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The battle for the Home-Based Eagles that would make the final trip to Abidjan for the reverse fixture of the 27 July CHAN 2014 qualifier against the Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire is taking shape as invited players are currently playing out their hearts to convince the technical coaching crew.

Sources from the camp of the team in Abuja indicate that after the first Tuesday’s training session all the invited players tried in their bid to convince the coaches of their readiness to make the final coach.

Even Coach Stephen Keshi confirmed it but disclosed that his fear is the team’s midfield marshaled by AFCON hero and on loan Rangers of Enugu player, Sunday Mba.

Keshi says focus is on Super Eagles’ midfield ahead of Cote d’Ivoire return clash

According to Keshi “Although they (the players) did what I wanted in the first leg game in Kaduna, there is still room for improvement, “we need to work much harder, most especially on our midfield, even though the attack and our finishing can also be improved”.

NARROW ESCAPE...Nigerian midfielder Sunday Mba (L) tries to beat Ivorian defender Topio Coulibaly during the 2014 CH AN qualification match in Kaduna 6 July, 2013. Nigeria defeated Ivory Coast 4 - 1 at the end of regulation time.  AFP PHOTO.

NARROW ESCAPE…Nigerian midfielder Sunday Mba (L) tries to beat Ivorian defender Topio Coulibaly during the 2014 CH AN qualification match in Kaduna 6 July, 2013. Nigeria defeated Ivory Coast 4 – 1 at the end of regulation time. AFP PHOTO.

The Super Eagles defeated the Elephants  4-1 in Kaduna State in the first leg match of the 2014 CHAN final qualifying round. Keshi said the team had had much more time to prepare for the return leg, compared to what obtained before the first leg match of 6 July. “This has been good for the team. We need to stay together more, to be more compact, because that match (the first leg game) was the first one the team was playing together then, “we didn’t have much time then. But now that we have about 10 days to prepare, we will work on those areas and hopefully, they will understand better what they are supposed to do,’’ said Keshi.

He assured that the Ivorian football authorities’ decision to host the match on a synthetic field would not affect the Super Eagles. “We don’t want to put it on our mind that it is a synthetic pitch. All we need to do is to bear in our minds that we will qualify for CHAN, “all we need to do is to play our game, no matter where they put us. Even if it is on a pitch made with cement, we have to play,  “we also have that mental attitude that we are here in camp to do a job, and we want to play our game,’’ Keshi said. The Eagles got a deserved 4-1 victory over the Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire in a CHAN qualifier on Saturday at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna.

The Chan qualifier started at a slow pace though the Eagles dominated possession in the early minutes of the game but was sparked into life in the 14th minute when Gambo Mohammed swiveled on the edge of the box and let fly a left-footer which beat the Elephants’ goalkeeper. That was Gambo’s first goal in only his second outing for the national team.

Baresi got the first yellow card of the match for a foul on Gomo Onduku in the 22nd minute. A solo run from Sunday Mba was cut short as Gambo ran into an offside position. Two minutes later, a long ball from Godfrey Oboabona found Ezekiel Mbah on the right wing and his first time cross was met by a half volley from Sunday Mba and that threw the crowd into delirium. The Super Eagles thought they had scored the third in the 38th minute when another swift counter between Sunday Mba and Ezekiel Mba from the right saw another cross perfectly headed in by Gambo but he was adjudged offside though the call had to be marginal at best.

A change in the 44th for CIV saw Topio Coulibaly go out for Jules Lakpa and the Elephants scored in the last minute of the first half as a defensive howler from Ezekiel Mba allowed in Tiecoura Coulibaly to pass beyond Chigozie Agbim.

The second half started with the Eagles making a change. Gomo Onduku was pulled off for Ifeanyi Edeh as Coach Stephen Keshi wanted to add more impetus in attack.

Two red cards within two minutes changed the game to the advantage of the Eagles. A CIV defender was adjudged to have handled the ball in the area off a corner kick and a penalty was awarded. Sunday Mba stepped forward and calmly slotted the ball past the goalkeeper.

Too much protestation saw a red card issued. Another quickly followed as Baresi was shown a second yellow card for a violent foul on Sunday Mba. It wa all Super Eagles after that as they pressed their two-man advantage and were continually camped in the Elephants’ half of the pitch.

Ayo Saka was substituted by Emeka Eze in the 60th minute while Sunday Mba went on a good run but chipped over the goalkeeper and over the bar. It was  more about damage limitations fom then on for the Elephants as they had only Kevin Zougoula upfront though he troubled the defence once in a while.

Finally the Eagles made their advantage pay in the 85th minute when a strong run down the right by Sunday Mba saw the Rangers man pull the ball back for Ifenyi Edeh to walk the ball in for the fourth goal.

—Adebobola Alawode

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Kano Transfers Over 1,000 Almajiris To Different States Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

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The Kano State Government on Saturday said it has transferred 1,098 ‘almajiris’ to different states of the country.

The commissioner for local government, Murtala Garo, disclosed this while presenting a report before the state’s task force on COVID-19 at the government house, Kano.

Almajiris are children who are supposed to be learning Islamic studies while living with their Islamic teachers. Majority of them, however, end up begging on the streets of Northern Nigeria. They constitute a large number of Nigeria’s over 10 million out-of-school children.

Mr Garo said the Kano government transported 419 almajiris to Katsina, 524 to Jigawa and 155 to Kaduna. He said all of them tested negative for coronavirus before leaving the Kano State.

Despite the coronavirus test done in Kano for the almajiris, the Jigawa government earlier said it would quarantine for two weeks all the almajiris that recently arrived from Kano.

Mr Garo said another 100 almajiris scheduled to be taken to Bauchi State also tested negative to COVID-19.

In a remark, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje said the COVID-19 situation in Kano was getting worse. He appealed for a collaborative effort to curtail the spread of the virus in the state.

Mr Ganduje, who commended residents for complying with the lockdown imposed in the state, said the decision was taken to halt the spread of the virus.

Kano State, as of Saturday night, has 77 coronavirus cases, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.

The decision to transfer the Kano almajiris is part of the agreement reached between Northern governors that almajiris in each state be transferred to their states of origin.

However, even before the latest agreement by the governors, the Kano government had been transferring almajiris to other states and neighbouring countries after it banned street begging in the state, most populous in Northern Nigeria.

Despite the transfers, however, no concrete step has been taken to ensure such children do not return to Kano streets as there is freedom of movement across Nigeria although interstate travel was recently banned to check the spread of the coronavirus.

 

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COVID-19: ‘Bakassi Boys’ Foil Attempt To Smuggle 24 Women Into Abia In Container

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Operatives of the Abia State Vigilante Service, AVS, popularly known as ‘Bakassi Boys’ have arrested 24 market women hidden in a container truck, at Ekwereazu Ngwa, the boundary community between Abia and Akwa Ibom states.

The market women, said to be  from Akwa Ibom State, were on their way to Aba, when they were arrested with the truck driver and two of his conductors for violating the lockdown order by the state government.

Driver of the truck, Moses Asuquo, claimed he was going to Aba to purchase stock fish, but decided to assist the market women, because they were stranded.

A vigilante source told Sunday Vanguard that the vehicle was impounded while the market women were sent back to Akwa Ibom State.

Commissioner for Home Land Security, Prince Dan Okoli, who confirmed the incident, said that  smuggling of people into the state poses great threat to the state government’s efforts to contain the spread of COVID- 19.

 

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Woman Kills Her Maid Over Salary Request

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Operatives of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Yaba of the Lagos State police command have arrested one Mrs Nene Steve for allegedly killing her maid, Joy Adole

The maid was allegedly beaten to death by Nene for requesting for her salary at their residence located at 18, Ogundola Street, Bariga area in Lagos.

Narrating the incident, Philips Ejeh, an elder brother to the deceased said that he was sad when they informed him that his sister was beaten to death.

He explained that the deceased was an indigene of Benue State brought to Lagos through an agent and started working with her as a maid  in January 2020.

‘’She reported that her boss refused to pay her and anytime she asked for her salary she will start beating her.

She was making an attempt to leave the place but due to the total lockdown she remained there until Sunday when her boss said she caught her stealing noodles and this led to her serious beating and death,’’ Ejeh said.

He called on Lagos State Government and well- meaning people in the country to help them in getting justice for the victim.

The police spokesman, Bala Elkana, stated that the woman and her husband came to Bariga Police  Station to a report that their house girl had committed suicide.

Detectives were said to have visited the house and suspected foul play with the position of the rope and bruises all over the body which confirmed that the girl had been tortured to death and the boss decided to hang up the girl to make it look like suicide.

He said: “The police moved on with their investigation and found a lot of sign of violence on her body that she has been tortured before a rope was put on her neck.’’

He added that the police removed the corpse and deposited it in the mortuary for autopsy to further ascertain the cause of the death.

Elkana said the matter has been transferred from Bariga police station to Panti for further investigation while the couple have been arrested and will be charged to court.

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Boko Haram Attacks: Buhari Summons Urgent Meeting Of Service Chiefs

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President Buhari and the Service Chiefs in a meeting. (File photo)

Ostensibly alarmed by the latest killings of dozens of soldiers by Boko Haram insurgents, President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned an urgent meeting of Service Chiefs to find ways to stop the trend. 

He has also dispatched the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan Ali, to the neighbouring Republic of Chad for an urgent meeting with President Idris Deby and his defence counterpart. 

Knowledgeable sources said in Abuja on Friday that the president is worried by on the deterioration of security situation on the Nigeria – Chad Border that has led to the recently increased Boko Haram terrorism in the area.

The sources which did not want to be named in Abuja said: “Nigeria has a Chad  problem in the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) put together to secure the Lake Chad basin areas and repeal the Boko Haram terrorist attacks against all the countries neighbouring the Lake.”

The sources noted that Chad is believed to be having their own internal security challenges and this has reportedly led to their pulling away their own troops manning their own border around Lake Chad,  saying: “That lacuna is being exploited by the Boko Haram terrorists, who go in and out of Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon to launch terrorist acts.  This is a clear illustration of the fact that terrorism is beyond national borders.”

When contacted, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed that the Defence Minister is going to Chad but said he is unaware of the purpose. 

Meanwhile, the military authorities are said to be in the process of identifying the families of the latest victims with a view to making contact with them. 

Credible sources revealed that it is the reason the president is yet to make any pronouncement on the matter. 

“The President has called an urgent meeting with the Service Chiefs, as well as the fact that families of the latest victims of the Boko Haram are being identified and contacts made before a government pronouncement on the tragic attacks. This, it is understood, is the reason for the silence of the government over the incident,” the source said. 

 

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    Battle For Eagles’ Shirts Begins

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    The battle for the Home-Based Eagles that would make the final trip to Abidjan for the reverse fixture of the 27 July CHAN 2014 qualifier against the Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire is taking shape as invited players are currently playing out their hearts to convince the technical coaching crew.

    Sources from the camp of the team in Abuja indicate that after the first Tuesday’s training session all the invited players tried in their bid to convince the coaches of their readiness to make the final coach.

    Even Coach Stephen Keshi confirmed it but disclosed that his fear is the team’s midfield marshaled by AFCON hero and on loan Rangers of Enugu player, Sunday Mba.

    Keshi says focus is on Super Eagles’ midfield ahead of Cote d’Ivoire return clash

    According to Keshi “Although they (the players) did what I wanted in the first leg game in Kaduna, there is still room for improvement, “we need to work much harder, most especially on our midfield, even though the attack and our finishing can also be improved”.

    NARROW ESCAPE...Nigerian midfielder Sunday Mba (L) tries to beat Ivorian defender Topio Coulibaly during the 2014 CH AN qualification match in Kaduna 6 July, 2013. Nigeria defeated Ivory Coast 4 - 1 at the end of regulation time.  AFP PHOTO.

    NARROW ESCAPE…Nigerian midfielder Sunday Mba (L) tries to beat Ivorian defender Topio Coulibaly during the 2014 CH AN qualification match in Kaduna 6 July, 2013. Nigeria defeated Ivory Coast 4 – 1 at the end of regulation time. AFP PHOTO.

    The Super Eagles defeated the Elephants  4-1 in Kaduna State in the first leg match of the 2014 CHAN final qualifying round. Keshi said the team had had much more time to prepare for the return leg, compared to what obtained before the first leg match of 6 July. “This has been good for the team. We need to stay together more, to be more compact, because that match (the first leg game) was the first one the team was playing together then, “we didn’t have much time then. But now that we have about 10 days to prepare, we will work on those areas and hopefully, they will understand better what they are supposed to do,’’ said Keshi.

    He assured that the Ivorian football authorities’ decision to host the match on a synthetic field would not affect the Super Eagles. “We don’t want to put it on our mind that it is a synthetic pitch. All we need to do is to bear in our minds that we will qualify for CHAN, “all we need to do is to play our game, no matter where they put us. Even if it is on a pitch made with cement, we have to play,  “we also have that mental attitude that we are here in camp to do a job, and we want to play our game,’’ Keshi said. The Eagles got a deserved 4-1 victory over the Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire in a CHAN qualifier on Saturday at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna.

    The Chan qualifier started at a slow pace though the Eagles dominated possession in the early minutes of the game but was sparked into life in the 14th minute when Gambo Mohammed swiveled on the edge of the box and let fly a left-footer which beat the Elephants’ goalkeeper. That was Gambo’s first goal in only his second outing for the national team.

    Baresi got the first yellow card of the match for a foul on Gomo Onduku in the 22nd minute. A solo run from Sunday Mba was cut short as Gambo ran into an offside position. Two minutes later, a long ball from Godfrey Oboabona found Ezekiel Mbah on the right wing and his first time cross was met by a half volley from Sunday Mba and that threw the crowd into delirium. The Super Eagles thought they had scored the third in the 38th minute when another swift counter between Sunday Mba and Ezekiel Mba from the right saw another cross perfectly headed in by Gambo but he was adjudged offside though the call had to be marginal at best.

    A change in the 44th for CIV saw Topio Coulibaly go out for Jules Lakpa and the Elephants scored in the last minute of the first half as a defensive howler from Ezekiel Mba allowed in Tiecoura Coulibaly to pass beyond Chigozie Agbim.

    The second half started with the Eagles making a change. Gomo Onduku was pulled off for Ifeanyi Edeh as Coach Stephen Keshi wanted to add more impetus in attack.

    Two red cards within two minutes changed the game to the advantage of the Eagles. A CIV defender was adjudged to have handled the ball in the area off a corner kick and a penalty was awarded. Sunday Mba stepped forward and calmly slotted the ball past the goalkeeper.

    Too much protestation saw a red card issued. Another quickly followed as Baresi was shown a second yellow card for a violent foul on Sunday Mba. It wa all Super Eagles after that as they pressed their two-man advantage and were continually camped in the Elephants’ half of the pitch.

    Ayo Saka was substituted by Emeka Eze in the 60th minute while Sunday Mba went on a good run but chipped over the goalkeeper and over the bar. It was  more about damage limitations fom then on for the Elephants as they had only Kevin Zougoula upfront though he troubled the defence once in a while.

    Finally the Eagles made their advantage pay in the 85th minute when a strong run down the right by Sunday Mba saw the Rangers man pull the ball back for Ifenyi Edeh to walk the ball in for the fourth goal.

    —Adebobola Alawode

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    Kano Transfers Over 1,000 Almajiris To Different States Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

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    The Kano State Government on Saturday said it has transferred 1,098 ‘almajiris’ to different states of the country.

    The commissioner for local government, Murtala Garo, disclosed this while presenting a report before the state’s task force on COVID-19 at the government house, Kano.

    Almajiris are children who are supposed to be learning Islamic studies while living with their Islamic teachers. Majority of them, however, end up begging on the streets of Northern Nigeria. They constitute a large number of Nigeria’s over 10 million out-of-school children.

    Mr Garo said the Kano government transported 419 almajiris to Katsina, 524 to Jigawa and 155 to Kaduna. He said all of them tested negative for coronavirus before leaving the Kano State.

    Despite the coronavirus test done in Kano for the almajiris, the Jigawa government earlier said it would quarantine for two weeks all the almajiris that recently arrived from Kano.

    Mr Garo said another 100 almajiris scheduled to be taken to Bauchi State also tested negative to COVID-19.

    In a remark, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje said the COVID-19 situation in Kano was getting worse. He appealed for a collaborative effort to curtail the spread of the virus in the state.

    Mr Ganduje, who commended residents for complying with the lockdown imposed in the state, said the decision was taken to halt the spread of the virus.

    Kano State, as of Saturday night, has 77 coronavirus cases, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.

    The decision to transfer the Kano almajiris is part of the agreement reached between Northern governors that almajiris in each state be transferred to their states of origin.

    However, even before the latest agreement by the governors, the Kano government had been transferring almajiris to other states and neighbouring countries after it banned street begging in the state, most populous in Northern Nigeria.

    Despite the transfers, however, no concrete step has been taken to ensure such children do not return to Kano streets as there is freedom of movement across Nigeria although interstate travel was recently banned to check the spread of the coronavirus.

     

    Sourced From: Premium Times Nigeria

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    COVID-19: ‘Bakassi Boys’ Foil Attempt To Smuggle 24 Women Into Abia In Container

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    By Ugochukwu Alaribe

    Operatives of the Abia State Vigilante Service, AVS, popularly known as ‘Bakassi Boys’ have arrested 24 market women hidden in a container truck, at Ekwereazu Ngwa, the boundary community between Abia and Akwa Ibom states.

    The market women, said to be  from Akwa Ibom State, were on their way to Aba, when they were arrested with the truck driver and two of his conductors for violating the lockdown order by the state government.

    Driver of the truck, Moses Asuquo, claimed he was going to Aba to purchase stock fish, but decided to assist the market women, because they were stranded.

    A vigilante source told Sunday Vanguard that the vehicle was impounded while the market women were sent back to Akwa Ibom State.

    Commissioner for Home Land Security, Prince Dan Okoli, who confirmed the incident, said that  smuggling of people into the state poses great threat to the state government’s efforts to contain the spread of COVID- 19.

     

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    Woman Kills Her Maid Over Salary Request

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    Operatives of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Yaba of the Lagos State police command have arrested one Mrs Nene Steve for allegedly killing her maid, Joy Adole

    The maid was allegedly beaten to death by Nene for requesting for her salary at their residence located at 18, Ogundola Street, Bariga area in Lagos.

    Narrating the incident, Philips Ejeh, an elder brother to the deceased said that he was sad when they informed him that his sister was beaten to death.

    He explained that the deceased was an indigene of Benue State brought to Lagos through an agent and started working with her as a maid  in January 2020.

    ‘’She reported that her boss refused to pay her and anytime she asked for her salary she will start beating her.

    She was making an attempt to leave the place but due to the total lockdown she remained there until Sunday when her boss said she caught her stealing noodles and this led to her serious beating and death,’’ Ejeh said.

    He called on Lagos State Government and well- meaning people in the country to help them in getting justice for the victim.

    The police spokesman, Bala Elkana, stated that the woman and her husband came to Bariga Police  Station to a report that their house girl had committed suicide.

    Detectives were said to have visited the house and suspected foul play with the position of the rope and bruises all over the body which confirmed that the girl had been tortured to death and the boss decided to hang up the girl to make it look like suicide.

    He said: “The police moved on with their investigation and found a lot of sign of violence on her body that she has been tortured before a rope was put on her neck.’’

    He added that the police removed the corpse and deposited it in the mortuary for autopsy to further ascertain the cause of the death.

    Elkana said the matter has been transferred from Bariga police station to Panti for further investigation while the couple have been arrested and will be charged to court.

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    Boko Haram Attacks: Buhari Summons Urgent Meeting Of Service Chiefs

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    President Buhari and the Service Chiefs in a meeting. (File photo)

    Ostensibly alarmed by the latest killings of dozens of soldiers by Boko Haram insurgents, President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned an urgent meeting of Service Chiefs to find ways to stop the trend. 

    He has also dispatched the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan Ali, to the neighbouring Republic of Chad for an urgent meeting with President Idris Deby and his defence counterpart. 

    Knowledgeable sources said in Abuja on Friday that the president is worried by on the deterioration of security situation on the Nigeria – Chad Border that has led to the recently increased Boko Haram terrorism in the area.

    The sources which did not want to be named in Abuja said: “Nigeria has a Chad  problem in the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) put together to secure the Lake Chad basin areas and repeal the Boko Haram terrorist attacks against all the countries neighbouring the Lake.”

    The sources noted that Chad is believed to be having their own internal security challenges and this has reportedly led to their pulling away their own troops manning their own border around Lake Chad,  saying: “That lacuna is being exploited by the Boko Haram terrorists, who go in and out of Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon to launch terrorist acts.  This is a clear illustration of the fact that terrorism is beyond national borders.”

    When contacted, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed that the Defence Minister is going to Chad but said he is unaware of the purpose. 

    Meanwhile, the military authorities are said to be in the process of identifying the families of the latest victims with a view to making contact with them. 

    Credible sources revealed that it is the reason the president is yet to make any pronouncement on the matter. 

    “The President has called an urgent meeting with the Service Chiefs, as well as the fact that families of the latest victims of the Boko Haram are being identified and contacts made before a government pronouncement on the tragic attacks. This, it is understood, is the reason for the silence of the government over the incident,” the source said. 

     

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