I didn’t want to see a ball: Neymar recounts World Cup agony

World’s most expensive footballer, Neymar Jr. has for the first time narrated his agony over the disappointment suffered by Brazil in the Russia FIFA World Cup, which ended on 15 July. The PSG player told AFP in an interview that after Brazil’s quarter-final beating by Belgium, he “didn’t want to see a ball or to see any more football. I wanted to disconnect a bit from everything”. Brazil’s forward Neymar reacts to their defeat at the end of the Russia 2018 World Cup quarter-final football match between Brazil and Belgium at the Kazan Arena in Kazan on July 6, 2018.

We already have state police and nobody should deny that —Fashola

Let’s start with the announcement that maintenance work on the Third Mainland Bridge will take 27 months during which the bridge will be shut to traffic. Is the bridge really going to be shut down for 27 months? No. And let me quickly tell you how important it is to get as accurate as possible when information is put out there. I know that, of course, the traditional media continues to compete with millions of publishers who can now publish by phone. But what comes out from the traditional media must be reliable and accurate. The statement that we put out was that we were closing it for the first three days, I believe, from the 27th of July or thereabouts. We had tried to do it before but we thought that if we allowed children to go on vacation, it would reduce the number of vehicles that needed

2019: I don’t foresee light at the end of the tunnel — Balarabe

Alhaji Balarabe Musa is a former governor of old Kaduna State. The veteran politician of leftist tendency, in this interview, bares his mind on the state of the nation. How do you see the spate of killings in some parts of Nigeria?  The latest killing in Sokoto proves that it’s a nationwide problem. It is not a regional problem, neither is it the product of Boko Haram insurgency or herdsmen or ethnic, religious – based cleansing. Every reasonable person should know that we have aspects of insecurity in every part of Nigeria. The killing is done in such a sophisticated manner that you cannot trace it to an aggrieved community or group of people. It is well planned, articulated and executed. So what is to be done? The killings continue while the Federal Government insists it is doing its best to arrest the situation. Certainly we cannot allow it to continue. But, unfortunately, it will continue because we have a weak government at the centre. In other words, the Federal Government and the

Jude, Monday, Faith: Stolen in Ondo, sold for N2.7m Delta

Couple on the run after stealing two other kids By Dayo Johnson, Regional, Editor, South West. WITHIN three days, Nkiru Victoria, 45, made a profit of N900, 000 for selling three siblings in Ile-Oluji area of Ondo State. She had allegedly bought the kids for N600, 000 each and resold each for N900, 000. The children spent about four months in three different homes they were sold to in Asaba, Delta State capital before they were recovered. One Esther, who had allegedly kidnapped and sold the three children earlier, had packed into No 12 Ayeyemi Street, Ile-Oluji, Ondo State as a tenant. Six days after, she was said to have stolen the children of same parents: Jude Stephen, four years; Monday Stephen, two years and Faith Stephen, 10 years. She faked church vigil to the eldest sister of the victims as their parents were away in the farm on the ill-fated day. After she had successfully stolen the siblings, she allegedly sold them to Augustine Anyanwu who, in turn, sold them to Nkiru. Nkiru, now in the custody of the police in Ondo State, admitted to have bought the children from

NDLEA ARRAIGNS DRUG SUSPECTS IN AWKA

APGA DENIES COALITION WITH APC for 2019 election

World Malaria Day Sensitization Walk-Out in Awka

NIGERIAN YOUTHS CAUTION AGAINST ONLINE POLITICAL THUGGERY

NIGERIAN YOUTHS CAUTION AGAINST ONLINE POLITICAL THUGGERY

Keeping father’s protest torch lit, Femi Kuti sees hope

 Femi Kuti has spent his life railing in song against the ills holding back Africa. But these days he is feeling some optimism. Nigerian musician Femi Kuti performs at the Afrika Shrine in Lagos on July 3, 2018. The 56-year-old carries forward the legacy of his legendary father, Afrobeat music pioneer Fela Kuti, whose searing attacks on government corruption and incompetence made him a scourge of Nigeria’s former military leaders. Fela’s nightclub, the New Afrika Shrine, became a visible target of authorities eager to suppress dissent but earlier this month it received a very establishment guest, French President Emmanuel Macron, who took off his jacket and tie to party. Macron’s visit is “a very big political statement — more a political than cultural or social statement. The Shrine, even