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Manchester United playmaker, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, has said they intend to “fight for the title” next season. United won three trophies in Jose Mourinho’s first year at the club. However, Mkhitaryan is aware that more is expected after Community Shield, EFL Cup and Europa League success. “The Champions League is where Manchester United belongs and we are all happy to be playing in this great competition again. “For the new season we definitely want to fight for the title. “For the Super Cup, it should be a fantastic game against Real Madrid!” the Armenia international told the club’s official website. On his own personal targets for 2017/2018, Mkhitaryan who found the target 11 times in 41 appearances last term added: “I’d love to score more goals and give more assists and help the team win as many trophies as possible. I will give my best!”

A popular Nollywood actor, script writer and producer, Victor Okechukwu Eze is dead. He became famous for the role of Alika in Fuji House of Commotion. The actor was based in Ikorodu Lagos but relocated to his village in the South East in 2011 when he could no longer afford to live in Lagos due to his battle with stroke. His death was confirmed by the former President of Actors Guild of Nigeria, Segun Arinze. Eze, who is OAU graduate and the founder of Vickez Productions died last night in his home town. Ex-Big Brother Naija housemate, Thin Tall Tony also wrote, “Was looking like a great day until I heard about your passing sir. “He (Mr Eze), ladies and gentlemen, has been my biggest influence in characters on stage (he was too good on stage and a Lord in switching roles) he could play 6 roles in one production and you couldn’t tell the difference. “We dancers, stage actors from the national theatre will always miss you.”

The Federal Ministry of Finance has commenced training of 7,500 graduates to be deployed in rural communities as tax advocates. Addressing reporters after visiting the first batch of 27 graduates selected through the N-Power scheme in Abuja yesterday, Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, said government was bent on increasing revenue by focusing strongly on non-oil sources The Minister cried out that majority of taxable Nigerians were not in the tax net, while insisting that such a development was completely unacceptable. She said, “When you look at our population and the population of taxable Nigerians and the number of people and institutions paying tax out of the taxable population, you would see that we have so much to do to get more people to pay tax. “And that is what we are doing through the 7,500 tax advocates. They will go into the hinterland and rural communities including churches, mosques and schools to sensitize Nigerians to pay tax. “We need people to know that payin

British boxer, Tyson Fury, says he wishes to fight Anthony Joshua in Nigeria. The self-titled ‘Gypsy King’ said this in a chat with iFilmTV. Fury said, “It may not be at Wembley, the fight might be in Nigeria in Lagos. I’ve heard they’ve got a 180,000-seater there. “So considering I’m the ‘Nigerian Nightmare’ now then we’ll go over there. “Or it could be in Ireland at Croke Park, that holds a lot of people or it could be at Wembley, you never know.” Fury has hinted a September return to the ring for a shot at the IBO, IBF and WBO heavyweight belts. On Joshua’s win over Wladimir Klitschko, Fury said it was “exciting for a boxing fan, but not so good for an actual boxer taking lots of punishment getting bounced off the canvas”. “It was good for me because he got the best result, he got a lot of mileage out on the clock and got the win to save my money in the bank. “He got exposed a bit too, everyone knows he’s not irresistible now because he can be sparkled. “Klitschko let him off the

Dani Alves has revealed that he turned down a better deal with Chelsea to sign for Manchester City. Alves is set to reunite with Pep Guardiola at the Etihad and admits that he could have easily been lining up for the Premier League champions next season. He is currently on holiday in Brazil, where the local edition of Goal says he was offered two million euros more to sign for the Blues. The player also rejected an offer of one more year at Juventus, to finally play in England. When the Man City deal is finalised, Alves is set to be earn €5m (£4.4m) per season.

Real Madrid midfielder, James Rodriguez, has agreed personal terms with Manchester United. Diario Gol reports that the Colombia international is so desperate to join the Premier League side. The player’s future became the subject of speculation, after he was dropped by manager Zinedine Zidane, for this year’s Champions League final in Cardiff. Rodriguez is determined to leave Madrid this summer and although AC Milan have been exploring the possibility of signing him on a season-long loan with a view to a permanent deal, his mind is set on a move to Old Trafford. United are however reluctant to meet Madrid president Florentino Perez’s €70million (£61.6m) asking price.

Spanish midfielder, Denis Suarez has told Arsenal defender, Hector Bellerin to return to Barcelona. Bellerin progressed through Barca’s youth system, before moving to England in 2011. The 22-year-old has been linked with a return to Nou Camp, despite signing a six-year contract extension in November. “The people want the best at Barcelona and I hope Bellerin can come,” Suarez — who is playing alongside Bellerin at the Under-21 European Championships — told Radio Marca. “The players of a top level are welcome.”

WIZKID  Singer Songwriter Wizkid scooping the Best International Act from Africa an award won by South Africa's DJ Black Coffee last year. South Africans came up short at this year’s International BET Awards as Nigeria, Tanzania and the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, Yvonne Chaka Chaka got a standing ovation as she accepted the Global Good award for her decade’s long work in the humanitarian sphere. The International Ceremony is recorded live and included in Sunday night’s main event. While not everyone scooped the highest accolades, victory celebrated just in being nominated in the first place. Twenty year old Nasty C from Durban told us it was an honour to have been nominated. “Wizkid congratulations, it’s for Africa, you took it home man, I’m proud of you, everyone that’s coming up you just got to keep your head up, thick skin, just keep working, keep on your toes, keep it up.” Nigerian sensation Wizkid was not in Los Angeles to accept his award, nonetheless scoo

INEC not aware of Dino Melaye’s lawsuit, will proceed with recall of Senator The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it would go on with the process of recalling Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi West). A source in the legal unit of INEC, explained that there are at least three precedents to follow in dealing with the case. “INEC would go ahead to conduct the referendum in so far as INEC is able to verify or ascertain the genuineness of the signatures. Every lawmaker that had faced the issue of recall in the past, from Plateau, Jigawa to Abia, ran to the courts but such actions never stopped the Commission from going ahead with the referendum,” he said, according to Vanguard. Also, the commission’s Director in charge of Voter Education, Publicity, Civil Society and Gender Liaison, Oluwole Osaze-Uzi, said they were not aware of any lawsuit filed by Melaye. “We have not been served. We shall enter an appearance and defend what we have to defend (whe

The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun has disclosed that tax defaulters in the country risk at least five years jail and asset forfeiture. Her warning is coming even as the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, will on Thursday, June 29, launch the Voluntary Asset and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS), a new tax reform programme of the Federal Government aimed at increasing tax awareness and compliance. The Minister, in a statement in Abuja yesterday said: “Punishment for evasion is severe. All tax evaders, when identified, are subject to the full force of Nigerian and international law, including imprisonment of up to five years. There are also extra severe penalties of up to 100 per cent of the outstanding tax due, compound interest at 21 per cent per annum and forfeiture of assets. “The plan to be executed jointly by federal and state governments, concentrates on the national duty of all Nigerian companies and citizens to pay their taxes wherever their income is earned

Babatunde-Fashola The Senate has accused Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola of spreading wrong information about the 2017 budget. Spokesperson of the upper legislative chamber, Sabi Abdullahi, in a statement said Fashola did not give the public full details about the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Sabi also said the Bureau of Public Procurement and the Federal Executive Council in 2013, approved the reconstruction, rehabilitation and expansion of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway as a Public-Private Partnership project, with the Federal Government providing about 30 percent of the funding. “Even as at last year, the 2016 Appropriation Act voted N40 billion for the project on the insistence of the Ministry and only N26 billion was released. If we had known, the rest N14 billion could have been allocated to other critical roads across the country”, he said. “In the spirit of consensus building and effective stakeholder engagement, the Leadership of the Senate met wi

A preacher identified as Nnamani, has been hacked to death by gangsters for telling them to repent. The incident happened in Ife, Mkpat Enin Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Punch has it that the Village Head, Chief Saturday Isemin, a retired assistant superintendent of police, said that the gangsters dragged the preacher to a bush near the back of a primary school in the night, where they killed him and hid his corpse. It was learnt that the village hooligans had threatened few days earlier to deal with the preacher for disturbing them with message about repentance. Chief Isemin said, “His offence was that he used to disturb them with his preaching. They said that he would be going around asking people to give their lives to Christ. He added that the policemen know the hoodlums by name. He said, “There have been series of problems in our community starting from August 12 last year. We were at an executive meeting at the council hall, when two men left and mobi

Since inception, Facebook's mission statement has been, ' give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected'. Now the Mark Zuckerberg led company has just changed it's mission statement to read, 'to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together'. Speaking in why there was need to change it, Zuckerberg said:     'We used to have a sense that if we could just do those things, then that would make a lot of the things in the world better by themselves, But now we realize that we need to do more too. It's important to give people a voice, to get a diversity of opinions out there, but on top of that, you also need to do this work of building common ground so that way we can all move forward together'. He adds that, 'a lot of what we can do is to help create a more civil and productive debate on some of the bigger issues as well'.

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Nigeria U-23 midfielder, Usman Muhammed, will officially begin life as a Barcelona player on July 12. Usman impressed the coaches of the Barca B team during a short trial at the club towards the end of last season and will join as a free agent on July 1, when his deal with Uniao Madeira expires. The Portuguese club Muhammed before last year’s Olympic Games, but dispute over payment of his wages and transfer fee ensured he didn’t make a single appearance for the team throughout his two-year stint. OwnGoalNigeria reports he will now resume with the Barcelona squad on July 12, when new coach Ernesto Valverde is also expected to start running the rule on all players. Muhammed and other fringe players, are expected to report a week earlier than their established team-mates. Valverde will use those seven days to decide which of them will join their USA Tour.

The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar has advocated dialogue as the panacea to the agitation for the breakup of Nigeria. Speaking when he hosted leaders of resident communities, heads of security agencies, civil society groups and media practitioners to a Ramadan break fast dinner at his palace in Sokoto, the monarch maintained that no matter the call for secession, Nigerians would remain one big family. He said, “No matter what anybody can say, no matter what is happening, we are still one big family. “Let’s sit down, discuss these issues. So that together we can find out what really went wrong. Let us retrace our step and see where we started getting things wrong so that we can find the way of sorting things out. “It is a simple thing because we are all eager to live in peace, united and to have a morally upright country based on justice, equity and above all fear of God “I am totally disappointed over what is happening. I like challenges and we are in a challenging period

Chairman of ​Capital Oil and Gas Limited​,​ Ifeanyi Ubah,​ has left the country. He jetted out of the country’s shores Thursday morning. An impeccable source confirmed the development to our correspondent Thursday afternoon. “Chairman left Nigeria this morning. The information I have is that he has gone to attend to his health. So I believe it’s a medical trip,” the source said. “We understand that the recent ordeal was traumatic for him. He has never been out of circulation for 6 weeks and you know what that means to a wealthy man.” Asked which country the oil magnate travelled to and how long he will be away, our source simply replied: “Somewhere in Europe, I don’t know how long he will stay.” DAILY POST on Wednesday reported that Ubah had been released by the Department of State Services (DSS)​. Ubah regained his freedom ​after about six weeks in custody​.​ He was arrested and detained by DSS on May 5, 2017, for alleged engagement in acts of economic sabotage which include stealin

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has urged GCE candidates to endeavour to collect their certificates within four years of writing the examination as any delay beyond that will attract custody fee. Demianus Ojijeogu, the Head of Public Affairs Department, WAEC, Nigeria disclosed this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja. The West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates, commonly referred to as WAEC GCE, is usually taken in November/December every year. Mr. Ojijeogu said: “the normal charge for the certificate is N3, 500 and only payable by those whose certificates were issued between zero and four years. “But from five to nine years is N8, 500; 10 to 14 years N13, 500; 15 to 19 years N18, 500 while 20 years and above will be charged N23, 500. “These charges are (for) custody fee; for keeping the certificates for so long because it occupies space in our office. It will also serve as a deter

The Christian Association Nigeria (CAN) has replied​ the ​Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu and the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) ​for saying Christian Religious Knowledge (CRK) ​was not removed from secondary school education curriculum. CAN, while insisting that the Buhari government removed the subject, dared the Ministry “to publish the full details of the controversial new Curriculum of Education if they have no hidden agenda​”​. Recall that Adamu​ faulted the position of CAN over the matter when he​ spoke to newsmen after Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in the State House on Wednesday​. Adamu said dummy was sold to CAN by the social media and probably by an individual who wanted to add to the growing tension in the country. ​His words: ​“On the issue of CRK which the social media took up and deceived the leadership of CAN and they believed it because as l read in the newspapers, they were asking the acting president to confirm it,

Former Chelsea midfielder, Oscar, has been banned for eight games by the Chinese Football Association (CFA), for inciting a brawl in Shanghai SIPG’s 1-1 draw on Sunday. The Brazilian kicked the ball violently and purposefully against two Guangzhou R&F players, resulting in a fight on the pitch between the two teams. Oscar will now not be eligible to play in the Chinese Super League until August 13 and will pay a $5,000 fine. “Oscar’s immoral foul, which sparked a massive bust-up on the pitch, has had a huge negative impact on China’s professional football leagues,” read a statement of CFA. “The CFA alway attaches great importance to the issue of discipline, taking great pains to root out the violent fouls and other unsportsmanlike behaviour. “Hopefully disciplinary offences would be severely punished by all clubs and efforts shall be made to maintain the order of the games and protect the development of football.”

US President, Donald Trump, says he deliberately did not appoint “a poor person” to some positions because it doesn’t make sense. Trump used Iowa rally on Wednesday night to defend those holding economic roles in his administration and his decision to appoint the wealthy to his cabinet. The US president told a crowd: “Somebody said why did you appoint a rich person to be in charge of the economy? “And Wilbur’s [commerce secretary Wilbur Ross] a very rich person in charge of commerce. I said: ‘Because that’s the kind of thinking we want.’” Trump explained that Ross and his economic adviser Gary Cohn “had to give up a lot to take these jobs” and that Cohn in particular, a former president of Goldman Sachs, “went from massive pay days to peanuts”. He added: “And I love all people, rich or poor, but in those particular positions, I just don’t want a poor person. Does that make sense?” He made the comments as he toured the state with Agriculture Secretary, Sonny Perdue and Ross partly to

Nigerian government has declared Monday, June 26 and Tuesday, June 27 as Public Holiday to mark Eid el Fitr. Minister of Interior, retired Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau made the announcement on Thursday in Abuja. ‎ He‎ enjoined all Muslim faithful and Nigerians in general to use the occasion of the celebration for sober reflection and pray for peace, unity and progress of the nation in its march to nationhood. Dambazau urged all Nigerians to shun hate speeches and divisive tendencies and join hands with the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to build a peaceful, strong and united Nigeria. He assured of a Nigeria, ‎which guarantees fundamental freedoms, including the right of residence in any part of the country, as enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. ‎The minister reaffirmed the determination of the Federal Government to protect all lives and property of Nigerians and warned hoodlums not to test the will of the administration. Dambazau said the gov

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Thursday said it has informed Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye about the process of his recall. The electoral body disclosed that the decision to notify the Senator of the demand of his people was taken at its meeting held in Abuja. The Commission said the meeting was held following its receipt of petition submitted by voters in Melaye’s zone which was deliberated on. INEC’s National Commissioner and member Information and Voter Education Committee, Mohammed Haruna, made the disclosure in Abuja. Haruna said INEC would issue a notice to Melaye on July 3, on when it would begin the verification of the signatures of those who signed the petition. According to Haruna, “INEC has held its regular weekly meeting today and considered the petition submitted by whole registered voters from Kogi West senatorial district to kickstart the process of recalling Senator Dino Melaye. “In accordance with the INEC guidelines for the rec

Real Madrid forward, Cristiano Ronaldo, has made it clear he will not pay the money he has been accused of defrauding the Spanish taxman. Ronaldo is reportedly ready to quit Real Madrid, after being accused of tax fraud over a sum of €14.7m (£12.9m) between 2011 and 2014. Reports on Wednesday claimed the Portugal captai, had agreed to pay the sum in order to reduce fines and a possible prison sentence. However, the agency representing the player, Gestifute, has denied the suggestions to Spanish agency, EFE. Although an upfront payment would prevent him from defending himself against the accusations, Ronaldo is apparently not ready to take the option. Real president Florentino Perez, this week came out to publicly back the player.

Paris Saint-Germain has made a stunning £119million bid for Monaco’s Kylian Mbappe. The Ligue 1 club is desperate to beat Real Madrid and Arsenal to the 18-year-old, according to Goal. If accepted, it would become the new world-record fee, beating the £90m Manchester United paid Juventus for Paul Pogba last summer. Mbappe is the most sought after player in Europe this summer, after a breakthrough campaign, where he netted 26 times in 44 appearances as Monaco clinched the French title. Monaco are in no rush to sell Mbappe, having sold Bernardo Silva to Manchester City for £43m earlier this summer.

No fewer than 34 Nigerians arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos on Thursday after their deportation from six European countries for violating immigration laws. The Nigerians were deported from Switzerland, Germany, Iceland, Austria, Belgium and Hungary. The deportees, comprising of 32 males and two females, arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos at about 6.30am on board a chartered Airblue Panorama aircraft. They were received by officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) , the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and the Police. Spokesman of the Lagos Airport Police Command, DSP Joseph Alabi, confirmed the deportation to aviation correspondents.

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Monday swore-in new Commissioners of the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, with a charge to add value to the corporate governance, growth and development of the State. He also swore-in members of the State’s Public Procurement Agency, Audit Service Commission, Director-General of the State’s Safety Commission and also inaugurated members of the State Science and Innovation Council. The new appointees are Prof. Gabriel Olatunde Babawale and Dr. Noah Olanrewaju Lawal-Jinadu as Commissioners of LASIEC; Bolaji Miftah Are, Iyabo Elizabeth Ladipo and Ayo Adebusoye for the Public Procurement Agency; Jokotola Ojosipe-Ogundimu for Audit Service Commission; and Hakeem Dickson as the Director General of the Lagos State Safety Commission. Ambode urged them to see their appointment as an invitation and a privilege to be part of the future prosperity of the State. Ambode said: “Your appointment is a call to public service and I am ve

Northern Youth Leaders’ Forum (NYLF), has warned the Nigerian Police to withdraw an arrest order on youths in the North who asked Igbos to leave the region by October. He said the nation should prepare for “crisis beyond control” if Arewa youths were taken out of circulation. National Chairman of the forum, Eliot Afiyo, said this on Monday while addressing journalists in Yola, the Adamwa capital. He said any attempt to apprehend the signatories of the Kaduna declaration would ‎escalate tension. “We want to appeal to Federal Government and the Inspector General of Police to withdraw forthwith, the directive to arrest the signatories of the kaduna declaration. “To our opinion, this decision will boomerang as it will only precipitate the crisis beyond control. “We believed that our brothers in the south have said more than what our brothers said and they were not arrested. Therefore, no justification for the arrest”. Daily Trust further quoted him as accusing Igbos for

Olumide Odimayo  A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, party in Ondo state, Olumide Odimayo, aka “Londoner” who was kidnapped last week Thursday by unknown gunmen at his hometown in Igbotu has been found dead. Some local vigilante members who confirmed this to newsmen said the corpse of Late Mr. Odimayo was found near Ogolo River, between Sabomi and Igbotu in Ese Odo Local Government Area of the state. Late Olumide Odimayo, aka, Londoner The All Progressives Congress (APC) spokesman in the state, Mr.  Omo’ba Abayomi Adesanya expressed shock at the news, describing it as tragic. “The tragic death of Mr. Olumide Odimayo is a rude shock to us in the party because this is someone who came from London and started the struggle with us. “I can’t get myself as I am speaking with you. Although, our party members have been sending their condolences to his family but his death is very painful to us all” he said.

At least 16 people were killed in suicide bomb attacks near a camp for those made homeless by Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria, emergency services said on Monday. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said the attacks took place at about 8:45 pm on Sunday close to the Dalori camp at Kofa village, near the Borno state capital Maiduguri. NEMA northeast region spokesman Abdulkadir Ibrahim said two female suicide bombers tried to get into the camp but were thwarted by security personnel. "Two other female suicide bombers also detonated their explosives at the adjoining Dalori Kofa village, where they killed 16 people," he added in a statement. Earlier tolls given by local people said at least 12 or 13 people had been killed but Abdulkadir said three of those injured and taken to hospital had since died. "The 16 does not include the bombers," he told AFP. Dalori is about 10 kilometres (six miles) southeast of Maiduguri and is one of the

Nigeria-Doctors The Kogi Government said on Monday it had no plan to sack the 163 medical doctors in its pay roll. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Saka Audu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja that the those peddling the rumour were mischief makers. Audu said that, rather, the government would recruit 230 health personnel, to complement existing ones. “The rumour of planned replacement of striking doctors is an erroneous impression emanating from trouble peddlers and mischief makers,’’ he said. NAN reports that the Kogi chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) recently accused the government of planning to recruit fresh doctors to replace those on strike. The NMA Chairman, Dr Godwin Tijani, had in a statement alleged that Ministry of Health would conduct the recruitment on June 19, to replace doctors on strike. However, the commissioner dismissed the statement as misleading. “Not only do we find such an assertion preposterous and mischievo

LAGOS, June 19 (Reuters) - Nigeria's central bank plans to sell $100 million at a special foreign currency auction on Monday, the bank said as part of its efforts to improve dollar liquidity and reduce pressure on the local naira currency. In a notice to commercial lenders, the regulator said the dollar auction would be both for spot and forward deals which would be settled within the next 60 days. Nigeria is battling a currency crisis brought on by low oil prices, which has tipped its economy into recession and created chronic dollar shortages. Africa's biggest economy wants to attract foreign investors and at same time maintain a strong currency to ward off inflation. The central bank has been intervening on the official market in the last few months to try to narrow the spread between rates on the official market and black market and it has sold over $5 billion since February. Last week the bank said it would continue to intervene in the foreign exchange market to s

 Chief-Victor-Oye National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Oye Dr Victor Oye, National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has called on those beating the drums of war not to plunge the nation into fresh internal crisis. Oye made the call in an interview with News agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Awka. He said the nation could not afford another war after so much life had been lost with attendant setback in the course of keeping it united. “All these threats, all these ethnic jingoism, all these grandstanding and shenanigan does not worth the blood of any Nigerian. “We have had enough of crisis and we cannot afford another one,” he said. Oye said there was need for Nigerian to come to the round table, examine the situation and find out what is causing tension in the country. He said the recommendations of the 2014 national conference should be implemented in the interest of the country. The party chair

Mr-Bukola-Saraki A civil society group, Citizens Action To take Back Nigeria (CATBAN), has called for the immediate re-trial of the Senate President, Mr. Bukola Saraki, for false assets declaration. On June 14, the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) upheld the no-case submission of Mr. Saraki, discharging him of the 18 charges filed against him by the Federal Government, which alleged that Mr. A civil society group, Citizens Action To take Back Nigeria (CATBAN), has called for the immediate re-trial of the Senate President, Mr. Bukola Saraki, for false assets declaration. On June 14, the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) upheld the no-case submission of Mr. Saraki, discharging him of the 18 charges filed against him by the Federal Government, which alleged that Mr. Saraki made false/anticipatory declaration of assets before the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), operated foreign accounts while in office as Kwara State Governor between 2003 and 2011 and collected the salary due a governor

MainOne launches Lagos interconnect service MainOne has set up an interconnect service for carriers, enterprises and internet providers, based on its data centre close to Lagos. The new service, Open-Connect, is designed to facilitate improved interconnection, collaboration and peering within the data centre, run by MainOne subsidiary MDXi, and IXPN, the Nigerian internet exchange. “This new interconnection service for customers within our data centre will significantly improve traffic growth and localisation in Nigeria, with reduced latency, improved speed and better quality of services to end users,” said MainOne CEO Funke Opeke, who was one of GTB's 50 Women to Watch, published this month. MainOne’s Open-Connect service takes advantage of the company’s partnership with the Nigerian Internet Exchange, which provides the exchange with an IPV4/V6 network, backed by diverse backhaul, links across Lagos and Nigeria. The MDXi data centre – at Lekki, to the east of Lagos – is di

Lai-Mohammed Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has admonished those beating drums of war through hate speeches and divisive statements to desist in the interest of the nation’s unity and safety. The minister gave the advise on Saturday at the “Lai Mohammed 10th Annual Ramadan Lecture” held in his country home, Oro, Kwara. Lai Mohammed expressed concerns over the rate of inflammatory statements capable of causing division and war in the country in recent times. He urged Nigerians to disregard those who were engaged in hate speeches as well as their purveyors. “In the last couple of months, we have witnessed the increase inflammatory and hate speeches. “Hate speeches have been responsible for wars. Rwandan genocide where more than 800,000 people were killed was started by hate speeches. “Like people say, wars are not really started by bullets, they are started by words of mouth. “Nigeria is too big and God has a purpose for making us one and we

The Senator representing Kogi West senatorial district, Senator Dino Melaye has described his state governor, Governor Yahaya Bello as a compound fool under the influence of cheap drugs. Governor Bello had on Wednesday described Senator Melaye as a social deviate in the Senate, saying that his constituents were in the process of recalling him, because “they have learnt from their bitter mistake”. Reacting via a post on Instagram last night, Melaye, a chieftain of the APC said the governor is only scared of people with “rising profiles”. He said Bello was only, “shooting the moon and boxing the air”. this was his post below;

Muhammadu-Sanusi  The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has strongly condemned groups that have resorted to ‘hate speech’ along ethnic lines. The Emir, while condemning ethnicity/tribalism, noted that Nigerians must stop thinking along ethnic lines and embrace the creation called Nigeria. He gave these charges via a series of posts on Instagram on Wednesday. According to him, “Fulani. My grandfather was an Emir also fulani my uncle and guardian was also the immediate late Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero and therefore I represent all that has been talked about this afternoon. He said the language of the generation older than him was to use regions to refer to themselves, but that he is a Nigerian. “My grandfather was a Northerner, I am a Nigerian, he wrote. “The problem with this country is that in 2009, we speak in the language of 1953. Sir Olaniwun can be forgiven for the way he spoke, but I cannot forgive people of my generation speaking in that language. “Let us