Month: June 2017

Cristiano Ronaldo: Florentino Perez to speak to player after Confederations Cup

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Real Madrid president Florentino Perez says he has not spoken to Cristiano Ronaldo about his future, but will do so after the Confederations Cup. Ronaldo, 32, is said to want to leave Spain after being accused of tax fraud. The forward, with the Portugal squad in Russia, signed a new five-year contract in November 2016, but has been linked with a return to Manchester United. “The only thing I can say is Cristiano Ronaldo is a Real Madrid player,” said Perez, who was re-elected on Monday. Spanish prosecutors have accused Ronaldo of defrauding…

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SON seizes N8bn fake made-in-China electrical cables

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The Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, yesterday, seized fake electric cables worth over N8 billion from two warehouses located in Etegbin town, Otto-Awori, Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State. The organisation’s Director of Inspectorate and Compliance, Bede Obayi, who led the raid on the warehouses, disclosed that the importers, who operates at Alaba International Market and currently at large, imported different brands of ‘made in Nigeria’ cables from China with intent to deceive unsuspecting buyers. He said Nigeria has one of the best, if not the best, cables in…

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Ohanaeze reacts as Arewa youths ask Osinbajo to facilitate Igbo exit

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The coalition of northern groups, including the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, which gave Igbo residents in the North three-month ultimatum  to leave the region, has written to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to facilitate the process of allowing Igbo to leave Nigeria. One of the leaders of the coalition and National President, AYCF, Alhaji Shettima Yerima, confirmed this on the telephone to The PUNCH in Kaduna on Monday. In the open letter, signed by five of the leaders of the groups, the coalition urged the Acting President to ease the exit of the…

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Quit Notice: What FG, Southeast/South-south Leaders and Igbos resident in Northern Nigeria must do: Intersociety

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The leadership of Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety) has resolved to release this open letter to the Acting President & Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces- Prof Yemi Osibanjo for his presidential, proactive, protective, preventive and democratic actions. The rosary of actions required of Acting President Yemi Osibanjo is as a matter of conscientious impartiality, inexcusability and uttermost immediacy. This open letter of ours is also meant for the attention and necessary constitutional duty actions of the Inspector General of Police, the Chief of Defense Staff, the Chief…

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FG, Police too big; we must trim them – Ekweremadu

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Deputy President of the Senate, Chief Ike Ekweremadu has said that the Federal Government and its functions must be trimmed if the country is to be administered effectively. This is even as he stated clearly that the solution to Nigeria’s security situation was the decentralisation of the Police and allowing state police to operate. In an interview with newsmen, he said that the Federal Government, as presently constituted, was too large and difficult to operate. The DSP noted that the states had little roles to perform whereas the Federal Government…

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52.3 percent voters endorse Dino Melaye’s recall from Senate

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A total of 188,588 voters, representing 52.3 per cent of the total number of registered voters in Kogi West senatorial district have approved the recall of Senator Dino Melaye from the senate. The Special Adviser to the state Governor on Political Affairs, Mr Pius Kolawole announced to  party members from the district that the collation of signatures of voters to that effect was carried out successfully on June 17. Kolawole commended voters in the district for turning out en masse for the exercise, saying that Section 69 of the 1999 constitution…

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Warmbier US student freed by North Korea dies

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Otto Warmbier, the American college student who was freed by North Korea last week after 17 months of detention is dead. The UPI, quoting the family of the 22 year-old American reported. Warmbier was released from North Korea June 12 in a comatose medical state of “unresponsive wakefulness,” according to physicians. He had been receiving intensive care in Cincinnati since then. “It is our sad duty to report that our son, Otto Warmbier, has completed his journey home. Surrounded by his loving family, Otto died today at 2:20pm,” Warmbier family said.…

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Man killed after threesome turns fatal

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The police have confirmed that a threesome in Park Slope spiraled into a deadly attack with bats and knives after one of the participants began filming the sexcapade. The Brooklyn bloodshed left Manos Ikonomidis, 20, dead of three stab wounds in the chest and back. He collapsed on the first floor of a building at 16th St. and Seventh Ave. just after 4 a.m. Monday. Earlier, he’d been locked in a steamy romp with an unidentified woman and 21-year-old Jack Doherty. “It’s something out of a horror movie,” stunned building…

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Dammy Krane: 7 fake credit cards found in pocket

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Seven fake credit cards were found in the pockets of Dammy Krane on 1 June when he was arrested at  Opa-locka Executive Airport in Miami Dade, Florida. A report in New Miami Times said the police have now slammed a nine count felony charge at Miami Dade’s criminal court for credit card forgery and grand theft against the 23 year-old pop artist, whose real name is Oyindamola Emmanuel Johnson-Hunga. Dammy Krane’s trouble began after he used a bogus card to book a private jet flight to Washington, D.C., police said.…

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Lassa fever kills one in Anambra, dozens in surveillance

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Lassa Fever has killed one student and 65 others are being monitored in Anambra State, the state government confirmed on Monday. Dr Emmanuel Okafor, the Director of Public Health, State Ministry of Health, told newsmen in Awka that the deceased was a nursing student in one private nursing school in Nkpor, Idemili North. Okafor said that the lady was admitted at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Awka, on June 11, and was transferred to the General Hospital, Irua, in Edo for diagnosis where she died on June 17. “She…

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