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Former France star Thierry Henry has been named as the new assistant coach of Belgium, the national coach announced Roberto Martinez announced on Friday. “Thierry is an important figure. He will bring something different. He agreed right away to join us,” said Martinez, who was appointed at the start of the month to succeed the sacked Marc Wilmots.

The Sokoto State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the alleged murder of a 43-year-old woman, Yemisi Adio, by her husband, Taiwo Adio. This is contained in a statement signed by the Spokesman of the command, El-mustapha Sani, and made available to the  News Agency of Nigeria  in Sokoto on Sunday. Sani said that the incident took place on Saturday at the old Airport Area. He said that the suspect had used the same pestle with which he killed his wife, to kill three other persons. The victims, according to him, were: Rachael Adewole, 42, Dennis Adewole,10, and Esther Badelu, 14, all of the same address. The police spokesman further said that the pestle had been recovered as an exhibit, while the case was being investigated by the command’s Criminal Investigation Department.  ”All the corpses had been deposited at the morgue of the Usman Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, for post mortem,” he added.

Boko Haram Islamists have killed 10 people and abducted 13 others in a raid on a village near the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok where the militants kidnapped over 200 schoolgirls in 2014, locals told AFP Sunday.  Boko Haram Armed jihadists on motorcycles invaded Kubrrivu at dawn on Saturday, firing on the residents as they were sleeping and looting and burning homes before fleeing into the bush with 13 women and children seized from the village.  “The Boko Haram attackers rode on four motorcycles, three on each, and opened fire on the village as residents slept,” said Luka Damina, a resident of nearby Kautikeri village where Kubrrivu residents fled to safety following the attack.  “They burnt down the whole village after looting food supplies and livestock and taking away women and children,” Damina said.  Ayuba Alamson, a community elder in Chibok, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) away, confirmed the attack, saying 13 people were abducted in the raid. “After killing 10 people

From our Correspondent An 80-year-old woman, Kuburat Ayinde, has been arrested by the police after she was caught with a dead baby boy in the Oshodi under bridge area of Lagos State. The woman had allegedly abducted the baby alive from Abeokuta, Ogun State, and strapped him to her back. The infant, however, died before she arrived in Lagos. The octogenarian was arrested on Sunday. PERISCOPE CRIME and SOCIETY  gathered that Ayinde wanted to board a bus to Ikorodu from Oshodi at about 2pm on Sunday when a commuter noticed that she was fidgety. The man and other passers-by were said to have asked her about the whereabouts of the baby’s mother, but she could not give a convincing reply. It was learnt that the baby was discovered to be dead after the octogenarian was forced to remove him from her back. A witness, Tunde Aruna, told  PUNCH Metro  that Ayinde would have been mobbed but for her old age and the intervention of some elderly people. He said, “The woman alighted fr

Olusola Fabiyi, Ade Adesomoju and Chukwudi Akasike The leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday was confused on whether to monitor or stay away from Wednesday’s (today) national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday had insisted that the PDP must stop its planned national convention. The judge gave a stern warning to the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahood Yakubu, not to monitor the convention. The judge also ordered the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to enforce the court’s order. Justice Abang’s order is contrary to another order by Justice Ibrahim Watila of the Port Harcourt Division of the Federal High Court, directing the IGP to monitor the convention. Warning that the disobedience of court orders could cause anarchy, Justice Watila pointed out that the National Caretaker Committee of the PDP remained the executive authority in all

Fidelis Soriwei, Abuja Six students of the Presidential Amnesty Programme have graduated from the Benson Idahosa University, Benin, Edo State with First Class honours.  The Media and Communications Consultant of the Amnesty Office, Mr. Owei Lakemfa, said in a statement on Tuesday that that the result issued by the institution on Monday revealed that one of the six delegates made a first class degree in Mathematics, two in Business Administration and three in Political Science and Public Administration. Lakemfa said 34 out of the 79 students who graduated from the institution made Second Class Upper Honours Division from various disciplines. According to him, eight students graduated in Political Science, four in Economics, four in Banking and Finance, and another four in Mass Communications. He added that three students graduated each from Computer Science, Business Administration, International Studies and Diplomacy. Lakemfa added that two graduated in Physics while one eac

A Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos has ordered that a former Manager of Diamond Bank Plc., Chinedu Oguike, be remanded to prison custody over a N24 million fraud charge. Justice Abdul Aziz Anka gave the ruling on Tuesday when the defendant was arraigned by the Police Special Fraud Unit for a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, obtaining money under false pretense, and advance fee fraud. CSP Effiong Asuquo, the force prosecutor, accused Mr. Oguike of defrauding one Ufomba Nnabugwu of N24 million on the pretense that he would secure a property for Mr. Nnabugwu in the Ijegun area of Lagos State. The defendant was also accused of awarding a loan to himself with fictitious collateral under the name Edwin Obele Ezeakachukwu. The offenses, which were allegedly committed in 2014, contravene the provisions of Section 8(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act of 2006 and punishable under Section 1(1)(a)(3) of the same Act as well as Section 1(2)(c) of th

A Yenagoa-based senior banker, Adewale Adesanya, has been assassinated by armed men in Ahoada area of Rivers State. Mr Adesanya, 39, who was driving his car to Port Harcourt on Saturday in the company of two others, was shot several times at about 3 PM before he rammed into the bush just by an NNPC filling station near Okobe. The assassins followed the vehicle into the bush with further gunshots to ensure he never survived. The names of two other occupants were simply given as Haruna and Samson, both of whom were well known by family and friends of the deceased. The two young men escaped into the bush when they noticed that the gunmen were coming towards the car as the late banker tried to crawl out with his last strength. According to statement obtained from Samson, who later resurfaced in Yenagoa, one of the gunmen repeatedly told a member of the gang to ‘finish him up’ and ‘offload' him.  A team of police officers from the Ahoada-East Area Command later arrived at t

By Daud Olatunji ABEOKUTA— Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said, yesterday, that he was persuaded to take over as Head of State, shortly after General Murtala Ramat Muhammed was killed in the 1976 coup. Olusegun Obasanjo The then Head of State, Gen Muhammed, along with his aide-de-camp, ADC (Lt. Akinsehinwa), orderly and driver were assassinated on February 13, 1976 while on his way to work in a black Mercedes Benz car. Obasanjo said he, as the then Chief of Staff of Supreme Headquarters and the late Muhammed had worked for the peace of the country before the Lt. Col. Buka Dimka struck in the bloody coup.  Olusegun Obasanjo While reflecting on the coup, Obasanjo declared that Nigerians had thought that the bloody coup would end the nation called Nigeria. The former President said this when he played host to the cast and crew of the yet to be released film, “1976” at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, OOPL, Abeokuta. According to him, there were misconceptions about th

High Court in Abuja on Monday stopped the Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party from going ahead with its plan to conduct the national convention of the party slated for Thursday. Justice Okon Abang ruled during the proceedings that lasted eight hours on Monday that the interim order would subsist till the motion filed by the Ali Modu Sheriff-led faction seeking an interlocutory injunction against the convention is heard and determined. The judge fixed Tuesday for the hearing of the Sherif faction’s motion for interlocutory injunction. The judge made the order after joining Makarfi and six other members of his caretaker committee as parties to the substantive suit which was filed last month by the Sheriff and members of his faction. The judge had on July 28 heard Markafi-led faction’s application to join the suit as a defendant and fixed Monday for ruling. ‎The judge overruled Sheriff’s faction’s opposition to the application and ordered that Markafi and

ON AUGUST 16, 20161:37 By Emman Ovuakporie ABUJA—EMBATTLED former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmunin Jibrin, has written the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption to enable him make a formal presentation on budget padding. JIBRIN He also plans to meet with the diplomatic community to give a comprehensive briefing on his allegations against four principal officers of the 8th House. This was contained in a statement he issued late evening yesterday to give the public update on Dogara-gate. In the statement, Jibrin said: “As you are all aware, I have sent a comprehensive letter to the APC national chairman detailing the background of the crisis and the allegations I raised against Speaker Yakubu Dogara, the three principal officers and nine other members, both on the budget issues and other criminal allegations “I have also sent a letter today (yesterday) to the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption requesting an app

An official of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Segun Enikuemehin, who dared to ask some military men who were assaulting a civilian to desist from such a dastardly act is currently at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) with one of his eyes totally damaged. BY SAHARA REPORTERS, NEW YORK AUG 15, 2016 An official of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Segun Enikuemehin, who dared to ask some military men who were assaulting a civilian to desist from such a dastardly act is currently at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) with one of his eyes totally damaged. The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon when Mr. Enikuemehin came upon the military men beating a harmless civilian. Convinced that the military officials would beat the man to death if nothing was done, he reportedly walked up the angry soldiers and pleaded that they let the man go or hand him over to the police if he had done something illegal. The military men would not take such e