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The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has placed a one-year ban from all football-related activities on Super Eagles’ Chief Coach, Salisu Yusuf. Yusuf was caught on camera collecting bribe from undercover journalists who pretended to be football agents. The footage, shot by BBC’s Ghanaian reporter, Anas Aremeyaw Anas in September 2017, showed Yusuf collecting a handful of money, reportedly, $1000 cash. In a statement on Wednesday, by the NFF Committee on Ethics and Fair Play, said it considered the complaint by the NFF and the coach’s defence of a video documentary. However, the coach has also been told to pay a…

 MTN Nigeria, an offshore South African company in joint ownership with some influential Nigerians capitalising on the fluidity of Nigerian laws to foreign businesses, has again been caught in the surreptious under-hand dealing and short-changing of the Federal Government. Consequently, the Federal Government has asked MTN Nigeria to pay fresh $2 billion in tax arrears on imported equipment and payments to suppliers. The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, in a letter to the company, said the import duties, Value Added Tax and withholding taxes on foreign imports/payments dated back to 10 years. Recall…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and his predecessor, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar were at each other’s jugular, Tuesday, over restructuring, what it meant and how it should be implemented. The intellectual tango started with Osinbajo’s letter to the Premium Times, an online news media, in which he responded to Atiku’s critique of his recent comments that Nigeria does not need geographical restructuring but fiscal federalism and good governance. Describing Atiku’s concept of restructuring as vague, Osinbajo, who recalled how he fought for fiscal federalism and resource control and devolution of more powers to the states as the Attorney General of Lagos State…

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has formally petitioned German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and British Prime Minister, Theresa May, over what it described as “growing impunity and acts of oppression’’ by President Muhammadu Buhari’s government. The party, in a letter signed by its national chairman, Uche Secondus, Tuesday, also accused the All Progressives Congress, APC- led government of using anti-corruption agencies to harass and intimidate opposition figures, ahead of the 2019 general elections. The letter read: “The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, under this administration, has metamorphosed into a draconian agency, showing scant regard for the rule of law and…

Nigeria’s partnership with China through the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, FOCAC, has resulted in the execution of vital infrastructure projects across the country, valued at more than $5 billion in the last three years of his administration, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. President Buhari, who stated this in his remark at the FOCAC Round Table meeting, attended by African leaders and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing Tuesday, noted that through the Chinese support, Nigeria had impressively addressed significant challenges in the areas of infrastructure, human capacity development, power, transport, agriculture and humanitarian assistance. In a statement by Malam Garba…

Barring any last minutes change, the Tripartite Committee approved by the Federal Government to review the minimum wage will submit its report this week. Although the committee was supposed to present its report last month, the public holidays to mark Eid-el-Kabir affected the date. It was reliably gathered that the committee met Tuesday at the Trsnscorp Hilton Abuja and a highly placed source privy to the meeting told Vanguard that the organised labour was pressing that the report be concluded Wednesday. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Vanguard that though the government representatives had requested for more…

The All Progressives Congress, APC has said it will commence sale of nomination and expression of interest forms for all elective offices ahead of the 2019 general elections Wednesday. Consequently, the party has fixed the presidential nomination form at N40 million and Expression of Interest form at N5 million, totalling N45 million. For governorship, the nomination form is N22.5 million, while expression of interest is N2.5 million. As for the Senate, the nomination form costs N7 million, while the expression of interests costs N1 million. Nomination for the House of Representatives cost N3.5 million and the expression of interest form…

Legislative aides to senators and members of the House of Representatives, Tuesday, threatened to shut down the National Assembly if allowances allegedly owed tham totalling N5.8 billion were not paid before the September 25, 2018, resumption date of NASS. The legislative aides in their hundreds, who made the threat Tuesday at the central lobby of the National Assembly, were seen shouting “We are aides and not slaves, pay us our entitlements” ! Addressing journalists on their plights, chairman of the aggrieved legislative aides, Comrade Sam Melaye, stated that the entitlements totalling about N5.8 billion now, must be paid before resumption of the…

Chief Edwin Clark, former Federal Commissioner for Information and South South Leader, Tuesday, vowed that he will not stop commenting on national issues as well as speak his mind on anything that is unjust in this country. Clark who stated this after the police had raided hisAbuja residence for alleged possession of arms and ammunition pointed out that he would not relent in criticising injustice, oppression, discrimination, religious bigotry, ethnicity and anything that affect the unity and peaceful co-existence of Nigeria as a country. The policemen stormed the 43, Haile Selassie Street, Asokoro, residence of the 91- year-old elder statesman at 12.30 and left…

The job of 500 workers in Association of Luxury Bus Owners of Nigeria, ALBON, in Anambra State may be on the line following the state government’s directive for the luxury drivers to relocate to new bus terminal in Onitsha. The luxury owners especially those who load at Izu Chukwu Park appealed to Governor Willie Obiano and Commissioner for Transport, Mr. Uchenna Okofor to allow them to remain where they were operating at upper Iweka since the park did not extend to the expressway or block the road. The National Task force Chairman of ALBON, Chief Joseph Ejiofor and the Chairman…