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Craig Shakespeare has been confirmed as manager of Leicester City until the end of the season after winning his first two games in charge as caretaker of the faltering Premier League champions, the club said Sunday. Shakespeare, previously a Leicester coach, took over after Claudio Ranieri was sacked last month — less than a year after the Italian manager guided the 5,000/1 outsiders to the most improbable Premier League title triumph. But under Ranieri this season had seen the Foxes slump and they were just a point above the bottom three when the club’s Thai owners sacked the veteran manager.…

A runaway bus plowed into a crowd of people in the Haitian city of Gonaives early Sunday, killing 34 people and injuring 15 others, officials said. The accident, in the city some 150 kilometers (90 miles) outside Port-au-Prince. “First, the bus plowed into two pedestrians, killing one of them, and injuring the other,” Marie-Alta Jean Baptiste, head of Haiti’s civil protection office, told AFP. The driver then rammed into a band of street musicians as it tried to speed away, leaving 33 of them dead in a scene of ghastly carnage. Emergency workers transported the injured to the hospital, while…

Technology Times – NIGERIA TECHNOLOGY NEWS | MARKET INTELLIGENCE | ADVISORY SERVICES | EVENTS   The Federal Government says it can no longer stand aloof with growing local online communities and is now to oversee Internet in Nigeria. Nigeria is home to a growing connected communities counting 155,064,812 active phones and Internet users split among GSM networks, (91,274,446); CDMA networks, (30,309) and ISPs (390,794), according to January 2017 market […] The post Govt finally wades in to ‘oversee’ Internet in Nigeria appeared first on Technology Times – NIGERIA TECHNOLOGY NEWS | MARKET INTELLIGENCE | ADVISORY SERVICES | EVENTS. Source: Technology

Nigeria’s naira exchange rate was steady on both the official and black markets on Friday after President Muhammadu Buhari’s return home from extended medical leave in Britain. The naira was quoted at 310.50 on the official market while black market rate stood at 458. The central bank has been intervening on the official market over […] Naira steady after Buhari return from UK medical leave Source: Business

Nigeria’s foreign exchange reserves rose above $30 billion as of March 8 to its highest level since October 2015, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) data showed on Friday. Nigeria’s dollar reserves have increased by 15.02 percent since the start of the year, data showed, but were still far off their peak of $64 billion […] Foreign exchange reserves exceed $30 billion as of March 8 – CBN Source: Business

For the umpteenth time, former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Prof. Charles Soludo took a swipe on the Federal Government over its management of the economy. He said the present government inherited a wobbling economy but “it is also depleting the foreign reserve it met”. According to him, Nigeria is in dire need of […] Again, Soludo attacks FG’s approach to economy Source: Business

Retired unbeaten boxing champion Floyd Mayweather says that when it comes to a possible big-money fight with Irish mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor, he is “out of retirement.” In a posting on the MMA website, the 40-year-old American said he wants to face McGregor, 28, in June. “For Conor McGregor, I’m coming out of retirement, just to fight Conor McGregor,” Mayweather told FightHype, according to the posting. “Today, I’m officially out of retirement for Conor McGregor. We don’t need to waste no time. We need to make this… happen quickly. Let’s get it on in June.” Mayweather had matched…

US President Donald Trump on Saturday praised the US Secret Service for a “fantastic job” following their late-night arrest of an intruder who breached the White House grounds while the president was there. After scaling an outer perimeter fence at the Washington executive residence just before midnight on Friday, the suspect was arrested by uniformed secret service officers, officials at the agency told AFP. Speaking to reporters on Saturday at his Virginia golf club, Trump said the “secret service did a fantastic job last night” adding that the intruder “was a troubled person.” Authorities did not find dangerous materials inside…

A double from 16-year-old sensation Ryan Sessegnon inspired in-form Fulham to a 3-1 win at Championship leaders Newcastle on Saturday boosting their hopes of making the play-offs. Left-back Sessegnon — who has aroused the interest of several Premier League clubs — took his tally for the season to six to make it a disappointing anniversary for Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez, who took over a year ago. Newcastle still top the table — on goal difference from Brighton who hammered Derby 3-0 on Friday — but only six points clear of third-placed Huddersfield, who beat Brentford 1-0. Benitez admitted his side…

A man scaled the fence along the southern side of the White House before midnight Friday — the first such breach reported during Donald Trump’s presidency, the Secret Service said. Trump would have been at the White House at the time, according to his schedule, but the intruder didn’t manage to get far. Secret Service officers arrested him on the south grounds without incident. The man, who was not immediately identified, had been carrying a backpack, but there were no hazardous materials found inside of it, officials said. The man claimed he had an appointment with the president, according to…