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Malam Mohammed Kuyizhi, Vice Principal, Government Day Secondary School, Tunga-Minna in Niger, has appeared before the state’s Child Rights Protection Agency, over the pregnancy of a 16-year-old student. Kuyizhi is accused of impregnating the girl, who is a junior student in the school. Hajia Mariam Kolo, the Director-General of the agency, who presided over the case on Wednesday in Minna, said that the matter was reported to the agency by a teacher, after the girl’s guardian informed the school that her ward was pregnant for the teacher. Kolo said that the agency, after receiving the report, sent an invitation letter…

Britain on Wednesday officially started Brexit, the historic process to leave the European Union (EU) as the letter signed by Prime Minister Theresa May was sent to leaders of the bloc. It is “an historic moment from which there can be no turning back,” May told the House of Commons. “We will be after a bold and ambitious free trade agreement with the EU.” May addressed a packed House of Commons at Westminster as the Ambassador to the EU Sir Tim Barrow personally handed the letter to Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, Wednesday noon. It starts a two-year…

Barely two months after he was removed as the Leader of the Senate, Sen. Ali Ndume was on Wednesday suspended by the Senate for 6 months. The suspension of the senator was based on the report of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions which recommended that the senator be suspended. Ndume had asked the Senate to look into the allegations of vehicle importation against the President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki and the alleged certificate forgery against Sen. Dino Melaye. The committee was asked to investigate the allegation and invited Sen. Dino and Sen. Saraki to…

DAI Brothers Investment Limited have sued National Agency For food and Drug Administration and control (NAFDAC) for failing to release laboratory test on some contaminated bottles of Aquafina table water. The company alleged to have been supplied contaminated Aquafina Table water produced by Seven Up Bottling Company Plc have filed a suit before a Federal high court in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, urging the court to compel NAFDAC to release forthwith on oath, the certificate of report of Laboratory analysis of Aquafina Table water vide the notice of complaint of the applicant. In an affidavit sworn to by the Managing Director…

Roger Federer survived a stern test from Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut to reach the Miami Open quarter-finals on Tuesday, while top-seeded Swiss compatriot Stan Wawrinka was eliminated on his birthday. Federer clinched the 7-6(5) 7-6(4) victory on his third match point, shortly after Wawrinka fell 4-6 6-2 6-1 to 16th-seeded German teenager Alexander Zverev. Bautista Agut played the match of his life, hitting the ball deep with relentless precision in an effort to keep Federer pinned to the baseline, giving the 18-times grand slam champion everything he could handle. But Federer’s class proved the difference in the tiebreaks as he…

FIFA has slammed a four-match ban on Barcelona star, Lionel Messi after FIFA received a complaint about Messi’s behaviour during Argentina’s World Cup qualifying match against Chile on 23 March. The ban announced on Tuesday sidelined Messi in Argentina’s crucial match against Bolivia. Argentina went on to lose and are now fifth in the race to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Messi reportedly launched a foul mouthed rant against the linesman during Argentina’s previous match against Chile, which they won 1-0, via a penalty, which Messi scored. Messi was angered late in the game when an assistant…

Argentina, weakened by the last-minute suspension of Lionel Messi, had their chances of reaching next year’s World Cup finals dealt a blow on Tuesday when they were beaten 2-0 by a spirited Bolivia side in La Paz. Juan Arce and Marcelo Martins scored either side of halftime to give Bolivia a deserved victory over an Argentina side who defended poorly throughout an exciting end-to-end encounter. The defeat in the high altitude of the Andean city, coupled with Colombia’s 2-0 win away in Ecuador and Chile’s 3-1 defeat of Venezuela, means the twice World Cup winners fall from third to fifth…

A powerful earthquake has hit Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, TASS news agency reported. But the agency quoting local emergencies ministry said there is no tsunami threat. “According to preliminary information, no injuries or damage as a result of the earthquake have been reported, no tsunami threat has been declared. All essential services of the region are working as normal,” the ministry’s press service said. The rescuers are now examining the territory to find out if any houses or other buildings were damaged. The task force is working in the Ust-Kamchatsky district, which was hit by the quake. Seismologists said…

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent names of two new ministerial nominees to the Senate for confirmation. A source close to the Senate told our correspondent that the letter arrived the Senate late Tuesday. The source revealed that . Our correspondent gathered that the Kogi nominee will be replacing the late Minister of State for Labour, Barr. James Ocholi while the nominee from Gombe would be replacing former Minister for Environment Ms Amina Mohammed who had gone to serve in the United Nations as a deputy Secretary General. The list of ministerial nominees is coming at a time when the Senate…

A former Personal Assistant to Governor Ayo Fayose during his first tenure, Goke Olatunji was on Tuesday arraigned at an Ado Ekiti High Court over alleged double murder. The offences were allegedly committed 11 years ago. Also charged with him is a member of House of Representatives, Mr Thaddeus Aina,. He was absent in court. The two men were charged with the murders of the then Holland-based Mr Tunde Omojola and a World Bank Consultant, Dr Ayodeji Daramola. The trial was however stalled because of the absence of Aina, said to have gone abroad for medical treatment. The two murder…