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BREAKING: Tinubu Now In A Stable Condition, Well And Healthy, Says Sanwo-Olu After Visiting APC Leader In London Hopital

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Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is well and healthy. Sanwo-Olu spoke on the sidelines after inaugurating 102 compactor trucks and 100 double dino bins acquired by the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA). The Governor, who visited Tinubu in London, said: “My going to see our leader was really around the rumours flying around about him. “He is well and healthy. We discussed happening in our party and country at large. All is well with him as I saw myself and there is nothing to worry about.” Details shortly…

Former CAF President Issa Hayatou Lands In Hot Soup, Ban By FIFA Over Unethical Conduct

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Former Confederation of African Football (CAF) President, Issa Hayatou has been banned by FIFA’s ethics committee over a controversial $1 billion TV and marketing rights deal with France’s Lagardere Sports which infringed competition regulations. Hayatou, a former FIFA vice-president and interim president was handed a one-year ban on Tuesday August 3. He was also ordered to pay a 30,000 Swiss francs (28,000 euros/$33,000) fine after the committee’s adjudicatory chamber breached article 15 (Duty of Loyalty) of world football’s governing body’s ethics code. The investigation into 74-year-old Hayatou’s conduct in his position as CAF president had focused on his involvement in negotiating and signing off a memorandum of understanding and contractual agreement for the commercialisation of media and marketing rights of CAF-organised events with Lagardere between 2014 and 2017. Qatari-based French-owned

More Controversy As Abba Kyari Deletes Facebook Post Denying Hushpuppi Bribe After Editing It Several Times

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Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari has deleted a Facebook post of his statement denying taking a bribe from Ramon Abbas popularly known as Hushpuppi, checks by The Nation has revealed. The Nation reports Hushpuppi had alleged he gave Kyari money to jail the rival after a dispute over a $1.1 million scam on Qatari businesspeople. But Kyari denied, saying he never collected or demanded money from Hushpuppi. Kyari had released a statement on his authentic Facebook page narrating how he only connected the Hushpuppi to a fabric dealer whom the latter paid about N300, 000. He also edited his statement to further include another money-related case he handled involving Hushpuppi. But he deleted where he had earlier claimed to have linked Hushpuppi up

Unbelivable: Buhari Regime Appeals To Kidnapping Bandits To Leave Schoolchildren Alone

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The Muhammadu Buhari-led government has once again begged bandits and their sponsors to desist from kidnapping school pupils in the country, saying the trend was impairing the advancement of the education sector in the country. One of Buhari’s ministers, Emeka Nwajiuba, who is the Minister of State for Education, made the appeal on Tuesday while reacting to reports that three more abducted students of the Bethel Baptist Secondary school in Kaduna State had been found. The freed students were found by troops at the Kankumi forest general area in the Chikun Local Government Area where they were abandoned by their abductors. Speaking during an interview on Channels Television, Nwajiuba stated that the federal government was doing all it could to ensure that those

1JUST IN: 13-Year-Old Sky Brown Bcomes Britain’s Youngest Olympic Medalist

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Sky Brown, a 13-year-old skateboarder, has made history by becoming Team Great Britain’s youngest-ever medallist at the summer Olympic Games, The British skater landing bronze in skateboarding behind Japanese duo, Kokona Hiraki (silver) and Sakura Yosozumi (gold). UK Metro reports that Brown was outside the medal spots before her third and final run at Ariake Skate Park but produced a cool, calm and collected performance to drag herself onto the podium. She claimed Britain’s first medal in skateboarding and at 13 years and 23 days became the youngest British Olympic medal winner. Brown became Britain’s youngest summer Olympian eclipsing Margery Hinton’s longstanding record of 13 years and 43 days when she competed in swimming in the 1928 Games.  

Nigerian Government Wants Due Process Denied To Nnamdi Kanu For Abba Kyari’s Extradition, – IPOB Lawyer

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Aloy Ejimakor, lawyer to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has demanded why the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), wants to follow due process in the extradition of Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, but avoided same in Kanu’s matter. Ejimakor noted that the AGF’s office shunned legal procedures to hastily bring the IPOB leader from Kenya to Nigeria but now insisted that the arrest warrant issued against suspended DCP Kyari by the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation would follow due process. The lawyer stated these in an interview with Punch, while reacting to a statement by Malami’s Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Umar Gwandu, who

DCP Abba Kyari Makes Another Shocking U-Turn, Claim ‘Hushpuppi Asked Us To Help A Friend Recover N8m

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Abba Kyari, suspended commander of the police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), says Ramon Abbas, the self-confessed international fraudster better known as Hushpuppi reached his team to help recover N8 million for a friend.  Kyari, a deputy commissioner of police (DCP), had come under fire after Huspuppi, who is being tried in the US, alleged that he bribed the officer to arrest Vincent Chibuzo, a co-fraudster. US officials said during interrogation, Hushpuppi disclosed that he gave Kyari money to arrest and jail “one of his rivals in Nigeria after a dispute over a $1.1 million scam on Qatari businesspeople.” In a post on his verified Facebook account, Kyari denied receiving money from Hushpuppi, and that the Instagram celebrity only called his office about two years

Biden Calls On New York Governor Andrew Cuomo To Resign

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US President Joe Biden has called on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign after an investigation found that he had sexually harassed 11 women. Biden, at a White House press conference on Tuesday, said he believed the prominent democrat should resign. When asked if the governor should be impeached, Biden said, “Let’s take one thing at a time here.“ “I think he should resign. I understand that the state legislature may decide to impeach, I don’t know that for a fact. I haven’t read all that data,” the president said. Biden added that he had not read the report or spoken to Cuomo. New York Attorney-General Letitia James released the report on Tuesday, saying at a press conference that Cuomo had “sexually harassed current

BREAKING: Court Restrains AGF, DSS From Arresting Igboho, Blocking Accounts

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Justice Ladiean Akintola of Oyo High Court has granted an ex-parte motion restraining the Department of State Security (DSS) and Attorney General of the Federation from arresting, intimidating, harassing, and blocking bank accounts of Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho. The order was granted following an ex-parte motion moved by his lawyer Chief Yomi Aliu (SAN) at the court on Wednesday. The motion developed from the originating motion seeking N500 billion damages for invasion of his house in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on July 1. Aliu expressed confidence the AGF Abubakar Malami (SAN) will not disobey the court order, stressing that it was given directly against his office. Hearing in the suit was adjourned to August 18. Details shortly…

Again, UAE Set To Lift Ban On Transit Flights From Nigeria

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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) says it will lift the ban on transit passenger flights from six countries, including Nigeria, with effect from Thursday, August 5, The Cable reports. This comes five months after the ban on Nigeria was put in place over Covid-19 protocols. The National Emergency and Crisis Management Authority (NCEMA) announced this on Tuesday, 3 August, via its official Twitter handle. In February, the UAE had banned transit flights with Nigerians on board from its airports due to the rise in Covid-19 cases. Also, authorities in Nigeria and UAE had been engaging in diplomatic discussions over issues relating to the Covid-19 protocol. The UAE authorities had instructed Nigerian travelers at the Lagos and Abuja airports to take another PCR test on arrival in Dubai. But Hadi Sirika, the minister of aviation, criticized the decision and termed

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