Chuck Blazer was provisionally banned from the FIFA Executive Committee on Monday following a decision by the chairman of the FIFA Ethics Committee, Hans-Joachim Eckert.

New Delhi / Doha, Bharti Airtel global telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, today announced that it has entered into a binding agreement with Qatar Foundation Endowment (“QFE”), under which Bharti will issue 199,870,006 of its new shares to QFE representing a shareholding of 5% in the Company, post issuance of the new shares.

Lokoja, the Kogi State capital is one of the ten cities selected by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat for its City Resilience Profiling Programme CRPP. The announcement was made last week in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

The Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Monday, dismissed as an empty outburst, the threat by former Niger Delta warlord, Asari Dokubo, that there would be no peace in Nigeria if President Goodluck Jonathan was not returned for a second term in 2015.

HUNDREDS of angry Biafran military pensioners in the country Monday besieged the Oyo State Secretariat saying they regretted fighting against Biafran soldiers to ensure the unity of the country.