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FEDERAL MINISTRY OF YOUTH AND SPORTS DEVELOPMENT  PRESS RELEASE  *NIGERIA RECEIVES UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TROPHY* Nigeria has today joined the global football nations as it receives the UEFA champions League trophy. The Honourable Minister of Youth and Sports Development,  Mr Sunday Dare who received the Trophy presented to him by Heineken, in his office at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium Abuja, expressed his  excitement over the choice of Nigeria for the touring of the Trophy, describing it as the second most important Trophy in football after the FIFA World Cup trophy. Dare stated that Nigeria is a football loving nation, that has had a strong attachment to the Champions league over the years. He stated  further that *"the tour Ambassador, Clarence Seedorf is one of the most successful players in UEFA Champions League history, as he is the first and currently the only player to have won the UEFA Champions League Trophy with three clubs."* The Minister who called on Niger

FORUM ON DEVELOPMENT AND RECOVERY OF LAKE CHAD MAPS OUT STRATEGIES FOR STABILITY IN THE REGION A two-day Forum on the Development and Recovery of the Lake Chad Basin Region has ended in Abuja with a call for all hands to be on deck to rebuild communities and populations around the Lake Chad Region affected by insurgency and other humanitarian crises.  The Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo assured in his keynote note address at the opening of the ‘Inaugural Forum on the Development of Lake Chad Basin’ on Monday at the International Conference Centre Abuja, that the Federal government will be an active participant in policies that will beef up the rebuilding of the region.  Prof. Osinbajo who thanked the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Sadiya Umar Farouq, the North East Development Commission, the Lake Chad Basin Commission and other stakeholders for their commitment and contributions to the recovery of the Lake Chad Region, advised that r

TEXT OF A PRESS CONFERENCE BY THE CHAIRMAN, INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION (INEC), PROFESSOR MAHMOOD YAKUBU, ON THE ONGOING VOTER REGISTRATION EXERCISE HELD AT THE CONFERENCE ROOM, INEC HEADQUARTERS, ABUJA, ON WEDNESDAY 13TH APRIL 2022 Gentlemen of the Press 1. As you may know, the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise is now into the Fourth quarter nationwide. We restarted the CVR on 28th June 2021 after it was suspended for the 2019 General Election. Although the exercise was scheduled to restart earlier, it was delayed by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and various security challenges, including the persistent attacks on our offices and facilities in various parts of the country, mainly between October 2020 and May 2021. 2. In restarting the CVR, the Commission introduced the online pre-registration system as part of our determination to continue to improve the electoral process and ensure that Nigerian voters have the best of voting experience. This

 Lady calls off wedding over domestic Abuse Ada Uburu👇👇👇 Hello Guys!!!I never wanted to bring this here but I have to, I am a type of person who likes to keep my relationship away from social media but this is for clarification purposes.  This was my secondary school classmate who I thought I knew to an extent. On December 28, 2020 he did the 1st and 2nd stage in my family marriage list which bride price happened to be on the 2nd stage which he paid. After he paid my bride price he started maltreating me.  2021 was hell for me that at some point I left home, after everything we settled around November 2021 which he promised he will never beat me again. But still nothing CHANGED. This is my reason why I am CALLING OFF the Traditional Marriage (Igba Ngwu) and White Wedding ceremony between me and DAVID OKIKE OFF. (Beating me was not part of the agreement in our Marriage) This Saturday should have been my traditional and white wedding ceremony day.... I supposed to be happy but I am no

In Catholic church we do not believe in divorce but there is something called seperation from bed and board and nullification -  Catholic priest urges women to run away from abusive marriages 'If your husband is beating you, he will kill you one day. He will kill you one day. Police may arrest him, after a while they leave him. He may even leave long and remarry and if he remarries, another wicked woman, the children you suffered for, will be maltreating the children. Runaway. There is nothing pious, nothing spiritual about staying in a marrriage and you are dying gradually. If he doesn't kill you instantly, he will damage your vital organs and you will die at the age of 60 or fifty something. They will think it is sickness that killed you. Run away I have told you. This is the Catholic church. We don't believe in divorce but there is something called separation from bed and board and there is something called nullification''  

Anambra Commissioner For Women Affairs Frowns At The Death Of The Gospel Artiste, Osinachi Over Domestic Violence. The Anambra State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Ify Obinabo has frowned over the death of the Late Osinachi Nwachukwu which was alleged as a result of domestic violence.  The commissioner who received members of the Nigerian Association of Women Journalists, Anambra State Chapter in her office at the Professor Women development center, Awka, decried the violence of all forms especially those on women appealing to parents to allow their daughters who are in abusive marriages to come back to them as she noted that separation is not divorce. She said that Anambra women are not happy with the terrible death of their wife while calling on victims of abuse and family and friends who know one facing such situation to speak up. Mrs Obinabo who noted that the Ministry will operate an open door policy, said that as a proud broadcaster, she will use her o

Two Reverend Sisters, Three Others Burnt To Ashes As Two Vehicles Crash At Nawfia Axis Of The Enugu-Onitsha Expressway Two Reverend Sisters, their driver and a husband and wife have been burnt to ashes after their vehicles crashed at the Nawfia axis of the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway, Anambra state. ABS confirmed the names of the Reverend Sisters as Rev Sr Virginia Obike and Rev. Sr Monica Ilem, while their diver was Mr Chamberlain Umunakwe. Investigations revealed that the Reverend Sister Obike, the Principal of Handmaid's Secondary School, Amansea, Awka North LGA, and her Bursar, Reverend Sister Ilem and their driver, Mr Umunakwe were traveling to Amansea in a Toyota Hiace bus belonging to the school, and were coming from Ifite-Ogwari, Ayamelum LGA, where they went to purchase bags of rice for the school. Other victims in a Toyota Highlander were identified as Mr Emmanuel Okeke, former Anambra State Government Storekeeper, and the wife. Mr Ifeanacho Okeke from Nsugbe, Anambra East

677 drug traffickers jailed, 3,359 arrested, 65,915.891kg seized in Q1 As the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, intensifies the war against illicit drug trafficking and abuse across Nigeria, no less than Six Hundred and Seventy Seven (677) traffickers have been convicted and sentenced to various jail terms between January and March 2022, with a total of Three Thousand Three Hundred and Fifty Nine (3,359) arrests and 65,915.891 kilograms of assorted drugs seized within the same period. No fewer than Two Thousand Two Hundred and Twenty Three (2,223) drug users were also counselled through brief interventions and rehabilitated in NDLEA facilities across the country in the first quarter of the year; figures that represent a fair balance between the Agencys drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction activities. Lagos has the highest figure of drug seizures with 22,192.62 kilograms of illicit substances recovered from parts of the state, followed by the Murtala Muhammed Inter

81 DIVISION NIGERIAN ARMY OPERATION CHECKMATE ARRESTS IMPOSTORS IN LAGOS AND OGUN STATES The 81 Division Nigerian Army Military Police Personnel have arrested over 12 suspected impostors fully dressed in military camouflage uniforms portraying the Nigerian Army in bad light during OPERATION CHECKMATE within Lagos and Ogun States. The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 81 Division Nigerian Army (NA) Major General Umar Thama Musa in a press briefing dispelled the unfounded narrative that all illicit acts committed by persons dressed in military uniforms are always military personnel. He noted that person displaying military banners and accoutrement such as belts and stickers on vehicles and driving commercial vehicle in military uniform as well as driving civil vehicle painted in Army colour are most often not personnel of the Nigerian Army. He said in an effort to curtail this ugly trend, the Division has heightened the activities of OPERATION CHECKMATE to ensure regular arrest of impo

N3.6bn Fraud: Appeal Court Upholds EFCC Appeal, Dismisses Discharge of Ex-NDDC Boss A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, led by Justice Peter O. Affem, on April 13, 2022, upheld the appeal of the EFCC, and dismissed the ruling of a Federal High Court in Lagos in the case involving a former Executive Director, Projects, Niger Delta Development Commission, NNDC, Tuoyo Omatsuli, over an alleged case of money laundering to the tune of Three Billion, Six Hundred and Forty-five Million Naira (N 3, 645, 000,000). The judgment delivered by Justice Festus Obande Ogbuinya held that the ruling of the lower court dated November 11, 2020 discharging the respondent, Omatsuli, of the money laundering charges “is hereby set aside and he shall enter into his defence accordingly on the same counts.” The Appellate Court, however, discharged Omatsuli on counts 27, 28 and 29 of the charge. Tuoyo is facing trial alongside Francis Momoh, Don Parker Properties Limited and Building Associa

 N22.9bn Fraud: Supreme Court Affirms Six-year Jail Term for Former Pension Director, John Yusuf The Supreme Court on Wednesday, 13 April, 2022, affirmed the six years jail term imposed on a former Assistant Director in the Police Pension Office, John Yakubu Yusuf, who was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over a Twenty –two Billion, Nine Hundred Million Naira (N22.9b) fraud. The apex court in a judgment read by Justice Tijjani Abubakar also ordered the convict to refund N22.9b to government coffers. Yusuf is one of the six civil servants facing prosecution for allegedly stealing N32.8 billion from the Police Pension Fund. He was initially convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment with an option of fine of N750, 000 (Seven Hundred Thousand Naira only) by a Federal Capital Territory High Court presided over by Justice Abubakar Talba. The EFCC, dissatisfied with the judgment of the trial court, approached the appellate court to set aside the judgment. Rul

President Buhari presides over Federal Executive Council (FEC) Meeting and Swears in Newly appointed Commissioners of Independent Corrupt Practises Commission and National Population Commission in State House on 13th April 2022. More photos below. 

Massive looting continues under Buhari, Osinbajo’s watch – U.S. Massive looting continues under Buhari Osinbajo s watch U S   Despite repeated claims that the ruling APC regime has recorded substantial success in tackling corruption and preventing looting of Nigeria’s treasury, the U.S. government’s verdict is that President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo have not covered themselves in glory as massive looting continues. The U.S. said Messrs Buhari and Osinbajo, including governors, took advantage of the immunity attached to their positions to perpetuate corrupt acts and misappropriation of public funds. This indictment is contained in its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, covering internationally recognised individual, civil, political, and worker rights. In a section of the report titled ‘Corruption and Lack of Transparency in Government’, the American government noted that while Nigerian laws penalised corruption, enforcement was not followed through. T