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          Popular Nigerian music artist Ayodeji Balogun has taken to his social media handle to call out South African airline operators over missing belongings. Wizkid in his post disclosed that when South African Airways (SAA) gave him back his luggage, he discovered that they were all empty. The singer took to his Snapchat handle immediately it happened on Saturday, December 2, to share the news with his fans. His post reads: “SAA brought back my bags with all my belongings gone! Wow! South African Airways. Someone must be loving life right now.” It was earlier reported that Wizkid’s manager for many years, Sunday Are, in a recent interview opened up on what happened between him and Tekno during the One Africa Music Festival that took place in Dubai. Nawa o!

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says his side still have “really hard work” in front of them despite continuing their phenomenal goalscoring away from home by hitting five at Brighton. The Reds moved into the top four of the Premier League for the first time since August after making it 15 goals in their past four away games in all competitions with a comfortable victory at the Amex Stadium. “It looks like we are flying,” said Klopp after Liverpool’s fifth win in six league games. “Unfortunately it’s not like that, we have to work really hard. “We need results. In our calmer moments we are a really good team, but we need to carry on. “I’m much more interested in the next game. We need the points – we want to stay as close as possible to the teams in front of us.”

Jose Mourinho has said that Saturday’s English Premier League clash between Manchester United and Arsenal is not a must-win game. The Portuguese also gave update on his injured players. The Old Trafford outfit sit in second position, eight points adrift leaders Manchester City. A win will see them put pressure on Pep Guardiola’s men who will host West Ham United at the Etihad Stadium 24 hours later. Addressing his pre-match conference, Mourinho said, “I play a game at a time. I play a game at a time and is the way to do it, is the way to do it. “Yesterday I was watching an interesting movie, Borg vs McEnroe, and Borg’s coach was telling him that all the time – ‘one point at a time, think about just one point’. “I tell my players to just think about the game. It’s just the game, it’s Arsenal, we don’t think about how many points we are behind, it’s just Arsenal. “It’s difficult enough for us to be focused on other things, so just focus on this.” On his

A popular radio On-Air-Personality (OAP) identified as Cleo Tao has died in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital. She died on Friday at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, UUTH, Uyo. The sad news was confirmed by the CEO of Planet FM, Tony Afia on Friday evening on-air: “Cleo Tao just got sick last week and was taken to the emergency intensive care unit at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital. She died today,” he said. It is suspected that Ms. Tao may have died of a respiratory ailment, owing to her Facebook post two days earlier. “Sorry guys, I had a respiratory challenge, I’m responding to treatment. I’ll be out soon. Thanks for your kind prayers,” she wrote on her Facebook page. People who were close to Ms. Tao said she was energetic, lively and very passionate about her job. The deceased was the Head of Programmes at a private radio station, Planet 101.1FM.

Nigerians who returned from Libya narrated how their were treated - They said many Nigerians were getting rich from the trade - They accused the Nigerians of being worse than the Arabs Some Libya returnees have narrated sordid tales of how they were kidnapped and sold into slavery by their Nigerian counterparts, The Punch reports that 150 migrants from mostly Edo and Delta states returned from Libya on the night of Thursday, November 30. Most of the returnees narrated that they were sold by their fellow Nigerians in Libya who were getting rich from the inhuman venture. Odion Saliu who was one of the returnees said she was a hairdresser before venturing into Libya only to be kidnapped by a Nigerian and handed over to another Nigerian. She said she was forced to call her mother in Benin who was asked to pay N200,000. After the payment, she was again sold for N794, 000.

There have been lots of complaints about the activities of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian Police in recent years and the police have now provided phone numbers, email addresses and other means by which members of the public can officially lay their complaints about the activities of policemen of the Anti robbery squad

West Africa’s biggest solar power plant came online on Wednesday (29 November) as Burkina Faso, one of the world’s poorest countries, inaugurates a novel scheme to boost renewables and cut energy dependence on its neighbours. The 55-hectare plant at Zagtouli on the outskirts of the capital Ouagadougou will be able to churn out 33 megawatts – enough to power tens of thousands of homes. Presiding over the opening ceremony will be Burkinabe President Roch Marc Christian Kabore and his visiting French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, whose country partially funded construction of the facility. “For the past six weeks the plant has been in a test phase with production of 14 MW, and will reach a peak of 33 MW during December, sufficient sunshine permitting,” said the site’s construction manager, Stephane Nosserau. “This is West Africa’s largest plant in terms of installed capacity,” added construction overseer Saidou Nana. The plant’s 129,600 260-watt solar panels are capable of ann