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Everyone Welcome? Gay Football Fans Prepare For Qatar

December 16, 2019 4:43 pm

World Cup 2022 host Qatar has given the clearest indication yet that LGBT fans will be welcome, engaging with gay supporters as it hosts the Club World Cup — despite criminalising homosexuality.

Organisers of the 2022 soccer spectacle travelled to Britain in recent months to meet Liverpool fan clubs including the side’s gay supporters’ group, individuals briefed on the meeting have told AFP.

Paul Amann, founder of Liverpool’s LGBT supporters’ club Kop Outs, then undertook a fact-finding mission to Doha along with his husband in November at the invitation of the World Cup organisers.

“I’m very satisfied that their approach …

Heroic Welcome For Wada In Lokoja/Kotokarfe

November 8, 2019 3:21 am

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Musa Wada, has promised to fix all infrastructure inherited from the past administrations by Governor Yahaya Bello, some of which have either been vandalised or left to rot away. 

Wada, who made the promise on Wednesday in Lokoja, while addressing the mammoth crowd that graced the PDP governorship/senatorial campaign rally, noted with dissatisfaction the state of roads, health facilities, and educational institutions at all levels, as well as tourism facilities.

He condemned the fast growing rate a state like Kogi has degenerated in terms of development within just three years, saying that the only …

Host Communities; HOSCON Welcome Planned Audit Of NDDC

Host Communities; HOSCON Welcome Planned Audit Of NDDC

October 23, 2019 6:28 am

The umbrella body for oil-bearing communities in the Niger Delta region, Host Communities of Nigeria (HOSCON) has assured President Muhammadu Buhari of the support of all stakeholders in the region in his quest to probe the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

HOSCON said the support of the stakeholders was as a result of the fact that there was nothing to show for the huge funds that have accrued to the commission since its establishment.

The group, led by Dr Mike Emuh as its National Chairman, commended President Muhammadu Buhari for the initiative, adding that such a bold …

Klopp Expects Warm Welcome For Rodgers On Liverpool Return

Klopp Expects Warm Welcome For Rodgers On Return

October 4, 2019 11:06 am

Jurgen Klopp believes Brendan Rodgers will receive a warm welcome on his first return to Anfield as an opposition manager but is warning that Leicester will ensure it is “not a friendly game”.

Almost four years to the day since being sacked by Liverpool, the Northern Irishman will bring his high-flying Foxes to Merseyside for a top-of-the-table encounter.

“The reception will be good, from my side and from the supporters I think as well, but still it is not a friendly game and that’s what we want to make sure,” the Liverpool boss said at his pre-match conference on …

₦900b probe: Senators, Reps to return fake projects funds

Nigerians insist on NASS to stop ₦4.68b ‘welcome package’

June 10, 2019 1:40 am
Some concerned Nigerians have filed a suit against the payment of over N4.68 billion as ‘welcome package’ to the incoming members of the ninth National Assembly.In the suit filed at the Federal High Court, Lagos at the weekend, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), BudgIT and Enough is Enough Nigeria (EiE), are asking the court to restrain, prevent and stop the National Assembly Service Commission from paying individually and/or collectively, the ‘welcome package’.The defendants are the senate president, speaker of the House of Representatives, National Assembly Service Commission and the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).

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Kim Kardashian, Kanye West welcome fourth child

Kim Kardashian, Kanye West welcome fourth child

May 11, 2019 9:12 am

Celebrity power couple Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have welcomed their fourth baby, after a surrogate gave birth on Thursday.

The couple have added another boy to their family, which consists of three other children, North, five, son Saint, three, and daughter Chicago, 15 months.

The reality star announced the birth on social media, tweeting: “He’s here and he’s perfect!

“He’s also Chicago’s twin lol I’m sure he will change a lot but now he looks just like her.”

The new arrival, which weighed 6 lbs, 9 ozs, was first mentioned by Kardashian in January, when confirmed she and West
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