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FIFA has hired a top American lawyer Jenny Durkan, who was a candidate to become US attorney general, to help in its battle against a corruption storm, officials said Wednesday.

An Italian neurosurgeon’s project to undertake the first human head transplant has received a skeptical welcome in the United States, where he made a pitch to donors and fellow scientists.

Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote insists that soon he will have ‘enough time and enough resources’ to buy Arsenal football club, whatever the price.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as a product of poor thinking and deliberate mischief the statement credited to the
so-called PDP Media Watchdog asking President Muhammadu Buhari to resign because of his comments over his age.

Two antique books dating back to the 17th century, stolen in Stockholm in the 1990s and sold to Americans by a German auction house were returned to Sweden on Wednesday, US officials said. US authorities handed back the books, intercepted by the FBI from a bookstore in Manhattan and from Cornell University, to the National Library of Sweden at a ceremony in New York.

Dauda said that members of the racketeers specialised in the production of tanker drivers’ licenses. He explained that owing to the cumbersome processes leading to the issuance of the licenses, tanker drivers preferred to bypass the procedure by patronising quacks.

President of the Senate, Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki Wednesday warned government agencies adamant of not remitting Federal Government revenue to the Federation account saying government will no longer condone such mismanagement act

Speaker of the Lagos state House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa has said that the pursuit of a special status for Lagos will be one of the legislative agenda of the 8th Lagos Assembly.

President of the Senate, Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki has cleared air on the N8.64billion bogus wardrobe allowance to lawmakers as reported in the media, saying the Commission is charged with fixing of remunerations to public office holders and advise the media to be more accurate in their reporting

Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers has promised to settle the backlog of salaries and other allowances owed players of the Dolphins FC of Port Harcourt from August 2014 to May this year. This is contained in a statement by the media manager of the club, China Acheru on Wednesday.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fatah al-Sissi, on Wednesday, in a symbolic gesture that coincides with start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, pardoned 165 young Egyptian prisoners. An official report from Cairo said the 165 pardoned also include people convicted of committing unspecified offences and some for violating a disputed protest law.

South Africa government has said it would investigate how Al-Bashir slipped out of the country, in spite of the court order.
The South African Litigation Centre (SALC), which brought the urgent order, said there appeared to be a prima facie case that the order banning Al-Bashir from leaving the country was violated.

This picture with such a high profile producer would mean music lovers are bound to hear of projects these two great disc jockeys would both handle which would probably shake the world as both are known for being the brains behind hit bangers that have kept living on charts worldwide.

At least 13 people were killed and 53 others injured in northeast Nigeria when an explosive device detonated, a health official and vigilantes helping the military against Boko Haram said Wednesday. The device was picked up by one of the vigilantes as they travelled back to the town of Monguno, in Borno state, from a military operation against the Islamists in Marte, 40 kilometres (26 miles) away.