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Donald Trump has nominated his close conservative ally Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as attorney general. Sessions, a former prosecutor, was turned down for a federal judgeship in 1986 because of alleged racist remarks. Conservative Republican Mike Pompeo has been nominated as CIA director and retired Lt-Gen Michael Flynn has been appointed national security adviser. Trump’s latest picks were praised on Twitter by David Duke, former leader of the white supremacist KKK group. In a statement, Trump called Sessions a “world class legal mind”. “Jeff is greatly admired by legal scholars and virtually everyone who knows him,” he added. Sessions said…

Rapper Kanye West has revealed he would have opted for Donald Trump in the US presidential election if he had voted. “I told you I didn’t vote,” he told an audience in San Jose, California. “But I didn’t tell you… if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted on Trump.” Angry fans responded by booing the singer and throwing items on stage. West said he had “loved the debates” between Trump and rival Hillary Clinton and that his “approach was absolutely genius because it… worked”. See BBC Music Live for video footage The performer also asked for people to “stop focusing…

Mai-Abuna Maijir, a former staff of University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, UMTH, who is also a prosecution witness in the trial of Mahmud Deji Sambo and Bukar Musti, both former staff of the Department of Finance and Accounts, UMTH, on Thursday, November 17, 2016 told Justice M. T. Salihu of the Federal High Court sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State that the accused persons diverted N148million from the coffers of UMTH using names of non-existent workers as conduit pipes. Sambo and Musti, who are former Assistant Director and former Assistant Chief Accountant, UMTH, are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial…

CSKA Moscow midfielder Roman Eremenko has been banned from football for two years after testing positive for cocaine. The 29-year-old Finland international was tested after CSKA’s 2-2 draw with Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League on 14 September. He scored the Russian club’s equaliser. His ban runs until 6 October 2018. A Uefa statement said: “The analysis of the A sample revealed the presence of cocaine and its metabolites.” He is best known for his time in Dynamo Kyiv, with whom he became captain, winning the Ukrainian Premier League title in 2009, and playing in the Champions and Europa Leagues.…

A 38-year-old Nigerian man has been hanged for drug trafficking after being caught with 2.6kg of cannabis. “A 38-year-old male Nigerian national, Chijioke Stephen Obioha, had his death sentence carried out on 18 November 2016 at Changi Prison Complex,” the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said in a statement. Obioha, who graduated in industrial chemistry from the University of Benin in Nigeria, had originally moved to Singapore in 2005 hoping to be a footballer. He was arrested in 2007 by drugs officers who found 14 blocks of cannabis in a bag he was carrying and another 14 blocks in the flat…

The United States on Friday said it was concerned by the deaths of Nigerians in clashes between Shi’ite Muslims and police earlier this week and what it called the apparently disproportionate response of the police in the violence. Police said nine people were killed in the clashes during which officers opened fire on members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) taking part in a procession in the northern city of Kano on Monday, but the minority sect said dozens died. Security analysts have drawn some parallels between the IMN and Boko Haram, the Sunni Muslim jihadist group whose insurgency…

Sporting Kansas City have extended the contract of Ike Opara and Benny Feilhaber, tying the latter to a new two-year contract on Wednesday. Feilhaber, 31, is a former member of the US national team and will remain with the club until the 2018 season. The Brazilian-American midfielder joined Kansas City in 2013 from New England Revolution where he played 52 times and scored five goals. He has also played for English side Derby County as well as German side Hamburg SV. Unlike Feilhaber, defender Ike Opara only got a one-year contract extension but the deal includes a team option for…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on November 17, 2016 secured the conviction of Chidi Onouha, who was brought before Justice Beatrica Iliya of the Gombe State High Court, on a two-count charge bordering on advance fee fraud. Onouha was arrested by the EFCC following a petition by Joseph Goje on June 1, 2016 which alleged that the convict in partnership with his accomplice, Chinedu, currently at large, connived to hack into his GTBank account, and fraudulently transferred N1,560,735 (One Million, Five Hundred and Sixty Thousand, Seven Hundred and Thirty Five Naira). The fraudsters connived to gain access into…

uicide Suicide bombers attacked a checkpoint in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing two of themselves before dawn Friday. Two other explosions occurred hours later. It was the fifth attack in three weeks on the city that is the birthplace of Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram. Before 4:00 a.m. Friday, police challenged two women and a man running toward the checkpoint opposite the Federal High Court, deputy police superintendent Victor Isuku said. One woman detonated, killing herself and the male accomplice. The other woman has been arrested and is being interrogated, he said. No details were immediately available…

The Oyo State House of Assembly has shown its readiness to curb the activities of land grabbers in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this followed a motion moved by Mr Olalere Safiu (APC-Iddo) on the “Need to Curb Activities of Land Grabbers in Oyo State.” Olalere said that the importance of land to economic development could not be overemphasized. According to him, resources used in generating revenue to develop the country are found on land, as well as underneath it, such as gold, crude oil and many others. He said that miscreants in the state…