GRAPHITTI NEWS : 2016-02-21

Saturday, February 27, 2016

BPL: Watford Boss Quique Flores Admits Odion Ighalo Could Leave In £20million Deal

Ighalo has netted 15 Premier League goals for Watford this season Getty Images

Quique Flores hinted he could lose hitman Odion Ighalo. Watford managed to hold on to the Nigerian star during last month’s transfer window but Arsenal are among the clubs reported to be lining up a £20million offer this summer.

In this Monday Feb. 22, 2016 photo, Nigeria Naval officers walk along with arrested pirates that hijacked the Panama-flagged Maximus vessel after it was rescued. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

It was supposed to be a U.S.-led naval training maneuver off the coast of West Africa when real-life drama intervened, with pirates taking over an oil tanker and turning the exercise into a rescue mission.

President Muhammadu Buhari

The Presidency has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari has an economic management team. The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Mr Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a telephone interview with our correspondent last light.

Buhari Heeds Soyinka’s Advice, Convenes Conference

President Muhammadu Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the convocation of a national economic conference aimed at rallying the country together to offer solutions to the current economic challenges facing Nigeria.

IN RUINS: The scene of an explosion at the Adamawa Police Command’s Anti-Bomb Squad and Motor Traffic Department in Jimeta, Yola…yesterday. PHOTO: NAN1168/25/2/2016/AMA/BJO/NAN

Bombs retrieved from Boko Haram exploded accidentally yesterday at the Police Anti-bomb Squad Office in Jimeta, Yola, Adamawa State capital. Four people died while scores of policemen were injured. School children were cut by shattered glass.

United’s Marcus Rashford celebrates after scoring during the Europa League round of 32 second leg soccer match between Manchester United and FC Midtjylland in Manchester, England, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016 . (AP Photo/Jon Super)

It took an 18-year-old local academy graduate making his professional debut as a late injury replacement to spare Manchester United from potential humiliation in the Europa League on Thursday.

INEC Chairman, Prof Yakubu (c) speaking

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed the Edo State governorship election for September 10.

Africa 'Will Back Bahrain Candidate For FIFA President'

Kwesi Nyantakyi said Africa's candidate wasn't strong enough AFP

Kwesi Nyantakyi, head of the Ghana Football Association, has told the BBC's Alex Capstick that the majority of African delegates will support Bahrain's Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa to become FIFA's new president in tomorrow's elections.

President Kenyatta visited the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem earlier this week EPA

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has lambasted his own citizens about endemic corruption in Kenya while on a state visit to Israel.

Pauline Cafferkey has been admitted to hospital for the third time since contracting Ebola

A majority of Ebola survivors suffer some form of long-term brain health problems, according to a new study.

Senators Andy Uba and Stella Oduah

The Supreme Court yesterday explained its January 29 judgment in relation to the leadership dispute in the Anambra chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

•President Muhammadu Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari spoke yesterday for the first time on the “padding” of Budget 2016, saying it was “embarrassing and disappointing”. Buhari, who spoke while addressing Nigerians in Saudi Arabia, vowed to punish those involved.

Ex-Burkina Faso President Gains Côte d'Ivoire Citizenship

Mr Compaoré was in power for 27 years AFP

Côte d'Ivoire has given Burkina Faso's ousted ruler Blaise Compaoré citizenship, reports the BBC.

The Togolese government may have given orders to airlines flying into the country not to carry Nigerian passengers holding the ECOWAS Travel Certificate, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Ayuba Wabba has said.

Fayemi: Solid Minerals growth, a great deal of work ahead of us; Solid Minerals Development Minister, Dr. Kayode Fayemi (C) speaking

• Illegal mining to be formalized

Solid Minerals Development Minister, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has said the Federal Government will revoke mining and exploration licences that are dormant.

The Trade Union Congress (TUC) yesterday demanded upward review of the current ₦18,000 minimum wage from the Federal Government.

President Muhammadu Buhari and King Salman Bin Abdul-Aziz Photo: BBC

Leaders of Nigeria and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have expressed commitment to a “stable oil market” and a “rebound of oil price.”

Kenya Has Until April 5 To Fall In Line With Doping Rules

IAAF Ethics Board suspended Athletics Kenya CEO Mwangi - Sportstarlive

Kenya has until April 5 to fall in line with global anti-doping rules or face being declared non-compliant by the World Anti-Doping Agency, a step toward a possible ban from the Olympics for its track and field athletes.

Rotimi Amaechi

• Sets ₦500b revenue for agencies

The Federal Government has said it expects the maritime sector to contribute at least one quarter, or 25 per cent of the total funding of the national budget next year.

• Awards cost against commission

The Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday dismissed an application by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) seeking to stay proceedings in the suit on electricity tariff hike.

Bill and Melinda Gates talk to reporters about the 2016 annual letter from their foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in New York, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. The couple, co-chairs of the largest private foundation in the world, has made a tradition of releasing an annual letter on philanthropy. This year's edition, released Monday, called on the young to be a driving force for innovation and change. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Bill and Melinda Gates want young people to get involved in solving major world problems, like finding clean energy sources and changing the division of household and childcare labour between men and women.

Former Minister of Interior, Abba Moro

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday arrested a former Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, over the Nigerian Immigration recruitment scam in which no fewer than 20 job seekers died.

Mobile Phones Are ‘Cooking’ Men’s Sperm

Using a mobile phone for even one hour a day can be so damaging to sperm that men may develop difficulties conceiving, fertility experts have warned.

Image source: Karen Allen on Twitter

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is in Burundi to try to hammer out a deal to prevent a political conflict from escalating into a wider ethnic conflict.

A staff member of the polling station shows the portraits of candidates during the first round of the country's presidential and legislative elections at a polling station in Niamey on February 21, 2016 ©Issouf Sanogo (AFP)

Counting began in Niger's presidential poll Sunday in an election that has seen incumbent Mahamadou Issoufou promise a first-round "knockout" blow to his opponents, who are already crying foul after a tense campaign.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday called for an urgent need for “a new tribe” of Nigerians to fight and dismantle corruption in the nation’s private and public sectors.

Mapping the genome could help develop a vaccine for the virus, according to Brazilian scientists. © Paulo Whitaker / Reuters

Scientists claim they have managed to sequence the Zika genome, while the head of the world's second-largest private funder of medical research warns the virus is a larger threat than Ebola.

Ag EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has initiated a discreet probe into the US$2billion Malabu Oil deal to ascertain whether the country was short-changed.

President Muhammadu Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday (today) embark on yet another round of foreign trips that will take him to Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), has called on the Federal Government to review the recently introduced ₦50 stamp duty.

Côte d'Ivoire Extradites 3 Coup Suspects To Burkina Faso

Ex-Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaoré also remains in Côte d'Ivoire despite a warrant for his arrest over the 1987 death of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara.

Côte d'Ivoire has extradited three former members of an elite military unit that staged a brief, failed coup last September, a Burkina Faso official said Sunday.

The Chinese capital Beijing is planning to build ventilation corridors throughout the city to get rid of pollution that is chocking the city's residents.

Central Bank of Nigeria Headquarters, Abuja

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, said it compelled Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) to refund ₦6.2 billion to customers they over charged as cost of transactions in 2015.

Forty state-run media outlets have joined forces to put a new bounty on the head of controversial award-winning British Indian writer Salman Rushdie.

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa'ad Abubakar III

•As UNICEF partners north on girl child education •As UNICEF partners north on girl child education

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III yesterday branded child begging, otherwise known as Almajiri in the north as un-Islamic.

President Buhari Participates at the Opening Panel - Presidential Roundtable of Business for Africa, Egypt; Explains Why He Opposes Naira Devaluation

•Says no to devaluation of naira

African leaders and bankers turned out at an economic summit in Egypt yesterday, vowing to push for trade and investments on the continent despite growing security concerns in the region.

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