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The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar, said on Sunday that street begging by children has no basis in Islam and challenged those engaging in the act to find other means of earning a living. Mr. Abubakar, who is also the President-General of Jama’atu Nasril Islam, JNI, stated this while presiding over the pre-Ramadan meeting of JNI’s Central Committee, held at the JNI headquarters, Kaduna. According to him, “Almajiri system of begging is not representing Islam and must, therefore, be dissociate from Islam. “Islam encourages scholarship and entrepreneurship and frowns at laziness and idleness as exemplified by itinerant Almajiri. “Therefore, attempt…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC will on Tuesday May 23, 2017 stage anti corruption walk intended to further galvanize the Nigerian populace to embrace the fight against corruption. Acting Chairman of the Commission, Ibrahim Magu who is expected to lead the walk in Abuja said the exercise is planned to coincide with the second anniversary of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. According to him, the government’s focus on anti- corruption has galvanized the ant- corruption establishment and delivered hope that corruption can indeed be fought with the right political will. The EFCC walk against corruption is expected to…

Four Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in Dalori-1 Camp of Maiduguri, Borno State, were reportedly beheaded by the Boko Haram sect on Saturday. The four victims, whose bodies were found some few kilometres from the Dalori camp along the Maiduguri-Bama road, were on Sunday buried by their fellow displaced persons. Two other IDPs who were among a 12-man hunting troop were yet to be accounted for on Sunday evening. Premium Times reports that the IDPs, who were also volunteer members of the local vigilante, Civilian-JTF, often go to the bush to hunt for games which they either cook to beef up…

Barcelona surrendered the LaLiga title to Real Madrid as Luis Enrique’s Camp Nou farewell was marked by a thrilling 4-2 come-from-behind victory over 10-man Eibar. The Catalans needed to win and then hope Madrid lost at Malaga in order to secure a third consecutive league championship, but Zinedine Zidane’s side held their nerve to prevail 2-0. Barca – seeking a 12th straight top-flight home win – were stunned by Takashi Inui’s seventh-minute opener, a fine finish that ricocheted in off the underside of the crossbar. Luis Suarez spurned two glorious chances to level before the interval, with Eibar goalkeeper Yoel…

Treble-chasing Juventus clinched a record sixth consecutive Serie A title thanks to victory over lowly Crotone. Mario Mandzukic, on his 31st birthday, turned home Juan Cuadrado’s cross from close range to give the perennial champions an early lead. Paulo Dybala curled home a brilliant free-kick and Alex Sandro headed in a third via the crossbar as Juventus won with relative ease. They could have won the title last week but lost 3-1 to second-placed Roma. Massimiliano Allegri’s side, who beat Lazio 2-0 in the Italian Cup final on Wednesday, are bidding to become the second Italian team, after Jose Mourinho’s…

Real Madrid won their first La Liga title since 2012 thanks to a final-day victory at Malaga. Cristiano Ronaldo scored early on to settle the nerves, latching onto Isco’s through ball to step around Carlos Kameni and tap into an empty net. Karim Benzema added their second goal after the break after Kameni parried Sergio Ramos’ shot. Real, who had only needed a point, now face Juventus in the Champions League final looking to complete a double. Barcelona, who had won the past two titles, came from 2-0 down to beat Eibar 4-2 but they had needed Real to slip…

Premier League champions Chelsea beat Sunderland 5-1 on Sunday as captain John Terry waved goodbye to Stamford Bridge. The Blues legend, who has spent 22 years at the club but will leave this summer, played 26 minutes after starting his second match in a row and was replaced to a standing ovation and a guard of honour from his team-mates. Willian’s equaliser (8) had already cancelled out Javier Manquillo’s third-minute strike by that point, and Eden Hazard (61) and Pedro (77) scored after the break to put the hosts in control. Substitute Michy Batshuayi grabbed a late double (90, 90+2)…

Arsenal failed to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in 20 years despite a 3-1 win over Everton on the final day of the Premier League. The Gunners began the day a point behind fourth-place Liverpool and were on course to displace the Reds when they took an eighth-minute lead. But Liverpool, needing a win to ensure fourth, broke Middlesbrough resistance just before the break, and won 3-0. Manchester City claimed third with a very easy 5-0 win at Watford. Europa League for the Gunners Arsenal’s remarkable run of qualifying for the Champions League in 19 consecutive…

The Federal Government, the 36 states and their local government areas have so far shared N1.4 trillion from the federation account, being revenue generated in the first quarter of 2017. The breakdown is contained in the monthly Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) report obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. The key agencies that remit funds into the federation account are the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Federal Inland Revenue Service and the Nigerian Customs Service. The total revenue shared in January between the federal, states and local government was N430.16 billion, meaning that…

The co-founder of Twitter Evan Williams has apologised for the social media platform’s role in Donald Trump’s rise to the White House. In an interview with the New York Times on Saturday, Williams said that he recently learned that President Trump said he believes Twitter put him in the White house. “It’s a very bad thing, Twitter’s role in that,” he said. “If it’s true that he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter, then yeah, I’m sorry.” The White House did not respond to a request for a comment on Williams’ statement, the Times reported. The 45-year-old Silicon…