BECKENBAUER ESCAPES FIFA PROSECUTION OVER 2006 WORLD CUP CORRUPTION

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February 28, 2021

Franz Beckenbauer and other former German football officials cannot be prosecuted over the 2006 World Cup vote-buying scandal because the statute of limitations has expired, Fifa’s ethics committee said on Thursday (Feb 25).

“The adjudicatory chamber of the independent ethics committee has ruled that the conduct of Franz Beckenbauer, Theo Zwanziger and Horst R. Schmidt in connection with the 2006 Fifa World Cup cannot be prosecuted due to the expiry of the applicable limitation period,” it said in a statement.

Fifa’s internal judiciary said it had determined that the statute of limitation had expired in 2012 for Beckenbauer and in 2015 for Zwanziger and Schmidt.

In March 2016, Fifa’s ethics committee opened formal proceedings against Beckenbauer and five other people over their roles in the bidding process for the 2006 Finals, amid allegations of bribery.

Beckenbauer, who is referred to as “the Kaiser” in Germany as the regal defender who steered his country to World Cup triumphs as both a player and a manager, chaired the 2006 World Cup organising committee.

Former German Football Association president Zwanziger and former general secretary Schmidt were also mentioned in those proceedings.

At the time, the ethics committee pointed to “possible undue payments and contracts to gain an advantage in the 2006 Fifa World Cup host selection”.

The investigation was prompted by a report in German publication Der Spiegel in 2015 that Germany had used a secret fund of 10 million Swiss francs (S$14.7 million) to buy votes and obtain the rights to host the competition at the expense of South Africa.

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Monkey Village Demolition: Residents Recount New Years’ Eve Plight

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Angel Gimalo

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February 27, 2021

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*Residents of Monkey Village, Opebi, Lagos state, South-West*, Nigeria

As people were relishing their Christmas and New Year, people living and working at Monkey Village, Opebi area of Lagos State south-west Nigeria were experiencing what they described as a nightmare in daylight.

Their houses and places of work were destroyed according to them without prior notice.

Space.com with Gimalo went to this community to assess the situation and to also find out how they’ve been coping since the demolition.

According to one of the Residents, Mr. Adebayo Williams, Monkey Village was a swamp in the 90s. A certain group of individuals came together to make it liveable and also a place where people can make a livelihood.

It is called Monkey Village because before the occupants filled the swamp, a large of array monkeys lived there and one or two can still be seen today.

Some people still residing there said they have nowhere to go to, while some already left. Men, women and children still live and work there even after the demolition. They complained there were ants, mosquitoes and snakes to deal with too.

The were sad that the government that came to campaign before thethe elections could do such a thing to them.

We also learnt that before they occupied the space, they didn’t go through any legal process. This we envisaged was why Lagos state Government decided to demolish the place.

The place is not only occupied by women and children, there are also thugs who turned out to be hostile to us.

Monkey Village story is a whole peice. On Space.come, we’ll fill you on our encounter with this community and the reason why the Lagos state Government demolished the place.

Watch out for this on ln24-7 News.

Bullets won’t solve banditry —Adamu Garba

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Cleopatra Okohai

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February 26, 2021

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Former presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba, on Friday, said raining bullets on bandits won’t end the security menace in the country.

Garba was reacting to the abduction of over 300 schoolgirls from Jangebe in Zamfara State by gunmen suspected to be bandits.

The rate of mass abduction of students by bandits in the north has become alarming in recent times. Just a week ago, bandits kidnapped dozens of students and workers of Government Science College in Kagara, Niger State.

Bandits had also last year kidnapped over 300 schoolboys from Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State. Aside from Kankara and Kagara, non-state actors had also abducted hundreds of secondary school girls from Chibok, in Borno State; and Dapchi in Yobe State.

In a string of tweets on Friday, Garba said until the root cause of banditry was addressed, the country might be perpetually plagued with attacks by bandits.

He wrote, “We can stay here and keep trending #RescueJangebeGirls (but) as long as we refuse to accept that the insecurity in the north is pushed by the high level of injustice by the northern elite against the ordinary people, not even (the) U.S. (United States) can fix this issue with bullets.

“It is on all available records that Boko Haram emerged 90% out of social neglect than ideology. It seems we haven’t learnt a lesson.

“Instead of us to try and correct the problem, we went with state power to fight and kill. Government yet again think using bullets will solve banditry. Sad.

“The political elites can keep pretending. But as long as the deep level of neglect and injustice has reached a point of betrayal of trust, we may continue to witness security issues to the point where our armed forces will get tired. We must get into the mud and fix our problems.”

It had earlier reported that popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi; Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle; amongst other members of the northern elite pushed for amnesty for bandits as against the military clampdown on the criminals with firepower.

But the President Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had said that his regime will deal decisively with bandits and terrorists, ruling out any possibility of granting them amnesty.

States set for battle with Biden administration over transgender athletes

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Henry Williams

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February 25, 2021

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The Biden administrations stance on transgender athletes is set trigger a legal faceoff over whether biological male athletes competing on female high school and college sports teams.

The issue began on day One of Biden’s presidency when he signed an executive order mandating any school that accepts federal funds allow transgender men to play on women’s sports teams.

The law is aimed at “preventing and combating discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.”

In opposition to the law 13 state legislatures recently began deliberating various laws that would dramatically limit the availability of athletic opportunities for biological men who identify as women.

House committee in Utah approved language in a bill that would force all schools in the state to segregate all athletics by biological sex.

Any schools public or private found in noncompliance of the law would be subject to legal action or a loss in funding. While north Dakota House of Representatives passed a bill barring high school athletes from participating in sports against those who aren’t a member of their biological sex.

Sarah Perry, a former attorney for the Department of Education and legal fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation is reported to have said that Because the Biden order goes into effect 100 days after it’s signed, state legislators are working overtime because until the federal agencies that directly implicate local citizens like student-athletes start moving, they have a very short window to pass their own legislation.

She further said that it would lead to a conflict analysis between the power of the executive branch and the state legislator, particularly on issues concerned with education.

Critics of the Biden administration point to cases in Connecticut in which biological men won 15 state women’s championship titles and 17 school records resulting in Students in that state filing a lawsuit against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference for sex discrimination, arguing that allowing biological men to compete against them violates Title IX and cost them opportunities to earn scholarships.

Republicans, and a few Democrats across the country like former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, have scrambled to stop what they say is the effective end of women’s sports.

I’m afraid Malami won’t let Bawa succeed – Sagay

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Chris Ottah

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February 25, 2021

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The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), says he is afraid that the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), will interfere in the duties of the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, and prevent him from succeeding.

Sagay said this during an interview on Wednesday while reacting to Bawa’s confirmation by the Senate.

The PACAC chairman, who was a staunch supporter of former acting Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, said Malami is a politician and must not be allowed to directly control the activities of the EFCC as this could derail the anti-corruption war of the Federal Government.

The senior advocate, who had in 2019 led a delegation to the Senate to push for Magu’s confirmation, stated that Malami had become too powerful.

On the independence of the EFCC, Sagay said, “This issue is a very big question because I noticed that they both come from the same state of Kebbi and they may even be related. For me, that is not a very healthy thing because the chairman of the EFCC and the EFCC are supposed to be independent.

“They are not politicians, they are trained security officers. The attorney-general is a politician who has all the weaknesses and loads of a politician. He has people he is obliged to. He has people who are close to him. Some of them may be criminals who might have committed crimes. In fact, some of them may deliberately do things because they think they know the attorney-general.

“So, in such a situation, if Bawa is related to the attorney-general, then there will be a problem because he will not be able to do his job freely because the attorney-general will certainly interfere. He has already indicated his tendency to interfere in both the EFCC and the ICPC with the regulations he purported to make months ago. So, I am not comfortable at all that the possibility that they might be related.”

The PACAC chairman maintained that Malami had never been inclined to support the independence of anti-graft agencies.

Sagay argued that he had made his position known several times but unfortunately, Malami’s powers had continued to increase.

“Malami has never been inclined to allow the anti-corruption agencies to operate freely. He is always sitting on their neck one way or the other. I have complained about that several times and nothing has happened. In fact, he has become more powerful. So, I will not be comfortable if they are related. I don’t want any outside influence on the EFCC or the ICPC.”

While admitting that he did not know Bawa personally, Sagay said he was impressed by his curriculum vitae and background.
He said since Magu had been removed, it was time for all parties to move on and ensure that Bawa succeeds.

Sagay stated, “I don’t really know him. I have just read what has been said about him and he seems to have impressive credentials and a fairly good record from what I read apart from this issue of trucks which the EFCC has denied on his behalf.

“So, inasmuch as the removal of Magu to me looks unsatisfactory, we have to move on and if he is as good as his credentials indicate, then I think the future looks promising for the EFCC.”

Niger abductors: We’ll starve schoolboys to death

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Chris Ottah

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February 25, 2021

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Abductors of the 27 students and 15 workers of Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State, have threatened to starve them to death if the ransom they are demanding is not paid on time.

One of the abductors stated this in an audio recording made available to one of our correspondents on Wednesday by a prominent Islamic cleric.

In the audio recording, the abductor, who spoke in Hausa, was heard conversing with a negotiator, identified by Gumi as a top official of the school.

He rejected N2.7m offered him as ransom for the 27 abductees.

The bandit stated, “I don’t have food for them. If anybody dies among them, we will tell you where to go and pick the corpse.

“You know these children are hungry. I don’t have food to give them, only water if they are going to die, let them die.”

The negotiator said it would be difficult for him to get the phone numbers of all the parents as requested by the bandits.

The bandit responded that he was aware that many security agents and vehicles had been deployed in Kagara, vowing they would not succeed in rescuing the abductees.

He asked, “You think I don’t know what you people are doing? I can tell you how many security vehicles are in Kagara as we speak.

“It is with the help of the people of the city that intruders can overrun the city. Don’t you know that? The person who gave us this business is there among you. He is there with you. Wherever you go, he is watching you. If you want to do this deal, go ahead. From God we come and to him we will return

“Even if you put together the entire security forces of Nigeria in Kagara, I have eyes all over Kagara. Whichever step you take in Nigeria, I swear, I will know. You people are saying they should not pay us, that if they pay us, we will use to money to buy weapons. With whose money did we buy our weapons? If we don’t have weapons, you will just send security agents to kill us and take the children.”

Appealing to the bandit, the negotiator stated, “They (parents) have agreed to pay N2.7m. Each parent will pay N100,000 .”

But the abductor rejected the offer threatening to unleash terror on Kagara.

The abductor stated, “If I want Kagara to be in peace, it will be in peace. If it is not going to be in peace, it will go in pieces from here until Ilorin. If I die in this process, I have children that I have instructed that if I die that I don’t want Kagara to be peaceful if you don’t do as I say. Even if I die, nobody will come into Kagara.”

He also berated governors, who said they should not be paid ransom.

He added, “Governors are saying we should not be given money because we are going to use it to buy guns; guns that Allah provides and you are boasting about.

PRESIDENT AKUFO-ADDO ORDERS SHUT DOWN OF LGBTQ OFFICE

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Henry Williams

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February 25, 2021

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Protagonists of the LGBTQ now with an I agenda are not resting on their plans to infiltrate Africa especially with Angola the latest African country to legitimize the toxic ideology.

However countries like Ghana are not yielding to pressure from the international community as President Akufo-Addo recently ordered the shutdown of the office of Lesbians Gays Bisexuals Transgender Queer Intersex (LGBTQI) group at Tesano in Accra.

Reports say a combined team of heavily armed policemen and plain cloth National Security officials stormed the LGBTQ office and ordered all operations and activities ceased immediately and occupants asked to vacate the building with immediate effect.

The closure was confirmed by Moses Foh Amoaning, the Executive Secretary of the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values.

The coalition is made up of the Christian Council and the Catholic Bishops Conference, the Muslim community as well as the traditional rulers, making it a tripartite group fighting the LGBTQI agenda in Ghana.

It’s a fight that must be won as global bodies like the united Nations (UN) and its donor agencies continue to mount pressure on African nations using aid in exchange for their compliance.

Pro-life activist’s hold that the LGBTQI ideology is targeted at Africa for population control and in the end promote a new way of life were tradition family values are exchanged for faith in science and ultimately government.

10 Great tips your health will appreciate

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Chris Ottah

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February 24, 2021

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When it comes to health and nutrition, we all get confused because of the so many information out there. Even qualified experts often seem to hold opposing opinions.

Yet, despite all the disagreements, a number of wellness tips are well supported by research.

Here are health and nutrition tips that are actually based on good science.

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1. Don’t drink sugar calories

Sugary drinks are among the most fattening items you can put into your body.

This is because your brain doesn’t measure calories from liquid sugar the same way it does for solid food.

Therefore, when you drink soda, you end up eating more total calories.

Sugary drinks are strongly associated with obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and many other health problems.

2. Avoid processed junk food (eat real food instead)

Processed junk food is incredibly unhealthy. These foods have been engineered to trigger your pleasure centres, so they trick your brain into overeating — even promoting food addiction in some people.

They’re usually low in fibre, protein, and micronutrients but high in unhealthy ingredients like added sugar and refined grains. Thus, they provide mostly empty calories.

3. Get enough sleep

The importance of getting enough quality sleep cannot be overstated.

Poor sleep can drive insulin resistance, disrupt your appetite hormones, and reduce your physical and mental performance.

What’s more, poor sleep is one of the strongest individual risk factors for weight gain and obesity.

4. Drink some water, especially before meals

Drinking enough water can have numerous benefits.

Surprisingly, it can boost the number of calories you burn.

Two studies note that it can increase metabolism by 24–30% over 1–1.5 hours. This can amount to 96 additional calories burned if you drink 8.4 cups (2 litres) of water per day.

5. Eat vegetables and fruits

Vegetables and fruits are loaded with prebiotic fibre, vitamins, minerals, and many antioxidants, some of which have potent biological effects.

Studies show that people who eat the most vegetables and fruits live longer and have a lower risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and other illnesses.

6. Do some cardio

Doing aerobic exercise, also called cardio, is one of the best things you can do for your mental and physical health.

It’s particularly effective at reducing belly fat, the harmful type of fat that builds up around your organs. Reduced belly fat should lead to major improvements in metabolic health.

7. Don’t smoke or do drugs, and only drink in moderation

If you smoke or abuse drugs, tackle those problems first. Diet and exercise can wait.

If you drink alcohol, do so in moderation and consider avoiding it completely if you tend to drink too much.

8. Minimize your sugar intake

Added sugar is one of the worst ingredients in the modern diet, as large amounts can harm your metabolic health.

High sugar intake is linked to numerous ailments, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and many forms of cancer.

9. Lift heavy things

Lifting weights is one of the best things you can do to strengthen your muscles and improve your body composition.

It also leads to massive improvements in metabolic health, including improved insulin sensitivity.

The best approach is to lift weights, but doing bodyweight exercises can be just as effective.

10. Use plenty of herbs and spices

Many incredibly healthy herbs and spices exist.

For example, ginger and turmeric both have potent anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects, leading to various health benefits.

Due to their powerful benefits, you should try to include as many herbs and spices as possible in your diet.

11. Take care of your relationships

Social relationships are incredibly important not only for your mental well-being but also your physical health.

Studies show that people who have close friends and family are healthier and live much longer than those who do not.

12. If you have excess belly fat, get rid of it

Belly fat is particularly harmful.

It accumulates around your organs and is strongly linked to metabolic disease.

For this reason, your waist size may be a much stronger marker of your health than your weight.

Cutting carbs and eating more protein and fiber are all excellent ways to get rid of belly fat.

7 common risk factors that can contribute to infertility

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Chris Ottah

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February 24, 2021

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We know that women choose to start their families later in life as they are focusing on establishing their careers before having babies, but age is only one of the factors affecting fertility. So, what else could be causing these declining fertility rates?

While infertility is no blame game, it’s important to know that the problem doesn’t always solely lie with the female partner. There are many factors that can cause infertility in men as well.

The Risk Factors Which Could Contribute To A Couple’s Infertility Include:

Age. A woman’s fertility declines with age, especially from her mid-30s. This is due to the number and quality of her eggs declining and to health problems that may interfere with fertility. In addition, the sperm count of older men is often lower, reducing fertility and the chances of conception.
Being overweight. If an individual is overweight and lives a sedentary lifestyle with little exercise, this may increase the risk of infertility. In addition, a man’s sperm count may be affected if he is overweight.
Being underweight. Women who have eating disorders, such as anorexia or bulimia, are at risk of fertility problems, as are women who follow a very low calorie or restrictive diet.
Tobacco use. If either partner is a smoker, a couple’s chances of falling pregnant are reduced. Miscarriages are more frequent in couples who smoke. Smoking can increase the risk of erectile dysfunction and reduce sperm count in men.
Alcohol use. Drinking alcohol increases the risk of birth defects in babies, and may also make it more difficult to become pregnant. For men, heavy alcohol use can cause a decrease in sperm count and mobility.
Underlying health conditions such as large uterine fibroids can affect a woman’s chance of falling pregnant.
The side effects of some medication can affect one’s fertility. This is why it is important for both partners to mention any prescription medication they are taking, including herbal medicines, to their doctor so that alternative treatment options can be discussed.

Wife of Drug Kingpin El Chapo, Arrested On International Drug Trafficking Charges.

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faith Jegede

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February 23, 2021

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Emma Coronel, 31 year old wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El chapo’ Guzman has been arrested on charges of international drug trafficking and conspiring to help her husband escape in 2015.

The arrest was made yesterday February 22,2021 at Dulles international airport Virginia. Emma is scheduled to make her first appearance in a federal court today via video conferencing.

According to court documents, Coronel is charged with participating in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, heroin marijuana and cocaine which is imported into the U.S. Additionally, she is alleged to have conspired with others to help her husband escape from Altiplano prison in Mexico in July 2015.

Coronel, who is a U.S-Mexican citizen was born in Santa Clara, California but grew up in the “Golden Triangle” of Mexico’s Sierra Madre, where she reportedly met El Chapo at a local festival at the age of 17. The drug lord was already 51 at the time.

Emma Coronel tried her hands on social media influencing and reality television very much unlike other people in her situation. She shares a set of 9 year twins with her husband.

Her arrest is said to likely further complicate already complicated relations between the Joe Biden administration and his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and comes as security cooperation between Mexico and the US appear to have cooled.

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The Risk Factors Which Could Contribute To A Couple’s Infertility Include: