RUSSIAN COURT SENTENCES 19 OVER 2024 MOSCOW CONCERT HALL ATTACK. (PHOTO).

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 Russian court sentences 19 over 2024 Moscow concert hall attack    A Moscow court on Thursday convicted 19 people for their roles in the 2024 shooting at a concert hall that left 149 dead and more than 600 injured, one of the deadliest attacks in the city in years. The March 22, 2024, attack at Crocus City Hall was claimed by a faction of the Islamic State group. Authorities said four gunmen, all citizens of Tajikistan, opened fire on concertgoers waiting for a rock band performance and then set the building on fire. All 19 defendants received lengthy prison terms: 15 were sentenced to life, one to 22½ years, and three to 19 years and 11 months. Those serving life sentences will spend part of their term in prison and the remainder in a special regime penal colony. Fines ranging from 500,000 rubles (around $6,300) to 2.7 million rubles ($34,000) were also imposed. The trial began in August 2025 in a military court, as is standard for terrorism cases, and was held behind c...

1985 WINNING GOLDEN EAGLETS COACH SEBASTIAN BRODERICKS-IMASUEN IS DEAD.(PHOTO).


1985 winning Golden Eaglets Coach Sebastian Brodericks-Imasuen is dead

Nigeria’s ex-international and former Golden Eaglets Coach, Sebastian Brodericks-Imasuen, is dead.
He died in the early hours of Wednesday in Benin City, after a protracted illness at 85 years.
A family source who asked not to be named, disclosed that the soccer tactician had been bedridden for ailments suspected to be stroke and diabetes.
The late Edo-born coach was also part of the nation’s football team at the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games.
He was head of a three-man crew that included Bala Shamaki and Christian Chukwu when the Nigerian team shocked the world Under-17 world cup in China in 1985.
He led the team again in 1987 to Canada and got to the final before his team was edged out by the then Soviet Union after a penalty shootout.
At the third attempt in the competition, his team also lost to Saudi Arabia by penalty shootouts in the quarter finals.
Coach Brodericks-Imasuen, popularly known as ‘Sabara’ in his playing days would be remembered among others for his famous free kick goal that won Bendel Insurance Football Club of Benin the then Challenge Cup in 1972.
This biggest moment of his club career was when he scored the winning goal in the 3-2 victory for Bendel Insurance in the replay of the 1972 Challenge Cup with Mighty Jets FC of Jos at the Liberty Stadium, Ibadan.
He was known for his curving shots, especially from free kick/dead ball situations.
He began his football career in 1956 when as a student, he featured for the Onitsha team in the Challenge Cup.
In 1962, he joined the then ECN and was part of the Challenge Cup winning side of 1965.
He was invited to the national team in 1962. He later became a regular in the build-up to the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico.
After a successful playing career, Brodericks-Imasuen became a coach and handled the Midwest junior side to win gold medal at the inaugural National Sports Festival in 1973.
At another time, he was the assistant to Clemens Westerhof in the Super Eagles.

 

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