Zlatan Ibrahimovic missed a penalty before scoring a late equaliser as Serie A leaders AC Milan salvaged a point in a 2-2 Serie A draw against Hellas Verona on Sunday to let rivals Juventus and Inter Milan off the hook after both were held 1-1 in earlier games. “I’ll let Franck Kessie take the next one, that would be better,” said Ibrahimovic, who has now missed four of the last six penalties he has taken for AC Milan. Stefano Pioli’s side are top of Serie A with a two-point advantage on second-placed Sassuolo, who were held to a goalless draw…
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European stock markets shot higher at the start of trading on Monday after Joe Biden won the US presidential election. London’s benchmark FTSE 100 index jumped 1.5 percent to 5,997.28 points following strong gains across Asia overnight. In the eurozone, Frankfurt’s DAX 30 rallied 1.7 percent to 12,697.15 points and the Paris CAC 40 climbed 1.5 percent to 5,032.68. “It is the first opportunity for markets to react to the Biden news from the weekend and the early signs are promising,” noted Richard Hunter, head of markets at Interactive Investor. “Asian markets had a brisk and positive session on hopes…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is waiting for official results from the US presidential election before congratulating a winner, the Kremlin said on Monday. “We consider it correct to wait for the official results to be finalised. I want to remind you that President Putin repeatedly said he will respect the choice of the American people,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Many world leaders congratulated President-elect Joe Biden after he took an insurmountable lead over Donald Trump in the vote count. When Trump won the 2016 presidential election over Hillary Clinton, Putin congratulated him within roughly an hour. Peskov said…
Russia registered a record number of new coronavirus infections on Monday with cases in Moscow surpassing a previous high set in May. The Kremlin has so far ruled outputting back into place sweeping restrictions that were lifted earlier this year, despite weeks of rising cases in Russia. An official coronavirus tally on Monday said new infections reached 21,798, nearly doubling the country’s first-wave record in May. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov conceded that the steady growth in cases in Russia “remained alarming”, but noted that “not all countries are in lockdown”. Russia, the fifth worst-hit country in the world after the…
COVID-19 cases appear to be on the rise again in Nigeria as the country’s top disease agency on Sunday announced 300 new infections, the highest daily figure in about three months. This brings the total number of cases to 64,090, with only 3,026 active and 1,154 deaths, data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said. The latest infections were recorded in six states, with Lagos (255) reporting the most number of cases. Other regions with new infections include the FCT (27), Oyo (10), Kaduna (5), Ondo (2), and Kano (1). Lagos State remains the epicentre of the pandemic in…
The Ogun State Police Command said it has arrested two young men in their 20s for allegedly kidnapping and gang raping a 14-year-old girl. Ogun police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed to DAILY POST on Monday that the suspects were arrested on November 4, 2020. Oyeyemi identified the suspects as Michael Hammed Azeez, 20 and Adeola Ogunseye, 22. They were said to have been arrested following a complaint lodged at Owode Egba divisional headquarters by the mother of the victim. It was gathered that the mother told the police that her daughter was abducted by the two suspects on November 3…
Nigerian government has been criticised over the conviction of six Nigerians by an Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over an alleged funding of Boko Haram. Daily Trust had reported on Monday that Surajo Abubakar Muhammad and Saleh Yusuf Adamu were sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of the act. Meanwhile, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan, AbdurRahman Ado Musa, Bashir Ali Yusuf and Muhammad Ibrahim Isa, got ten-year imprisonment each. The Court’s documents showed that between 2015 and 2016, the convicts were allegedly involved in cash transfers totaling $782,000.00 to Boko Haram. This conviction…
Doctors in Ondo State on Monday embarked on an indefinite strike following the non-payment of their salaries by the State Government. The doctors under the aegis of Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, UNIMEDTH, during an emergency meeting in Akure, the state capital lamented that the government has continued to turn deaf ears to their demands. The aggrieved doctors had last week embarked on a seven-day warning strike to call government’s attention to their plights. According to the doctors, the industrial action became imperative due to the failure of the state government to address…
US President-elect Joe Biden took the first steps Sunday towards moving into the White House in 73 days, as Donald Trump again refused to admit defeat and tried to sow doubt about the election results. With congratulations pouring in from world leaders and supporters nursing hangovers after a night of celebrations, Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announced they would receive a joint briefing Monday in Wilmington, Delaware from their transition Covid-19 advisory team. Biden would then deliver remarks on coronavirus and economic recovery. They also launched a transition website, BuildBackBetter.com, and a Twitter feed, @Transition46. Meanwhile, Trump played golf at his…
The Attorney-General of the Federation Abubakar Malami has said there is not sufficient evidence to prosecute the 33 operatives of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) indicted in last year’s report of a presidential investigative panel. Having established this, Mr. Malami therefore, directed the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, to set up “a special investigation team” to conduct “thorough investigation” into the cases. The report indicted 35 police operatives in 12 states and the federal capital territory for various rights violations including extrajudicial killing, death in police custody, unlawful arrest, biased investigation, unlawful intimidation, harassment, criminal assault, torture, cruelty,…