A man in his mid-30s, Tochukwu Ihenacho, reportedly beat his younger brother Philip to a state coma for spending 5,000 Naira in new notes given to him to keep.
The incident happened in the pipeline area of Kubwa, a satellite town in Bwari area
Council of the FCT.
The two brothers who lived together had to be separated by neighbors who witnessed
the incident. Philip who fell into a coma has recovered.
Meanwhile, the Central bank of Nigeria has directed all commercial banks to pay
customers over the counter in N100, N50, N20, N10, and N5 notes, regardless of the
amount withdrawn.
The banker’s committee issued the directives to all commercial banks in the country and also announced the discontinuation of old notes payments of N1000, N500, and N200 across the counters.
Niger coach Harouna Doula has bemoaned his side’s heavy 5-0 loss to hosts Algeria in the first semi-final at the ongoing TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2022 at the Miloud Hadefi Stadium, Oran in Algeria on Tuesday.
Doula’s outfit had not conceded a goal going into this fixture but a coaching masterclass from his counterpart Madjid Bougherra saw them outplayed on Tuesday night.
“Following such a loss, all I can say is that nothing worked today. We were unable to recover the ball. It is not understandable to lose so many passes. We had so much respect for the Algerian team. We have learnt so many lessons,” Doula said in a disappointed manner to the media in the post-match press conference.
He continued, “We did not try hard enough but maybe we were not strong-willed enough to play this game. If we had started with a physical presence, we could have had a chance. All the best to Algeria and hope they win their next game.
There was some pressure but I do not think that that is why we lost. Pressure is not something that will lead to this. Some players who can play 90 or even 120 minutes were not physically up for the task so I made early substitutions [Ousseini Badamassi for Faysal Abdoulaye while Moussa Kassa Moudou replaced Bilyamine Moussa]. We shall review what happened during the game. The fans might have played a role.”
Niger played three games in preparation for this tournament and Doula admitted that he initially thought that that would have helped them in this game.
“This is the fourth time we are playing Algeria. We lost 2-0 in Tunisia and prior to that twice here in Algeria. I thought we would win the next game between us and this game would have been the perfect moment so that we make them make mistakes and explore them but we fell short today,” Doula explained.
He further added that, “Reaching this far in the tournament is a success for us as a team. I would have loved to prepare for the final but now, instead we shall prepare to play the third-place playoff on Friday. This loss is not the end of the journey. We have to keep fighting harder. We cannot start pointing fingers at anyone. We shall try to continue encouraging the players to believe in themselves in the competition.”
Niger will face the loser between Senegal and Madagascar for a place on the podium at the Miloud Hadefi Stadium in Oran on February 3.
Ayem Mahious scored two goals as hosts Algeria hammered Niger 5-0 to reach the final of the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) on Tuesday.
Mahious scored his fourth and fifth goals of the tournament in the first-half to secure the emphatic victory for the Desert Warriors in Oran.
Captain Ayoub Abdellaoui opened the floodgates before Mahious’ brace extended the lead to 3-0 before an own goal by Boureima Katakore put the home side in the driving seat at hlalf-time.
Substitute Sofiane Bayazid sealed the emphatic victory with just seven minutes left to give the home side the biggest win of the tournament so far.
The Desert Foxes took the lead in the 15th minute after constant pressure on the opponent’s area yielded the necessary result when goalkeeper Mahamadou Djibo made a hash of Abderrahmane Meziane’s corner.
Captain Abdellaoui, who was lurking at the far post, latched on with a header to put his side into the lead and send the home fans agog.
Niger just could not settle afterwards as Mahious caught the ball on the half-volley at the 23rd minute to beat Djibo for the second time in the afternoon for his fourth goal of the competition.
Algeria extended their lead to 3-0 as another set-piece delivery in the 34th minute was headed by Mahious and the ball went past Djibo for the striker’s second goal of the match.
A stunned Harouna Doula made two quick changes to help halt the commanding style of the Desert Foxes with supersub Ousseini Badamassi substituted in for impetus upfront for the Menas.
But the situation did not change as once again the set-piece was the undoing of Niger. A corner from the right by Belkhiter was turned in by Niger skipper Abdoulaye Kakore to make it 4-0 before the break.
There was no way back for Niger and the 39,000 fans at the packed Miloud Hadefi Stadium started the celebrations thanks to the emphatic first-half performance from the host nation.
Algeria returned from the break and with Sunday’s final already in mind, they adopted a more of a conservative approach that allowed Niger to come into the game strongly by creating some few anxious moments.
The Menas had their first shot on target at the 59th minute when Badamassi Ousseini’s header was parried by Farid Chaal, who had been alert for most of the game.
Both sides made several substitutions and this added more bite to Niger’s attack as they fought back bravely resulting in a free-kick after a foul on Boubacar Hainikoye at the edge of the area at the 78th minute. Adamou Ibrahim’s resultant shot was on target but did not have enough power to beat Chaal.
The home-based Desert Foxes finished the game off as second-half substitute Bayazid netted at the 83rd minute, after a VAR review overruled the referee’s initial off-side call.
The goal sealed the victory for the Algerians and put them in the final of the CHAN for the first time in their history just as impressive striker Mahious was put in the driving seat of the Golden Boot race with five goals, two more than Madagascar’s Koloina Razafindranaivo.
Algeria will face the winner of Tuesday’s other semi-final match between Madagascar against Senegal in Saturday’s final of the tournament at the Nelson Mandela Stadium.
Baghdad applauded Morocco’s decision to reopen its embassy in Iraq, which was shut down 18 years ago following the kidnapping of two Moroccan citizens.
Fuad Hussein of Iraq said, “The Kingdom of Morocco started playing an important role, whether it was in the political or economic field, and it was crucial for Iraq to build a relationship with the Kingdom of Morocco, in order to start the build of futuristic solid relationships with various African countries, in which Morocco started playing an important role, whether it was in the political or economic field.
During a historic visit by morocco’s foreign minister, Nasser Bourita to Iraq over the weekend, the kingdom’s top diplomat announced the reopening of its embassy in Baghdad and signed a memorandum of understanding.
this visit has also been tagged historic from the standpoint of being the first visit by a foreign minister to Baghdad in a quarter of a century.
He urged for an end to the recent rise in Israeli-Palestinian violence, which included an Israeli military raid on a militant stronghold in the West Bank and a Palestinian gun attack in an east Jerusalem Jewish enclave.
Bourita stated, “We oppose all provocative acts and assaults that affect the Jerusalem Sanctuary. According to His Majesty the King, who also serves as the chairman of the Al Quds Committee, “calmness is required if we want to preserve what is left of the glimmer of hope in the peace process and the current scenario does.”
Morocco is one of the Arab countries that has grown closer to Israel in recent years.
On Sunday, Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open for the tenth time, marking his first major victory following the lifting of the visa ban.
In just under three hours, Djokovic defeated Greek player Stefanos Tsitsipas, winning 6-3, 7-6(4), and 7-6(5) to tie Rafael Nadal for the most Grand Slam victories with 22.
Novak Djokovic of Serbia plays a backhand return to Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece during the men’s singles final at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023.
Prior to the 2022 Australian Open, the Serbian player’s visa was canceled and he was deported because his medical exemption for the COVID-19 vaccination was rejected. In order to “arouse anti-VAX sentiment,” his appeals were also turned down on the grounds of public interest. In November, the restriction on his visa was lifted by Australian Minister of Immigration Andrew Giles.
social media is taking the opportunity to remind the world, of Djokovic’s treatment when the star refused to take covid 19 vaccination in Australia, with this picture of the vaccination proponent, bill gates smiling at the games.
“Dare to dream. Everything is possible,” Djokovic said after the match. “Don’t let anyone take the dream away.”
Due to travel limitations that call for anyone entering the nation to be properly immunized against COVID-19, Djokovic is still unvaccinated and did not attend the US Open the previous year.
#Veritas, project veritas, has released an undercover video of a Pfizer executive bragging about how his company conducts Frankenstein science, manipulating Covid viruses for profit, and does it in secret, possibly in violation of several federal laws.
The investigative report suggests that Pfizer may be conducting gain-of-function research, which it dubs “directed evolution” research to mutate the sars-cov-2 virus to create additional, more potent variants and vaccines to combat future variants. This type of research has long been controversial and is suspected to be the cause of the covid-19 pandemic.
In the first video, Jordan Trishton walker, who was tagged as the director of worldwide R & D strategic operations and mRNA scientific planning, explained to the undercover reporter, how Covid was a cash cow for Pfizer but mutating the virus to create different variations was the ultimate cash cow.
Walker also talked about how big Pharma was a revolving door for politicians, who always ended up working for them after their time in politics.
Ondo State Government has outlawed the distribution of any form of educational materials in public schools by individuals and Non-Governmental Organisations, especially for political motives across the state.
The government said the order came following a recent incident in one of the primary schools in the state where somebody distributed free exercise books to pupils allegedly with ulterior motives.
The Executive Chairman, Ondo State Universal Basic Education Board, Victor Olabimtan, gave the order in Akure, the state capital, on Monday, at the inauguration of two blocks of four classrooms each built by the Oke Agbe Akoko Progressive Union, United States of America and some old students association of St George’s Anglican Primary School Oke-Agbe Akoko in Akoko North-West Local Government Area of the state.
Olabimtan declared that the state government could not fold its arms and allowed “unscrupulous people to take advantage of the kids in our public schools by indoctrinating, inculcating and implanting in their plain minds wrong values and ethos that are strange to our cherished value system and ways of lives.”
He said there was a need to nip this in the bud and safeguard the psychomotor ability of these pupils for constructive engagements. To this end, the SUBEB boss directed all headteachers across the state to disallow anybody or organisation from distributing any instructional materials be it notebooks, biros, rulers or erasers in schools without the written authority of the board.
He said, “From now on anybody or organisation wishing to donate or distribute instructional materials to pupils in any public primary school in the state must write to seek the board permission before embarking on such exercise which must be done under a new process.
“Having obtained the formal approval, which must be rooted through the Education Secretary in the Local Government, the donor must hand over the materials to be distributed to the headteachers in the presence of representatives of the pupils preferably the head boy and the head girl who will, in turn, distribute the materials to the pupils.
“This procedure is to prevent the donors especially those with ulterior motives from having direct access and contacts with our young minds in order not to pollute them because they are the future.”
While appealing to the school administrators to be on their guard because political time is a perilous time, Olabimtan called on politicians to leave the little children out of their antics to win votes because the pupils were not of voting age.
He also enjoined headteachers and teachers as well as public servants to eschew partisan politics and used the occasion to also appeal to politicians to stop corrupting the young minds for their selfish ambitions.
Kenya’s Education Minister Ezekiel Machogu has banned early morning and late evening studies in schools, saying “we don’t want to subject the kids to strain – kids should sleep for nine hours”.
Machogu directed that classes in both private and public primary schools be held between 08:00 and 15:45 to ensure learning takes place within the designated times.
“The syllabus should be covered appropriately between the stipulated time. Let us not subject pupils to unnecessary mental torture,” he added.
The minister said he had noticed a trend where school buses pick children up as early as 05:00 and drop them off as late as 20:00.
The issue of school reporting times has been contentious in Kenya.
The BBC carried out an investigation in 2021 when there was a spike in arson cases in secondary boarding schools, and revealed that students were in class as early as 04.30 up to 22:00. Students who were interviewed then complained of a tight academic schedule and lack of extra-curricular activities.
Super Eagles winger Ademola Lookman scored for the fourth game on the bounce in all competitions as Atalanta defeated Sampdoria 2-0 at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo on matchday 20 of the Italian Serie A on Saturday, January 28.
After hitting the post in the build-up to Joakim Maehle’s headed goal three minutes before halftime, Lookman doubled the advantage with a beauty.
The Charlton Athletic academy product nutmegged a Sampdoria defender, sprinted forward and buried the ball into the far corner for his 12th goal of the season in the league alone.
According to the statisticians at OPTA, Lookman is the top scoring player in the big five European Leagues comprising the English Premier League, La Liga, German Bundesliga, Italian Serie A and French Ligue 1 since the start of 2023.
5 – Goals in 2023 in the Big-5 European leagues:
5 Ademola Lukman
4 Victor Osimhen
4 Lautaro Martínez
4 Erling Haaland
4 Wissam Ben Yedder
The 2017 U20 World Cup winner with England bagged a brace against Salernitana and Juventus, before his brilliant strike versus Sampdoria, taking his tally to five goals in 2023.
Lookman has outscored international teammate, Napoli striker Victor Osimhen, Inter Milan’s World Cup winner with Argentina Lautaro Martínez, Manchester City’s Norway goal machine Erling Haaland and Monaco’s Wissam Ben Yedder, who are all on four goals.
The Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) serves as an inspiration for many people on the importance, values and rewards of leadership through servitude, embodied by Nigeria’s former President, Olusegun Obasanjo.
OOPL contains a vast wealth of knowledge and experiences yet to be seen in Nigeria and West Africa.
Conceived in 1988, the idea to establish the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library remained just an idea until 10 years later when Chief Olusegun Obasanjo rode from prison to the State House as Nigeria’s second elected Executive President.
He soon established the Office of Presidential Libraries (Libraries, Research and Documentation) with a stated mission to see the OOPL idea translated into reality.
On November 12, 2002, the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Foundation was incorporated as a not-for-profit organisation to advise, promote and encourage the establishment, growth and development of the Library, to coordinate its activities and provide support for its programmes.
The Foundation’s Board of Trustees was charged with mobilising private sector interest and funding to construct, furnish, maintain, and protect the Library complex’s buildings and its holdings.
Abeokuta fought several wars with Dahomey, provoked by the city’s rise as a major trade hub for the
A primary concern for the establishment of a Presidential Library is first to acknowledge the contributions of, at any one time, the occupier of Nigeria’s most important political office.
It is also generally acknowledged that, there is a gap in understanding the complex conditions that prevail or act upon important decisions leaders make when they occupy their positions.
A Presidential library, with documents and other archival materials can avail researchers of important resources that may enable them arrive at accurate and objective analysis of their subjects.
The Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library was established to demonstrate and deepen democracy.
One essential aspect of democracy is a developed and engaged citizenry. The Presidential Library will enhance transparency and accountability and ensure that policy choices are better understood.
It will clear up the myth and misconceptions that citizens hold for the office of the President and perhaps broker a more pragmatic understanding of the events of history and the person caught in its storms. For children in schools, the benefit and value of understanding the travails of a leader cannot be underestimated.
The presidential library complex is strategically located at the intersection of two major roads that lead into the city of Abeokuta from two different directions, namely, The Presidential Boulevard and The MKO Abiola Way.
The first leads to Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub, and the second leads to Ibadan, formerly the largest city in Nigerian and West Africa. The complex’s 32 hectares lie in the immediate vicinity of the Federal High Court, the City Stadium, the Federal and State Governments’ Secretariats, a golf course and several high-brow residential estates.
The construction of the complex presented a lot of environmental and physical challenges because of the site’s unique topographical formation. Almost 47 per cent of the site is covered with outcrops of igneous granite rock formation.
The shape and outlook of the rock formations are impressive and interesting. A plateau-like formation serves as a natural helipad. Others form hillocks that create an excellent view of the entire complex and major areas of the surrounding cityscape.
The site is not all rock. A swift stream empties into a small swamp and was dammed to provide water and electricity. The dam is one of the highlights of any visit to the library complex.
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