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Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt labelled himself the underdog as he seeks to round off his glittering individual track career with the defence of his world 100m title this week. “That’s what I keep reading and what my team keeps telling me, so I’ve got to prove myself again,” the 30-year-old said in a warning shot to pretenders to his crown in the blue riband event of the IAAF World Championships. Bolt started this season in sluggish form, running two 10sec-plus times before finally hitting some form at the Monaco Diamond League. “The last race I ran was 9.95sec, which…

French actress Jeanne Moreau, who lit up the screen in “Jules et Jim” and starred in some of the most critically-acclaimed films of the 20th century, has died aged 89, her agent said Monday. The husky-voiced actress epitomised the freedoms of the 1960s and brought daring and tomboy charm to a string of cinematic masterpieces from Louis Malle’s “Lift to the Scaffold” to Joseph Losey’s “Eva”. Moreau, who was still making films at 87, was found dead at her home in Paris early Monday, the district’s mayor told AFP. Once described by US director Orson Welles as “the best actress…

Today marks 1190 days since the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group began their advocacy for the release of abducted Chibok girls. It’s 1,205 days since over 200 girls were abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok by members of the Boko Haram sect. Three years later, 113 Chibok girls are yet to be released. On Tuesday, August 1, 2017, the BBOG group embarked on a march to the Presidential Villa. This time, the group is also advocating for the release of the police women who were also abducted in June on their way to the burial of their colleague. Read…

ntel, Nigeria’s first 4G/LTE-Advanced network has announced the departure of Kamar Abass, its pioneer Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer. In a statement signed by Osondu C. Nwokoro, Director, External Affairs, the company said “Mr. Abass has stepped down from his role as CEO due to urgent personal and medical considerations. “The NatCom board has named Abhulime Ehiagwina as acting CEO and the company will embark on the search for a substantive CEO in due course.” Kamar Abass joined the Board of Directors of NatCom in 2015 as the CEO of ntel and led the company through launch on April 8, 2016…

Chairman, Progressive Governors Forum and Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, said on Tuesday that it was too early for Nigerians to judge elected officials on their performance. “We want to appeal to Nigerians not to judge us from past sins or within the two years we have been in the mantle of leadership of this great country. “You should judge us when the mandate entrusted to us expires,” Okorocha said at the opening of a retreat on policy synergy between states and the Federal Government, holding in Birnin Kebbi. The governor reminded Nigerians that those presently at the helm…

Three defendants have been killed in a court in the Russian capital, Moscow, after they tried to take the arms from security officers, officials say. The incident happened as five suspected gang members attacked the agents who were escorting them in a lift to a court hearing, the Interior Ministry said. Three were killed when trying to escape. The two others suspects and three security officers were wounded. The building was briefly evacuated. READ: UN Allocates $10.5m To Assist In Northeast The defendants were on trial for “banditry”, the ministry said in a statement without identifying them. But state-owned Tass…

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday issued a seven-day ultimatum to boat operators, dredgers and all stakeholders in the inland waterways sector to comply with all the applicable laws, rules and guidelines concerning their operations failure of which appropriate stiff sanctions would apply. Addressing a press conference at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre, Alausa, on the recent Court of Appeal judgment which upheld the power of the Lagos State Government to control inland waterways within the State, the State Government declared readiness to aggressively enforce the relevant laws for the regulation of waterfront infrastructure development and all connected purposes, and…

…Brags that He Has the CJN, Judiciary in His Pocket Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike has continued to twist, falsify and forge fresh documents that he intends to use against the immediate past governor of the state and now Minister of Transportation Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. According to Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi Media Office, Wike wants to use the elaborately distorted and most times outrightly but carefully forged documents to persecute and prosecute his erstwhile benefactor in court. In the past couple of days, Wike has been telling anyone who cares to listen, bragging that he will certainly…

Manchester United have bought Nemanja Matic. Here, Nick Wright explains why signing the Serb makes sense for Jose Mourinho. Manchester United’s pursuit of Nemanja Matic dropped out of the headlines earlier this summer as they dramatically beat Chelsea to the signing of Romelu Lukaku from Everton, but on Monday the Old Trafford club announced they had added the Serb to their squad. It’s a move Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville backed this month, saying United needed reinforcements in central midfield “United need another holding midfield player,” he said. “Michael Carrick has got one more year but he can’t play every…

The Abuja home of former President Goodluck Jonathan has been burgled. However, in what appears a curious twist, the house was not burgled by known thieves, but by police officers assigned to guard the house. The Nigeria Police have thus arrested three of its officers for stealing items valued at several millions of naira from the Abuja residence of the former president. The items were alleged to have been stolen by the officers from the residence located at No. 89, Fourth Avenue in the Gwarimpa district of Abuja. They include sets of furniture, dozens of plasma television sets, refrigerators, air-conditioner…