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Odion Ighalo, former Watford striker is said to be surprised by the quality of football in China, saying that he would encourage other players to make the move, Hertfordshire Mercury reports. The 28-year-old left the Hornets in January 2017 to join Chinese Super League side Changchun Yatai for £20 million. The Nigeria forward bagged 15 goals in 27 games during his debut season, having netted 20 and 16 goals in his first two seasons at Vicarage Road, in the Championship and Premier League respectively. The transition for Ighalo has been smooth but he believes the division is always getting stronger. The…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) led by its chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun’s tenure extension still stands despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s rejection. President Muhammadu Buhari had Tuesday shocked members of the APC National Executive Committee (NEC) when he called for a reversal of tenure extension for party officials. However, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the National Publicity Secretary of the Party, in a chat with journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, said the extension stands. Abdullahi pointed out that President Buhari only expressed a personal opinion which cannot be considered the decision of the NEC which…

The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), Wednesday, shared N647.39 billion to federal, states and local governments as revenue generated in the month of February. Mrs Kemi Adeosun, the Minister of Finance, who said this in Abuja, while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the monthly FAAC meeting, noted after deductions for cost of collections had been made to the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Nigeria Customs and the Department of Petroleum Resources, the Federal Government received N257.92 billion. Adeosun said in accordance with the revenue sharing formula, the 36 states governments received N130.82 billion, while the Local Government Councils received…

Twitter is set to join Facebook and Google in a clampdown on cryptocurrencies, banning most advertising of the nascent industry on its platform, the company revealed in a statement. The San Francisco-based firm will this week launch a policy that prohibits advertising of initial coin offerings, a form of crowdfunding used to raise cash by creating new coins, as well as adverts that promote token sales and crypto wallet services. The policy will also ban adverts from crypto-exchanges, with some limited exceptions. Twitter said this month it was taking measures to prevent crypto-related accounts from “engaging with others in a…

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The $186 million Afam Fast power project would be ready for commissioning next month, the Federal Government has announced. The project, tagged “power on the wheel”, initiated by the All Progressives Congress, APC, government in 2016, would add 240 megawatts of electricity to the national grid when it fully becomes operational. Located at Afam III the premises of Afam Power PLC in Oyigbo locaL government area of Rivers State, the project is a collaboration between the federal government and General Electric, GE. Disclosing this during a ministerial press visit, Engr. Olumide Obademi, the Managing Director of Afam Power PLC, said…

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has suspended 205 staff over various unwholesome roles in the 2015 general elections. Chairman of the commission, Mahmud Yakubu, stated this in his keynote address at national colloquium organised by the Independent Service Delivery Monitoring Group, ISDMG, Tuesday in Abuja. Yakubu said that the interdiction recommended by INEC’s Appointments, Promotion and Discipline Committee, APDC, was the highest so far. He said that constructive criticisms from the public had helped the commission to get better in delivering its mandate in conducting credible elections. The INEC boss said the commission’s electoral officers were already in the…

The Senate Tuesday frowned on reports that Senators have been given $50,000 bribe to stop plans to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto of the Electoral Act amendment bill 2018 on sequence of election. Consequently, it mandated committee, headed by Senator Samuel Anyanwu, PDP, Imo East to carry out a holistic investigation into allegations that some senators and House of Representatives members were being bribed by the executive with $50,000 and $30,000 respectively. The Senate particularly asked the committee to carry out a thorough investigation on the allegation published in the Sun newspaper of Monday, March 26, 2018, and report back…

The Federal Government,Tuesday, taunted the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, asking it to complete its apology to Nigerians by returning all the funds looted from the public treasury during its 16 years in power. The PDP, on Monday, reflected on its 16 years stewardship and admitted it made mistakes and asked Nigerians to forgive its wrongdoings. National chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, who spoke at a public discourse, said the party was sorry for its mistakes. But in a statement by Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government also challenged…

The monthly Federal Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, meeting, which began Tuesday was inconclusive due to discrepancies of about N37.76 billion in revenue presented by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Mr. Ahmed Idris, the Accountant-General of the Federation, told newsmen in Abuja that the meeting was inconclusive because of irregularities in figures presented by the NNPC. “Obviously, you are all aware that anything that has to do with federation revenue is statutory and, therefore, constitutional and we must always verify our figures to the last kobo. “Failing to do so will amount to committing illegality and unconstitutionality. “It is on…