Blatter, Platini bans reduced from eight years to six on appeal — FIFA
A FIFA appeals committee has reduced the bans against Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini from eight to six years, but agreed with a previous ruling that both had committed ethics violations.
FG seeks abolition of visa requirement among D-8 member countries
Visa,The Federal Government has called for the abolition of visa requirement among the members of the Developing Eight (D-8) Countries Organisation for Economic Cooperation to ensure free movement of people and trade.
Naira appreciates further to N305/$
The naira continued its appreciation against the dollar in the parallel market Wednesday, as the parallel market exchange rate dropped further to N305 per dollar.
I didn’t strangle my neighbour’s 7 year-old girl, footballer tells court
“I was scared of what would be done to me if people in the neighborhood found out what happened to Ayuba,’’ ,’’ Nwachukwu testified. He, however, admitted that he disposed Ayuba’s corpse with a rope in an underground septic tank also known as ‘soak-away’. He said, “I did the only thing that came to my mind by disposing the corpse in a soak-away located on the street.’’
Mother cannot stay permanently in son’s flat, rules German court
A German court ruled on Wednesday that the mother of a university student was not allowed to stay permanently at her son’s flat, if his flat mates do not want her there.
Court grants N5m bail to accused charged with raping minor
Magistrate W. B. Balogun sitting at an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday granted a N5 million bail to 32- year-old Abeng Oji charged with defiling a six-year-old minor. Balogun also ordered the accused horticulturist to produce two sureties who must own properties supported with genuine Certificates of occupancy (C of O).
