SOMALI WORLD CUP REFEREE DENIED ENTRY TO UNITED STATES. (PHOTO).

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 Somali World Cup Referee Denied Entry to United States Award-winning Somali referee, Omar Artan, has been denied entry into the United States despite holding a valid visa, according to a senior official in Somalia’s sports ministry. Artan, who is set to become the first Somali referee to officiate at the FIFA World Cup finals, was stopped at Miami International Airport and subsequently returned to Istanbul, where he had been residing. The reason for the denial was not immediately disclosed. However, Somalia is among the countries affected by a travel ban introduced by the administration of Donald Trump. Reacting to the development, Ciise Aden Abshir, a senior adviser to Somalia’s Ministry of Youth and Sports and a former national team captain, described Artan as one of Africa’s most respected referees. “Omar Artan is among Africa’s most respected referees and deserves the support of the entire football community,” Abshir told AFP on Monday. He added that preventing the referee fro...

POLICE NAB THIRTEEN(13) MORE SUSPECTS FOR ALLEGED ILLEGAL REVENUE COLLECTION IN ONITSHA AND ENVIRONS.{PHOTOS}.#PRESS RELEASE.

 

In furthertharance to it's avowed comittment towards stemming the tide of illegal revenue collections, harassement and extortion on innocent citizens on the road in the name of IGR collection, police patrol teams led by the Area Commander Onitsha, ACP John Ogbuagbaka had on 20/1//2021 while on patrol along,upper iweka, Oba ring road and Owerri road all in Onitsha arrested thirteen(13) more illegal revenue collectors under false pretense of being government revenue agents in the State.
Suspects voluntarily confessed to the offence and claimed they were hired by one "Jonjoloko" to either collect or enforce the collections of revenue on behalf of government.This brought the number of suspects arrested for illegal revenue collections so far to twenty nine (29) within three days and the operation is still ongoing.It would be recalled that the command has paraded sixteen suspects on monday 18/1/2021.
This operation was in compliance with Anambra State Government directives on the 7th December,2020 "banning all forms of illegal revenue collections by persons claiming to be State revenue agents or officials.Suspects would be brought to book as soon as investigations are concluded.
Consequently,the Command warns that anybody found engaging in such acts should be ready to face the full wrath of the law.The Command will continue to pursue the hoodlums until they refrain from criminal activities or relocate from the State.
*CSP Haruna Mohammed PPRO* Anambra State Police Command,
For-Commissioner of Police Anambra State Command.
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