Day: August 6, 2019

Bordeaux Sign Laurent Koscielny

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Arsenal have sold defender Laurent Koscielny to Ligue 1 side Bordeaux for a fee of up to 5m euros (£4.6m). The 33-year-old centre-back had a medical on Tuesday and has returned to France after nine years with the Premier League club. Frenchman Koscielny had a year left on his contract at Emirates Stadium and the Gunners wanted him to stay. But he asked for a free transfer and refused to travel on a pre-season tour of the United States. “We decided to sanction his move to Bordeaux once we agreed…

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Cleric sentenced to five years imprisonment for molesting minor

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A 35-year-old clergyman, Gabriel Asateru, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by an Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, for molesting a minor. Pronouncing the judgment, Justice Oluwatoyin Abodunde said, “The accused person stands guilty and is accordingly convicted to serve a prison term of five years and to also pay a sum of N50,000 fine as stipulated by the Child’s Rights Law, 2005.” Asateru, who was accused of defiling a five-year-old girl on December 23, 2016, at Ifisin Ekiti in the Ido/Osi Local Government Area of…

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Imposition of fine by LASTMA illegal -Appeal Court

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The imposition of fines by the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), has been declared illegal by the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos. The appeal court held that imposition of penalties by the LASTMA ultra vires its power, especially where no platform was established to observe the principles of natural justice. The court declared this while ruling on the appeal filed by LASTMA over judgment delivered by the Federal High Court on September 16, 2011, in the suit no FHC/L/CS/653/2011 wherein it was held that it breached the right…

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Tekno’s producer explains why strippers were conveyed in display truck

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Mr. Lawal Tijani, the producer of Tekno’s latest music video, has explained the incident that led to the conveying of semi-nude ladies in a display van around the Lekki-Ikoyi link Bridge on Friday night. He apologised to Nigerians for the indecent act showing strippers dancing seductively with singer Tekno in a display van in traffic around the Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge. The video clip, which had gone viral on social media, was said to be part of a scene from Tekno’s unreleased video, titled Agege, featuring musician, Zlatan Ibile. The Lagos State…

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Government Officials to supervise El-Zakzaky’s travel for treatment abroad

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The leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat, have been granted permission to travel to an Indian hospital for medical treatment by the Kaduna State High Court yesterday. The ruling was not without conditions attached. El-Zakzaky and Zeenat must not go to any other hospital other than the one they specifically requested. Also, the travel of the Shiites’ leader and his wife must be under the strict supervision of the state officials. The leader of the IMN, whose members are also known…

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