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MANCHESTER UNITED AT SIXES AND SEVENS AGAINST LIVERPOOL

  Manchester United suffered the worst defeat of their premier league history when a routine premier league match against eternal foes Liverpool resulted in a riotous 7-0 defeat. The match had been finely poised until two minutes to half-time when Dutch Striker Coady Gakpo scored to ensure that the first half would not finish goalless. Two minutes into the second half, the floodgates were opened when Uruguayan striker Darwin Nunez made it two. Gakpo added a third three minutes later in the 50th minute before Egyptian goal machine Mohammed Salah struck in the 66th minute. Darwin Nunez completed his brace in the 75th minute. With seven minutes of normal time remaining Mohammed Salah completed his double and Liverpool still had enough in the tank to score a seventh goal through Brazilian striker Roberto Firmino in the 88th minute. Fresh from last weekend’s exhilarating Carabao Cup final victory against Newcastle, this resounding defeat will sting. But it cannot take away from the outst
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PLATEAU'S POINT OF NO RETURN - BY KENE OBIEZU

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TOO LONG ON THE LIST OF THE LEAST - BY KENE OBIEZU

No sooner had President Muhammadu Buhari made a long-desired ascent to Aso Rock in 2015 than the focus turned fully and forcefully on the pace of his government. When it took him six months to put together a cabinet of expired eggheads, his detractors including many drawn from the vanquished Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) immediately had a stick with which to beat him. His frequent foreign trips in the early days of his administration also became a worry as it soon became apparent that his health was failing. In fact, there were a couple of protests in the United Kingdom on some of the occasions he went abroad for medical treatment. Three days after a   fiercely   contested and even more fiercely disputed presidential elections, the President is on the move again this time to Qatar. The occasion is the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LCDs). Mr Buhari was invited to the conference by the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. The confer
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BUHARI TO ATTEND UN CONFERENCE IN QATAR

By Muftau Akanbi President Muhammadu Buhari has departed the Umar Musa Yar’Adua International Airport, Katsina, for Doha, Qatar, for the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LCDs). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State and some other governments officials were at the airport to bid the president farewell. A statement by the president’s media aide, Garba Shehu, revealed that Mr Buhari was invited to the conference by the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. The conference will be attended by world leaders, the private sector, civil society groups and youth organisations. It aims to share development ideas and mobilise political will, solidarity, actions and solutions to transform the LDCs, by finding sustainable solutions to poverty, food insecurity, hunger and weak or non-existent infrastructure. The conference will also address inadequate healthcare facilities and climate change in LCDs as they stru
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A POLICY IN A PUDDLE

  It is difficult to miss the tussle and tightness that go into most things in Nigeria today, even the basics. In the last eight years, it has become more difficult to live in Nigeria. What poverty imposed by poor economic planning and policies have left behind, insecurity has mopped up to leave many Nigerians on the brink. Now, with the flawed elections that produced Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as Nigeria’s president-elect, it appears that the skies over Nigeria are about to get cloudier especially when one considers the fact that much of the mess of the last eight years have been the making of the All Progressives Congress, and those the party has vaulted into power in that time. With the elections bearing down on Nigeria,the Federal Government decided to redesign the naira at the tail-end of last year. The reasons given were to stimulate the economy, curb electoral malpractices as well as insecurity. The new notes poured into circulation on the 15th
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