TEAM LAGOS EMERGES TOP AT 23RD NATIONAL SPORTS FESTIVAL SOUTH WEST ELIMINATION. (PHOTOS). #PRESS RELEASE.
TEAM LAGOS EMERGES TOP AT 23RD NATIONAL SPORTS FESTIVAL SOUTH WEST ELIMINATION Lagos State athletes proved their dominance in the South West by edging out regional competitors and emerging top in the five team events contested at the elimination series qualifier for the 23rd National Sports Festival later this year in Enugu. The elimination series featured team events in volleyball, basketball, football, beach volleyball, and cricket in male and female categories. While the team clinched only the female football ticket by topping their group, they showed dominance in three other sports by winning both the male and female tickets. Team Lagos took first position in the volleyball male and female categories. The male team defeated their counterparts from Ondo in the finals by 25-18, 24-26, 25-20, and 25-20, while the female team defeated Team Oyo by 25-18, 22-25, 28-26, 16-25, and 15-8. The Osun basketball team fell to the superior firepower of the Team Lagos male team in their last ...
The EFCC secured a conviction of one Idris Buhari of Durimin iya quarters Kano,arraigned before Justice J.K Omotosho of Federal High Court 3 Kano on one count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence.Idris was arrested by EFCC operatives following a complaint brought against him by Abudullahi Salisu Muhammad of popular Kwari market,Kano alleging that he gave the convict,who is a school teacher the sum of N500,000.00 for the processing of Hajj ticket in April,2012.While he told him that he is a registered travelling agent,but to his greatest surprise the convict was un able to provide the said Hajj ticket and diverted the funds to his personal use and all effort to recover the money or get the ticket as agreed prove abortive,as the convict claimed that the monies were lost to armed robbers.In the judgement,Justice Omotosho convicted and sentenced the convict to seven years imprisonment.He however gave an option of N200,000.00 as fine,being that he restituted the victim the sum of N500,000.00 which is the amount involved.
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