Goalkeeper Ter Stegen To Miss Germany Friendlies Because of Back Agony

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Goalkeeper Ter Stegen To Miss Germany Friendlies Because of Back Agony

Nagelsmann said 31-year-old Ter Stegen's physical issue just turned out to be clear without further ado before Friday's public interview and a choice on his substitution had not yet been made.

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Barcelona’s German goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegen reacts after conceding an eighth goal during the UEFA Champions League quarter-final football match against Bayern Munich at the Luz stadium in Lisbon on August 14, 2020. 

 

Barcelona and Germany goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen has been ruled out of the upcoming matches against Turkey and Austria with “acute back pain”, national coach Julian Nagelsmann confirmed on Friday.

“He will return to Barcelona,” Nagelsmann told reporters.

“We hope he’s back 100 per cent fit as soon as possible.”

Nagelsmann said 31-year-old Ter Stegen’s injury only became clear shortly before Friday’s press conference and a decision on his replacement had not yet been made.

“We will wait until training and make a decision together,” he said.

Nagelsmann said it was at this stage unclear how long the goalkeeper would be missing.

“I think that’s a decision for the doc in Barcelona,” he said.

Eintracht Frankfurt’s Kevin Trapp, Hoffenheim’s Oliver Baumann and RB Leipzig’s Janis Blaswich are the remaining goalkeepers in Nagelsmann’s squad.

Ter Stegen established himself as the number one during the long-term absence of Manuel Neuer, who won the World Cup with Germany in 2014.

Nagelsmann said it was at this stage unclear how long the goalkeeper would be missing.

“I think that’s a decision for the doc in Barcelona,” he said.

Eintracht Frankfurt’s Kevin Trapp, Hoffenheim’s Oliver Baumann and RB Leipzig’s Janis Blaswich are the remaining goalkeepers in Nagelsmann’s squad.

Ter Stegen established himself as the number one during the long-term absence of Manuel Neuer, who won the World Cup with Germany in 2014.

Bayelsa Poll: I Would Have Moved My Mom To Abuja If Diri Had Lost - Jonathan

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Bayelsa Poll: I Would Have Moved My Mom To Abuja If Diri Had Lost - Jonathan

Jonathan, who is a previous Governor of the oil-rich state, talked on Friday when he visited Diri in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, very nearly multi week after the governor raged to triumph in a definitely challenged poll.

Governor Diri and Jonathan.

 

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has hailed Governor Douye Diri’s efforts at tackling insecurity, saying the Bayelsa leader’s re-election means the state would be a lot safer. 

Jonathan, who is a previous Governor of the oil-rich state, talked on Friday when he visited Diri in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, very nearly multi week after the governor raged to triumph in a definitely challenged poll.

While praising Diri for winning the activity, the previous president said in the event that Douye had lost, the additions made in checking frailty would have been lost.

"We would rather not go into superfluous emergency in the state. Results have been announced and we accept the political decision was directed. We accept the governor won the political decision and we argue that individuals ought to acknowledge it and work with the governor. Let us all help him with the goal that the state will push forward," he said during the social affair.

"There ought to not be anything that will push the state in reverse. We ought to contemplate the advancement of the state beginning from the issue of harmony and security in the state which inside this last period, three years also, there are critical enhancements with regards to cultism and kidnapped et cetera.

"I was saying before this political race that assuming Diri loses this political race, I would have moved my mom to Abuja."

While relating how his cousin was kidnapped and killed, Jonathan communicated idealism that with Diri returning as the governor of the express, the circumstance would before long be a relic of times gone by.

"My cousin was kidnapped twice on one of those events, one of my cousins, Solo, was killed on the grounds that they tossed him into the river and he didn't have the foggiest idea how to swim," he added.

"Thus, we've gone through a lot of hardship in this state and we've seen somewhat reason to have hope. Thus, individuals ought to quiet down, and permit Diri to zero in on administration so he will actually want to drive this state forward with the goal that we will benefit as residents of the state."

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.