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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Ex Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that ‘no restructuring no Nigeria.’ Fani-Kayode made this known on his twitter handle as he reacts to the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, statement that ‘no amount of advocacy or agitation would lead to restructuring.’ He said hell will freeze over before we accept… Fani-Kayode further said that ‘the notion that we must continue to be part of a contraption that will not be restructured. No restructuring, no Nigeria!’ Malami who had advised those campaigning for restructuring of the present federal structure to stop dissipating their energy admitted that reforms and modifications of institutional arrangements, systems and processes were normal in federations world over, said they were not done in single swoop as advocated in Nigeria and that “the idea of restructuring is not a function of advocacy or agitation. It is about constitutional accommodation and/or alternative constitutiona...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By UDEME ARCHIBONG “Once upon a time an old man spread rumors that his young neighbor was a thief. As a result, the young man was arrested. Days later the young man was proven innocent. After he was released, he sued the old man for wrongly accusing him. In court the old man told the judge: “They were just comments; they were not meant to harm anyone.” The judge, before passing the sentence on the case, told the old man: “Write all the things you said about him on a piece of paper: Cut them up, and on the way home, throw the pieces of paper out. Tomorrow, come back to hear the sentence. The next day, the judge told the old man: “Before receiving the statement, you will have to go out and gather all the pieces of paper that you threw out yesterday!” The old man said: I can’t do that! The wind spread them and I won’t know where to find them.” The judge then replied: “The same way simple comments may destroy the honor of a man to such an extent that one is not ab...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Suleman Shaibu, son of late former national team coach, Amodu Shaibu is dead. The JSS 2 student reportedly died Sunday after a brief illness. According to accounts from “Family United by Sports”platform on WhatsApp, Segun Oguns, a former national assistant goalkeeper, said the boy, Suleman was a student of Navy Secondary School, Abeokuta. The late boy came to Lagos Thursday on holiday. He took ill and was taken to hospital in Surulere the next day before he passed on Sunday. He was buried same day. His father, Amodu Shaibu, a former national coach died in June, last year.   The post Amodu’s son, 12 dies appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2rddG0e

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J English Premier League table after Monday’s match (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points): Chelsea 37 29 3 5 80 32 90 — champions Tottenham 36 24 8 4 73 24 80 Liverpool 37 21 10 6 75 42 73 Man City 36 21 9 6 72 38 72 ———————————– Arsenal 36 21 6 9 72 43 69 Man Utd 36 17 14 5 52 29 65 Everton 37 17 10 10 61 41 61 ———————————– West Brom 36 12 9 15 41 46 45 Southampton 36 12 9 15 41 47 45 Bournemouth 37 12 9 16 54 66 45 Leicester 36 12 7 17 46 56 43 West Ham 37 11 9 17 45 63 42 Crystal Palace 37 12 5 20 50 61 41 Stoke 37 10 11 16 40 56 41 Burnley 37 11 7 19 38 53 40 Watford 37 11 7 19 40 63 40 Swansea 37 11 5 21 43 69 38 ———————————– Hull 37 9 7 21 36 73 34 — relegated Middlesbrough 37 5 13 19 27 50 28 — relegated Sunderland 36 6 6 24 28 62 24 — relegated Note: top four qualify for Champions League; teams finishing fifth to seventh qualify for Europa League; bottom three relegated to Championship The post English Premier ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J An award-winning local journalist and Agence France-Presse contributor who reported on violent drug gangs in northwestern Mexico was shot dead in the street Monday, a judicial source told AFP. Javier Valdez, 50, was shot near the premises of Riodoce, a Mexican news weekly he founded, in his northwestern hometown of Culiacan, the source said. Valdez was the fifth journalist killed this year in a country plagued by drug violence and corruption, according to officials and media rights groups. The attack “was outside the premises of Riodoce… he was shot,” the judicial source said. “Forensic staff are at the scene at this very moment carrying out technical analyses.” – Deadly country for journalists – Mexico ranks third in the world for the number of journalists killed, after Syria and Afghanistan, according to media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) this month said “Mexico’s press is caught in a de...