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Felicitations have continued for President Muhammadu Buhari, following his victory at the recent presidential election. The latest of such congratulatory messages came from President Milos Zeman of Czech Republic on Tuesday. In a congratulatory message, President Zeman said he wished the Nigerian President success in his second term in office, noting that his administration will be for the well-being and prosperity of the Nigerian people. “I highly value the diversity of cooperation and longstanding friendly relations between the Czech Republic and the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I am looking forward to working with Your Excellency in the years ahead to further develop mutual cooperation to the benefit of the people of both our countries, ”the Czech President said. Also wishing President Buhari well in his second term in office was Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of United Arab Emirates (UAE), Shaikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prim...

No fewer than 700 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Action Democratic Party (ADP), on Tuesday, defected to the All Progressives Congress(APC) in Lagos.  The defectors joined the APC at an elaborate ceremony at the party secretariat in Ikeja. Some of the new entrants into the ruling party include Mrs Mary Dominance, ADP House of Representatives candidate (Apapa) in the Feb.23, elections and Mrs Linda Famoruti, Coordinator, Non-Indigenes group in Lagos PDP.  Others are Alhaji Abass Obesere, a popular Fuji artiste, who defected with members of his Consolidation group in PDP, and Mr Adeniyi Abiola, Coordinator, Articulated Agenda, a support group of the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. The Lagos West Senatorial candidate of the Democratic Party of Nigeria (DPN) in the last elections, Mr Kayode Olabode, also led some supporters of his old party into APC. Receiving the new members, Chairman of APC in the state, Alhaji Tunde Balogun, sa...

Chelsea have appealed against the one-year transfer ban handed to the Premier League giants, FIFA confirmed on Tuesday, but will have to wait to discover whether the ban will be temporarily lifted pending the outcome of the appeal.  Last month the club were issued with a two-window registration ban and fined 600,000 Swiss francs (over £460,000) by FIFA’s disciplinary committee over the recruitment of 29 foreign players aged under 18.  Chelsea immediately said they “categorically refute the findings” but having now appealed, they must await a decision from FIFA’s appeal committee about whether there will be an easing of restrictions ahead of a hearing being convened.  Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona have all been sanctioned for similar offences, but all three managed to delay the ban pending appeal to allow them extra time to prepare. Barcelona and Atletico unsuccessfully contested their two-window ban, while Real Madrid’s penalty was reduced on ...

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB has schedule to Saturday, March 23, 2019 for the conduct of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) mock exercise. The exam body has therefore advised candidates to begin the printing of their mock examination notification slips from Wednesday, March 6, 2019. You’ll recall that JAMB earlier shifted the date of the mock examination because it coincided with the postponed date of the 2019 presidential and National Assembly election. Also, the 2019 UTME was expected to begin on March 16 and end on March 23 at JAMB’s computer-based test centers nationwide, but the postponement of the general election affected the dates. However, according to Premium Times, the examination date has tentatively been shifted from March 16 to April 16 because of the general elections. “The public should therefore note that the mock examination as its name implies, would not be used for any assessment process,”the stat...

Super Falcons suffered yet another defeat Monday in the Cyprus cup. Falcons who managed to defeat Slovakia 4-3 on Wednesday lost by a loan goal to Belgium in the final group game. The team thus finished third in group C with only three points in three matches. Austria who handed Falcons their first baptism of fire at the event top the group with seven points. Belgium finished second in the group with seven points like Austria but with inferior goal difference. Second African representatives at the event Bayana Bayana finished last in group A after losing their last match 2-1 to Czech Republic. The only edge the Falcons have over Bayana Bayana in the tournament is that they managed to win a match while the South Africans drew a match and lost two.  The six teams that made impressive run of the tournament are Korea DPR and Czech Republic who finished first and second in Group A, Italy and Mexico who finished first and second in Group B and Austria and Belgium who finished f...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said Monday that Alhaji Babalele Abdullahi, the son-in-law of the defeated Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, was being detained over alleged money laundering amounting to €150 million. The Acting Head of Media and Publicity, EFCC, Mr. Tony Orilade, stated this while responding to Newsmen request for information over the arrest of Abdullahi. ‘’Yes, he Babalele is being investigated over alleged case of money laundering. The sum involved is 150 million euros. Investigation is on-going; he is in EFCC. We don’t do our investigation in the media. So, I don’t have details for now; but at the appropriate time we shall speak’’, Orilade stated. Atiku had decried the detention of his son in law and lawyer by the anti-graft commission. In a Tweet on his Twitter handle on Monday he said, ‘’My son in law and lawyer have been detained, one for three weeks and the other recently. They are paying the...

The All Progressives Congress has said the suspension of Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State and his counterpart in Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, and two others stands. The National Working Committee had after a meeting presided over by the National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, in Abuja on Friday announced their suspension for alleged anti-party activities. The two others are the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Usani and the Director General of Voice of Nigeria, Osita Okechukwu. The NWC at the meeting also resolved to recommend their expulsion to the National Executive Committee of the party. The suspended members had variously claimed that the party had yet to write to inform them of their suspension from the party. But speaking with our correspondent in Abuja, the APC National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, said writing those suspended was not a precondition for their suspension. He said, “We don’t have a timeline to write them, the important...