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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari may be sued by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) over his failure to direct prosecution of 103 high-profile corruption cases including tracing the whereabouts of 15 alleged missing files. Consequently, SERAP has asked Buhari to “instruct Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN) to take steps to expeditiously, diligently, effectively and fairly prosecute over 103 high-profile corruption cases. The organisation said if it does not hear from government about the steps being taken in this direction within the next 14 days “the Registered Trustees of SERAP shall take all appropriate legal actions to compel…

A Nigerian MMA fighter, Israel Adesanya, has retained his UFC middleweight title after knocking out the Brazilian challenger during a second-round TKO in Abu Dhabi on Saturday night, September 26. Adesanya, 31, defeated Brazil’s Paulo Costa Paulo Costa after battering the opponent’s front leg with multiple kicks. The middleweight undefeated champion quieted the Brazilian fighter’s trash-talking in the first round of the main event on Fight Island. So far, Adesanya has won his 20th professional MMA victory and remains the world’s best middleweight at a perfect 20-0. In the second round, Adesanya opened up Costa’s face with a high kick…

Judge Amy Coney Barrett has been nominated to the Supreme Court, US President Donald Trump said Saturday, in a highly anticipated announcement that sets up a political showdown between Republicans and Democrats in the Senate. Married with seven children, Barrett, 48, is a constitutional scholar and conservative jurist who Trump named to the federal appeals bench in 2017. Her nomination comes just over a week after the death of longtime Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a staunch liberal, on September 18. “Today it is my honour to nominate one of our nation’s most brilliant and gifted legal minds to…

Nigeria Saturday recorded three more deaths within the past 24 hours, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced. In a late-night tweet, NCDC also stated that the country recorded 136 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number to 58,198 cases. Of the number, 49,722 cases of recovered while the death toll stands at 1,106 across the 36 states including Federal Capital Territory. The 136 cases recorded on Saturday were from 16 states, including Lagos (41), Ogun (27), Rivers (19), Abia (10), Oyo (6), Plateau (6), Bauchi (5), Ondo (5), Ekiti (4), Kaduna (4), Edo (3), Ebonyi (2), Bayelsa…

Big-spending Chelsea came from 3-0 down to salvage a 3-3 draw at newly-promoted West Brom on Saturday. Chelsea manager Frank Lampard handed the captain’s armband to Thiago Silva on his Premier League debut, but the Brazilian had a nightmare first 45 minutes as the Blues’ defensive deficiencies were easily exposed. Callum Robison pounced on errors from Marcos Alonso and Silva to fire twice beyond Willy Caballero, who replaced Kepa Arrizabalaga in the Chelsea goal. Kyle Bartley then made it 3-0 to the Baggies, who had lost their opening two games back in the top flight. Chelsea have spent a reported…

Google is updating its free mapping service this week with color-coding that maps out areas infected with COVID-19 cases, the search giant said in a blog post Thursday. Tapping the new “COVID-19” option in a layers feature in a top corner of a screen will enhance maps using the latest 7-day average of cases per 100,000 people in areas being viewed, it said. A label will also let users know whether the number of COVID-19 cases in a particular spot is trending up or down, according to Maps product manager Sujoy Banerjee. The tool is meant to provide “critical information…

A Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Ita Enang, has stated that the 36 Nigerian Governor are in support of withdrawal of petroleum subsidy. So far, the Federal Government has paid trillions of naira on subsidy for the import of petroleum products to the country. As such, the government raised the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) from N148 to N151.56 though marketers have raised it to N162 per litre, an increment that has unsettled the Organised Labour to have given the government as one of the conditions to withdraw the increment, else it…

For a second time, the convoy of Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State in Nigeria Friday suffered a heavy casualty in the hands of Boko Haram terrorists along the Baga Highway in the Northern part of the state. No fewer than 15 security personnel comprising eight policemen, three soldiers and four Civilian-JTF personnel died after suspected Boko Haram gunmen ambushed and rained bullets on the convoy of Borno officials travelling to Baga town. The attack came barely two months after Zulum was attacked around the same axis by the insurgents on his way from Baga. The convoy was heading to…

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has announced the names of coaches for all of the country’s national football teams. President of the Nigeria Football Coaches Association, Ladan Bosso was named as handler of the Nigeria U20 team. The veteran tactician returns to the team 13 years after leading the Flying Eagles to a failed expedition at the 2007 U20 FIFA World Cup Canada – where his team bowed out of the championship after suffering a 4-0 obliteration to Canada in the quarter-final. The former FC Ifeanyi Ubah coach  will be assisted by Jolomi Atune Alli and Oladuni Oyekale with Shuaibu…

Nigeria, Friday, notched 58,062 COVID-19 cases after recording 213 new infections. Two new deaths were reported as a result of the virus, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Of the confirmed cases, 49,606 were discharged and 1,103 deaths reported across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. Friday’s new cases were reported from 17 states, with the highest figure of 51 from Lagos, Plateau (51), FCT (29), Rivers (18), Ondo (12), Oyo (9), Osun (8), Gombe (7), Ogun (7), Kaduna (5), Enugu (4), Edo (3), Jigawa (3), Kano (3), Benue (1), Delta (1), Sokoto (1). Earlier…