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Manchester City face a Champions League BAN for alleged Financial Fair Play breaches. Pep Guardiola’s Prem champs are accused of hiding millions in funding to get round tough Uefa transfer rules. Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin revealed City would discover “very soon” what potential punishment awaits. And the ban would be imposed as soon as next season. Senior figures in Uefa believe “sporting sanctions” are the only suitable rap for what is seen as deliberate strategy of flouting the regulations. The source said: “You can’t hit a club like City with a fine. It has to be something that hurts. “That means sporting sanctions. Manchester City were punished once before — and that did not stop them. Now it has to be another step up.” If City were banned, their Champions League spot would be handed to the fifth-placed side. Bans for FFP breaches have been imposed in the past, with Turkish giants Galatasaray being slapped with a one-year suspension in 2016....

The rate of murder and ritual killings in Delta state seems to be on the rise as residents are calling on the government to do something to stop the menace. An elderly woman miraculously escaped death on Saturday, November 1, after she was attacked by a man on her way to farm in Sapele area of Delta state. The widow was on her bicycle when she was reportedly attacked by the man who used a plank to hit her down before using a cutlass to strike her. According to journalist Sapele Oghenek, after striking the woman down, the attacker made an attempt to cut off her head before she raised an alarm and screamed loudly. Her scream made the attacker to flee and abandon his mission as she sustained a deep cut on her face following the first machete strike. It was gathered that the case was reported to the police and vigilante operatives who allegedly asked the old woman to bring N15,000 so that they can arrest the suspect. At at yesterday, the woman’s bicycle was still at th...

Cheryl Zondi has launched a foundation to support women and children in South Africa. The Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) has officially been registered and will be called the The Cheryl Zondi Foundation. Zondi told the media that she named the foundation after herself, because of the support she received after her ordeal. She came into the spotlight at the trial of Nigerian pastor Timothy Omotoso who is facing charges of racketeering, violating the sexual offences act, human trafficking and rape, along with two others named Zukiswa Sitho (28) and Lusanda Solani (36). She claimed she was sexually assaulted by Omotoso as she told the court she believed God was on her alleged attacker’s side. She recounted graphic details of the sexual assault on her, allegedly at the hands of the pastor. The senior pastor at the Jesus Dominion International Church has been in prison since his arrest in April last year. He was denied bail twice after it came to light t...

Two female students of Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Unwanna, Afikpo in Ebonyi State, have cried out for help over alleged sexual harassment and intimidation against them by one of their lecturers. The two Higher National Diploma (HND II) students – Oko Janet Osinachi and Egwu Gladys, said the institution’s Head of Department of Marketing (HOD), School of Business Studies, Ezumah Chris Obi, had invited them to hotels at different times, with the intent to sleep with them before he would pass them in his courses and their final year projects, which he was the supervisor. But, the lecturer has denied the allegation, saying the students chose to meet him at the hotels and that nothing close to their allegations ever happened. This was as the Rector of the polytechnic, Venerable Ibe-Enwo Ogbonnia, confirmed the development, but claimed he was yet to receive formal complaints from the students, and hence he could not have acted without such. Narrating her ordeal, 22-year-old Jan...

The traditional rulership tussle in Agbarho Kingdom, Ughelli North council area of Delta state escalated further on Monday as youths of the kingdom reportedly installed Chief Williams Onokpite as new Osuvie (monarch) of the kingdom. Before the reported installation of Chief Onokpite as new king, the youths had reportedly banished the embattled Osuvie, HRM, Chief Samson Oghughunwa, who had fled the kingdom to save his life. A source, who spoke under conditions of anonymity, told  the Nation  that the new king was the chief kingmaker and next in line to Chief Oghughunwa. Meanwhile, addressing journalists in his place of refuge in Uvwie council area, the embattled and deposed Osuvie of Agbarho Kingdom, Chief Oghughunwa, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the Delta state governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, to come to his aid. The embattled monarch said he managed to escape assassination when suspected hired killers invaded his palace on Sunday, adding that those who had...

A ring believed to have been worn by Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect who ordered the crucifixion of Jesus, has been found in Israel, archaeologists say. The 2,000-year-old bronze ring was first unearthed 50 years ago at Herodium, a fortress built by King Herod, but archaeologists recently examined it and found the word, “Pilatus” on the ring. The writing was found after scientists from the Israel Antiquities Authority cleaned and photographed the ring, which showed a wine vessel called a “krater”,  Metro UK  reports. Professor Danny Schwartz told Israeli news outlet Haaretz: I don’t know of any other Pilatus from the period and the ring shows he was a person of stature and wealth. Roi Porat, director of the dig at Herodium said, “the personal connection just cries out”. But others suggest that the ring might have been used by a member of Pilate’s staff to stamp documents. The researchers wrote: Simple all-metal rings were primarily the property of soldiers, ...

Victor Nnachata The Ogun State Police command has arrested Victor Nnachata, a 20-year-old 300-level Political Science student of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, who revealed that he went to a herbalist because he wanted charms that would make him become a billionaire. Victor was arrested alongside 4 others suspects in Ogun State. They are: Kabiru Badmos, Nurudeen Shodaolu, Olarewaju Jimoh (a cemetery guard) and Mayewunmi Lukmon. Nnachata, who came all the way from Onitsha to Abeokuta, in search of the herbalist, disclosed that the man was introduced to him by his friend called Gabriel. He explained that when he met Badmos, the man presented three different types of money-making ritual to him. He was asked to pick one.  “I’m into NaijaBet game, but the business was not doing well the way I wanted it.”  He said. “I discussed with Gabriel on how to move it forward. That was when he gave me the phone number of Badmos. When I got to Badmos’ house...

An Ogun State Based Butcher identified as Shina Kasali has been arrested for allegedly beating his wife Sofiat, to death on Saturday at their Agbado residence. It was revealed that the couple had an argument following the deceased’s accusation that her husband was looking at the private part of a prostitute who sat opposite him Shina, who became livid by the accusation, was said to have stopped his wife from going to fetch water which escalated the already tense situation between them, He later beat her to coma.