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Diego Costa could be back in the Chelsea starting line-up against Hull on Sunday after he made up with the Premier League leaders’ manager Antonio Conte, British media reported Wednesday.The 28-year-old striker — whose 14 goals this season has spurred Chelsea to a seven-point lead at the top of the table — was pictured at the club’s training ground hugging fitness coach Julio Tous, with whom apparently he had a row last week over the level of his fitness and amid reports of a big-money offer from China.Diego CostaThe Spanish international also trained with the rest of the squad having trained on his own at the start of the week.Both the volatile Brazil-born star and Conte claimed he hada back injury after he was omitted from the squad for last Saturday’s 3-0 win over champions Leicester.However, Costa was also said to have had his head turned by a bid from Chinese club Tianjin Quanjian, who were reportedly willing to offer him£30 million (35m euros, $37m)a year.“I can tell you if there

Osun state governor, Rauf Aregbesola has advised university graduates to dump their certificates and go back to farm, urging them to see agriculture as viable alternative to white collar job.The governor said the call was necessary due to the menace of unemployment among Nigerian youths.Aregbesola who gave this speech during the 6th convocation ceremony of Fountain University, Osogbo, added that the present economic situation has shown Nigerians the need to encourage farming as the only alternative to crude oil, Daily Post reports.He explained that there was no aspect of life that could do without agriculture, saying Nigerian graduates must henceforth stop searching for formal jobs that realistically remained elusive.He called for productivity, resilience and hard-work among Nigerians, stressing that the present nation’s economy demands one to be self-employed.The governor noted that there is no other alternative to sustain Nigerian economy than to build and encourage requisite interes

Fayose through his aide, Lere Olayinka stated this in reaction to President Buhari's apology over an operational mistake that took place at theIDP camp in Borno state today.The Ekiti state governor also blasted Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai saying:Just wondering what El-Rufai's tweets will be today if Jonathan is still thePresident and over 100 Nigerians were mistakenly killed by military bombs.If this had mistakenly happened under GEJ, would anyone believe it was a mistake?Won't El-Rufai be on Twitter now saying J onthan did it to reduce population of the North?IDPs camp is an area designated by the military. Meaning that the military knows the location of the IDPs camps. How can you bomb a location that you know mistakenly?Buhari in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina pleaded for calm. Nigerians react to IDP camp bombing. Dozens of people were on Tuesday, January 17, killed after a military jet mistakenly dropped a bomb inside t

THE Federal Government, has pleaded withthe three striking non teaching staff unions in the universities that embarked on strike yesterday to suspend their action in the interest of the nation.The three University unions, the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, Non Academic Staff Union and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, had yesterday, started a five-day warning strike over the inability of the Federal Government to implement the 2009 Agreements with the unions.

— The real reasons for the sack of former Executive Secretary of Financial Reporting Council ofNigeria, FRCN, Mr. Jim Obazee,emerged yesterday, with Presidency sources disclosingthat he was removed for procedural breaches.A source, who did not want to be mentioned, revealed that the removal of Mr. Obazee based on advice of the Attorney General of the Federation had been approvedby President Muhammadu Buhari before the decision of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church ofGod, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, to step aside as head of RCCG in Nigeria.It was learned in Abuja that contrary to the widely held opinion that  Obazee was sacked because he forced Pastor Adeboye to resign, the resignation of the pastor and the removal of the Executive Secretary were mere co-incidence, as Obazee’s sack was to be announced at the same period, whether or not the pastor resigned.The source said: “The sack of Obazee had nothing to do withthe decision of the General Overseer of RCCG, Pastor Ad

The Manchester United manager believes his team played to win at Old Trafford, as two old adversaries cancelled each other out in a1-1 draw.Jose Mourinho was left frustrated by Manchester United's failure to take all three points against a Liverpool side who he claimsset out to defend.Liverpool departed Old Trafford on Sunday with a 1-1 draw, but their hosts left it late to secure a point, as Zlatan Ibrahimovic headed in his 10th Premier League goal from his last 10 appearances six minutes from time.Goal machine Ibra matches PL greatsJames Milner had put Liverpool ahead just before the half-hour mark, converting a penalty after Paul Pogba handled in the area,but Mourinho is adamant that his men deserved more."It was entertaining, I have to agree, but it was not high quality," he toldSky Sports."Both teams can do much better than we did interms of quality. "But it was entertaining because we created chances to be in front. They defended well and it was good to s

With continued killings in Southern Kaduna killings, Fulani herdsmen attacks and kidnapping in Nigeria, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said the Federal Government has not been able to live up to its primary responsibility of securing lives and property, The Christian body said although the government had recorded some successful in tackling insurgency in the North-East, taking Fulani herdsmen attacks with sentiment would not help the country. President of CAN, Dr. Samson Ayokunle, in a statement by his media assistant, Pastor Bayo Oladeji noted that most of the economic policies of the government have no human face. CAN urged the government to change its attitude of not responding to issues raised by its citizens until the situation has gone out of hands. “The rising wave of kidnapping is rampant in the East but has almost become a lucrative business now in the West and North. It is a very bad experience that Nigerians do not deserve to be passing through. “