He said that a friend recently reminded him of events surrounding his journey in politics, particularly an incident in July 2015 which, according to him, could have claimed his life.

Okoye was the final member of Nigeria’s 24-man squad to arrive in camp after missing the team’s first two training sessions.

“If certain conditions are met, the strait will be open within seven days and talks will start,” Abbas Araghchi, who is in the US for the UN General Assembly, told media outlets including the New York Times and The Guardian.

Iraq’s Najaf airport, a top destination for Shia Muslims, suspended all Iranian flights on Friday, enforcing US sanctions, the airport director told AFP.

In today’s Nigerian newspapers review programme, Today in the News, Vanguard leads with the Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan; former Nigerian Bar Association President, Mazi Afam Osigwe (SAN) and political economist, Prof. Patrick Utomi, warning that democracy is weakened when the courts become the arena in which electoral victories are finally decided.