Ajuede.com

Aston Villa’s Brazilian striker Wesley (L) vies with Arsenal’s Swiss midfielder Granit Xhaka (R) during the English Premier League football match between Arsenal and Aston Villa at the Emirates Stadium in London on September 22, 2019. Tolga AKMEN / AFP Granit Xhaka will lead Arsenal into Monday’s Premier League clash at Manchester United as the club’s new captain, but the Swiss midfielder has to win over plenty of doubters that he is fit to wear the Gunners’ armband. Xhaka’s discipline and defensive awareness have repeatedly been questioned since joining the club from Borussia Monchengladbach in 2016, but both Arsene Wenger and current Arsenal boss Unai Emery have consistently put their faith in the 27-year-old. That trust is not replicated by the club’s fans. On one of the few occasions he was replaced by Emery with the Gunners trailing 2-1 to Aston Villa last weekend, Xhaka was booed as he trudged off the field. Despite being down to 10 men, Arsenal turned the game around w

Kehinde Wiley, the artist best known for his portrait of former President Barack Obama, unveiled his first monumental public sculpture in Times Square on Friday. "Rumors of War," Wiley's largest work to date, mimics the equestrian portraiture of Confederate statues such as that of Gen. James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart in Richmond, Virginia, according to a  statement  from the Times Square Alliance, a nonprofit organization that promotes Times Square. But this statue's subject is definitely not a Confederate general. Members of the Malcom Shabazz High School marching band, from Newark, New Jersey, perform at the the unveiling of artist Kehinde Wiley's sculpture "Rumors of War." Atop a bronze horse carefully crafted by Wiley sits a young African-American subject with dreadlocks, dressed in a hoodie sweatshirt and jeans torn at the knee. Similarly to Stuart in his statue, the young man is also looking back over his shoulder.

According to sources privy to the meeting, the Nigerian Government would petition the National Judicial Council Following the bail and court order issued to the Department of State Services for failing to release Omoyele Sowore, a secret meeting has been held where it was decided that Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, should be punished. According to sources privy to the meeting, the Nigerian Government would petition the National Judicial Council, The Nation reports. The government also claimed that anyone facing treason is not admissible to bail while accusing Justice Taiwo for abuse of power. A top government source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that anyone standing trial for a treasonable felony is not entitled to bail. He said, "Sowore’s bail is likely to bring trouble for that judge.  "A report has been prepared to report him to NJC in view of the fact that as far as this country concerned, it is known that a person c

  The embattled prime minister and his partner, Carrie Symonds, arrive at their Manchester hotel for the Tory conference. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters Boris Johnson  is deliberately whipping up fears of riots and deaths so he can try to invoke emergency powers and avoid extending the UK’s EU membership beyond 31 October, Labour’s Brexit spokesman, Keir Starmer, claimed on Saturday. After a week in which the prime minister was  accused by MPs  from all the main parties, including senior Tories, of inciting violence by accusing Remainers of Brexit “surrender” and “betrayal”, Starmer said it was part of an orchestrated plan to stoke a sense of outrage among Leave voters and create civil unrest, so an extension might be avoided. Increasingly MPs across the House of Commons believe Downing St is considering using the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, which grants special powers in the event of a national emergency, as a way to override the so-called Benn act, which mandates the pri

\"Isn't it pious that a government that tells her citizens to always obey the rule of law doesn't lead by example?" e music producer and record label owner, Don jazzy, has hit out at the Nigerian Government for refusing to release pro-democracy campaigner and Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, despite a court order directing that he should be freed. In a series of posts on his Twitter page on Saturday, Don Jazzy said it was hypocritical for the government to urge citizens to honour rule of law when the government itself disregards it. He said, “Isn't it pious that a government that tells her citizens to always obey the rule of law doesn't lead by example? “They only regard the rule of law when it suits their sentiments. Let's just pretend we're not in a ‘banana republic’. Sowore was arrested in Lagos on August 3, 2019 by operatives of the DSS for calling on Nigerians to pour out to the streets to express their anger at the poor

  Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has faulted those describing Nigerians living in South Africa as criminals engaged in drug peddling and other forms of crime. Contrary to the claims, he believes those making such allegations should be thankful to Nigerians, many of whom he says are contributing to the growth of the South African economy. The former president stated this on Saturday during a session with reporters at his Presidential Library residence in Abeokuta, that Ogun State capital. He said, “Nigerians in South Africa are not drug peddlers, they are not criminals. “There are many of them that are genuine businessmen, genuine professionals who are making meaningful contribution to the economy and the social life of their country.” Speaking further, Obasanjo noted that he met two Nigerians doing legitimate business in South Africa with the turnover running into millions of dollars. He added that these people employed scores of Sout