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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger hit back Thursday at suggestions he is afraid to spend in the transfer market amid concerns the Gunners are losing ground to other leading Premier League clubs. The north London club, who were last crowned Premier League champions back in 2004, are estimated to have cash reserves in the region of £200 million ($263 million, 232 million euros).But their only signing this summer has been that of Switzerland midfielder Granit Xhaka for a reported £30 million from Borussia Moenchengladbach. That is in stark contrast to the transfer activity elsewhere, including Manchester United’s world-record £89 million move to bring the French midfielder Paul Pogba back to Old Trafford from Juventus amid several signings. With centre-backs Gabriel and Per Mertesacker injured, veteran French manager Wenger decided against recalling defender Laurent Koscielny, as well as Olivier Giroud and Mesut Ozil, for Sunday’s Premier League opener against Liverpool after they were al...

Popular Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) according to reports has been linked with talks with the federal government of Nigeria. In a statement issued Wednesday, the militants have willingly agreed to heed the call to dialogue with the Federal Government and expressed the hope that government will be sincere in the latest dialogue move. The militants equally expressed concern that the dialogue will come out with results that will yield lasting peace, equity, justice and harmony among all ethnic nationalities in Nigeria. “The body has collectively and willingly agreed to heed the clarion call to dialogue with the Federal Government, while admonishing Nigerians and the world to keenly follow and watch out for which of the two sides – President Muhammadu Buhari, APC-led Federal Government or the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) that may default in terms of openness, honesty and sincerity in abiding by the rules and spirit of dialogue”, the statement said. It explained that the Niger Delta Avenge...

Unemployment in the UK according to recent reports has just risen high. Total UK unemployment dropped between April and June in the run-up to the Brexit vote, official figures indicate. The UK's jobless total fell by 52,000 to 1.64 million, and the unemployment rate remained at 4.9%, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.The number of people on the claimant count in July, the first month since the UK's vote to leave the EU, was 763,600, down 8,600 from June.Wages excluding bonuses rose 2.3% in the three months to June, the ONS said. Including bonuses, earnings growth was 2.4%."The labour market continued on a strong trend in the second quarter of 2016, with a new record employment rate," said ONS statistician David Freeman. "However, little of today's data cover the period since the result of the EU referendum became known, with only claimant count and vacancies going beyond June - to July for the former and to May-July for the latter," he ...

American born Pop singer Lady Gaga and actor Bradley Cooper are to co-star in a remake of the classic Hollywood drama A Star is Born, Warner Bros has confirmed. According to bbc Cooper will make his directorial debut on the film, which will also mark Lady Gaga's first lead role in a feature. Lady Gaga will compose and perform new songs in the film, which tells of an aspiring starlet's relationship with a leading man whose star is on the wane. Previous versions of the story starred Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand. Lady Gaga, who was nominated for an Oscar for song 'Til It Happens To You, has previously starred in films including Machete Kills and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. Earlier this year, the 30-year-old won a Golden Globe for her work in the latest season of US anthology series American Horror Story.Writing on Twitter, Gaga - real name Stefani Germanotta - said she was "elated" to be working with "brilliant visionary artist" Cooper. In a s...

Popular transgender and father to reality tv star kim kardashian Catlyn Jenner according to reports has just canceled his reality TV series "i am cait" following decline in views of the show. The programme followed the former Olympic athlete after she made the transition to a woman after previously living as Bruce. The show launched with 2.7 million US viewers last year, but the average audience has now sunk to about 700,000. E! said that "Caitlyn and E! have mutually decided not to move forward" with another series. Jenner will continue to appear on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, which also features her daughters Kendall and Kylie and step-daughters Kim, Kourtney and Khloe. Earlier this year, it was revealed that Jenner will appear in the third series of Amazon's Transparent.

Ghana second commercial oil field, the Deep Water Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme, will start pumping oil today "thursday". Joe Mensah, Vice-President and Country Director for American oil exploration company, KOSMOS Energy, said on Wednesday in Accra that the new field would be inaugurated by Ghana’s President, John Mahama. Mensah said this during a press briefing that the Floating Production Storage and Offloading Atta Mills, which would be used on the TEN field, is designed for a capacity of 80,000 barrels of oil per day. He said that the production between first oil in August 2016 and the end of this year would be 23,000 bpd.He said, “Ghana has so much and if we do things right, the country will never go hungry.“The government of Ghana has operating interest of 15 per cent with the other partners holding the rest.“They are Tullow Oil, 47.18 per cent; Kosmos Energy, 17 per cent Anadarko, 17 per cent; and Petro S.A, 3.82 per cent.” Mensah indicated that the associated gas pro...

Three roundabouts along the Lekki-Epe Expressway are to be removed, the Lagos State government said on Wednesday. According to business dayThe state also announced its readiness to begin the construction of a fly-over in the popular Pen Cinema junction in Agege, aimed at freeing the area of its perennial traffic jam.The Pen Cinema fly-over is the third of such infrastructure to be undertaken by the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode-led administration after the ones at Abule-Egba and Ajah roundabout.Steve Ayorinde, the state commissioner for information and strategy, who briefed State House correspondents on the resolved of the government to execute the projects, said plans were also underway to deploy 13,000 closed circuit cameras (CCTvs) across the metropolis.Also expected, according to Ayorinde, is the installation of additional 6,000 streetlights and security sensors for surveillance and crime prevention across the state from October 2016.He said the planned removal of the three roundabou...