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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 registered voters

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