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Newcastle manager, Eddie Howe has reacted to claims of the Magpies having a clause allowing them to potentially sign Cristiano Ronaldo. Earlier reports had claimed that Ronaldo has a clause in his mega-money contract with the Saudi side, which allows him to move to Newcastle.  When asked about the report during his team's meeting with Premier League leaders Arsenal on Tuesday, January 3, Howe said;   "We wish Cristiano all the best in his new venture but there's no truth in that from our perspective."

  A transgender woman convicted of murder was put to death late Tuesday January 3, in the first such execution in the United States, officials said. Amber McLaughlin, 49, was pronounced dead shortly before 7 p.m. local time at the Diagnostic and Correctional Center in the town of Bonne Terre, Missouri, according to a statement from the State prison department.   Local news station Fox2now reported that McLaughlin died by lethal injection.   McLaughlin was the first transgender person of either sex to be executed in the country, and also the first person to die by capital punishment this year in America. She was convicted of murdering a former girlfriend in 2003 in a suburb of St. Louis, before she transitioned.   McLaughlin stalked the victim to the point where the ex-partner sought a restraining order. On the day of the killing, McLaughlin waited for the woman— named Beverly Guenther as she left work.   Guenther was raped and stabbed to death with ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, recovered approximately N13bn as proceeds from illegal payments made under the subsidy regime between 2017 and 2021.   This was detailed in a report published on the website of the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU).   The report partly reads: "The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the agency responsible for the investigation and prosecution of fraudulent subsidies in the oil and gas in Nigeria recovered N12,998,963,178.29 as proceeds of illegal payment made under the subsidy regime between 2017 and 2021."   A breakdown showed that approximately N4.67bn was recovered in 2017, N4.29bn in 2018, N2.41bn in 2019, N416.51m in 2020 and N1.22bn in 2021.   The report added: "Opportunities for fraudulent activities exist in the oil and gas sector from extraction to sales of refined products to consumers. The absence of reliable equipment to measure the volume of crude oil being ext...

A mother and her three children have been declared missing in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State.   The woman identified as Chinyere, from Umuokpara Amagu Nachi, and her kids were last seen at about 6:00 am on Monday, January 2, 2023.   According to reports, family and friends have been going round the whole village in search of them with no success.    Anyone with a useful information on their whereabouts should please call these phone numbers: 08039297726 or 07060708482.