Ghana win WAFU B U-20 Championship
Ghana came from behind to beat Burkina Faso 2-1 and win against the WAFU B U-20 Championship trophy at the Stade Charles De Gaulles at Porto Novo on Sunday.
Set-piece specialist Precious Boah was the Dark Satellites hero, as he put a goal before shooting the winner from a freekick to hand his nation the title in the Benin capital.
It was his next freekick goal of the championship which also serves as the Total U-20 Africa Cup of Nations, Mauritania 2021 qualifiers.
Regardless of the victory of the Ghanaians, Burkina Faso midfielder Botue swept all of the individual awards as he was called the finest Player of the Tournament and also added the Top Scorer Award for scoring three goals in the championship.
Both teams will represent WAFU B at the Total U-10 AFCON at Mauritania next February and aspire to excel at the tournament which will witness some of the very best U20 sides on the continent.
Court reinstates 32 Ekiti varsity Employees
The direction December 5, 2019, disengaged over 900 of its workforce for alleged certification forgery, irregular appointment, overage, along with other allegations that contravened its terms of service.
In a lawsuit, 32 technologists of the researchers dragged EKSU, EKSU Governing Council, and EKSU Vice-Chancellor (first to third party defendants) into the Industrial Court to seek redress.
They requested the court to determine whether their employment with EKSU loved statutory protection and whether their disengagement was compatible with their status of occupation, which appreciated the statute.
Amongst others, they sought a declaration of the court their disengagement as employees of EKSU” from the manner it was done was unlawful, irregular, illegal and so null and void and of no effect.
“An arrangement for the restoration and reinstatement of their claimants for their own offices without loss of wages, promotions, emoluments, and other allowances for them as workers of the first respondent (EKSU).
“Payment of the claimants’ three months salaries, emoluments, and other allowances owed them before the purported and unlawful disengagement.”
But counsel to the college prayed the court to not grant the request of their 32 technologists, stating they had been able to establish from the case which their appointments with EKSU were unlawfully determined.
After listening to this submission of the claimants’ and defence’s adviser, the presiding judge, Justice K. D. Damulak, declared the termination of the workers’ appointment as”unlawful, null and void.”
IN its dedication to earn the increase of the small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) its principal focus, SunTrust Bank gave out N23.96 billion as loans and advances to the industry in 2019.
Addressing shareholders at the yearly general meeting in the weekend in Lagos, Chairman, SunTrust Bank Nigeria Limited, Olanrewaju Shittu stated despite the struggles of the year under review, SunTrust Bank managed to raise its balance sheet by 24.61 percent from N43.97 billion to N54.79 billion.
Managing Director, SunTrust Bank, Halima Buba, reiterated the commitment of the lender to the increase of the country’s economy through successful funding of the actual sector.
She said the bank was dedicated to the growth and maturation of the country’s economy through successful funding of the actual sector.
“As you can see we raised our advances and loans by 185.41 percent from N8.4 billion to N23.96 billion and now that I am assuring you that we can do more because we’re devoted to the development of the real sector, realizing fully that, that’s the sole ways to guarantee effective growth and advancement of our country’s market,” Buba said.
Based on her, in accord with the bank’s plan, it’s likely to aggressively drive SMEs trades and part of this plan is retail banking.
“we would like to make a retail bank of selection and surely SMEs is the engine area for the development of any market and also to give financing solutions, to encourage the SMEs is going to be the only way. We can encourage the development of the market and especially in accord with the vision of the CBN and the present government,” Buba said.
She expressed pleasure that clients had substantially increased their deposit into the bank to the tune of N25.7 billion, with a rise of 38.03 percent, adding that since the bank grows, more money will be put aside for corporate social responsibility to produce the communities and people flourish.
“The bank raised the headcount to guarantee greater business growth greater than the previous year. This one of other caused growth in consumer deposits compared with preceding year by 38.03 percent, from N18.64 billion to N25.73 billion, and growth in the bank’s overall assets from N43.97 billion to N54.79 billion,” Buba said.
She expressed optimism concerning the future of this lender presuming that despite the dangers to increase, the lender will make the most of opportunities presented from the forthcoming financial year to enhance earnings, profitability, and asset quality with a view to bringing value to its investors.
: Two Detained for gang-raping, filming Adolescent
The suspects, according to the control’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi were detained after the incident has been reported in Sango police station by the sufferer.
The victim, Oyeyemi stated, had reported that the two suspects, with whom the victim resides in precisely the exact same chemical, dragged her to the area of them, stripped her naked, filmed her naked before taking turns to have unlawful carnal knowledge of her.
The Authorities in Ogun State have detained the duo of Damilare Oyeniyi, 30, and Emmanuel Okori, 20, for supposedly gang-raping that a 19-year-old woman in Ota on December 12.
The suspects, according to the control’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi were detained after the incident has been reported in Sango police station by the sufferer.
The sufferer, Oyeyemi stated, had reported that the two suspects, with whom the victim resides in precisely the exact same chemical, dragged her to the area of them, stripped her naked, filmed her naked before taking turns to have unlawful carnal knowledge of her.
Together with these accounts, the DPO of Sango Division, CSP Godwin Idehai, was stated to possess detailed his men to search for the suspects, who’d bolted following the episode.
The investigative efforts of the detectives, Oyeyemi demonstrated, given the desired outcome since the duo were apprehended on December 16.
They were reported to have confessed filming the sufferer’s nakedness, saying that they threatened to place the video on societal websites if she tells anyone about the incident.
Police Detain five armed robbery suspects in Abuja
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command says that it detained five armed robbery suspects in Abuja last Wednesday.
Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Yusuf Mariam, said in a statement on Sunday that they had been detained around Wuse from the morning after a distress call.
She said the suspects were detained by police operatives from Wuse Division, in the course of robbing their victims of the possessions.
Mariam said that they confessed to being accountable for criminal actions across the Wuse axis.
“The suspects are **Sanusi Ibrahim 20years, Salim Umar 19years, Kabiru Umar 19years, Shamsudeen Rabiu 20years and*Ibrahim Shehu 19years all man. * Exhibits regained are: Eight (8) wristwatches made from silver and gold, five(5) I-pads, five(5)* laptops, twenty-five(25) ID and ATM cards, thirty-three (33) collections of silver and gold jewelry, thirty(30) UAE Dirham, three* thousand(3,000) CFA, one hundred (100) South African Rand, twenty-five million * Naira(N25,000), three(3) cutlasses plus a single (1) sword. * Each of the suspects will be arraigned in court at the conclusion of the investigation.
“While attractive to residents to immediately report all suspicious moves inside their area, the Control wants to reassure residents of its unflinching resolve to tackle crime and ensure security in the FCT throughout the Christmas/New year bash,” the announcement read.
Imo State Governor Hope Uzodinma on Sunday ordered employees to Remain at home until further notice after the upsurge at Covid-19.
He also revealed in the country broadcast that using 920 new confirmed cases recorded in December alone in the nation, the nation has listed six deaths.
Describing the problem in the country as terrifying, he revealed that recent PCR-Based tests completed in the nation with regard to the principles of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), demonstrated a frightful upsurge in the supported instances curve.
“Regrettably, although the grim realities of rising Covid -19 infections have been facing us daily, and overall complacency and a false sense of security amongst our visitors to Covid -19 security protocols stay the order of their day. The opportunity to do this is now. The impending hazard posed by the individual traffic spike occasioned from this season makes drastic and immediate actions in this direction equally cogent and pressing.”
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In this regard, he cautioned that there is an absolute need to prevent collecting of audiences of at least a hundred individuals anywhere in the nation. Where such audiences must collect, those involved need to wear face masks.
There ought to be wash hand racks easily available with alcohol established sanitizers at these events.
This usually means that the state secretariat, which is a significant crowd puller, will stay shut, from tomorrow to the public until further notice.
Mobile courts are deployed all around the country to test any individual captured without wearing face masks.
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Equally, all Covid-19 security protocols will undoubtedly be rigorously enforced. “These include the provision of clean hand racks and sanitizers in worship and markets places. Any individual or persons captured not observing these security protocols will be retrieved from the Mobile courts.
“As we apply the security protocols and track the circumstance, we will regularly review developments to ascertain additional steps which could be critical.
Troops of Operation HADARIN DAJI in conjunction with Police and local vigilante deployed at Dandume LGA of Katsina State have rescued scores of Islamiya children and recovered a herd of cattle from bandits in the state.
According to the Coordinator Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, the troops received a distress call at about 11:30 PM on 19 December 2020 from locals at Mahuta village that suspected bandits were moving with unconfirmed numbers of Islamiya children mostly girls and rustled cattle.
‘The children were returning from Maulud programme at Unguwar Al- Kasim village at Dandume.
”In reaction to the distress call, troops quickly mobilized to the scene, laid ambush and blocked bandits’ route along Daudawa-Kadisau and road Sheme Mairuwa and Unguwar Audu village.
‘While patiently waiting for the bandits at the ambush and blocking position, troops established contact with bandits and engaged them.
”During the fierce battle, troops superior fire power forced bandits to abandon the children and the rustled cattle thereby forcing the bandits to flee in disarray into the forest.
‘The troops thereafter, searched the general area and rescued the 39 kidnapped girls in addition to the recovery of 8 rustled cattle. The victims have been reunited with their families while the recovered cattle handed to the owners.
‘Troops have dominated the general area with aggressive patrol to forestall further occurrence.” He added.
He commended the gallant troops and other security agencies for their sustained successes, while equally appreciating the locals and vigilantes for the cooperation in tackling the insecurity in Katsina State.
Troops of Operation Whirl Stroke have killed two gang members of the late Benue militia war lord ‘Gana’ as they intensify clearance operations in the area.
In a statement, Coordinator Defence Media Operations Major General John Enenche said in continuation of efforts to forestall banditry and other criminal activities in the North Central Zone of the Country, troops have continued to sustain both kinetic and non-kinetic operations in the Zone.
”On 16 December 2020, troops of Operation WHIRL STRIKE, acting on credible intelligence on identified hideout of some of late Gana’s militia gang members in parts of Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State, conducted a dawn raid on the criminals’ location.
”Troops made contact and engaged the criminals at Adangbe Village in Mbacher Council Ward of the Local Government Area. The superior firepower of the troops forced the armed bandits to flee in disarray.
”However, as troops engaged the criminals in a hot pursuit, 2 of them were neutralized, while another was arrested by the gallant troops.
”During the encounter, 3 locally made rifles l, 21 rounds of 7.62mm Special Ammunition as well as other items including a motorcycle were recovered by the troops.
”The arrested one has been handed over to the Police for further action.” He added.
In a statement by the factional State Publicity Secretary of the celebration, Raphael Adeyanju, the PDP advised ‘that the Oyo State Governor to show maturity expected by someone occupying his exalted office and grow over childishness and pettiness.
The party said:” It is quite unfortunate that somebody such as Governor Makinde, that wasn’t a secure member of the PDP may use EFCC trial to mock Fayose, that had been among the last men standing for the party when it lost power in 2015. We’d have dismissed his screen of political childishness and pettiness, but by opting to go gun with his mockery of Fayose, who’s simply being persecuted for standing firmly by the PDP in its own hours of problems, Engr Seyi Makinde has revealed to the public that someone could be a governor and not be a pioneer.”
The opposition party reaffirmed Fayose as the leader of this party in south-west zone, alleging that Makinde was representative of Progressives Congress inducing destabilising from the southwest chapter.
“It isn’t written in the party constitution which if a zone has just 1 governor, that governor automatically becomes the chief of this party. We hereby challenge him to declare that two Progressives Congress (APC) governors from the South-West didn’t encourage his election.
“It’s an open secret that one particular Ayo Adegbite, aide of one of those governors was intercepted by soldiers brought money to Ibadan at a government car for him personally (Makinde).”
The celebration also alleged that Makinde was supporting the preponderance of suits against the celebration from both Ekiti and Osun States to please his paymasters as a payback to the support he obtained during his election.
He explained: “As at 2015 which PDP dropped electricity, Makinde was in Social Democratic Party (SDP). If committed leaders such as Fayose, that stood from the party had abandoned for different parties because he (Makinde) failed, the governorship ticket of the PDP would not have been appealing to him if he returned to the celebration in 2018.
Describing Conor McGregor, the very first individual to maintain titles in two weight divisions at the same time at the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), Arnold Schwarzenegger said the Irish were greater than a fighter’
The legendary actor retired professional Realtor, and former Governor of California both said of the former UFC’s featherweight and lightweight winner: “he is more than an athlete and over a winner.”
Maybe, if there’s another fighter inside the rank and file of this UFC that currently matches this kind of all-encompassing description, that individual is no besides Nigerian-born New Zealand-professional combined martial artist, Israel Adesanya.
Back in September, the 31-year-old Adesanya who grew up in Lagos before glancing abroad together with his parents, got the entire world talking after rapping Paulo Costa in his second-round success at UFC 253.
Victory over Costa at Abu Dhabi took Adesanya’s unbeaten streak in UFC into 20 in as many conflicts with remarkable 15 knockout successes since 2018. Obviously, champions do not arrive well than it sounds, Adesanya is unstoppable with the way he brings down competitions under his magic spell. Nevertheless, it was the way of his defeat on this dominant Costa that really brought home how great Adesanya was how better he could nevertheless be.
Inside his reportage of this UFC 235 sensational success by Adesanya, Joe Coleman of TalkSPORT painted a gripping film: “Israel Adesanya delivered a great performance on Fight Isle to knock out bitter rival Paulo Costa and keep his UFC championship. The previous Stylebender was totally perfect in Abu Dhabi, picking aside his much larger opponent before landing barbarous ground strikes at the next round.
The Brazilian simply couldn’t close the space, eating barbarous lead leg kicks, desperately swinging to attempt to land a highly effective performance.
But, Adesanya showcased his boxing and boxing expertise by using his jab and footwork to evade the onrushing’Borrachinha’.”
Really, this Adesanya is just unstoppable.
Since the middleweight winner, Adesanya is now third in the UFC Men’s pound-for-pound standing supporting Russian Khabib Nurmagomedov (Lightweight Champions and Number 1) and American Jon Jones (Light Heavyweight Champion and Number two ). His net value is allegedly in the area of $2 million.
Can Adesanya function better?
“I think he is gonna function as new Adesanya of this branch,” noted White later Adesanya performed The Eraser (Costa). “He has his own personality and his very own way. I believe he is gonna be the upcoming big star, particularly after tonight’s performance.”
It’s taken Adesanya some hard work to achieve this point and also to be hailed as one of the greatest things to have occurred to UFC, is something particular.
He allegedly started training in kickboxing if he was 18 and his curiosity was fuelled after viewing a Thai movie named Ong-Bak predicated on Muaythai game.
Then he enlisted City Kickboxing to start his professional career in 2001 after going to Auckland, New Zealand with his loved ones. There he coached himself beneath Eugene Bareman along with other recognized MMA fighters like Dan Hooker, Kai Kara-France, and Alexander Volkanovski and proceeded to stockpile an excellent amateur kickboxing record with an unbeaten over 32 struggles before going to China to live and struggle.
In 2016, in addition, he won the Glory 34 middleweight competition championship in Denver. Although he couldn’t win the championship, this game made people watch him among the greatest boxers on the planet. In 2017, Adesanya defeated veteran Melvin Guillard and declared his 10th success in addition to the Australian Fighting Championship Middleweight belt.
However, The previous Stylebender since Adesanya is nicknamed finished his kickboxing career with two losses; he’s turned winning to art because he made his debut in UFC in February 2018.
