In their opening Champions League game on Tuesday, two goals from Robert Lewandowski and one from Thomas Mueller propelled Bayern Munich to a 3-0 win at Barcelona. The scoreline was not quite as damning for FC Barcelona as the 8-2 drubbing Bayern gave them in the quarter-finals two seasons ago. Mueller gave Bayern the lead in the 34th minute of the Group E clash with a strike from outside the area which deflected off FC Barcelona defender Eric Garcia to confound goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen. Lewandowski struck the German champions’ second in the 54th, tapping…
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The Rivers government has approached the Supreme Court to challenge the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal’s order preventing it from collecting VAT in the state. Rivers wants the Supreme Court to order that the substantive appeal by FIRS be heard and determined by a fresh panel of the Court of Appeal. Abubakar Malami, the attorney general of the federation, was joined as a respondent in the suit. Rivers is also requesting the apex court to set aside the ruling made by the appellate court, which ordered the state to stop VAT collection pending…
The House of Representatives on Tuesday adjourned plenary until September 15 in honour of one of its deceased colleagues, Adedayo Omolafe. Mr Omolafe, until his demise, represented Akure South and Akure North of Ondo State in the House of Representatives. While announcing his death at the plenary, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, said it was customary for the House to adjourn sitting once it loses any member. He said the burial arrangement for the deceased would be announced by the family. Mr Omolafe, popularly known as “Expensive,” and a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), died…
The Deputy Governor of Edo State, Comrade Philip Shaibu, is allegedly set to defect from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to an undisclosed political party. A source who was part of the meeting abroad disclosed to newsmen that if all the body language and recent marathon meetings that took place abroad last week between the Edo Deputy Governor and some political heavyweight in Nigeria are anything to go by, then Shaibu may be quitting the People’s Democratic Party this week. A Public Affairs Analyst and publisher of an online platform, Jumu’ah Abiodun, on his social media post exposed the leaked…
Member of the House of Representatives, Akin Alabi has addressed political office holders who expect same patronage they enjoyed while in power to continue after their tenure. The lawmaker in a tweet he reposted on Instagram on Sunday, September 12, said the phone calls and friendly overtures people make to politicians are not personal but because of the power they hold. “When you were in office, a lot of people were calling you and trying to be your friend. Now that you are out of office, you are disappointed those people no longer call…
Nigerian rapper, MI Abaga who enjoyed a night out with his friends yesterday September 11, has said that it is hard to serve God in Lagos. Abaga made the claim in a post he shared on his Instastory post. He wrote;
An 18-year-old girl, identified as Monsurat Ojuade, has been killed during a raid by police officers at Ijesha axis of Surulere in Lagos. The girl was said to have been shot, when she and her elder sister ran into the premises of their house on Friday night. When visited the deceased’s house at Mobaji street, Ijesha, Surulere, on Sunday, there were many sympathisers, including church members, who came to commiserate with the family. The parents of the deceased were not available to speak, while the deceased’s elder sister who ran home with the victim also…
It’s been 100 days since the regime of President Muhammadu Buhari banned the operations of social media platform, Twitter, in Nigeria, suffocating citizens rights to freedom of expression. In June, Mr Buhari announced the indefinite suspension of Twitter after the microblogging site deleted one of his tweets. The tweet by Mr Buhari threatened genocide against the Igbo-dominated South-East and it was removed for violating Twitter’s rules prohibiting content that threatens or incites violence. Buhari regime’s ban on Twitter brought immediate backlash from Nigerians and the international community, further damaging Nigeria’s democratic and rights credentials on…
The General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian church of God, Pastor E.A Adeboye has reacted to the growing number of transgenders in the world. The clergyman in a post shared on his Facebook page stated that God is not the author of confusion and that in the time of creation, God created humans in female and male gender yet some people have decided to change their gender as if God did not know what he was doing. He stated that God doesn’t make mistakes. He wrote “Our God is the God…
Soldiers repeatedly shot at #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate while they ran for safety, a forensic report has revealed. The report by Sentinel Forensics Limited, presented before the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry, detailed how the soldiers arrived at the protest ground on October 20, 2020. Footage of the incident analysed by the company showed how the soldiers moved closer to protesters from 7:00 p.m., and fired shots continuously even as they fled the protest ground. After arriving at the protest scene, forensic analysts said at first one could observe “sparks believed to…