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Jose Mourinho ‘Reaches Deal in Spanish Tax Dispute’

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Jose Mourinho ‘Reaches Deal in Spanish Tax Dispute’     Manchester United manager José Mourinho is reported to have reached a deal with the Spanish state over a long-running tax dispute. He was accused of owing nearly €3.3m in undeclared image rights revenue for 2011 and 2012, when he was Real Madrid manager – an allegation he disputed. Spain’s El Mundo newspaper reported he had agreed to pay a fine of €2m (£1.8m; $2.3m). Mr Mourinho said earlier he had paid all the taxes he owed. El Mundo also reported that he had accepted a one-year suspended jail sentence. But sources close to the manager said no prison term had been imposed or accepted. Why are Spanish football stars in legal trouble? Spanish authorities launched the image rights case against Mr Mourinho in June last year. His representatives, Gestifute Media, said at the time that he had paid more than €26m in tax at an average rate of more than 41% while...

Defecting from one party to another would will not shield politician from prosecution:Magu tells Nigerians

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   Defecting from one party to another would will not shield politician from prosecution : Magu tells Nigerians Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim Magu, says politicians defecting from one party to another would not be shielded from prosecution by the anti-graft agency. Speaking during a parley with editors in Lagos on Wednesday, Magu said there was no hiding place for such politicians in the fight against corruption by EFCC. Responding to alleged interference by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Magu said that he had never received any instruction to stop any investigation. “The fact that a politician jumps from one party to another will not stop EFCC investigation; we don’t stop investigation until it is concluded. “It is only the courts that have the powers to decide on whether to exonerate or convict any indicted politician. “I am not the type you’ll ask to stop any investi...

US Government speaks on calling Buhari “lifeless”, what it expects in 2019 election

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US Government speaks on calling Buhari “lifeless”, what it expects in 2019 election The United States Government has refused to comment or deny a statement credited to President Donald Trump, that Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari was “lifeless”, following a visit to the White House earlier this year. Aruba Amirthanayagam, who is Counselor for Public Affairs, US Embassy, while speaking in Minna, Niger State on Tuesday during his visit to Zubair Idris, the Executive Director of Prestige FM Radio, said: “We have no specific comment on that, a newspaper published it, the paper should comment on it”. Amirthanayagam also said that it will not take side in the Nigeria’s 2019 general election, saying it wants the winner to be elected in a free and fair contest. “And we will do all we can to assist Nigeria’s government. “The United States expects that the 2019 general elections will be free and transparent. “I think we should repeat the success we had in the last election because we ...

Saraki is not fit for Nigerian president – APC tells Nigerians

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Saraki is not fit for Nigerian president – APC tells Nigerians  September 5, 2018 The All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared that the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, is unfit to lead Nigeria. Yekini Nabena, APC National Publicity Secretary, said this in a statement on Wednesday. He noted that while every Nigerian has the right to run for any office, there are many issues that border on such person’s integrity, antecedents, competence and capability to preside over the affairs of the country. Nabena stated that APC was aware that Saraki’s presidential declaration was a tactic to deflect attention from the deluge of issues he deals with, particularly ahead of the 2019 General Elections. He said pressure to reconvene the National Assembly, a fast-shifting political order in Kwara State, among others were a few examples. Nabena wrote: “By virtue of Saraki’s antecedents, he is an abysmal failure and is totally incompetent to offer himself as a...

BUHARI'S RE-ELECTION FORM BOUGHT BY GOOD NIGERIANS

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BUHARI'S RE-ELECTION FORM BOUGHT BY GOOD NIGERIANS 05 September 2018   Group buys Buhari expression of interest and nomination form at APC Secretariat, Abuja on Wednesday A group of ‘good Nigerians’ have bought President Muhammadu Buhari the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential nomination and expression of interest forms worth N45 million to re-contest his office in the party’s primary elections. The undisclosed group of Nigerians arrived the party’s secretariat in Abuja in company of APC chairman Adams Oshiomole to purchase the forms on behalf of president Buhari. While seeking election in 2015, Buhari claimed he was not buoyant to afford the presidential nomination form which cost N27.5 million, but a group of supporters bought it for him. Three years after, some of his supporters have purchased the form for him. “While President Buhari is far in China, a group of good Nigerians bought expression of interest form and nomination form ...

2,000 teachers, health workers die in North-East

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2,000 teachers, health workers die in North-East ON SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 ABUJA—Organised labour, yesterday, said insurgency in the North-East has killed over 2000 workers, especially teachers and health workers, carrying out their legitimate duties in the region. President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Mr. Ayuba Wabba, stated this in Abuja during the NLC/American Centre for Interna-tional Labour Solidarity, AFL-CIO, meeting on Employment and Decent Work for Peace: National Feedback meeting. Wabba also said if politicians continued to manipulate the political space against the interest of the masses, the insurgency will not stop. He attributed the escalating conflicts in the country to lack of good governance and the abuse of human and trade union rights, stressing that good governance would eradicate poverty in the polity. He also lamented the lack of decent working environment and inequality in the system, which has led to the impoverishment of the working class, noting wi...

NBA chairman killed in Enugu

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NBA chairman killed in Enugu    SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 NEWS WATCH— THE branch chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, for Obollo Afor, Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State, Mr Emmanuel Emeka Agundu has been murdered. Agundu was lured out of his base at Obollo Afor to Nsukka Local Government Area in the state where he was shot severally at Nru area of the town. An attempt was on his life over a month ago when some unknown gunmen shot him in the head but he was revived in hospital. State Police Spokesman, Ebere Amaraizu confirmed the killing of Agundu last Sunday, saying that “we are on the matter.” According to sources, the late NBA chairman was a young lawyer who had his head heavily bandaged when he   attended the valedictory court  session in honour of late KC Nweze,  a member of the NBA at Obollo Afor on Tuesday August 21, 2018. “At the court session, he was escorted by armed policemen due to the earlier attack on him,” a lawyer who pleaded anonymity...

Akpabio is truly changed, didn’t import impunity into APC — Ikotidem

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Akpabio is truly changed, didn’t import impunity into APC — Ikotidem ON SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 NEWS WATCH, A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) in Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Edet Ikotidem has dismissed insinuations of erstwhile Governor Godswill Akpabio importing impunity into the party. Ikotidem, an aspirant for the Itu/Ibiono Ibom federal constituency, disclosed at a press conference that Akpabio’s conversion was like that of Paul in the bible who on conversion changed in his perceptions and proclivities. Ikotidem a, lawyer said: “Somebody could have been something else and decided to make a change   It is like the Christian faith. You had a man like Paul who was against Christ, but along the line God arrested him, and he became a changed person. That is why he needed a platform that can enhance the change that he desires for. “So you cannot say that impunity came with that person. What matters is the policies and programmes of that particular political party. What dr...

Amid threats to national security there remains national interest in rule of law

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Amid threats to national security there remains national interest in rule of law ON SEPTEMBER 5, 201810:00 NEWS , VIEWPOINT COMMENTS By Tani A. Molajo, SAN The title of this commentary is inspired by the sanguine affirmation made by Lord Atkin over 70 years ago in his dissenting judgment in Liversidge v. Sir John Anderson & another (1942) AC 266 @ 244, to wit: Rule of law “In this country, amid the clash of arms, the laws are not silent. They may be changed but they speak the same language in war as in peace. It has always been one of the pillars of freedom, one of the principles of liberty for which on recent authority we are now fighting, that judges are no respecter of persons and stand between the subject and any attempted encroachments on his liberty by the Executive, alert to see that coercive action is justified IN LAW” Though rendered by an English Court (the House of Lords), that judgment remains of profound Nigerian – nay, universal importance. It exhaus...

SHOCKING!!!SEE WHAT ABSU UMUAHIA CAMPUS PAST JCCF PRESIDENT WAS CAUGHT DOING...

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SHOCKING !!! SEE   WHAT   ABSU   UMUAHIA   CAMPUS   PAST JCCF   PRESIDENT   WAS   CAUGHT   DOING It was shocking as the past president of the joint Christian campus fellowship which is equivalent to CAN in the campus world was seen using electric wire to make men outlandish collections like lapel rose,bow ties,etc. When appoarched by newsmen he said it all started in his 300 level when he was faced with the worse financial challenge in his entire life.He went to an uncompleted building to sort out his life,on getting there "I saw an abandoned wire and I cut a little". As I was thinking I was twisting it until I noticed that I had developed a fine design . in his exact words"I knew that koman collection was born".That was how my journey started.It became from one design to another,from one lapel to lapel rose etc. Most times I make what I wear. MOST TIMES I MAKE WHAT I WEAR when asked his greatest challenge during the course of his business,...

Phone ban rings in new French school year

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Phone ban rings in new French school year year ON SEPTEMBER 3, 2018 An employee of the city hall helps children to cross the street as they walk toward their school on September 3, 2018 in Caen, northwestern France, as French children return to class. / AFP PHOTO Texting under the table should be a thing of the past after French children returned to class Monday following a nationwide ban on mobile phones in schools. The new rule, a campaign pledge of President Emmanuel Macron, was brought in under a law passed in July which for primary and junior schools also banishes tablets and smart watches. High schools, which teach students aged 15 to 18, can introduce partial or total bans on electronic devices as they reopen after the summer break, though this will not be obligatory. Proponents say the law, which has prompted vigorous debate, will reduce distraction in the classroom, combat bullying, and encourage children to be more physically active during recess. “I think it’...

Buhari committed to addressing illegal migration – APC

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Buhari committed to addressing illegal migration – APC ON SEPTEMBER 2, 2018 The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is committed to mitigating the migration crisis Nigerians are facing, particularly in Libya and in the Mediterranean Sea. The party stated this in a statement issued by Mr Yekini Nabena, its National Publicity Secretary in Abuja on Sunday when he reacted  to comments made by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the issue . He condemned attempts by the PDP to politicise Buhari’s statement on the illegal migration and trafficking of Nigerians during the recent visit of the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel to Nigeria. “The PDP in its typical insensitive and unguarded stance on matters affecting the country is exploiting an issue that borders to  on the lives of Nigerians, mostly youths. “It is a known fact that many Nigerian families have suffered grief as a result of death...

Usain Bolt Makes Professional Football Debut In Australia

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Olympic gold medalist, Usain Bolt has made his first appearance as a professional footballer in a pre-season friendly in Australia yesterday. The Jamaican sprint legend who has been trianing with Australia’s A-League club Central Coast Mariners since last week, debuted against an amateur side at the club’s stadium in Gosford, 80km north of Sydney, in front of more than 12,000 people.

I CAN NOT AFFORD APC NOMINATION FORM FOR PRESIDENT SAYS BUHARI

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I CAN NOT AFFORD APC NOMINATION FORM FOR PRESIDENT SAYS BUHARI President Muhammadu Buhari has complained to the National Working Committee members of the APC  that N55 million nomination fee is too high for him. It is gathered that a member of the National Executive Committee of the party revealed that the President “has complained to the party that he could not afford it.” It woukd be recalled the President had four years ago complained over the N27.5 million nomination forms for the Presidential ticket and had argued that if he had his way, he would have ensured downward review of the fees. However, the National Working Committee of the APC has reviewed the nomination forms upward to the tune of N55 million. While the Presidential Nomination form goes for N50 million, the Expression of Interest Form costs N5 million. Also reviewed upward are the cost of nomination forms for the governorship, senatorial, House of Representatives and State House of Assembl...

Formal Absu Sug secretary general, celebrated for his write up:FRIENDSHIP AND MARRIAGE

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The one time Absu sug secretary general was commended by the writer association of Nigeria for his article;*FRIENDSHIP AND MARRIAGE*.this article they said used a simple but understanding language which will not just educate both the layman but everybody. They also encourage youth to get involved and developed the culture of writing. they article: FRIENDSHIP AND MARRIAGE*   _(A brief pointer)_ It is an anomaly that someone gets married and after some months, a divorce results. Friends! MARRIAGE  SHOULD STEM FROM FRIENDSHIP!!! One should not marry who he/she doesn't know; who he/she hasn't aligned with; little wonder the ill stories of breakup/ divorce. Also, money/wealth/affluence are so nice and wonderful, but can it stop being a major basis of today's marriage? A man must not be so wealthy to a fault before you accept him for marriage as a lady. It's even in marriage that fruitfulness and blossom can "spring forth'' because "...he that findeth...