Malami Bandits have kidnapped the former Director of Personnel Management (DPM) in Kontagora Local Government Area of Niger State, Alhaji Usman Abdullahi Malami. The bandits also abducted a veterinary doctor with the Department of Veterinary Medicine in same LG, Musa Mohammed. According to Daily Trust report, the former DPM was kidnapped on Friday on his farm along Kontagora-Mariga Road alongside some labourers working with him while the veterinary doctor was reportedly abducted on Thursday morning while returning to Kontagora …
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Mesut Ozil’s contract at Fenerbahce has reportedly been terminated after he was frozen out of the first-team, leaving him as a free agent this summer. The former Arsenal midfielder had not featured for the Turkish Super Lig side since March 20 after he was excluded from the squad following a row over his fitness. before his termination. He was involved in a bust up with interim head coach Ismail Kartal before new manager Jorge Jesus left him out …
Former US president, Donald Trump has reacted to the killing of former Japanese PM, Shinzo Abe, calling for his killer to be dealt with ‘swiftly and harshly.’ Shinzo, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was shot on Friday, July 8, while delivering a speech ahead of a parliamentary election. The former prime minister collapsed and showed no sign of life after he was shot twice in the western city of Nara, local media reported. Mr Abe fell to the ground …
The trial of former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and French footballing legend Michel Platini over alleged corrupt payments was halted today when Blatter started suffering from chest pains and breathing issues on the first day of trial Blatter, 86, and Platini, 66, appeared at the Swiss Federal Criminal Court on Wednesday, June 8, where they are facing corruption charges which triggered their downfall. The pair are being tried over a two million Swiss franc (£1.6 million) payment in 2011 to …
Former Manchester City and Manchester United striker, Carlos Tevez, has confirmed his retirement following the death of his father last year. Tevez revealed he had turned down offers to prolong his career in the United States and decided to officially bring his time in football to a close at the age of 38. The Argentinian, who won three Premier League titles, two Scudetti, and the Champions League, last played for Boca Juniors before leaving his boyhood club in June last year. Tevez said …
Burkina Faso’s former president, Blaise Compaore has been sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup, a military tribunal ruled on Wednesday, April 6. The charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation’s capital Ouagadougou at the age of 37, four years after he took power during the 1987 coup d’état that brought Compaoré to power. Thomas Sankara Compaore was charged in absentia …