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Pep Guardiola wants his Manchester City players to refrain from having sex after midnight, according to on-loan French midfielder Samir Nasri. The 29-year-old said the City boss imposed the rule, even if the team did not have a game the next day, so players get “a good night’s sleep”. Guardiola is also claimed to have said it helped Barcelona forward Lionel Messi avoid muscle injuries. Nasri was sent on a season-long loan to Sevilla on transfer deadline day. He told French TV programme L’Équipe du Soir that Guardiola “wants his players to be slim and fit”. Nasri added: “He banned…

Last week, the Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump stunned much of the world—and, likely, himself—by defeating his Democratic Party rival, Hilary Rodham Clinton, in one of the most contentious elections in American history. Trump’s triumph—considered highly unlikely by most pundits and pollsters—will be the subject of scholarly essays as well as popular and research tomes. Entirely unheralded, Trump’s election is certain to send students of American presidential politics back to the drawing board. For months, Mrs. Clinton—whose husband was a beloved president from 1993 to 2003—led in virtually all the reputable polls. The few polls that had Trump leading…

Lam Tungwar, Information Minister for Northern Liech State, South Sudan, on Tuesday confirmed that 21 humanitarian workers were abducted by gunmen over the weekend. Tungwar said in Juba that youths allied to opposition leader Riek Machar overrun the town of Nhialdiu on Sunday and abducted the aid workers who were residing in a UN compound. He said that the abductees included one Kenyan national while the rest were South Sudanese working for different aid agencies. “It was a surprise attack on Sunday where they overrun the town and looted property. “Twenty one humanitarian workers residing in the UN OCHA compound…

Nigerian militant group Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) said on Tuesday it had attacked the Nembe Creek Trunk Line pipeline in the southern Niger Delta in a blow to the government’s efforts to quell militancy in the region. The group, which in August said it would halt hostilities to pursue talks with the government, said on Sunday that it had resumed attacks because of the continued presence of the army in the region. The NDA, which wants more energy wealth to go to the swampland region that is the source of most of Nigeria’s oil, said on its website its strike…

Egypt’s Court of Cassation has revoked the death sentence for ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi over a prison break case in 2011 and ordered his retrial. The court also cancelled life sentences for 21 others in the same case, according to Ahram Online. The action of the court only affected one of the four trials Morsi had faced since his 2013 overthrow. Morsi will now be retried on the charges of taking part in prison breaks and violence against policemen during the 2011 uprising which toppled longtime president Hosni Mubarak. Five co-defendants, including the supreme guide of the now outlawed…

Reports have emerged that the UK government are sharply divided over Brexit, and that about 30,000 extra staff are needed to achieve the project. According to The Times newspaper a leaked memo has identified cabinet splits between Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Brexit Secretary David Davis and International Trade Secretary Liam Fox on one side, and Chancellor Philip Hammond and Business Secretary Greg Clark on the other. According to the newspaper, the memo said: “Every department has developed a ‘bottom-up’ plan of what the impact of Brexit could be and its plan to cope with the ‘worst case’. The government has…

Google and Facebook on Monday announced measures aimed at halting the spread of “fake news” on the internet by targeting how some purveyors of phony content make money: advertising. Google said it is working on a policy change to prevent websites that misrepresent content from using its AdSense advertising network, while Facebook updated its advertising policies to spell out that its ban on deceptive and misleading content applies to fake news. The shifts comes as Google, Facebook and Twitter Inc face a backlash over the role they played in the US presidential election by allowing the spread of false and…

Doctors Without Borders says thousands of children have died of starvation and disease in Boko Haram-ravaged northeastern Nigeria, quoting a new survey that has brought Nigerian officials to stop denying the crisis. Emergency program manager Natalie Roberts says a survey of two refugee camps in northeastern Maiduguri shows that a quarter of the expected population under-5 children is missing, assumed dead. Doctors Without Borders first sounded the alarm in June but Nigerian camp officials as late as September denied any child was suffering malnutrition. Roberts says the organization hopes that official recognition of the calamity in which “thousands are dying…

Toni Kan will be reading from his long awaited novel, The Carnivorous City, on Saturday November 12, 2016 at Freedom Park, Lagos. The novel goes on sale in Nigeria from November 10, 2016. The event will see Toni Kan in conversation with Hawa Golakai, the Liberian author of The Lazarus Effect. The two will be speaking to the theme “Missing Bodies in Crime Fiction” as part of activities marking the 2016 edition of the annual Lagos Book and Arts Festival (LABAF). Hauwa’s debut novel, The Lazarus Effect is set in Cape Town and focuses on Voinjama Johnson an investigative journalist…

Having successfully organised a lecture on the breast cancer awareness in its Health and Wellness Program, the Federal Government Girls College, (FGGC) Sagamu Alumni, USA has held another workshop on diabetes. The workshop, which took place on 12 November at the school covered the basics of types 1 & 2 diabetes and was facilitated by the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan team led by Dr. Mrs Tokunbo Jarret a Pediatric Endocrinology consultant at the College. According to a release signed by the President of FSAI Board of Directors, Mrs. Abimbola Art-Alade, there were personal stories from an adult and two…