Multi-award winning athlete, Usain Bolt has retired from football after failing to agree a contract with Australian side Central Coast Mariners late last year after a trial. “I don’t want to say it wasn’t dealt with properly, but I think we went about it, not the way we should and you learn your lesson, you live and you learn,” he said. “It was a good experience. I really enjoyed just being in a team and it was must different from track and field and it was fun while it lasted.” MySportDab reports that Bolt, who won Olympic sprint gold medals…
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The Argentinian soccer star Emiliano Sala was on a plane that went missing over the English Channel on Monday evening, French aviation officials told CNN. The 28-year-old had recently signed for English Premier League club Cardiff City for a reported £15 million ($19.3 million). The plane, a single turbine Piper Malibu, was flying to Cardiff from Nantes in northern France when it disappeared from radar just before 8.30 p.m. local time Monday. Sala’s name was on the list of passengers, Frederic Solano of France’s Directorate General for Civil Aviation, told CNN. Cardiff City said Tuesday it was “very concerned for…
President Muhammadu Buhari is to preside over the Council of State meeting at the Presidential Villa today. The Council of State meeting is expected to have all former presidents, former Chief Justices, and other erstwhile principal leaders of the country in attendance. A few minutes prior to the commencement of the meeting, President Buhari was seen exchanging pleasantries with former President Olusegun Obasanjo with glee and radiance of uncommon smiles on their faces. Ex-president Obasanjo is currently at the vanguard of a new alternative than President Buhari . Lately, Mr Obasanjo has lashed out at the President Buhari, accusing him…
A combined team of the Nigeria Police Force and the Department of State Services (DSS) has taken over security within and outside the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), venue of the scheduled arraignment of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen, MERIDIAN SPY can exclusively report. The federal government has filed a 6 count criminal charge bordering on failure to declare his assets against the CJN. Onnoghen was scheduled for arraignment last week, January 14 but the arraignment could not take place due to improper service of the charge on the CJN, forcing the tribunal to adjourn till…
President Muhammadu Buhari has Monday, sacked the Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, (TETFund), Mr Baffa Bichi and has since reappointed Professor Suleiman Bogoro for the position. Baffa, who was an aide to the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, was appointed the head of TETFund alongside 14 other heads of parastatals in the education ministry on August 2, 2016. However, a reliable source confirmed that lately, Mr Baffa has become high-handed in handling the affairs of the institution, alongside openly flaunting some directives from the minister. More so, according to an insider, the former TETFund executive secretary had…
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) today restated its earlier order restraining the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abaubakar Malami, from ordering the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, to vacate his office over the recent allegations of non-disclosure of assets levelled against him. Delivering judgement in a fresh suit filed against the Attorney General by a lawyer, Peter Abang, Justice Sanusi Kado said other defendants in a suit namely the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), the National Judicial Council (NJC), the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC), the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and…
The Acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the immediate disbandment of the Federal SARS, Special Investigation Panel and Special Tactical Squad. Mr Adamu announced this on Monday at his inaugural conference with Commissioners of Police and other senior officers in Abuja. Following the new directive, the SARS will now be domiciled under the direct supervision of the Commissioners of Police in the 36 states of the federation. The IGP Special Investigation Panel and IGP Special Tactical Squad were established by the former IGP Ibrahim Idris, who also centralized the operations of SARS into Federal SARS.
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign rally slated to hold today in Borno state. The Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, led top politicians from the state to welcome the president and his entourage at the Maiduguri airport. Thousands of APC supporters have currently taken up the streets in Maiduguri to give the president and his entourage a garnd welcome, even when there are apparent signs the President lacks the mental and physical capabilities for a second term in office. MERIDIAN SPY had reported earlier yesterday that the Borno…
The synopsis of President Buhari’s response to Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter likening his administration to the brutal Abacha regime is that the former president is “sick or psychologically challenged”. But I think the riposte is like that of a blind man mocking another man who uses recommended glasses. Who really needs medical attention between Buhari and Obasanjo? Over the years, Obasanjo has shown keenness of mind and body. For a man of his age, that is rare. He has been consistent in his delivery of cutting missives since President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. His “letter-bombs” to Jonathan were much celebrated by those…
The Federal Government is resuming negotiations with the leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), today, to resolve all issues that have made the strike to linger. At a similar meeting with ASUU leaders on the 7th of January, the minister of labour, Dr Chris Ngige announced the release of N15.4 billion by the federal government for the payment of salary shortfalls, which is one principal demand of the striking lecturers. Its been two weeks after that meeting was held, and the strike has continued even though the president of ASUU says the national executive committee of the…
The Borno State Government has declared Monday, January 21, as public holiday for President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign rally in the State. The Borno State Government made this announcement on Sunday ahead of the presidential campaign rally on Monday. According to information made available to MERIDIAN SPY, the decision by the Kashim Shettima led administration of the State was to enable both the government and the people of the State to participate fully in the political exercise. Mr Muhammadu Buhari, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is seeking re-election and would be going to Borno to campaign. Both Buhari and…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has cautioned Nigerians ahead of the 2019 general elections on the dangers of allowing the incubent President, Muhammadu Buhari have his way come February 16. The earstwhile Nigerian leader accused President Muhammadu Buhari of returning the country to the era when state institutions were used to fight percieved enemies of the government. Mr Obasanjo made the allegation on Sunday while addressing reporters at his residence in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. Obasanjo alleges that the President was putting into practice, the lessons he allegedly learned from late General Sani Abacha. “Today, another Abacha Era is here. …