian stockfish. Enugu govt awards contract for workers’ housing estate road containers The council noted that the trade relationship dated back to 1890 and pelagic fish, herring, mackerei, Tusk and Saithe have been the main exports Arraignment of oil marketers, five firms over $8.4m fraud stalled In a statement released by the council at the maiden edition of the Norwegian Seafood Festival held in Lagos recently, it stated that the mackerei variety takes the largest share of the Norwegian export to Nigeria of over 16,000MT. The statement read: “Norway is one of the world’s leading exporters of seafood. In 2017, Norway exported 2.5 million metric tonnes of seafood to over 146 countries around the world. All this seafood made up a total value of $10.9 billion, making Norway th...