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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the takeover of the national assembly by DSS is gross violation of constitutional order, rule of law

Nigeria’s acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has directed the termination of the appointment of the Director General, State Security Service, Lawal Musa Daura with immediate effect. A statement by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity to Osinbajo said Daura will hand over immediately. “Mr. Daura has been directed to hand over to the most senior officer of the State Security Service until further notice,” the statement said. READ: Facebook denies using users’ bank details Daura’s dismissal comes hours masked operatives of the DSS barricaded the national assembly barring federal lawmakers from gaining entrance…

Chelsea are in talks to sign Real Madrid midfielder Mateo Kovacic after he told the Spanish club today that he wants to leave. The 24-year-old Croatia international is keen to play more regularly than he does for Real but the club do not want to sell him because he is a good deputy for 32-year-old Luka Modric. Real have Kovacic in mind for a larger role in the future and a loan move has been mooted. Chelsea is expected to have him on loan with a view to a permanent deal. However, Modric is wanted by Inter Milan, which complicates the…

Facebook has denied reports that it is actively asking banks for details of users’ financial transactions. The statement follows a story in the Wall Street Journal that said the social media giant had asked US banks for such data. The social media company said some users opted in to accessing some financial information in its Messenger app. Any data that was accessed by the company for such purposes was not used for advertising, it added. The Wall Street Journal had reported that Facebook approached JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and US Bancorp to ask for information about users’ account balances…

Arsenal majority shareholder Stan Kroenke has offered £600m to Alisher Usmanov to gain full ownership

Akpabio who is expected to formally leave the main opposition party, PDP for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, held the position as a PDP member. “May I extend to you and my dear colleagues in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senate Caucus of the 8th senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria the compliments and best wished to my constituents and I,” he wrote in his resignation letter. “This letter is to formally inform you of my resignation as the Senate Minority Leader with effect from August 4, 2018. “Let me thank the Senate minority leadership, our distinguished colleagues…

Department of State Services, DSS, operatives have exited the entrance of the National Assembly with lawmakers now entering freely into the complex,” Chronicle NG reports. Masked operatives of DSS had earlier barred lawmakers from gaining entrance into the complex without reasons. Officially, the lawmakers are on recess from 24 July and are expected to reconvene on 25 September 2018, although there have been calls by the executive for the legislators to return to work. But on Tuesday morning, masked operatives of the DSS mounted the entrance to the National Assembly complex with rumours that the Senate President and his deputy…

Willian says it was vey difficult working with Antonio Conte and he hopes new coach Maurizio Sarri is different

Tributes pour in for superhero Joe Blankson who died saving 13 others in boat mishap

Senator Ita Enang warns of an imminent government shutdown if the national assembly does not reconvene