Year: 2017

Angry Mob Set Kwara Senator’s Home Ablaze After Soldiers Escorting Him Shoot Innocent Civilians

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The country home of Senator Sha’aba Lafiagi of Kwara North Senatorial district has been burnt down by a local mob in his hometown after soldiers accompanying him on the eve of the Local government elections in the state shot four people. Saharareporters reports that several persons were injured in the milieu. Many residents have fled the town as more soldiers reportedly arrived and began shooting indiscriminately in the town.

Stuttgart Beats Struggling Dortmund

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Stuttgart 2 Borussia Dortmund 1 Akolo makes it 1-0 from Burki error Zieler produces saves Philipp makes it 1-1 Brekalo secures the win Match summary The home side hit the front in the early going as a mistake from keeper Roman Burki presented Chadrac Akolo with an easy finish. Just before the interval, Andre Schurrle saw his penalty saved before Maximilian Philipp struck back to make it 1-1. However, Josip Brekalo secured the victory in the second period as he finished well from Berkay Ozcan’s fine pass. Match report Dortmund…

David Luiz plots sensational move to Premier league rivals

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The Chelsea defender has had a spectacular fall-out with Conte and was condemned to the stands for the victory over United earlier this month. Conte has refused to say if Luiz will be restored to the squad that will travel to Leicester City on Saturday and the Brazilian is now plotting a sensational move to United. The Daily Star claim Luiz is raging with the lack of support he has received from the club hierachy after Conte banished him from the first-team. And Jose Mourinho is now ready to swoop…

Boko Haram Shakes Maiduguri……. Pregnant Mother, 8-Year-Old Daughter Killed In Suicide Attack

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Residents of Muna-Gari, a suburb of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, where four suicide bombers attacked on Wednesday evening, have buried 15 corpses, including an unborn baby that was forced out of its mother’s womb. PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday gained an exclusive access to witness the mass funeral rite for the dead victims of the attack. Most of the victims were killed while observing the late evening congregational prayers in an open mosque. Also buried was a male fetus that was forced out of his mother’s womb by the bomb…

An Accident El-Rufai Can’t Help By Azu Ishiekwene

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Governor Nasir El-Rufai may have been an accidental public servant by his own account, but he may well be the sort of accident that the public service needs. In a battle that promises to be nasty, the governor said he would fire 21,780 or two-thirds of the teachers in Kaduna State who failed a competency test based on a scheme of work for primary four pupils. Teachers in the state and the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress have promised the governor hell and actually started paving the way for…

MONEY HAS RELOCATED By Bello Oluwaseyi Victor

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A couple of weeks ago, I was with some friends discussing about life in general. One of them made a very strong statement that *”Money has relocated to a strange land”* and since then I have been doing some research on finding where exactly this strange land is. After my thorough research and survey, I finally found where money has relocated to. Believe me, truly money is no longer where it use to be, it is in the strangest of all places that one can ever imagine. I would like…

Save The Consumers Initiative To Mark World Toilet Day in Rural Communities

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A Non Governmental Organisation, Save The Consumers has said that it will mark this year World Toilet Day in some selected Communities in Niger State and Federal Capital Territory. In a statement released in Abuja by the Executive Director of Save The Consumers, Dr Aliyu Ilias, the NGO would mark the 2017 World Toilet Day with Government Girls Arabic School, Dikko, Gurara Local Government, Maje Central Market, Suleja Local government both of Niger state,and People with Disabilities ,at Agwan-Guragu ,Karamajii , FCT, Abuja, Ilias said ” the practice of defecating in…

Mugabe,Coup Chief Meet with Smiles and Handshakes

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A smiling President Robert Mugabe was pictured shaking hands with Zimbabwe’s military chief a day after the army seized power, throwing confusion over predictions that the 93-year-old’s nearly four-decade rule had come to an end. Mugabe unexpectedly drove from his lavish “Blue Roof” Harare compound in Harare, where he had been confined since troops took to the streets, to State House, where official media pictured him meeting military chief Constantino Chiwenga and South African ministers sent to mediate the crisis. The official Herald newspaper carried no reports of the outcome…

Rafael Nadal wins defamation case over doping claims

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A French tribunal on Thursday ordered a former minister of health and sports to pay tennis star Rafael Nadal $11,800 in damages for accusing him of doping. The tribunal found that Roselyne Bachelot, who served as the minister of health and sports between 2007 and 2010, defamed the 16-time grand slam winner during a March 2016 television appearance in France. The tennis star filed a lawsuit against Bachelot the following month, saying at the time that the case was intended “to defend my integrity and my image as an athlete,…

Promoting Transparency And Accountability In The Recovery Of Stolen Assets In Nigeria: Proposals For Reform By Femi Falana

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Introduction: Upon the inauguration of the Mohammadu Buhari administration the governments of the United States, United Kingdom, and Switzerland assured the federal government that stolen funds and assets stolen from Nigeria would be repatriated. Not only have these countries refused to cooperate with Nigeria they have also frustrated the efforts of the federal government to recover and repatriate such tainted funds and assets. In a display of sheer arrogance and hypocrisy in June last year the then British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron described Nigeria as “a fantastically corrupt country”.…