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Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers had signed a contract extension committing him to the club until 2025. The former Liverpool manager, 46, dismissed speculation earlier this week linking him with the vacant Arsenal job following Unai Emery’s sacking. Rodgers had signed a deal until 2022 when he joined the Foxes from Celtic in February. Leicester have won 17 of their 26 Premier League matches under him and are second in the table. Arsenal 1-2 Brighton: Maupay downs sorry Gunners Rodgers said: “I’ve inherited an outstanding team of staff that are dedicated to progress and improvement and we have a group of…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has “strongly condemned the violent re-arrest today of Omoyele Sowore and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare by officials of the State Security Service (SSS), and the apparent harassment and intimidation of Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu.” Armed SSS officials reportedly stormed the courtroom, causing pandemonium at the court and physically assaulting Mr Sowore. The judge reportedly had to take cover. She had earlier ordered the SSS to release Sowore within 24 hours and also pay him N100,000 for improper legal conduct. The SSS then released Mr Sowore only for him and his co-defendant to be violently re-arrested.…

Armed operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have rearrested Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow protest, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare. The duo were arrested within the court premises after a mild drama at the court 7, Federal High Court, Abuja on Friday. The drama started shortly after Justice Ijoema Ojukwu adjourned the trial continuation till Feb. 11, 12 and 13 for definite hearing. VIDEO: Moment Sowore Was Driven To DSS Headquarters After He Was Re-arrested.#FreeSoworeNow #FreeSowore pic.twitter.com/gXqyOqaY7E — Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) December 6, 2019 NAN reports that Justice Ojukwu had, on Thursday, ordered the DSS to release Sowore and…

Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House of Representatives will file impeachment charges against US President Donald Trump for alleged abuse of power. “Our democracy is what is at stake, the president leaves us no choice but to act,” the top elected Democrat said. Mr Trump said Democrats have “gone crazy” and urged them to move quickly if they were going to impeach him. Democrats say Mr Trump corruptly made military aid to Ukraine conditional on it investigating his rival Joe Biden. What did Pelosi say? The California congresswoman told Thursday morning’s news conference: “The facts are uncontested. The president abused…

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has discharged and acquitted four Ukrainians and a vessel charged with them for illegal oil bunkering by the Federal Government of Nigeria. The four Ukrainian Vaskov Andriy, Garchev Mykhaylo, Shula Madyslay, Orlovkyi Lyvan and a chartered vessel, MT. San Pedro PIO were arraigned and tried before the court on initial two count charge of conspiracy to deal in petroleum products and dealing in petroleum products without permit, the charge was later amended and increased to six counts. The presiding judge Justice Adamu Turaki Mohammed discharged and acquitted the four Ukrainians and their…

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said that Nigeria’s higher education sector was overburdened by population growth. He suggested the establishment of more tertiary institutions across the country to cope with the country’s growing population. He stated this at a public hearing on a bill to establish Modibbo Adama University Yola, held at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja. NAN reports that the bill passed second reading in the Senate on November 13. The bill seeks to convert the Modibbo Adama University of Technology (MAUTech) Yola, a mono-disciplinary institute to a multi-disciplinary and engaging institution of higher learning. Abubakar said that…

In commemoration of the 2019 International Anti-Corruption Day and in recognition of the Multi Year theme: “United against Corruption”, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is organizing a Walk against Corruption on Monday, December 9, 2019. The walk is aimed at creating awareness on the negative impact of corruption on Nigeria’s economic development. As part of the commemoration, the EFCC is further collaborating with Ministries, Departments and Agencies of Government to hold a one day Stakeholder’s Summit on Zero Tolerance for Corruption. The objective of the summit is to highlight the areas of corrupt practices in the sectors and collectively…

No fewer than 95,000 Nigerian Muslims are expected to perform the 2020 pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, NAN reports. An official of the Nigeria Hajj Commission, Alhaji Ahmad Muazu of NAHCON social media department, told NAN that the Nigerian delegation was led by the Minister of state for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Zubairu Dada. The MoU was essentially to address the issue of welfare of Nigerian pilgrims who are going to perform Hajj in terms of accommodation, flights and others services to ensure hitch free Hajj. The MoU was signed on behalf of Nigeria by Dada, and the Saudi Arabia was represented…

Olamide George, acting President, Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), says a fact-finding committee will work diligently in line with the law to unravel all past corrupt practices in the federation. George made this known on Thursday in Lagos. He said in a statement that all the atrocities that bedeviled the federation in the past few years would be looked into. According to him, there is need for the federation to rebuild its image and the confidence of athletes and officials by remaining committed to promoting its founding objectives. “AFN is still a member of the National Sports Federation of the…

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and some other civil society groups on Thursday lauded the 12-year prison sentence handed down to ex-Gov. Orji Kalu of Abia, by a Federal High Court in Lagos. Kalu is currently a Senator and the Chief Whip in the 9th assembly. NAN reports that Justice Mohammed Idris convicted Kalu on 39 counts of N7.2 billion fraud and money laundering preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The Executive Director of SERAP, Mr Adetokunbo Mumuni, hailed the judiciary for justice delivery. Mumuni said that the judiciary was playing its part in…