Shock After Nigeria Stagger In 2026 World Cup Qualifier

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Shock After Nigeria Stagger In 2026 World Cup Qualifier

Nigeria neglected to meet all requirements for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and were taken out of the last Africa Cup of Nations at the last-16 stage by Tunisia.

The Super Eagle missed the 2022 World Cup. 

 

Nigerian football has been thrown into shock after the Super Eagles were held to a 1-1 home draw by Lesotho in a 2026 World Cup qualifier, with anger directed at Portuguese coach Jose Peseiro.

Nigeria had to come from behind against Lesotho, ranked 153rd by FIFA, in the game played on Thursday in the southern Nigerian city of Uyo

Despite the absence through injury of star forward Victor Osimhen of Napoli, Nigeria had been expected to make a winning start to their World Cup qualifying campaign.

Peseiro, 63, has been made the scapegoat.

The well-travelled former Venezuela coach was never a popular choice to head the three-time African champions, but the decision to extend his contract till next year’s Africa Cup of Nations has drawn criticism.

Nigeria had won all three head-to-head meetings against the southern Africans before Thursday’s draw.

Former Nigeria international defender Ifeanyi Udeze said he was enraged by the “unacceptable” result.

“This was our first World Cup qualifier in front of the home fans and we couldn’t beat Lesotho.

“This was a match not against Cameroon or the Ivory Coast or Ghana. This was a loss.”

Analyst David Mikel Okoye blamed the disappointing start by the Eagles squarely on Peseiro.

“That the Super Eagles will go nowhere with Jose Peseiro’s absolutely limited tactical nous is no secret,” he said.

“The man does not know how best to utilize this team and he keeps picking the wrong personnel per game with a limiting formation.”

Sports journalist Wale Ajayi said it was a mistake to renew the contract of the Portuguese coach.

“Peseiro has to go, he’s a bad coach,” he said. “Renewing his contract was renewing disaster.”

Peseiro himself blamed bad luck for the draw.

“I am sad of course, disappointed by the result, but my team tried to do the maximum,” he said.

“We had 76% of the ball possession against 24%, the opponents only had two chances to score and scored a goal.

“We had many chances to score. It was bad luck.”

Nigeria failed to qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and were knocked out of the last Africa Cup of Nations at the last-16 stage by Tunisia.

Source: Channel TV

Internet Fraud: NAF Personnel Tempest Kaduna EFCC Office Over Co-worker' Capture

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Internet Fraud: NAF Personnel Tempest Kaduna EFCC Office Over Co-worker' Capture

The soldiers showed up at the EFCC office sited at Number 4, Wurno Street in the Kaduna State capital around 10 am in around three Hilux watch vans.

Nigerian Air Force personnel storm the EFCC office in Kaduna State on Friday, November 17, 2023.

 

Operatives of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Friday stormed the Kaduna State Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the arrest of some suspected Internet fraudsters.

The suspects incorporated some serving military faculty.

The fighters showed up at the EFCC office sited at Number 4, Wurno Street in the Kaduna State capital around 10 am in around three Hilux watch vans and encompassed the primary entryway of the counter join commission office in this manner keeping the EFCC authorities from going in or out of your workplaces.

In what looked like a battle situation, the Flying corps fighters and cops connected to the EFCC drew in another in a yelling coordinate with the two government security offices pointing their firearms at one another.

Responding to the turn of events, the representative for the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, told Channel TV in a call that the suspects which included one help personnel  of the Nigerian Armed force and six from the NAF were captured on Monday for Web related extortion.

The EFCC Head of Media and Exposure made sense of that the suspects were in the guardianship of the commission, forthcoming the finish of its examination and arraignment of the suspects.

He added that the commission was a legal Central Government policing that couldn't be forced by a sister organization while doing its true obligation.

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Appeal Court Sacks Gov. Abba Yusuf Of NNPP, Affirms Decision Of Lower Court

 Gov. Abba Yusuf Of Kano State

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the order of the Kano state governorship election petition tribunal which sacked Abba Yusuf, candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), as governor of the state.

In a judgment delivered on Friday, a three-member panel of the appellate court held that the NNPP breached the constitution by sponsoring Yusuf who was not a member of the Party

Source: AIT

Appeal Court Avows Bala Mohammed's Political race As Bauchi Governor

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Appeal Court Avows Bala Mohammed's Political race As Bauchi Governor

  The Appeal Court, Abuja Division, on Friday, attested the triumph of Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State in the March 18 governorship political election.

A file photo of Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed

 

The Appeal Court, Abuja Division, on Friday, affirmed the victory of Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State in the March 18 governorship election.

The appeal was recorded by the All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship applicant, Sadique Abubakar.

The board of three judges were consistent, granting no expense as the court decided that each party to the matter ought to bear their expenses.

The directing Justice read the judgment in the request for the litigant's supplication under the watchful eye of the allure court.

On supplication number one, the litigant argued that the political race be invalidated on the grounds that the structures and booklets utilized in the political race were not as expected filled. The court decided that the appealing party neglected to demonstrate this charge with the required proof.

The court likewise decided that the litigant neglected to express the surveying units engaged with the said charges and that he couldn't state what was absent in the structures. It further held that the appealing party couldn't demonstrate what the said inappropriately filled structures meant for the consequences of the political decision.

The court held that the observers called by the litigant couldn't demonstrate that they comprehended what the structures resembled, while lauding the council for making a careful showing by examining the proof before it.

On the supplication that there was monstrous resistance with the appointive regulations, the court decided that the appealing party again couldn't demonstrate this, as a portion of the observers who affirmed didn't decide on final voting day and the people who casted a ballot just talked in view of what they found in their surveying units alone.

On the issue of the supposed amateurish direct of INEC authorities, the court had similar perspectives as the council, saying it was never essential for the supplication by the appealing party at the lower court and that it was not argued and couldn't be contended.

The request was decided for the main respondent, Mohammed.

On the request about deceitful retractions, mutilations and modifications to incline toward the PDP competitor, the appeal court noticed that, whenever demonstrated, misrepresentation of results is a crook matter that could prompt the undoing of political decision results.

In any case, according to the court, the appealing party had the weight to demonstrate this and needed to bring the authentic one, in the event that he contended the one offered by INEC was misrepresented.

The court noticed that the appealing party, tragically, couldn't demonstrate this. The court likewise said the most un-the litigant might have done was available a veritable outcome alongside the said misrepresented one.

Lagos Declares Transitory Closure Of Adekunle Incline, Lists Alternative Route

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 Lagos Declares Transitory Closure Of Adekunle Incline, Lists Alternative Route

The transportation Commissioner says development work is continuous on the consistently bustling route with an objective to finish it under a five-week deadline.

A file photo showing traffic cones on a road.

 

The Lagos State Government has announced the temporary closure of the Adekunle Ramp for road users linking the Third Mainland Bridge and Ebute Meta in the state.

This is with development work continuous on the consistently bustling course with an objective to finish it under a five-week cutoff time, according to a statement on Thursday by the Commissioner for Transportation, Mr Oluwaseun Osiyemi.

The whole traffic internal and outward of the incline will near traffic from Sunday, November 19 till December 8 (the fruition time of 5 weeks reserved for the task).

See the full statement below:

LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT

MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION

PRESS RELEASE

DIVERSION OF TRAFFIC ON ADEKUNLE RAMP, INWARD AND OUTWARD

Following the level of the construction works ongoing on Adekunle Ramp and in order to complete it in record time of Five Weeks, the entire traffic inward and outward of the ramp will close to traffic from Sunday, 19th November till 8th December, 2023, (the completion period of 5 weeks earmarked for the project).

Consequently, alternative routes presently in use still subsist as follows;

1. Motorists from Lagos Island heading to Ebute Meta will make use of Ilubirin to connect Carter Bridge (Idumota Bridge) to link Iddo inwards Otto/Oyingbo axis and access Herbert Macaulay Way to link their desired destinations.

2. Motorists from Victoria Island are to go through Bonny Camp to Onikan Marina Bridge, Apongbon to link Eko Bridge, Costain via Apapa Road, Railway Compound to link Alagomeji, Glover Road to access Apena Junction, Herbert Macaulay Way to connect their desired destinations.

3. In the same vein, Motorists wishing to travel through Adekunle to Ebute- Meta from Lagos- Ibadan are advised to make use of Ikorodu Road (Ojota, Anthony, Onipanu, Fadeyi) and Jibowu to access Herbert Macaulay Way to continue their journeys.

4. Motorists from Gbagada can go through Anthony Interchange to link Ikorodu Road inwards Jibowu to access Herbert Macaulay Way and link their desired destinations.

5. Motorists from Apapa-Oshodi Expressway wishing to link Ebute-Meta are advised to link Oshodi Bridge to Town Planning Way to Ikorodu Road to access their various destinations

Adequate traffic and security personnel are still on ground at the construction zones and the various alternative routes/critical points, Motorists are encouraged to cooperate with them, exercise patience and observe safety measures during the palliative works.

It should be noted that the entire stretch of 3rd Mainland Bridge inward and outward is still open to Motorists during this period as only the Adekunle ramp is affected.

E-signed;

Mr. Oluwaseun Osiyemi,

Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation.

16th November, 2023.

FG Charges Emefiele On Six Counts Of Supposed N1.6bn Acquisition Misrepresentation

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FG Charges Emefiele On Six Counts Of Supposed N1.6bn Acquisition Misrepresentation

In the changed charge sheet, the Federal Government claimed that Emefiele unlawfully purchased 43 vehicles somewhere in the range of 2018 and 2020 worth N1.2 billion.

FILE: Former CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, at the FCT High Court, Abuja on August 17, 2023. 

 

The Federal Government has arraigned the immediate past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele, on a six-count charge bordering on alleged procurement.

The first charge, which was 20 builds up to the tune of N6.5 billion, has been decreased to six, to the tune N1.6 billion. Emefiele is the main respondent in the new charge.

The previous CBN Governor showed up in court on Friday for an application for bail, arguing not blameworthy to the six-count charge after it was perused to him.

Emefiele showed up with perfect timing for the initiation of the day's procedures.

As indicated by the altered charge sheet, the charges actually verge on acquirement misrepresentation.

In the altered charge sheet, the Central Government claimed that Emefiele unlawfully purchased 43 vehicles somewhere in the range of 2018 and 2020 worth N1.2 billion.

He was blamed for granting an agreement for the obtainment of 37 Toyota Hilux Vehicles esteemed at N854 million.

Count one read, "That you, Godwin Ifeanyi Emefiele, male, grown-up, at some point in 2018 inside the purview of this Good Court involved your situation as Legislative head of the National Bank of Nigeria to give a bad benefit on Sa'adatu Ramallan Yaro, a staff of the National Bank of Nigeria by granting an agreement for the stockpile of 37 Toyota Hilux Vehicles at the expense of N854,700,000 just to April1616 Venture Ltd, an organization in which the said Sa'adatu Ramallan Yaro is a chief and consequently dedicated an offense."

In the subsequent count, Emefiele was blamed for utilizing his situation to corruptly present a benefit on Yaro, "a staff of the National Bank of Nigeria by granting an agreement for the stock of one Toyota Avalon at the expense of N99,900,000 just to April1616 Speculation Ltd, an organization in which the said Sa'adatu Ramallan Yaro Chief and consequently dedicated an offense."

He was likewise blamed for presenting degenerate benefit in opposition to Segment 19 of the Bad Practices and Other Related Offenses Act 2000 by granting an agreement for the stockpile of one Toyota Landcruiser V8 April1616 Venture Ltd., in 2019 at the expense of N73 million.

The fourth count was about a Toyota Landcruiser V8 esteemed N73,800,000 granted unlawfully to April 1616 Speculation Ltd.

The Central Government further blamed the previous CBN Governor for likewise granting an agreement to Yaro for the stockpile of two Toyota Hilux Shell Detail Vehicles at the expense of N44,200,000 in 2020.

Equity Hamza Muazu of the Government Capital Domain High Court dismissed the case till November 22 for administering on the bail use of Emefiele and November 28 for the beginning of preliminary.

In the meantime, he requested that Emefiele be remanded at the Kuje Correctional Center.

Tinubu Gets back To Nigeria After Guinea-Bissau Outing

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Tinubu Gets back To Nigeria After Guinea-Bissau Outing

President Bola Tinubu has shown up in the nation subsequent to joining President Umaro Sissoco Embalo and the Public authority of Guinea-Bissau to commend their 50th Autonomy Commemoration and Military Day.

Tinubu returned to Nigeria late Thursday. PHOTO: State House/Musbau Dan Wahab

 

President Bola Tinubu has arrived in the country after joining President Umaro Sissoco Embalo and the Government of Guinea-Bissau to celebrate their 50th Independence Anniversary and Armed Forces Day.

President Tinubu showed up in Bissau on Thursday around 6 am for the service and was energetically invited at the occasion which he went to at the greeting of President Embalo.

Close by different heads of state and government, he participated in the merriments in Bissau, the nation's capital.

With them were the Portuguese Prime Minister, António Costa; Gambia President, Adama Barrow.