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Bayern Munich’s Goalie, Manuel Neuer, Signs One-year Contract Extension

Bayern Munich’s Goalie, Manuel Neuer, Signs One-year Contract Extension

Manuel Neuer has signed a one-year contract extension that will keep him at Bayern Munich until the end of the 2025/26 season. Neuer, who is widely regarded as the greatest goalkeeper in history, joined Bayern from boyhood club Schalke in summer 2011. The new deal means he will remain at the record champions until past his 40th birthday. "I really enjoy playing football and want to remain a Bayern player," Neuer told the Bayern website. "I’m still hungry and am looking forward to another year at this special club. We’ve always had good talks. That’s a good feeling. It feels good and we’ve still…
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Akande Lied, I Know Nothing About Bola Ige’s Death -Ladoja

Akande Lied, I Know Nothing About Bola Ige’s Death -Ladoja

By Stephen Gbadamosi, Ibadan Accused of concealing some vital information on the 2001 murder of then-serving Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Chief Bola Ige, in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, governor of the state at the time, Chief Rashidi Ladoja, has denied the accusation. The allegation was fired by former governor of Osun State, Chief Bisi Akande, who is a stalwart of the now-ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the country. Akande was the late Ige's political ally. But, Ladoja said Akande lied against him. Ladoja was a staunch member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at…
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Scores Of African Men In USA Dead From Gold Digger Wives, Many Others ‘Beaten’ To Submission, My Experience -Nigerian

Scores Of African Men In USA Dead From Gold Digger Wives, Many Others ‘Beaten’ To Submission, My Experience -Nigerian

A United States-based Nigerian Information Technology (IT) expert, Clayton Udo, has raised concerns over the struggles African men face in marriages abroad, particularly in the U.S. According to Udo, many African men have been financially drained and left in dire conditions by their wives, leading some to flee or even lose their lives due to emotional and financial distress. Addressing the issue, Udo stated, “A lot of people don’t understand what is going on in the story, or what is going on in this country when it comes to African men. I can tell you that a lot of men…
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PDP’s ‘Roforofo’ Fight And The Opposition’s Death Knell

PDP’s ‘Roforofo’ Fight And The Opposition’s Death Knell

By SHEDDY OZOENE The crisis that has plagued the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in recent months, finally blew into the open last Wednesday as the party’s 79th Board of Trustees meeting turned into a ring for a physical fight. The bitter contest for the position of the party’s national secretary between Senator Samuel Anyanwu and former Youth Leader, Sunday Ude-Okoye had turned into fisticuffs as loyalists of both men engaged in a free for all. The forceful removal of Ude-Okoye from the BOT meeting, which had Anyanwu in attendance, had incensed his supporters who engaged Anyanwu’s loyalists in a fruitless…
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Church Abandons Abducted Pastor, Wife In Terrorists’ Den For Two Years -Activist Alleges

Church Abandons Abducted Pastor, Wife In Terrorists’ Den For Two Years -Activist Alleges

By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna About two years after a pastor of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN), Rev. Paul Musa, and his pastor-wife,Ruth, were kidnapped by Boko Haram affiliate, Islamic State for West Africa Province (ISWAP), in Gamboru/Ngala Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State, North-East Nigeria, there is concern that the church and government may have abandoned the couple to their fate. Rev. Musa, 61, who pastors the church branch in Gamboru/Ngala, and Ruth,51, were abducted on March 14, 2023, and for a long time there was virtually no information on their whereabouts. ISWAP later contacted the church…
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Nigerian Shippers’ Council Highlights Kebbi’s Economic Potentials As Local Businessman Exports $40m Onions

Nigerian Shippers’ Council Highlights Kebbi’s Economic Potentials As Local Businessman Exports $40m Onions

By John Bassey, Birnin Kebbi The massive economic potentials of Kebbi State took centre stage when top officials of Nigerian Shippers' Council came calling to the North-West Nigerian State. Aspects of the potentials, particularly the vast water body located in Dolekaina, Dandi Local Government Area (LGA), suitable for shipping and fishing activities, were highlighted. Nigerian Shippers’ Council was established under military rule in 1978 but the decrees governing its existence later became Act Cap. N133, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004,under civilian democratic rule. The Council is Nigeria's port economic regulator. A delegation from the Council held a town…
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Why Women Cheat, By Oreva Godwin

Why Women Cheat, By Oreva Godwin

Research has shown that infidelity gaps between women and men has closed up considerably. Cheating in marriage by both gender has become almost normal, because lots of women boldly come out now to admit to their friends that they cheat on their husbands. The usual reason coined for infidelity by women includes, absence of love, lack of attention from the man, no good sex, lack of money, husbands are male chauvinist, cowards ,or that they caught their husbands in homosexual acts, etc. Most writers have drawn conclusions, that women cheat when they are unhappy in their marriages, that men push…
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At N868.4m Fraud Trial, Witnesses Narrate How Former Ag. Accountant-General Diverted Defence Ministry’s Funds

At N868.4m Fraud Trial, Witnesses Narrate How Former Ag. Accountant-General Diverted Defence Ministry’s Funds

The trial of former Acting Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr. Chukwunyere Anamekwe Nwabuoku began on Friday, January 31, 2025 before Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja with witnesses narrating how the defendant as former Director, Finance and Account in the Federal Ministry of Defence, opened multiple bank accounts through which he allegedly diverted the ministry’s funds. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,  is prosecuting Nwabuoku on a nine-count amended charge, bordering on money laundering to the tune of N868, 465,000 (Eight Hundred and Sixty-eight Million, Four Hundred and Sixty-five Thousand Naira). At Friday's proceedings,  Prosecution…
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PDP Govs Endorse Udeh-Okoye As National Secretary, Blast Tinubu Over Nationwide Hardship

PDP Govs Endorse Udeh-Okoye As National Secretary, Blast Tinubu Over Nationwide Hardship

By Sylvia Kodilichukwu, Enugu Governors of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rose from their first monthly meeting of 2025 and resolved to back the judgment of the Court of Appeal whichpronounced the party's former National Youth Leader, Hon. S.K.E Udeh-Okoye, as the authentic National Secretary of the PDP. They advised the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) to implement the court decision accordingly. The meeting of PDP Governors' Forum,where the decision was taken, held in Asaba, the Delta State capital, South-South Nigeria. Delta State is controlled by the PDP under the State governor, Sheriff Oborevwori. The Forum equally advised the…
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Internet Fraud: EFCC Arraigns 11 Chinese, One Filipino

Internet Fraud: EFCC Arraigns 11 Chinese, One Filipino

The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, January 31, 2025, arraigned 11 Chinese, one Filipino and a company, Genting International Co. Ltd, before Justice D.I. Dipeolu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos.  The suspects were arraigned on separate charges bordering on alleged cybercrimes, cyber-terrorism, possession of documents containing false pretence and identity theft, among others. The defendants are: Wang Zheng Ming, Li Yin Hui, Xian Hong Will, Zhang Xiao Lei, Long Zhao Ming, Guo Xiao Fei, Yang Sheng, Wang Zheng Feng, Chen Wenyuan, Liu San Hua, Luo Jia You and Rheign…
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