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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Tuesday said it had disqualified AS Vita of Congo from the 2016 Champions League. A statement on CAF website said that the decision was taken at a meeting by the CAF Organising Committee for Inter-clubs Competitions. It said that the committee reviewed a complaint by Stade Malien (Mali) on the eligibility of a player, Idrissa Traore, used by AS Vita (DR Congo). According to the statement, Traore was used by the Congolese Club in the preliminary matches of the 2016 Orange CAF Champions League. CAF said that the player featured for the Malian club during the 2015 season, and whilst at Stade Malien, the CAF’s Disciplinary Board handed him a four-match suspension. According to the statement, the player only served one match ban while he carried the remaining three matches over to the next competition with the Congolese club. It said that the carry-over was in line with Articles 114.1 and 114.2 of the CAF Disciplinary Code. The statement said...

Two Nigerian nationals were arrested on Sunday, May 22, by Delhi police for defrauding a woman out of a large sum of money. The duo lure women through matrimonial sites and social media sites and induced them to transfer money in fake bank accounts on the pretext of customs charges. The men identified as Ozoemena Michael Izuchukwu and Ekwenze Friday, did not have valid visa documents and after their arrests were produced before the court and sent to judicial custody. Police have recovered three mobile phones, three laptops and a register from them. The duo were arrested on a complaint lodged by a woman, who claimed that she had a profile on a matrimonial site and had come in contact with a person, who claimed to be a US citizen. She said that they stayed in touch through e-mails and phones. The woman, in her complaint said that the said person in October 2014, had informed her that he was going to Spain from the US and will send her a gift packet containing an engagement rin...

Francie Francisca Lubbe and her partner who were on holiday, set up a tent to pass the night in the Mabuasehube game reserve, Botswana. They did and woke up to the shock of their lives. It had rained overnight and when they opened their eyes in the morning, they saw a number of lionesses outside, licking the dew off the sides of their flimsy tent and also wandering about. They were able to stabilize themselves and remain calm and thankfully the two animals seemed more interested in licking the dew off the sides of their tent rather than attacking them. See more photos below...

Troops comb Bayelsa creeks for militants who attacked Agip pipeline nijanewsland.blogspot.com.ng Troops of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence corps (NSCDC), yesterday, stormed the creeks of Bayelsa State in search of the fleeing suspected bombers of a pipeline belonging to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) in Ikienghenbiri community, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area. NSCDC operatives arrived at the area on speedboats and gunboats and moved to adjoining creeks to locate the whereabouts of suspects identified as Suoyou, Iyelawei and Fynboy. The suspects were said to have fled the community following the Sunday’s attack on Agip’s Tebidaba-Brass pipeline that passed through the area. The suspects allegedly destroyed the trunkline with dynamites causing massive fire and thick smoke that unsettled the community. One of the suspects was arrested by troops of NSCDC with support from the surveillance contractor and the community folks. Speaking on the incident in a st...

     This is to inform the general public and members of the Holyghostants' World Missions Inc. Worldwide, that pastor David Aliyu Kolo and the underlisted are no longer members of the Holyghostants' World Missions Inc., its affiliates and representatives. Therefore no longer associated with Bishop Kleham Kings Degaya and/or the Holyghostants' World Missions Inc. David Aliyu Kolo, Christiana D. Kolo, Benjamin Angbashim, Grace Bello, Tina Alumonah, Abraham Salau, Favour Achulo, Kennedy Abalaka, Amana Abalaka, Christopher, Omaba. They have been dismissed by the church council due to their unwholesome activities and ungodliness. The police in owerri and Abuja are already investigating the group on their activities in connection with the name and use of Holyghostants' World Missions Inc. And the person of Bishop Kleham Kings Degaya. Therefore any individual, group or organisation that does business with pastor David Aliyu Kolo and his group does so at his or her own ...

 ​ Civil Society Organization, Africa Arise for Change Network has expressed optimism that the militay will rescue more of the Chibok Girls from their Boko Haram captors in the days ahead. The group also demanded an apology from former President Goodluck Jonathan and Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose for leading a propaganda to make Nigerians think that the Chibok girls saga was a hoax. Addressing journalists in Abuja, National Coordinator of the group, Nkechi Odoma commended the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and the military for the sustained onslaught against the insurgents and the rescue of two chibok girls. She blamed the long captivity of the girls on the failure of the former administration to take immediate action after the girls were abducted from their school. She said, “In 2014, when over 200 girls were abducted from their school in Chibok, Borno State, the wife of the then President, Dame Patience Jonathan released that blockbust...

The Institute of Human Virology, IHVN, and Access Bank Plc, yesterday, unveiled plans to establish a N5 billion world class Medical Research Centre for infectious and non infectious diseases on Nigerian soil. Some of the diseases expected to be researched into include HIV&AIDS, tuberculosis, Lassa fever, cancer, among others. The centre will be under the leadership of Professor Alash’le G. Abimiku, a distinguished scientist and will be used to create an enabling environment for creative thinking and innovation in science to address Nigeria’s and global health priorities. Making the announcement at a press conference in Lagos on the collaboration with Access Bank, IHVN, and Dangote Foundation to raise N5 billion for the centre, Chief Executive Officer of IHVN, Dr. Patrick Dakum, said the building of the centre would improve the management of infectious diseases that had continued to ravage communities across the country. “Nigerians have been victims of many disease outbreaks...