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Former Manchester United’s Portuguese manager Jose Mourinho (C) falls as he drops the puck to start a Continental hockey league match between Avangard Omsk and SKA Saint Petersburg in Balashikha outside Moscow on February 4, 2019. STRINGER / AFP Former Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho embarrassingly slipped after presenting a symbolic face-off to a match in Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) on Monday. Videos of the 56-year-old boss falling on a red carpet on the ice rink in Balashikha appeared on social media after the accident. Mourinho was invited by KHL side Avangard Omsk in Siberia to take part in promotional work for the club and signed photographs ahead of the match with SKA Saint Petersburg. The two-time Champions League winner was helped back to his feet by Avangard’s former Detroit Red Wings centreman Pavel Datsyuk after the puck drop. Avangard play their home games in the city just outside Moscow after their usual arena was found to be unsafe for h...

By Elizabeth ADEGBESAN A heightened wave of electronic fraud known as ‘alert flashing’, otherwise, ‘fake bank alert’ has become a major source of concern to bank customers. It involves the use of SMS messages disguised as a transaction alert from a bank, to defraud unsuspecting victims. The Commissioner of Police, Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos, Mr. Damian Okoro, has warned the public about this menace in a message where he also narrated how a bank customer fell victims to a fake bank alert. He said: “Please this is a true story which happened just few days ago. My friend advertised for sale a car and put the price at N2.7 million. A prospective customer called and was given direction on how to get where the car was parked. He observed the car and informed my friend that he was heading to the bank to make payment and that she should assemble the document ready for collection as soon as payment is made. Zenith Bank launches POS payments without cards “Shortly after th...

Google has banned 29 beauty camera apps after discovering that they redirect users to phishing websites, send them pornographic contents and steal their private pictures. Some of the apps also share malicious ads. Google banned the apps from its Playstore after the problem was discovered. However, most of the apps have been downloaded over a million times especially in Asia with India standing out. The full list of these 29 apps is as given below:- Pro Camera Beauty, Cartoon Art Photo, Emoji Camera, Artistic effect Filter, Art Editor, Beauty Camera, Selfie Camera Pro, Horizon Beauty Camera, Super Camera, Art Effects for Photo, Awesome Cartoon Art, Art Filter Photo, Cartoon Effect, Art Effect, Photo Editor, Wallpapers HD, Magic Art Filter Photo Editor, Fill Art Photo Editor, ArtFlipPhotoEditing, Art Filter, Cartoon Art Photo, Prizma Photo Effect, Cartoon Art Photo Filter, Art Filter Photo Editor, Pixture, Art Effect, Photo Art Effect, Cartoon Photo Filter.

Evans A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday struck out a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwamadike (a.k.a Evans), against the police over seizure of his property. Justice Mojisola Olatoregun held that the court lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the case. She said that the suit ought to have been filed before a Lagos State High Court where the applicant was facing charges of kidnapping. Evans, through his counsel, Mr Olukoya Ogungbeje, filed the suit in June 2018 and joined as respondents, the Inspector General of Police (IG), the Nigeria Police and IG’s Intelligence Response Team. The applicant prayed the court to declare that the alleged forceful seizure of his property by the respondents without any court order was illegal and unconstitutional. He listed some of the property as N500 million, another N500 million, two residential houses located at Magodo, Lagos State, a Brigade wristwatch worth $20,000, necklaces w...

By Luminous Jannamike Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili has blamed her decision to run for presidency on the platform of her now estranged party, the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, ACPN, on an error of judgement on her part. Dr Oby Ezekwesili Ezekwesili, who announced her withdrawal from the presidential race, last week, stated this on Monday at a world press conference in Abuja. According to her, she fell for the ‘tricks’ of the ACPN leadership when they approached her to run for presidency on their platform because they created an impression that the party believed in her disapproval of the transactional money-grabbing politics of the PDP and APC which has held the country back since independence. She said: “When the ACPN leadership approached me in a series of visits to appeal that I run for office on their platform, the party appeared to be a good fit. It was founded by some disgruntled PDP members some years ago, but when its prime founder decid...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says 400,000 Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) were yet to be collected out of the 3,215, 273 registered in the state. INEC PVCs Mr Enabor Edwin,  the Head of INEC  Voter Education and Publicity Department in Rivers, Said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Port Harcourt. Edwin said that the commission had received a total of 3,118,638 PVCs from Abuja. He said that about 96,735 cards were yet to be received from the commission’s headquarters. “About 2, 700541 voters have collected their PVCs in the state and we have about 4,18097 individual cards yet to be collected at the Local Government Areas as at Jan. 31. “Collection of PVCs is still ongoing in the state at the various LGAs,’’ he said. Edwin said that relocation, deaths and transfers of workers could be some of the challenges that could affect the collection of PVCs before the deadline of Feb. 8. He said that registere...

handout video footage still image released by the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) shows the rear left side of the fuselage, including part of the aircraft registration, identified as part of the wreckage from the missing Piper Malibu aircraft that disappeared two weeks ago carrying footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson lying on the seabed under the English Channel. / AFP British investigators said Monday they had spotted a body in the wreckage of a plane that disappeared in the Channel two weeks ago carrying Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala and his pilot. Sala, 28, was flying from France to join his new club, Premier League side Cardiff City, when the light aircraft disappeared on January 21 north of the island of Guernsey. A wreck was found on the seabed on Sunday and closer inspection by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) confirmed both that it was the missing plane, and that a body was inside. “Tragically, in video footage from the ROV, one occup...

Everything you need to live well David Oyelowo was born to Yoruba parents in Oxford, England. He, however, spent his formative years in London before moving to Lagos He attended a boarding school in Lagos before they moved to Islington when he was 14. Upon graduation, he enrolled at the City and Islington College to study theatre. He moved to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA) where he took up acting classes until his graduation in 1998. During this time, he also trained at the National Youth Theatre. In 1999, his stage career started when he was offered a season with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He came into limelight after his stage performance as King Henry VI in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2001 productions. This made him the first black actor to play an English king in a Shakespeare production. His performance later earned him the 2001 Ian Charleson Awards for best performance by an actor under 30 in a classical play. In 2002, he took up the r...

Lyon’s French forward Moussa Dembele (R) runs for the ball next to Paris Saint-Germain’s German defender Thilo Kehrer (L) during the French L1 football match between Olympique Lyonnais (OL) and Paris-Saint Germain (PSG) at Groupama stadium in Decines-Charpieu, near Lyon, on February 3, 2019. (Photo by ROMAIN LAFABREGUE / AFP) Moussa Dembele scored and won a penalty as Lyon stunned Paris Saint-Germain 2-1 on Sunday to end the runaway leaders’ hopes of an unbeaten Ligue 1 campaign. Angel Di Maria fired PSG into a seventh-minute lead, but Dembele equalised and Nabil Fekir scored the winner from the spot three minutes after half-time. “I don’t know if the defeat was deserved. In the first half it was deserved, but after half-time, we still dominated,” said PSG forward Kylian Mbappe. The reigning champions remain 10 points clear of second-placed Lille at the top of the table despite the defeat, with two games in hand, while Lyon strengthened their grip on third spot, three points ...

Burning of cars at the scene where a car bomb exploded in Mogadishu,/ AFP At least nine people were killed and several wounded when a car loaded with explosives blew up near a mall in a busy market in the Somali capital on Monday, police said. “The blast occurred close to Mogadishu mall and it has caused death and destruction. Nine civilians were confirmed dead and several others are wounded,” police officer Ahmed Moalin Ali said. Source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/02/nine-killed-in-somali-market-car-bombing.html

update by Vanguard By Emma Una/Ike Uchechukwu CALABAR – ROSICRUCIAN Order, also known as AMORC has said they do not engage in the practice of endorsing candidates contesting elections because it is not a political organisation and within its ranks are people from different ethnic, religious and political affiliations. A man holds a sign as protesters assemble outside the secretariat of the Nigerian Bar Association during a protest in Abuja over the suspension of Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) in Abuja on January 28, 2019. – Nigeria’s government has denied suggestions that the suspension of the country’s top judge on corruption charges was linked to next month’s election. President Muhammadu Buhari replaced Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen on January 25, 2019, sparking claims he had breached the constitution and was trying to manipulate the judiciary. (Photo AFP) Dr Kenneth Idiodi, the Grand Administrator and Director of the board who stated this at the weekend in Calabar while ...

update by Channels TV The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt on Monday granted a stay of execution of the Federal High Court judgement nullifying all primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State. Apart from nullifying the primaries, Justice Kolawole Omotosho of the Federal High Court had also restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from fielding the party’s candidates in the forthcoming general elections in the state. But Justice Ali Gumel, who presided on an appeal filed by a faction of the APC in Rivers, granted a stay of execution on the judgement delivered by Justice Omotosho on January 7. However, the counsels to the Magnus Abe-led faction of the APC argued that a stay of execution cannot be granted on a matter that was already done. They added that no order was granted by the court to the electoral umpire. Justice Gumel granted the stay of execution four days after the appeal court reserved its ruling on the matter...

[FILES] Nigerian Stock Exchange Alleged political intrigues ahead of the 2019 elections have taken a severe toll on the nation’s stock market, causing investors to lose over N3.43 trillion in nine months of persistent decline. Many blue-chip companies quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) have also experienced unprecedented losses, contrary to the general expectations of positive earnings in 2018. The losses were calculated as at close of trading in May 10, 2018, when the announcement of the ward congresses was made, to the last trading day in January 2019. Analysts, operators and investors, at the weekend, blamed the persistent lull on perceived risk associated with the coming 2019 general elections, making mostly foreign investors to embark on a massive selloff and consequently exit the market. According to the stakeholders, since the last eight months when the political activities have been on the upswing, the market has been on the downward trend with a frequent ...

Located in the North West Quadrant of the Lekki Free Zone, Alaro City lies in the growth path of Lagos Spurred by the successes recorded in Kenya, Ghana and Zambia, a private real estate developer, Rendeavour, has begun the construction of an inclusive city in Lagos. The project named Alaro City, is a mixed-income, city-scale development has a secure land title and Certificate of Occupancy. The project is a partnership between the North West Quadrant Development Company (NWQDC),  Rendeavour and Lagos State Government. NWQDC, have conceived Alaro City as a 2,000-hectare, market-led project. NWQDC is authorised by both the Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority, and the Lagos State Government as an entity to develop, operate, administer and manage Alaro City. It has a premium industrial, logistics, housing and leisure location, complemented by high quality commercial office complexes, homes, schools, healthcare facilities, hote...

Troops of 118 and 119 Task Force Battalions of Operation LAFIYA DOLE in northern Borno have neutralised 4 Boko Haram terrorists in an encounter yesterday night at Mallam Fatori, a border town in Abadam Local Government Area of Borno state. On Saturday 2nd February 2019, a group of Boko Haram terrorists attempted to attack the town taking advantage of darkness but met their Waterloo in an encounter with gallant troops of 118 and 119 Task Force Battalions. The vigilant troops engaged the terrorists with heavy fire power and instantly dispatched 4 of the attackers to the great beyond, while some of them escaped with gunshot wounds. The fleeing surviving terrorists abandoned some of their weapons and equipment which were recovered by the troops. The recovered items include, 1 Light Machine Gun, 1 Rocket Propelled Grenade 7 (RPG 7) tubes, 3 Rocket Propelled Grenade Bombs, 3 Rocket Propelled Grenade Chargers, a belt of 200 rounds of 7.62 mm (NATO type) ammunition, 5 rounds of 12...

Exactly six days ago, we made a post on how the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) are working towards the reduction of the current vehicle import duty from 70% to 45%. The Comptroller-General of Customs, Col Hameed Ali (retd.) has urged the federal government to reduce the 35% levy on imported vehicles , saying the move is necessary to check the rising cases of smuggled vehicles into the country. You can read all through the link here. An automobile expert thinks otherwise; he proposes that reducing the import duty of these used cars can be dangerous to the economy. The Vice-President, Business Development, Dana Motors, Mr Olu Tikolo, on Saturday said that the recent call for the reduction of import duties on used cars portends danger to the 2013 Nigeria Auto Policy. Mr Olu Tikolo made the call at a media parley at his office, Akin Adesola, Victoria Island, on the partnership between Cars45 and Dana Motors. Tikolo, on the heels of the recent call made by some stakehol...

Land Three years after the enactment of the Lagos State Properties Protection Law 2016, many landed properties and estates in Lagos are still been encroached by land grabbers otherwise called, ‘Omonile’. The impact of their activities has caused many residents to forfeit their properties worth millions of naira and truncated cooperative and individual’s land development plans. The law, which was signed by the Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, seeks to eliminate land grabbing in its multi-various forms that include, forceful possession of landed properties, encroachment, illegal sale and resale of land, illegal use of Law Enforcement Agents and Vigilante Groups to enforce Judgments, misconducts by professionals in land transactions, writing of frivolous and false petitions, unlawful demands by Omonile, touting and other ills. Specifically, Section 2(1) of prohibits the use of force or self-help to take over any landed property or to engage in any act inconsistent with th...

update by Vanguard Economic hardship, BVN, others take blame Banks strategise against worsening situation By Babajide Komolafe MORE Nigerians have abandoned their bank accounts majorly due to economic hardship caused by sluggish economic growth, rising job losses and reduction in purchasing power occasioned by double digit inflation. Statistics from the Nigeria Interbank Settlement System, NIBSS, showed that Nigerians abandoned 10 million bank accounts in 2018. NIBSS is owned by all Nigerian banks and the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Banking hall According to the company, the number of bank accounts abandoned by bank customers and hence categorised as ‘inactive bank accounts’ rose by 28 percent to 46.7 million in 2018 from 36.7 million in 2017. Depositor-initiated transaction According to the CBN 2015 guidelines on dormant accounts, “An account shall become inactive if there has been no customer or depositor-initiated transaction for a period of six months after ...

Images from our CCC match with Salitas, on Sunday, February 3, 2019. (Pix: Norbert Okolie) Enugu Rangers continued their brilliant campaign in the CAF Confederation Cup with a 2-0 defeat of Burkina Faso’s Salitas yesterday. The match at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium was the teams’ opening game of the group phase of the competition with the victory lifting Rangers to the top position in Group B. Rangers’ supporters did not have to wait for long before their side opened scoring with Godwin Aguda needing just two minutes into the game to beat Salitas goalkeeper, Sawadogo Adama for the opener. Stunned by the early goal, Salitas regrouped quickly and tried to get back on even terms, but the Rangers’ defence, led by Senegal’s Pape Sane, would have none of that. The first half ended 1-0 advantage Rangers. On resumption, Rangers went in search of a second goal, but the Burkinabes stood firm, using all available means to stop the home team from increasing the tally. But they caved in ...

Manchester United legend, Paul Scholes, has said that Paul Pogba is finally using his brain to play the game under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Pogba was underwhelming in the first half of the season while playing under Jose Mourinho. The two had a rather nasty falling out which saw Pogba in and out of the team, until the results got too bad for Mourinho to keep his job and he was fired. Since the departure of the Portuguese, Pogba has been like a man reborn, scoring 4 goals in as many games. Scholes speaking to Radio 5 expressed joy at the fact that the Frenchman has found his mojo again and he credited Solskjaer as being the man to make that happen. “It’s difficult. Obviously that’s what Ole has done. “I’m not sure that [Massimiliano] Allegri at Juventus would have had that kind of attitude with him. “I think it’s just down to the player. I’ve been one of his biggest critics and I hated doing it, but the reason I was doing it is because I’ve played alongside the lad. “I’ve...

A financial expert and former Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Coronation Trustees Limited, Mrs. Oghogho Osula, has stated that out of 35 million with Bank Verification Number (BVM), 25 million are generally considered to be financially underserved. Osula , who stated this while addressing capital market participants at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in Lagos, at the weekend, regretted that only 10 million of the number are adjudged to be financially included and served. “An estimated seven million financially underserved individuals do not own bank accounts, but enjoy limited financial services through informal arrangements such as cooperatives, esusu, among others. It follows therefore, that only about 42 million (42 per cent) of the estimated 100 million adult Nigerians enjoy some form of financial inclusion. “Nigeria has a large mobile market, with about 133 million subscribers and a market penetration of around 75 per cent in 2014, according to the Nigerian...

Manchester City’s Argentinian striker Sergio Aguero (2nd L) celebrates with teammates after scoring their second goal during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, on February 3, 2019. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP) Manchester City reduced the gap at the top of the Premier League to two points for 24 hours at least as Sergio Aguero’s hat-trick helped them to a 3-1 win over Arsenal. The reigning champions took the lead after 48 seconds through Aguero’s header as Arsenal nearly crumbled early on, but they were soon level as Laurent Koscielny scored a header of his own from a corner on the 11th minute. But City went in ahead at half-time as Aguero simply finished off from Raheem Sterling’s fine assist on the 44th minute, and the Argentine completed his hat-trick with a fortuitous close-range touch off the side of his body in the 61st minute, though there was a suspicion of handball. The ...