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13 rules of football during the childhood days...

Gone are those days, There are a lot of fun and a lot of games then back to back from police n theif to ice n water to four courts to football and lots more. Here are the 13 rules of football during the childhood days, read after the cut

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N400m Entered Olisa Metuh's Account On Jonathan’s Order

The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, on Monday opened his defence before a Federal High Court in Abuja, where he is being prosecuted for money laundering and charges bordering on the N400m he received from the Office of the National Security Adviser.

Metuh’s first witness, Mr. Ike Abonyi, who described himself as a journalist and a public relations consultant, said in his testimony that the N400m was released to the PDP spokesperson by the ONSA in 2014 on the instruction of the then President, Goodluck Jonathan.

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T.B Joshua denies owning any company in Panama

Popular Lagos pastor, T.B Joshua has denied media reports that the recently released Panama reports indicted him as one of the few Nigerians that operate a company in Panama. Yesterday, Premium Times broke the news on their website that Joshua and his wife, Evelyn, owned Chillon Consultancy Limited, a company incorporated on June 20, 2006 at the British Virgin Island.

In a post on his Facebook wall, Joshua denied the claims. Read his statement after the cut...

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Death of suspected armed robber/recovery of arms & ammunition

On April 11th, 2016 at about 2.30pm, 3 armed hoodlums on motorcycle allegedly entered Matrix Stores, Abule-Ado, Satellite and robbed the owner of phones. However, a patrol team attached to Satellite Div., was quickly mobilized to the scene to engage the hoodlums.

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Full list of 30 players invited to camp by Samson Siasia for Rio Olympics

Samson Siasia has invited 30 players to camp for the 2016 Olympics that will take place in Rio, Brazil this summer. A statement released by the NFF said the invited players are expected to arrive at the Starview Hotel in Abuja on Tuesday with their passports, and that training would commence on Wednesday.

The Invited players include: 

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Tompolo sues FG over his N45.9billion trial

Former Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemulopo, alias Tompolo who has been declared wanted by the EFCC over his involvement in a N45.9 billion scam at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA, has dragged the Federal government before a Federal High Court in Lagos asking that the fraud charges leveled against him be dropped.

In the court paper filed by his counsel, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa yesterday April 11th, Tompolo is seeking for the nullification of sections 221 and 306 Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 (ACJA), which prevents parties in a criminal trial from seeking a stay of proceedings.

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Reno Omokri compares Buhari and David Cameron's travel to China

As he shared a few hours ago...

Photos: Buhari speaks at the opening ceremony of the China-Nigeria Business Forum

President Buhari this morning spoke at the opening ceremony of the China-Nigeria Business Forum in Beijing this morning. Continue to see more photos...

 

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Tania Omotayo steps out in Wizkid’s Shirt and Fans query her

Tania Omotayo and Wizkid may actually still be dating; this is what their fans think.

And it is all thanks to the photo Tania posted on her IG page which shows her geared up in a shirt weirdly similar to one Wizkid wore 22 weeks ago.

Nosy fans searched out the photo and called Tania out, asking if she is still dating the singer who now has two sons with different women.

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Rivers govt alleges plot to arrest PDP chieftains

Rivers State Government has raised alarm of an alleged plot to arrest chieftains of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state on trumped up charges. The government, in a statement, yesterday, by the state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Dr Austin Tams-George, condemned the alleged move, urging Rivers people to remain calm.

He said: “It has come to the attention of the Rivers State Government that some faceless individuals and groups in the state, sponsored by the All Progressives Congress, APC, have written petitions to security agencies, making frivolous allegations against chieftains of PDP and top government functionaries in Rivers State. “The aim of these petitions is to instigate another round of politically-motivated arrests and harassment of innocent individuals. It is also part of a plan to conduct unlawful raids on the homes of government officials and leaders of the PDP in Rivers State.

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Lagos begins prosecution of tax defaulters

The Lagos State Government on Monday said its Rapid Tax Prosecution Unit had begun prosecution of recalcitrant tax payers. This is contained in a statement by the state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Adeniji Kazeem.

Kazeem said that the Unit had filed all the necessary information at the State High Court for the arraignment of 28 tax defaulters. He said the defaulers were referred by the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) and prosecution had begun in earnest.

According to him, their offences range from failure to furnish and file tax return to failure to pay personal tax to the state. He said that the offences violated the Personal Income Tax Act 2004 as amended and the Lagos State Revenue Administration law.

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I lost my mother-in-law because there was no pedestrian bridge – Desmond Elliot

Popular Nollywood actor and member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Desmond Elliot, on Monday told his colleagues at the Assembly that he lost his mother-in-law because there were no pedestrian bridges across an expressway in Lagos.

He did not mention the particular expressway or when the incident occurred, but said his mother-in-law was hit while she was trying to cross the expressway on her return from the Daleko market in the Mushin area of Lagos where she had gone to buy foodstuff. Elliot was arguing in favour of a motion to call on the Federal Government to provide a pedestrian bridge at Toyota Bus Stop along Oshodi-Apapa Expressway.

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Lawmakers disagree over details as ministry defends Amaechi

A fresh crisis of confidence has erupted in the Senate and the House of Representatives, with some members alleging that details of the budget were not made available to them before the document was sent to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Besides, the acrimony over the omission of some projects approved by the various committees of the two chambers is growing. Some Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) yesterday joined the fray. They submitted evidence that some projects, including the Calabar-Lagos rail line, were yanked off the document – the guide to the government’s actions for the year.

The Ministry of Transportation insisted that the rail line project was in the budget and defended Minister Rotimi Amaechi.

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Army Smashes Abia Kidnap Gang, One Suspect Commits Suicide

The Nigerian Army has smashed a suspected    notorious kidnappers gang that has been terrorising Abia State.One of the suspects allegedly committed suicide while another was arrested by the Nigerian Army.

The suspect believed to be the leader of the four-man gang that allegedly shot and abducted a victim at Ohafia, and took him to Nkporo town in Ohafia Local Government Area where they were demanding for ransom before residents made a distress call to the Army. 

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Benue varsity students shut down Makurdi-Gboko highway over tuition hike

Protesting students of the Benue State University, BSU, yesterday trooped into the streets, crippling business activities and barricading the ever-busy Makurdi-Gboko federal highway over recent hike in tuition by the school’s management, leaving several travellers and road users stranded for over four hours.

The aggrieved students, who displayed placards with various inscriptions such as, “Reverse this unpopular decision”, “the new fee in anti people”, “our parents cannot afford this” and “we did not

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Photos: LUTH doctors accused of causing the death of woman in Lagos

Doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital ( LUTH) Idi-Araba, Lagos have been accused of causing the death of Ngozi Udebu, a 46 years old married woman and teacher at St. Finbarrs college Yaba on March 28th. Speaking to the Nation, husband of the deceased who is an estate developer, Ausbet Udebu, said professional misconduct by the doctor's led ‎to the death of his wife on Easter Monday. 

 According to him, the physician diagnosed and treated his late wife of ulcer but the autopsy showed that she died of Asphyxia which is the loss of consciousness due to the body’s inability to deliver oxygen to its tissues.

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