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Gunmen suspected to be bandits stormed Federal Government College, Birnin-Yauri in Kebbi State and abducted an unspecified number of students. The police in Kebbi confirmed the attack The abduction is the latest in a series of school kidnappings that have plagued the country in recent times. In late May, about 200 students of an Islamiyya school in Niger state were abducted by gunmen. The abductors usually demand a ransom before students are released. Some 14 students and staff of Greenfield University in Kaduna were released in May after parents reportedly paid over N150 million ransom and bought eight motorcycles for…

AC Milan have signed Chelsea defender Fikayo Tomori for £24 million after a successful loan spell at the San Siro last season. He joins the Italian club after they exercised an option to sign him permanently as part of his loan move from the Blues in January. The 23-year-old England centre-back has signed a four-year deal with the Serie A side. Tomori made 22 appearances for Milan last season and scored one goal. Fikayo Tomori leaves Chelsea for AC Milan A Chelsea academy product, he fell out of favour under former Chelsea boss Frank Lampard last season despite a breakthrough…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday visited Borno State and addressed troops on the frontline battling insurgency in the Northeast. The President landed at the airport located at the Air Force base in Maiduguri, the state capital a few minutes before 10:00 am on Thursday for the one-day working visit. He was received by the state governor Babagana Zulum and other top government officials in the state. Students were lined up on the streets while military and paramilitary officers were also at the Headquarters of Operation Hadin Kai also to receive the President. Boko Haram thrives due to instability in Libya…

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Abdularasheed Bawa has said former Abia State governor, Orji Uzor Kalu will be prosecuted by the agency all over again. The anti-graft agency boss also said he is not perturbed over the threats to his life and he is determined to prosecute the many pending cases under trial. Bawa disclosed this on Thursday while addressing journalists during the weekly ministerial chat at the State House in Abuja. He gave insight into ongoing prosecutions, challenges, and increasing cases of financial crimes since his assumption into office 100 days ago. EFCC boss says…

Denmark’s Christian Eriksen will be fitted with a heart-starting device following his collapse on the pitch during Euro 2020. The 29-year-old midfielder suffered cardiac arrest in his side’s defeat by Finland in Copenhagen on Saturday. Christian Eriksen required emergency treatment on the pitch before being taken to hospital. The ICD – implantable cardioverter defibrillator – is “necessary due to rhythm disturbances”, Danish team doctor Morten Boesen said. Eriksen remains in hospital but says he is “fine under the circumstances”. The British Heart Foundation describes an ICD as a small device which is placed under the skin, is connected to the heart…

A Lagos High Court sitting in the Ikeja area has convicted Francis Atuche, a former Managing Director of the defunct Bank PHB on charges of stealing the sum of N25.7bn belonging to the bank. In a judgment that lasted over 10 hours, Justice Lateefat Okunnu convicted Atuche alongside a former Chief Financial Officer of the bank, Ugo Anyanwu. The court convicted the duo on 21 of the 27-count amended charge of conspiracy to commit a felony and stealing brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Okunnu held that the EFCC successfully proved its case against…

Sergio Ramos is set to leave Real Madrid after the club announced a “farewell” news conference for their long-serving captain on Thursday. Ramos, 35, has won five La Liga titles and four Champions Leagues in a glittering Real career after joining from boyhood club Sevilla in 2005. The centre-back made 671 appearances, scoring 101 goals. The club say they will hold the news conference as an “institutional act of tribute and farewell”. Ramos’ contract expires at the end of June. Having started his career at Sevilla, Ramos joined Real in 2005 in a record deal for a Spanish defender during…

The Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State and its candidate in the October 2020 governorship election, Eyitayo Jegede, have vowed to challenge the Court of Appeal’s decision at the Supreme Court. Spokesman of the Ondo PDP, Kennedy Peretei, in a statement, said the Supreme Court would help to conclude the judgment. According to the statement: “In concluding her lead judgement, Hon. Justice Theresa Orji-Abadua said the Appeal was partially dismissed and partially allowed. To the ordinary man in the street, the judgement was “inconclusive”. “The kernel of the Eyitayo Jegede/PDP petition was whether or not a gross violation of the…

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has claimed that the Federal Government has repaid up to $150m out of the $2bn loan borrowed from China to construct rails. Amaechi stated this during an interview with Channels TV on Wednesday. The minister noted that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration only borrowed for the Kaduna-Abuja and the Lagos-Ibadan railways. When asked how much of the Chinese loans obtained that the Federal Government has repaid, Amaechi said, “The right ministry to respond to that question is the Ministry of Finance; they borrow and they repay but I think the last I heard about it,…

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed one person and kidnapped two nationals of the Republic of China in Taraba State. The incident was said to have taken place on Monday night at a mining site at Arufu community in Wukari Local Government Area of the state. Mr David Misal, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, confirmed the incident to via a telephone interview on Wednesday. He gave an assurance that the police were on top of the situation and have already begun a manhunt for the fleeing bandits with a full-scale investigation ongoing. The command spokesman noted that…