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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Players of Lagos-based Ikorodu United FC have complained of the club’s inability to pay their salaries for the past six months. The players, who expressed their disappointment said that the unpaid salaries had affected their morale and those of the staff of the club. They said that the dwindling fortunes of the club in their campaign in the Nigeria National League (NNL) was the result of the high indebtedness of the club to its officials and players. Ikorodu United was relegated to the lower league after their unsuccessful campaign in the 2015/2016 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL). Ikorodu United was demoted after coming last on the NPFL log with a measly seven wins, 11 draws and a huge 18 losses with just 32 points. However, things have continued to go from bad to worse as Ikorodu United is now battling relegation from the NNL. The Oga Boys currently sit second from the drop zone in the Southern Conference of NNL that has 18 teams. The team occu...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Players of Lagos-based Ikorodu United FC have complained of the club’s inability to pay their salaries for the past six months. The players, who expressed their disappointment said that the unpaid salaries had affected their morale and those of the staff of the club. They said that the dwindling fortunes of the club in their campaign in the Nigeria National League (NNL) was the result of the high indebtedness of the club to its officials and players. Ikorodu United was relegated to the lower league after their unsuccessful campaign in the 2015/2016 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL). Ikorodu United was demoted after coming last on the NPFL log with a measly seven wins, 11 draws and a huge 18 losses with just 32 points. However, things have continued to go from bad to worse as Ikorodu United is now battling relegation from the NNL. The Oga Boys currently sit second from the drop zone in the Southern Conference of NNL that has 18 teams. The team occu...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The late arrival of electoral materials is frustrating many prospective voters eager to vote in the ongoing Benue local government elections. Correspondents, who went round some polling units in Adikpo, Kwande and other local governments, found voters loitering around the polling units while waiting for electoral officers and materials, as at 1.50pm. At some units, the electoral officers were already seated but had not commenced accreditation as the materials were still being awaited from the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC). At the Adikpo market square, Ityo Atoakaa, ACC, Hausa Quarters, St Andrew and Mbaamander polling units in Adikpo, some voters, who said that they arrived the polling point at 7am, said that they were frustrated and had given up. “There appears to be no sign that anyone would come to conduct any election here. I will just go back home,” a young voter, Ben Iorshaher said. At Adanyi and Bur polling units, there was n...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The late arrival of electoral materials is frustrating many prospective voters eager to vote in the ongoing Benue local government elections. Correspondents, who went round some polling units in Adikpo, Kwande and other local governments, found voters loitering around the polling units while waiting for electoral officers and materials, as at 1.50pm. At some units, the electoral officers were already seated but had not commenced accreditation as the materials were still being awaited from the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC). At the Adikpo market square, Ityo Atoakaa, ACC, Hausa Quarters, St Andrew and Mbaamander polling units in Adikpo, some voters, who said that they arrived the polling point at 7am, said that they were frustrated and had given up. “There appears to be no sign that anyone would come to conduct any election here. I will just go back home,” a young voter, Ben Iorshaher said. At Adanyi and Bur polling units, there was n...

http://ift.tt/2oGaIkm Stock of the seized smuggled rice The Federal Government has threatened to shut some land borders if the smuggling of rice continues from neighbouring countries. Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, gave the warning while speaking to newsmen on some of the Federal Government’s achievements in the agriculture sector in the last two years in Abuja. Ogbeh said the decision had become necessary to encourage local rice farmers and to enable the country achieve self sufficiency in rice by 2018. “We believe they are determined to sabotage the efforts that we are making to guarantee self sufficiency in rice and to save foreign exchange which we don’t have. “They insist on bringing in rice through the land borders, avoiding the duties and the levies we put on them and they are definitely bent on sabotaging our efforts and we are getting increasingly unhappy with them. “And I must say that very soon, if they persist, we will tak...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Partner for Electoral Reform (PER), a Civil Society Organisation (CSO), says Mr Ibrahim Magu, is not using strings of money discoveries as bait to remain at Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Chairman of the organisation, Mr Ezenwa Nwagwu, told newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja that Magu was just doing his job to curb corruption contrary to the insinuations. Nwagwu said that rather than castigating Magu, currently acting chairman of the commission, Nigerians should commend the organisation for the fight against corruption. He said that Magu did not appoint himself, and so, had a responsibility to do what he was doing. He added that any institution saddled with the responsibility of tracking financial crimes, weather headed by Magu or not, should be able to do what Magu was doing. “Current efforts of the EFCC are not to justify anything. The fact of the matter is that the past administration, at the risk of being immodest, plundered the country. “The ...

http://ift.tt/2pF9dQL A former governor of Enugu State, Mr Sullivan Chime, says his decision to join the APC is to provide direction for upcoming politicians in Enugu State. Chime made the announcement on Wednesday in Enugu while briefing newsmen on his plan to formally register as a member of the APC. He had on March 16 this year, announced that he had dumped the PDP on whose platform he served as governor for eight years. After announcing his exit from the PDP, he described the former ruling party as “dead and cremated. “I have now made my consultations with all ward, local government and state chairmen of the APC and the entire state executive of the party, including the national leadership. “They have assured us that we can come in and I am excited about the prospect of joining the party.” Chime described the APC as the only viable party with national outlook in the country. “This is the only party that can take any politician to their destination and I pray that what happ...

http://ift.tt/2pONIzT Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (C) returns a salute from a Chinese naval officer (L) as Philippine Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana (R) looks on during Duterte's arrival to visit the guided missile frigate Changchun berthed at the Davao international port on May 1, 2017. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on May 1 visited Chinese warships docked in his home town and raised the prospect of future joint exercises, highlighting fast-warming relations despite competing claims in the South China Sea. / AFP PHOTO / MANMAN DEJETO Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Monday he may turn down an invitation by Donald Trump to visit the United States, as he welcomed three Chinese warships to his home town. Duterte, who has loosened the Philippines’ long alliance with the United States while strengthening ties with China and Russia, said he could not commit to the American president because of a busy schedule that included a trip to Moscow. “I am tied ...