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Mikael McKenzie Real Madrid defender, Sergio Ramos broke an unwanted record during Los Blancos’ goalless draw with Athletic Bilbao tonight. The Spaniard was sent off for the 24th time in his career three minutes from full-time after picking up his second yellow card of the game. The Real skipper picked up his first caution on the 11th minute for catching Raul Garcia with a flailing arm. And he similarly collided with Aritz Aduriz four minutes from time to be given his marching orders. The red card was Ramos’ 19th in La Liga, making him the most sent off player in…

Akwa Ibom State is among the 20 Nigerian states, the British government has sent out a travel advisory to its citizens to avoid visiting during this Yuletide period. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advised its citizens against travelling to Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Gombe, riverine areas of Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Cross River States as well as within 20km of the border with Niger in Zamfara State. The FCO also advised against all but essential travel to: Bauchi, Zamfara, Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa, Katsina, Kogi and Abia states as well as within 20km of the border with Niger in Sokoto and…

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has won the local elections in all the 31 local government areas in Akwa Ibom State. The election was conducted on Saturday. A statement on Sunday signed by Aniedi Ikoiwak, Chairman of Akwa Ibom State Independent Electoral Commission, AKISIEC, said the party also won all the 329 councillorship seats in the state. “This statement confirms the announcement/declarations made by the authorised Returning Officers in various Wards and Local Government Areas,” the statement said. The commission said 12 political parties contested the elections. It didn’t, however, give a breakdown of the votes scored by the parties…

Some Doma people in Zimbabwe with distinguishing feature: large toes, which are usually two on each foot and a three-toe feet have accepted their fate. But in the same community, others have normal five feet. The community, which lives at the boundary of Zimbabwe with Zambia and Mozambique, comprises hardworking people just like the rest in the country.  It is believed the ethnic group migrated from Mozambique. But some Doma people argue they once lived in the surrounding mountains. The community, which occupies the Zambezi River basin, mainly depends on the river for their livelihood. Young and old have learnt…

The 11 governors elected under Peoples Democratic Party are among members of the different committees set by PDP national leadership to organise the party’s December 9 national convention in Abuja. Announcing this Friday in Abuja, Senator Abdul Ningi, the National Organising Secretary, said the 14 committees are made up of 1,706 members. However, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State will head the 87-member Convention Planning Committee. Entertainment and Welfare which is the largest committee has 248 members followed by the Venue and Protocol Committee with 238 members. Meanwhile, a faction of the South-West zonal executive of the party has asked…

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) says the North is undivided in its resolve to pitch tent again with President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential election, describing him as a tried and trusted leader. In an interview with The Sun, Dr. Paul Unongo, chairman of the forum said the North would not support Abubakar Atiku, describing him as being desperate to be a president. Unongo asked: “What has Atiku got to offer Nigeria? Atiku would be in one party for two hours and he would abandon it and join another one for three hours and when he does not get…

Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has accused Borno State governor for a role he allegedly played in the abduction of Chibok school girls some years ago, calling him to exculpate himself of such ignoble role. In 2014, more than 100 girls from Government Girls’ Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State in Nigeria were abducted by persons suspected to belong to the militant Islamic group, Boko Haram. At the launching of a book: On a Platter of Gold — How Jonathan won and lost Nigeria, written by Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, a former Minister of Youth and Sports Development under Jonathan administration in Abuja…

Nigerians living in Libya are said to be selling their fellow countrymen to Libyan nationals as slaves, returnees from Libya have confirmed. This revelation emerged as more Nigerians are repatriated by the International Organisation for Migration with the backing of the European Union in an on-going exercise that has seen 1,295 retrieved from Libya in November alone. Since the beginning of 2017, IOM facilitated repatriation of  5,578 Nigerian migrants, who were trapped in and outside prisons across Libya. On Thursday night, 150 migrants from mostly Edo and Delta states arrived in the country aboard a Buraq Airplane at the cargo…

A radio On-Air-Personality (OAP) with Planet 101.1 FM died Friday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital. Cleo Tao, who was the Head of Programmes at the private radio station, died at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, UUTH, Uyo after a brief sickness. Confirming the sad news, Tony Afia, Chief Executive Officer of Planet FM, on Friday evening on-air: said, “Cleo Tao just got sick last week and was taken to the emergency intensive care unit at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital. She died today.” It is suspected that Ms. Tao may have died of a respiratory ailment, owing…

More than 400,000 Nigerians and others are stranded in Libya, Head, African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat has stated. From 400,000 to 700, 000 Nigerians  remain stranded in Libya,” Mahamat stated. European and African leaders have set themselves a tall order to stamp out horrific abuse of African migrants, some of them are Nigerians in Libya, where thousands are suffering in a vast, lawless territory. On Thursday, a summit of the African Union and the European Union set a goal of immediately repatriating 3,800 migrants languishing in a camp near Tripoli. But experts pointed to a daunting array of hurdles,…