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http://ift.tt/2rLNA5c The IRT Commander, ACP Abba Kyari, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. Kyari said the arrested suspects also participated in the killing of four policemen and an Army Captain in Ikorodu in April, this year.<br /> The Inspector-General of Police (IGP’s) Intelligence Response Team (IRT) on Friday announced the arrest of five suspected armed robbers who had planned to attack some banks in Lagos. The IRT Commander, ACP Abba Kyari, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. Kyari said the arrested suspects also participated in the killing of four policemen and an Army Captain in Ikorodu in April, this year. The commander said that the suspects were arrested at Ikorodu and Ajah areas of Lagos State, as they perfected the planned attacks on the banks. He said their arrest was part of the IGP Ibrahim Idris’ effort to neutralise the threat posed on Lagos by the notorious new militant leader called America. Accord...

http://ift.tt/2pXpAur Atletico players pose before the UEFA Champions League quarter final first leg football match Club Atletico de Madrid vs Leicester City at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid on April 12, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / GERARD JULIEN Atletico Madrid will be unable to sign new players until January 2018 after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Thursday upheld their transfer ban. Atletico and city rivals Real Madrid were barred from registering new players for two transfer windows in January 2016 for irregularities in the signing of foreign players under 18. “This ruling is unfair and causes an irreparable damage to our club,” Atletico said in a statement. Atletico, who appealed the ban in April, are reported to be hoping to sell striker Antoine Griezmann to Manchester United and replace him with another Frenchman, Lyon’s Alexandre Lacazette. Both Atletico and Real saw initial appeals rejected by FIFA last September, although CAS reduced Real’s sanction...

http://ift.tt/2pj91d6 Sunil Gulati (C) President of the United States Football Federation and Angel Maria Villar (R) President of the Spanish Football Federation (R) chat as they leave a meeting of the FIFA council in Manama on May 9, 2017.<br />A five-hour long meeting of the all-powerful FIFA Council in Bahrain, chaired by president Gianni Infantino, has decided to replace German Hans-Joachim Eckert with Vasilios Skuris of Greece. / AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ FIFA’s decision to remove its ethics team was a “setback in the fight against corruption”, one of those dismissed, investigator Cornel Borbely, told a press conference in Bahrain on Wednesday. World football’s governing body has recommended that Borbely, along with the ethics judge who helped bring down Sepp Blatter, Hans-Joachim Eckert, not be re-elected at the FIFA Congress which takes place on May 11 in the Gulf. Borbely also said there were “several hundred cases” of corruption pending. “The removal means nothin...

http://ift.tt/2qWQDEa Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Victory Day military parade at Red Square in Moscow on May 9, 2017.Russia marks the 72nd anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two. / AFP PHOTO / SPUTNIK / Mikhail KLIMENTYEV President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday warned Russia could defeat any aggressors but insisted that the world come together to fight “terrorism” as Moscow marked 72 years since victory in World War II. Soldiers and military hardware paraded across Red Square in Moscow as the country held its annual pomp-filled celebration of the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945. “The lessons of past war force us to remain alert and the armed forces of Russia are capable of warding off any potential aggression,” Putin said as he presided over the parade. “Today life itself requires us to increase our defensive capability, but for an effective fight against terrorism, extremism, neo-Nazism and other threats it is necessary...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Eight persons were feared dead following an attack by suspected herdsmen, on two villages in Logo Local Government Area of Benue state, a Police statement said. The Spokesman of the Police Command in Benue, ASP Moses Yamu, confirmed the attacks in a statement on Monday in Makurdi. Yamu said the attacks on Akaa and Tse-Orlalu villages in Mbamar, Ugondo communities, were perpetrated by suspected herdsmen late on Sunday. He said that the police had yet to establish the motive for the attack and that adequate personnel had been drafted to the villages to restore normalcy. He said the attackers invaded the villages, killed eight people and injured many others. Meanwhile, an eye-witness told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday that the herdsmen came in from Taraba State through Abaji and Mbamar in Ugondo community, “They started first by attacking Akaa village before advancing to neighbouring Orlalu.’’ The eye-witness, who spoke on condition of anonym...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Loretta Lynn, one of the pioneering women in country music known for songs of working-class female resilience, has suffered a stroke, her representatives said Friday. Lynn, who turned 85 last month and remains professionally active, suffered a stroke Thursday night at her ranch in Tennessee, said a statement on her website. “She is currently under medical care and is responsive and expected to make a full recovery,” it said, while adding that she had canceled upcoming shows. Identifiable for her floor-length gowns, Lynn was one of the original women in country music and a protegee of Patsy Cline, who defined the female role in the genre. Her songs took up the struggles of the white Southern women who listened to country music, recounting husbands who cheated on them, mistresses who competed with them, and the loneliness as the men went off to war. Her signature songs include “Don’t Come Home A’ Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind),” “Coal Miner’s Daughter...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A S preparations for November 18 governorship election in Anambra State gathers momentum, pretenders and contenders are already jostling for the coveted seat, recognition and spoilers’ role. Influence peddlers, jobbers and foot soldiers are repositioning for what can benefit them personally. The voters are wiser now. They are carefully observing the developments and weighing their options. Fortunately, they know the aspirants more than they (aspirants) know themselves. Besides, they have seen the need for a paradigm shift in the leadership of the state. All these are expected, especially in a state like Anambra, where elections before now were decided by several factors-high-wired politics, monetary inducements, religion, popularity, track record, intrigues, conspiracy, undercurrents and backbiting. Among the contenders is a renowned engineer of impeccable track record and international repute, Engr. Barth Nwibe popularly called Ugo Igboukwu. His entry into th...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Over 500 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ikono Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom on Sunday defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The defection in Ikono, generally regarded as the cradle of the Ibibio, was the latest defection to hit the PDP in the state in recent times. Among those that defected were four former councillors, Iboro Akpan, Samuel Etuk, Ndifreke Essien and Jonathan Umana, a former PDP chapter secretary, Dr George Udoh, a former University of Uyo official, Dr Silas Udofia and Mr Victor Etefia, an oil mogul in the state. In his remarks, the immediate past senator of Akwa Ibom North West in the National Assembly, Sen. Aloysius Etok, expressed joy that all the “real politicians” in the area were together in the APC. Etok assured the APC in the state of bloc votes in Ikono in the 2019 general elections, adding that the era of writing election results in Government House, Uyo, is over. He described some of those still...