November 28, 2019

Martin To Skip Olympic Time-Trial To Focus On Worlds

November 28, 2019 4:20 pm

German cyclist Tony Martin is to skip the Olympics in Tokyo next year to focus on the world championships, the time-trial specialist told broadcaster MDR on Thursday.

The four-time world champion and 2012 Olympic silver medallist told the German radio station that he had made the decision after being told the Olympic time-trial course was “extremely difficult”.

“My manager went over there,” he said. “He described the course as extremely difficult.

“I am going to concentrate 100 percent on the world championships.”

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The 34-year-old won the championships in 2011, …

Astana Stun United Youngsters In Europa League

November 28, 2019 4:19 pm

Kazakh champions Astana fought back to surprise a youthful Manchester United 2-1 in the Europa League on Thursday.

Captain Jesse Lingard opened the scoring for the visitors, who had already reached the last 32, before Dmitri Shomko equalised for the home side.

Di’Shon Bernard, 19, then put through his own goal to hand Astana victory over a United side whose average age was just 22.

United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said some of the youngsters on show put their hands up to feature against Alkmaar in the final round of group matches on December 12.

“At times we were excellent …

Facebook And Associated Platforms Report Outage

November 28, 2019 2:22 pm

Facebook suffered an outage Thursday affecting the social platform and its other platforms such as Instagram.

As of 1700 GMT they had been down for several hours.

“We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing Facebook’s family of apps. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible,” a Facebook spokesman said.

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Many users, often wryly, took to Twitter to comment on the crash.

Downdetector, which monitors outages on the Internet, said users of all Facebook platforms started having trouble at 1345 GMT.

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Again, IMF Warns Nigeria Against Rising Debts

November 28, 2019 2:22 pm

The IMF Senior Resident Representative and Mission Chief for Nigeria, Mr Amine Mati, has said that Nigeria’s debt to gross domestic product ratio at 28 per cent has increased but is still below the average sub-Saharan Africa and Africa as a whole.

He said this at the public presentation of the ‘Fall 2019 issue of the regional economic outlook for sub-Saharan Africa,’ in Lagos on Wednesday.

While mentioning that the revenue to GDP was low, he urged the Federal Government to increase its drive to create more jobs and revamp its fiscal consolidation.

He said, “Nigeria’s debt has increased but …

Finance Bill: New Tax Regime To Take Effect From Jan 2 – FG

November 28, 2019 2:21 pm

The much-debated and anticipated new tax regime expected to fund the 2020 budget and restructure tax administration in Nigeria will take effect from the 2nd of January next year.

According to THISDAY, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, in a panel session at the PwC Executive Session on Finance Bill and Tax Strategy, the bill would be revised yearly as the Federal Government is planning to grow the ratio of revenue to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from 6% to 15% by 2023, with a greater percentage of revenue coming from non-oil sources.

The minister disclosed …

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Saraki: EFCC Wants To Seize My Ilorin Home

November 28, 2019 2:19 pm

A former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday, raised the alarm that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had filed a fresh process in the Federal High Court, Lagos, seeking an interim order for the forfeiture of his home in Ilorin, Kwara State.

Saraki said this in a statement by his media aide, Yusuph Olaniyonu.

He said, “Just like the previous one, which the anti-graft agency made by filing a similar order in the same court on Saraki’s Ikoyi House, it is a clear abuse of the court process.”

He maintained that the action of the EFCC was contrary to …

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Nigeria Will Strengthen Ties With S. Africa Through Tourism

November 28, 2019 2:18 pm

Nigeria’s minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Thursday said Nigeria will continue to explore culture and tourism as veritable platforms to strengthen its ties with South Africa.

“A few years back, we did actually put in motion the machinery for cultural exchanges between Nigeria and South Africa and we are still working on it,” Mohammed said in a meeting with the South African Minister of Tourism, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, in Lagos on Thursday.

“Because we believe that a lot of issues can be resolved when we bring to South Africa our very popular artistes because I am told that …

Adamawa Junior Workers Receive New Minimum Wage

November 28, 2019 2:17 pm

The Adamawa Government has commenced payment of ₦32,000 minimum wage to its workers.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that workers on grade level 01 to 07 who received their salaries with the minimum wage lauded Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri for keeping to his promise of implementing the minimum wage in November.

“We started receiving alert from Monday depending on the bank in which your salary account is domicile.

“This is really fresh air and I can assure you that all junior workers in the state are full of praises for the Adamawa governor,” said Mr Aminu Usman, a junior …

Ibrahimovic Files Hate Complaint After Statue Vandalised

November 28, 2019 2:16 pm

Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic Thursday filed a “hate crime” complaint Thursday after being the target of vandalism and racists threats, police said, a day after the star announced his part ownership in football club Hammarby.

A statue of the player in Malmo was attacked with fire and paint while the word “Judas” was daubed across the front door of his residence in Stockholm.

The perpetrators of the threatening acts have not been identified but “Ibra” angered fans of Malmo FF (MFF) — the club where he started his professional career in 1999 — on Wednesday when he announced he had …

FG, Auditor’s Office, Assembly In Breach Of Fiscal Rules

November 28, 2019 2:12 pm
The Federal Government, National Assembly and Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation’s acclaimed pursuit of transparency and fiscal discipline is being threatened. The threat is coming from the non-presentation of the 2017 audit report on the accounts of the federation, nearly two years after the end of the fiscal calendar.

The 2016 report came with damning findings against the government and its agencies, including the National Assembly. It showed lapses, serial violations of fiscal laws, government’s poor handling of the situation, and the involvement of nearly all agencies. Despite this, none of the state actors seems concerned about the

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Smart Move Against Noise In Lagos

November 28, 2019 12:11 pm
The move against noise pollution by the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) cannot come too soon and it receives our full approval. If the state is to deserve its appellation as a centre of excellence, if the city of Lagos is to earn its much sought-after tag as a modern megalopolis, if Lagosians are to deserve priding themselves as the most sophisticated of the almost 200 million Nigerians, noise should not be tolerated in the environment. It is against all that is appropriate to a civilised community. From Agege and Ketu, through Yaba to Lekki, officials of the agency 
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Ekiti

Voters Without PVCs Free To Vote In Ekiti LG Poll Says Govt

November 28, 2019 12:10 pm

The Ekiti State government has formally declared that people who registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) but have lost their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) are free to vote in the December 7 local government election in the state.

However, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday, rejected the move, saying it contravenes relevant sections of the constitution and the Electoral Act.

The Commissioner for Information, Chief Muyiwa Olumilua, said that residents without voter cards would be allowed to vote during the exercise, as long as they possess either the National Identity Card or driver’s licence.

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