Arsenal had to dig deep late on Sunday evening to earn all the points as Gunners quest to win the EPL was again slipping through their fingers when they conceded a goal against the run of play in the first half of their match at the Saint James's Park.

Again Woltesmade find himself freely  heading home a goal from a corner kick in the 34th minute after Arsenal had totally dominated proceedings and had left no one in doubts that they intended to make the most of EPL slips by league leaders and last year's champions Liverpool who slipped to defeat late at Crystal Palace on Saturday.

Arsenal had not won any major trophy for up to five years and are desperate to prove their potential after they had brought in eight additional signings during the summer transfer window to bolster their ranks in their bid to win something and have suddenly found themselves slipping down to five points gap behind Liverpool.

They had been second for three consecutive years while Man City and Liverpool had been champions on the three occasions and are now under pressure to prove their champions credentials.

They began the match dictating proceedings and pressing the Toons high in their box and calling Pope to make saves time and time again and even had Leandro Trossard hitting the woodwork.

Until Woltesmode goal sent the Toons fan to a rancors jubilation and they held on to their lead until the 84th minute after Arsenal had made up to twenty attempts at goal.

Spainish midfielder finally equalized for the Gunners from a Rice assist and late in injury time Brazilian defender Gabriel headed home yet again from an Odegaard corner to hand all the points to the Gunners and brought them back to the second place two points behind league leaders Liverpool. 

In a ceremony attended by the President of Nigeria His excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu and many other dignitaries like the governors from the south west, and the governor of Oyo state, Gov Seyi Makinde, Oba Senator Rashidi Ladoja was crowned the 44TH Olubadan of Ibadan today Friday  26th.

The people of the city turned out in great numbers to grace the occasion and the ceremony itself was unprecedented in highlighting great traditional and cultural beliefs of the ancient city and that of the Yorubas at large.

Sen. Ladoja is a successful entrepreneur and has endured an influential political career first as a senator and then as the governor of Oyo state but was impeached during his tenure and later reinstated by the law courts.

He is 81 years old. And his net worth is in billions. 

The Tinubu administration in its bid to improve attendance at the Federal colleges of technical education all over Nigeria has decided to make the technical schools tuition free.

Boarding and everything has been made free.

This is to promote Technical education in the country in line with the renewed hope agenda being promoted by the Tinubu administration.

Students in this institutions will henceforth be paid 45k grant monthly to sustain them during the course of their education. 

To support FG's strategy to replicate in Nigeria every service provider facility draining the country's foreign reserves, Air Peace is building MRO destination in Nigeria.

In a groundbreaking ceremony with the minister of Aviation Mr Festus Keyamu San as special guest of honour,at the site of the MRO facilities,at the Muritala Mohamed Airport in Lagos, the minister said the establishment of the facilities is enhanced by the Brazilian trips of the President as these encouraged the establishment of the facilities with the Embraer of Brazil adding its own technical know how.

Underlining how the several trips of the President to Brazil had yielded benefits.

Speaking at the event, the CEO of Air Peace Ben Onyeama comended the FG and promised to repay government for facilitating a strategic project like this with diligent services.

He also said this first of its kind facility in west and central Africa will provide not less than 50,000 jobs and help safe a lot of foreign exchange and create in-flow of foreign exchange into the economy.

He promised that the project will be completed in fifteen months. 

Nigerian celebrity chef Hilda Baci has been officially acknowledged as having cooked the largest pot of jollof rice by the Guinness books of records.

The cooking took place at an organized event at the Eko hotels and suites in Victoria Island in Lagos on September 12th, 2025.

The event which is called the Gino world jollof Festival was attended by a mammoth crowd and it lasted several hours.

Several celebrities attended the ceremony and it generated a lot of social media attention.

To keep their season ambitions alive Arsenal will need to navigate through seven matches in the next twenty one days and some people have dabbed theirs the toughest fixtures for the teams playing champions league football.

The Gunners chasing their first major trophy in twenty years will have to be at their very best to come through unscathed. Here's a list of what the fixtures look like.

1-Arsenal vs Nott.Forest Sat.13th sept. 12:30

2. Athletic club vs Arsenal

Tue. Sept. 16th 17:45 pm

3. Arsenal vs Man. City

Sun. 21st 16:30

4. Port Vale vs Arsenal

Wed 24th Sept 20:00

5. Newcastle vs Arsenal

Sat. 28 Sept. 16:30

6. Arsenal vs Olympiacos

Wed. 1 Oct. 20:00  

7.Arsenal vs West Ham

Sat 4th Oct. 15:00 

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Most Super Eagles players's dont have their careers reaching an expected outcome.

Recently iconic Portuguese striker Ronaldo played in a World Cup qualifier for Portugal banging in goals yet he had celebrated his fortieth birthday.

The Real Madrid legend is still planning to be at the World Cup in 2026 but not so for Nigerian players many of whom do not play at all at any higher level and yet they are satisfied to retire.

Messi, and many players from the Latin American countries played at the highest level of a football career and are still disciplined enough to play for a very long time before they retire. Playing at 40 years.

For Nigerian players,it seems as soon as they make a little success they begin to struggle with a lifestyle of pleasure and their career dwindles.

Nigerian fans expect much more from the league of foreign based players of Nigerian origin playing abroad but are left disappointed.

A typical example is Kelechi Iheanacho who was named the tournament's best player and the tournament second highest goalscorer of the 2013 under-17 World Cup and had shown great promise in the colours of Man. City and Leicester city, commanding the second highest price tag after Mohamed Salah for any African player at that time when he left Man. City for Leicester for 25 million pounds.

Only recent Kelechi ended a loan spell at Middlesbrough scoring one goal in eleven matches for the championship club side and had to move to Celtic at just 28 years old on a one year deal. 

Surely there's a reason for Nigerian players to show more discipline in their careers. 

Newcastle went two goals down through Gravenberch's goal in the 35th minute and again through Eketike's 46th minute goal after a controversial red card had been issued to Gordon over a challenge on Liverpool's captain Van Dyke and it appeared that we had seen the last of Newcastle.

But they fought back like wounded lions and equalized through, Guimaraes goal in the 67th minute and Osula's 88th minute goal.  

Though Newcastle could not see out the 11 minutes of added time, only for Nigeria's Rio Chima Ngumoha Adigun to give Liverpool another goal so late late in the game that saw them go past the home team in the 109th minute to gave Liverpool all the three points.

For the second time in two weeks Liverpool lost a two goal lead.

In their match against Bournemouth, Liverpool were two goals up after the French International Eketike had put the 2024/25 season champions ahead and Gakpo added a second early in the second half but they allowed Bournemouth to come back into the game through a Semenyo brace.

Only the ingenuity of Italy's international Chiesa won it for them before Mo Salah add a fourth in the 94th minute.

Against Newcastle they were two goals up before ten men Newcastle fought back in an attempt to wrestle a point but again they managed to win it in injury time. 

A brace from Gyokorees and another from Timber has taken Arsenal the to top of the EPL table after week two of the Premier League.

It was a game in which Arsenal was dominant even from the beginning.

Timber shot them in front on the 35th minute through a Declan Rice corner and which Timber converted to a goal then Saka doubled the tally on the stroke of half time.

Then Gyokorees struck early in the second half to take game far away from Leeds when he cut back with a shot that went beyond the Leeds United keeper.

But Timber ended the game as a contest in the 56th minute when his header off another Rice's corner rebounded and he rifled a shot past the Leeds goalkeeper for the fourth goal then Gyokorees penalty made it five goals.