A court in Spain has sentenced former Barcelona striker and President of the Cameroon Football Federation, Samuel Eto’o, to 22-month in jail over tax fraud. Eto’o pleaded guilty to the charges on Monday. He, however, blamed his former agent Jose Maria Mesalles, who he referred to as a father, for the offences. It was learnt that both Eto’o and Mesalles, who also bagged one-year sentence will not serve time in prison since neither of them has a criminal record. Eto’o and his former agent were given suspended prison sentences for a 3.2m tax fraud relating to his…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Monday, ruled out the concept of “placeholder” or dummy vice presidential candidate as done by political parties, adding that it has no place in the constitution of Nigeria. After the completion of presidential primaries, INEC had set June 17 as the deadline for the nomination of vice-presidential candidates However, as some political parties continued to search for the rightful VP candidate, and to beat the deadline set by INEC for submission of names, some candidates, incuding Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress and Peter Obi of Labour Party, submitted names of…
Fuel queues on Monday resurfaced in most parts of Lagos State following the decision of some members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) to shutdown their operations. Mr Akin Akinrinade, Chairman, IPMAN, Lagos Satellite Depot, Ejigbo, who confirmed the development to newsmen in Lagos said the members took the decision because they could no longer operate at a loss. Akinrinade said while the government had fixed N165 per litre as the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), the current realities in the market showed that the minimum the product should be retailed at the…
Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Kwara, Malam Garba Attahiru-Madami, has expressed his commitment to conduct the best election ever in the state in 2023, saying “nobody can buy my Integrity,”. Attahiru-Madami stated this on Monday in Ilorin at a news conference against the backdrop of an allegation made against him by the state’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) spokesman, Prince Tunji Morounfoye. Reports have it that Morounfoye, had at a press statement, alleged that the REC had been compromised and was in a clandestine meeting with Gov AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq. The REC described the accusation of Morounfoye as “unfounded…
The police command in Ondo has cautioned residents against raising false alarms in any part of the state. The police command said the rate at which the negative trend is turning out in the state was fast becoming a habit. It was gathered that the command’s position is coming on the backdrop of the rumoured kidnap of school children in some parts of the state. In a statement by the police spokesperson in the state, SP Funmilayo Odunlami, the Command will not allow any alarmist put unnecessary fear in the heart of the people. “The Command is…
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has taken a subtle jibe at presidential aspirants of the All progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Labour Party, Peter Obi over their apparent inability to select running mates. It was reported that Tinubu and Obi put ‘placeholders’ as their Vice-Presidential Candidates in order to meet up with a deadline put in place by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Tinubu picked Usman Masari and Obi chose Doyin Okupe. Both aspirants have a 30-day window to replace them. Atiku, in a said: “The office of the president…
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to immediately commence the process that will lead to holding new elections into its Executive Committee at the expiration of the current administration in September. The Nigerian president also directed that the instrument of football administration in the country, the NFF Statutes, be amended to include other stakeholders, who had hitherto been disenfranchised, or denied equal representation in the NFF congress. These directives were contained in a letter dated 17th June, 2022 addressed to Amaju Pinnick, the president of the NFF, and signed by the country’s sports minister,…
The General Overseer of the Household of God Church, Chris Okotie has called on 2023 Presidential candidates of all the political parties in Nigeria to step down for him to take-over from President Muhammadu Buhari. Okotie also stated that President Buhari should hand over to him as Interim President as he is the only one that can correct the wrongs in the country. He made this comment on Sunday at his church in Ikeja while celebrating his 63rd birthday. He said; “I want to appeal to all presidential candidates to withdraw from the race and allow me to…
The federal high court in Abuja has stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from ending the voter registration on June 30, 2022. The electoral umpire had fixed June 30 as the deadline for the suspension of CVR across the country ahead of the 2023 general election. More to follow…
The woman whose husband and a family friend was shot by Burna Boy’s bodyguard has alleged that the singer ordered his hired gun to open fire on her spouse and friends on the night of June 8. In a series of Instagram posts posted Sunday night, the woman identified as Stephanie N on the photo-sharing app, also accused Burna Boy of being unremorseful. “As they were fighting, Burna Boy’s friends started shooting after what looked like a signal from Burna boy,” she said. “One of our friends @theflowolf was trying to get Burna boy to calm the situation down,…