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Rangers International Football Club beat Zamalek FC of Egypt 2-1 on Sunday, but failed to achieve the target of advancing to the group stage of the 2017 CAF Champions League. In the return leg clash of their second round pairing in the competition, played at the Nnamdi Azikwe Stadium in Enugu, the Nigerian side crashed out on a 3-5 aggregate. The host had earlier lost 1-4 to the Egyptian side in the first leg clash. In this second leg tie, they needed a 3-0 win at least to advance to the group stage of the competition. But things looked promising,…

Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta The Ogun State Police Command says it has arrested one Kingsley Chigbo for defiling his wife’s younger sister who’s said to be 13-years old. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the incident was reported to the police at Sango-Ota Divisional headquarters of the command by the Coordinator of an Abeokuta based Child Protection Network, Peju Osoba. Oyeyemi said Osoba told the police at the division that a member of staff of her Non-Governmental organisation had gone to a secondary school at Ijoko, for an enlightenment talk with students gave her the information. Details later.…

John Alechenu & FIdelis Soriwei, Abuja The Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party National Reconciliation Committee, Governor Seriake Dickson, has accused Senator Ahmed Makarfi of stalling the party’s peace process. He also accused Makarfi who was the chairman of the ousted Caretaker Committee of the party of blackmail. Dickson said this in an interview with Journalists in Abuja, on Sunday. According to him, he and several other party leaders at different times made proposals aimed at ending the war of attrition within the party but that the refusal of Makarfi and some of his supporters to accept present realities was…

Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose on Sunday night announced his government’s  interest in the case of a woman beaten  by some policemen in Ado Ekiti on Friday. Fayose made this known while speaking on a monthly public enlightenment programme, “The Governor Explains”. He disclosed that an investigation panel has been set up to probe what actually transpired between the woman and the police. He said the investigation will unravel the policemen that beat the woman. The governor said he was particularly disturbed by media reports linking policemen to the alleged beating of the woman, Toyin Adeyeye,  despite  her status as…

Thin Tall Tony was on Sunday, evicted from the Big Brother Naija House. He scored the least vote of 11.68 per cent among the four nominated for eviction in the week. This was how we voted #TeamEfe #TeamDebieRise #BBNajia pic.twitter.com/HDtGjFd6eh — Adenipekun 'damilare (@isaaccrownie) March 19, 2017 Source: Punch News

Ramon Oladimeji Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has said the Senate has no lawful authority to invite the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali, to justify the agency’s move to compel all vehicle owners in the country to pay appropriate duties on their imported vehicles. In a write-up on Sunday, Falana argued that the invitation extended to Ali by the Senate was unconstitutional. “The Senate lacks the vires to summon the CGC on policy matters. “Indeed the oversight power of either House of the National Assembly is not at large but limited by section 88…

Femi Makinde, Osogbo The Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State has berated Governor Rauf Aregbesola for plunging the state into what it described as a huge debt  which will take it many years to settle. The Chairman of the PDP in Osun State, Mr. Soji Adagunodo, said this in a statement made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on Sunday. Adagunodo spoke in a reaction to the report of the Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative which listed Osun State with a debt profile of N165.91 billion as the third most indebted state in Nigeria. The NEITI which listed Lagos  State…

{$inline_image} As business owners experiment more with live video, the choices in livestreaming tools are becoming increasingly diverse. For software and accessory makers, word of mouth and user acquisition are crucial to solidify top-of-mind status early on, before the market for SMB livestreaming tools reaches oversaturation and eventual consensus. Selling points you’ll hear will range from cloud convenience to budget-conscious rental rates and everything in between. Expanding on this discussion, Luke Watson spoke with Small Business Trends at the offices of Roker Labs to narrow down live video innovations you should be aware of. With 10 years of experience in…

 The Police in Ekiti have freed Mrs Toyin Adeyeye,the American returnee who was arrested and detained by the Police Command  after being  brutalized for refusing  to bribe policemen at a checkpoint. A  family source confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria, in Ado Ekiti on Sunday. He said that the woman was released to her husband late Saturday night on administrative bail. According to the source, Toyin’s husband, Akanni Adeyeye  has taken her to a private hospital in the Ado Ekiti for the treatment of bruises on her body, as well as the trauma she suffered in the hands of the…

Officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency are currently battling to rescue a man, who jumped into a lagoon on Third Mainland Bridge, in the Adekunle area of Lagos State. Here are the photos. Rescue by LASEMA officials. Source: Punch News