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...

IMO REP LEAVES PDP FOR APP, BLAMES WIKE FOR PDP CRISIS. (PHOTO).


 Ikenga Ugochinyere, a member of the house of representatives, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the Action People’s Party (APP), and registered as a member of the APP in Akokwa, Ideato north LGA of Imo state.


Speaking at the defection ceremony, the lawmaker said that the PDP was engulfed in crisis and lacked a clear sense of direction.


Ugochinyere said that he is severing ties with the PDP "because of all these controversies and crises, which are now a cause of distraction from concentrating on what we should be doing for our people".


He blamed Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), for the crisis in the PDP. 


The lawmaker, who had repeatedly spoken out against Wike’s alleged role in the political crisis in Rivers, said he has now refrained from commenting on the state’s politics to allow peace to prevail.


The PDP has continued to witness a wave of defections since the 2023 elections, and is now left with just four governors.

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