A 27-year-old, Shehu Sanni, who was charged with stabbing a commercial motorcyclist to death with a pair of scissors, was on Wednesday remanded at Ikoyi Prisons, Lagos. Sanni, a commercial motorcyclist (okada rider), who resides at No. 22, Abeokuta St., Oko Baba, Ebute Meta, is facing a charge of murder at an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court.

“Platini is not good for FIFA. Football’s fans and players deserve better,” he said in a statement. “FIFA is engulfed in scandal. We must stop doing business as usual. The practice of back-room, under-the-table deals must end.

Alechenu premised his rejection on the grounds that the document did not originate from the party seeking to tender. The document in contention is a letter dated July 27, 2015 authorising INEC staff to be witness in the suit. The PDP counsel averred that the letter could only be tendered in evidence either through the INEC Chairman, the Resident Electoral Commissioner or the author of the letter, insisting that the witness was neither of them.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in neighbouring Cameroon on Wednesday for talks on how to combat the escalating regional threat from Boko Haram Islamists. Security was tight for the 24-hour visit, after a surge of Boko Haram violence in Cameroon including an unprecedented series of five suicide bombings in the far north.

Being the concluding part of an opinion by Paddy Ezeala. The first part was published last week. Read on: A technical analysis of our semi-final exit against Senegal in Mali 2002, against Tunisia in Tunisia 2004, against Cote d’Ivoire in Egypt 2006, and against Ghana in Angola 2010 will reveal in-depth tactical deficiencies on the part […]