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The Senate has described as misplaced a comment credited to a chieftain of the Labour Party (LP), Professor Pat Utomi, on the decision of the Red Chamber to stop the planned increase in electricity tariffs.
The Senate had unanimously shot down the planned tariff hike, saying it would further increase the suffering of the masses.

The “Let the Poor Breathe” comment was made during plenary on July 26 by Senator Akintunde Abiodun as an additional prayer to a motion seeking to stop further increases in electricity tariff, was adopted by the Senate.

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Yemi Adaramodu (APC Ekiti South) announced the Upper Chamber’s reaction in a statement yesterday in Abuja.

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“The Senate is alarmed at the insidious misinterpretation enunciated by some political surrealists, who always leave the causes of their troubles to look for unnecessary scapegoats.

“The personal tirades and character assaults hauled at the Senate President by Professor Pat Utomi are misdirected and uncalled for.

“Insinuating that the President of the Senate, His Excellency, Godswill Akpabio, was mocking the Nigerian masses with the phrase: ‘Let the Poor Breathe’ is dressing falsehood and mischief in an undesirable garment.

“The Senate is an assembly of distinguished men and women who are sent by the Nigerian public to the hallowed chamber to represent their interests.

“The public-interest motion to halt an increase in the electricity tariffs for Nigerians is one of such instances that test the senatorial responsiveness of distinguished members of the 10th Senate.

“With the fire of the fuel subsidy removal still smouldering, the Senate opined that any increase in electricity tariffs would be suffocating and that whoever is desirous in doing so should allow the poor, all Nigerians, to breathe.

“The Senate President compassionately hit the gavel with a stoic warning that any such attempts would be obnoxious, ludicrous, and could only seize oxygen from the reach of the masses.

“Despite this open display of patriotism and sensitivity, some political irredentists and turncoats feel they could turn the omnipotent actuality on its head to gain their lost momentum.”

“The Senate didn’t and would not mock the masses without who there would be no Nigerian Senate. Therefore, digging into an extreme partisanship to impugn the image of the Senate and particularly the personality of the Senate President, is quite unfortunate and an exhibition of political superficiality, irreverent and opprobrious outburst.

“We believe that whoever is in the court to pursue a self-awarded electoral victory should not labour to assume that running expletives on the Senate and its leadership is the needed elixir to infuse legal blood into the dry veins of their case.

“The 10th Senate, under the leadership of Senate President Godswill Akpabio, has passed many life support resolutions in its short span, including the misinterpreted Senate’s ‘No to Increase in Electricity Tariff.’

“We thus advise political rolling stones and pretenders not to play politics with the lives of Nigerians and allow the National Assembly to join hands with other arms of government to pull out Nigeria from economic morass and make life more abundant for us all,” the statement said.

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The Deputy Governor of Adamawa State, Prof Kaletapwa Farauta, has disclosed how three warehouses were attacked by hoodlums in the state on Sunday.

Some young people had broken into warehouses in the state and looted food and non-food items belonging to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the state government in the early hours of Sunday.

Governor Ahmadu Finitiri of Adamawa State has since declared a curfew following the looting.

Also, the Adamawa State Police Command said it had arrested 44 suspects involved.

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Speaking on the Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, the deputy governor said: “Two warehouses were attacked in Yola, the state capital, while one was attacked in Numan Local Government Area.

“The NEMA stores and state government warehouse attacked in Yola are within the same axis.

“They drilled holes in the wall of the warehouses, they didn’t break the doors.”

She dismissed the insinuation that the warehouses were looted as a result of the hunger in the land, adding, “hardship in Adamawa is not an exception.

“There is hunger all over the country. It’s a general hardship on citizens of Nigeria.”

Prof Farauta also dismissed the claim that the foodstuff looted were items the government ordered to be distributed to cushion the effect of subsidy removal.

She said the palliatives ordered by the state government were yet to arrive, adding that the government had made arrangements to cushion the effect of the subsidy removal even before the attacks.

She hinted that the curfew could be lifted soon, adding that there would be its total review on Monday morning.

The Niger State Government has said that it has not received any letter from the State Assembly suspending the screening of commissioner nominees.

The Chief Press Secretary of the Governor, Bologi Ibrahim, reacting to the allegation on Sunday that the lawmakers suspended the screening of the nominees over alleged inequity, including having few Christians on the list said, the State Assembly has not communicated that decision to the government.

His words, “If I don’t receive a formal letter from the Assembly, there’s nothing we can do. You know, today is Sunday. The thing started in the morning. So, maybe by tomorrow morning, we are going to receive a formal letter from the Assembly. If there’s no suspension they’re going to start screening tomorrow.

“If the screening does not start tomorrow it’s another thing. The government is still waiting for the formal letter from the Assembly about the issue. Then, it will now react to it. From what you are saying they need more than eight nominees to make it 25 per cent of Christian nominees.”


However, the spokesman of the Speaker of the State Assembly, John Adams said there was no suspension of the screening of the nominees.

According to him, the lawmakers only received the list on Thursday after plenary, adding that the House had to convene an emergency meeting after learning that the governor sent the list to beat the 60 days deadline.

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“The lawmakers did not suspend the screening, there was nothing like that. We were in the House that day. You know Friday was supposed to be the deadline constitutionally for submission of the commissioners’ list.

“The House of Assembly sat on Thursday, I was even in that plenary. They waited for the list they didn’t see it so, they adjourned the plenary to the next Legislative date. The speaker was even on his way to the village. around 4 o’clock when we got a message that they had summoned an emergency meeting because the governor has now sent the list down.

“After they finished sitting on that day, they had to call members hurriedly and reconvened around 5 o’clock that day and within 20 minutes they just adjourned sitting till the next Legislative sitting. So no mention was made of the list whatsoever. They only read the list to just fulfill the constitutional dictates that the governor must submit the names of commissioner nominees to meet the deadline,” he said.

He added that Thursday was the last sitting of the House, adding that the list was quickly presented in the evening because lawmakers know that there will be no sitting on Friday.

He noted that the lawmakers did not suspend the screening as claimed. “For the lawmakers to suspend something like that, it must be done on the floor of the house,” he said.

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Barcelona and Spain’s Alexia Putellas, the full story: ‘She reminds me of Busquets and Iniesta. She is gold in every way’
Barcelona and Spain’s Alexia Putellas, the full story: ‘She reminds me of Busquets and Iniesta. She is gold in every way’
Charlotte Harpur
May 19, 2022
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Barcelona and Spain midfielder Alexia Putellas won the 2022 Ballon d’Or on Monday, an award recognising the world’s best player. She also won in 2021. This article was published before the Champions League final in May.

Red cheeks, sweat dripping down her face, a nine-year-old girl burst out of the school toilet.

“Alexia, what’s going on?” the teacher asked.

“I was playing football! I was playing football!”, the girl replied, late for her next class.

Merce Esteban, a PE teacher, cannot forget that image of a young Alexia Putellas, the girl who played football at breaktime with the boys, who has now gone on to captain Barcelona, and last year won the Ballon d’Or, Best FIFA women’s player award, UEFA Women’s player of the year, and the Champions League.

On Saturday she will lead the seven-time league winners Barcelona out against Lyon in the Champions League final in a bid to add another trophy to the cabinet.

Pictures of pioneering women in celebration of International Women’s day are pinned up outside the entrance of Anselm Clave school in Putellas’ hometown of Mollet del Valles, a 30-minute drive from Barcelona.



Day 10 is dedicated to Ada Lovelace, the mathematician and daughter of poet Lord Byron, day 12 to the Spanish author and feminist Concepcion Arenal, and day 11 — the number in honour of her Barcelona shirt — to their very own Putellas.

Esteban, a socia of the Spanish club, watched on at the Camp Nou as her former pupil and the Barcelona team beat Real Madrid 5-2 in a world-record-breaking attendance for a women’s game (which they later broke again), a carnivalesque celebration with 91,553 fans.

“It’s strange to watch her and think she is so important,” Esteban tells The Athletic, sitting in a side room at Putellas’ school.

“For me, she’s not Alexia Putellas, the footballer. It’s Alexia, a little girl at school.”

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When Esteban meets up with her old students, they talk about everyday life, how everyone is doing, normal stuff, but that doesn’t diminish her pride at seeing Putellas playing in the iconic stadium.

“I cried,” she says, starting to well up again. “But I’m so sad that her dad…” Esteban’s voice crackles, she pauses to compose herself. “I’m so sad that her dad can’t see all of this because…”

Tears now fill Esteban’s eyes.

“…I remember when she was 18, we went with my dad to watch her matches and her dad was always on the other side of the pitch, not with the people, he was alone because he was always watching her.

“It’s so sad he can’t see all of this.”


(Photo: Getty)
This month marks the 10th anniversary of Putellas’ father’s passing. He died just weeks before his daughter led the Spanish team to a European Under-19 Championships final, eventually losing 1-0 to Sweden.

In life and in death, he has helped shape her glorious career.

It was her father’s side of the family that inspired her love of football. They were culés (Barcelona fans) and members of the supporters’ club Penya Barcelonista Mollet del Valles, but it was in the school playground that she first started kicking a ball.

Putellas’ best friend Marc Guinot, who has known “Alex” since she was three years old when they were put in the same class, grew used to Putellas’ brilliance on the school’s rooftop, red-brick pitch. When Putellas picked the teams she obviously chose Guinot who played up front but often the boys would argue about who could have her on their side.


Putellas poses with childhood friend Marc Guinot, and the Ballon d’Or
On school trips, however, her classmates were reminded of just how special she was.

“When we played with boys from other schools, they said, ‘What? What is she doing?!’, Guinot smiles. “It was crazy. They weren’t expecting it.”

Growing up, Putellas was not shy but could be reserved at times. She was a good student, conscientious, calm and mature for her age.

“As a teacher, you could talk with her,” says Esteban. “She would make jokes, she was a very close person, she explained things. Other girls and boys don’t have the communication skills but Alexia, yes. She was one of the leaders of the class.”


The rooftop pitch that Putellas graced as a schoolgirl
As a pair Guinot and Putellas got up to some mischief. He recalls when they were 12 years old, swapping each others’ Spanish language tests so they could answer all the questions.

“We passed,” he chuckles. “You can speak to her and explain your problems. She’s a very good listener. She likes to laugh and joke around. She is very caring, she likes to be with her friends, walk her dog, Nala, meet up for a coffee, go to the beach, she is a very, very normal person. She’s very focused but she’s not stressed.”

Does she ever get angry? “Yes, when she loses.”

And that could be playing cards or football.

When Barcelona suffered a shock 2-0 semi-final second leg defeat to Wolfsburg (they progressed to the final winning 5-3 on aggregate), Guinot and his friends were happy because Barcelona were heading to Saturday’s final in Turin.

Putellas, who is said to be disciplined, almost obsessive about her training regime, was not. She didn’t reply to the friends’ WhatsApp group chat but they know her, she just needed some time to decompress, analyse her performance and deal with the loss in her own way.

A sporty child, Putellas played basketball, hockey and tennis but football was always the number one choice. At the age of seven, she joined Sabadell FC, 15 kilometres from her home town, and played with girls five years her senior.

Her whole family would rally round to take her to training. Her mother, Eli, and younger sister, Alba, weren’t fans of football but have been immersed in the sport ever since.


The pitch at Sabadell, Putellas’ first club, no longer the dirt surface she once played on
“I didn’t understand why we always had to get up early to see them run after a ball,” Alba says. “Now I am her No 1 fan”.

Despite being the youngest and far smaller than her team-mates, Putellas’ technical skill helped her stand out.

“I especially remember that she was a girl who was very bright,” says Angel Avila, who coached her at Sabadell when she was nine.

“You never had to repeat anything to her, she got every exercise the first time. She stood out a lot for her ambition, how she really wanted to learn.

“One game it had rained all week and we were playing on a clay-like pitch. It was very muddy and before that game I told the girls we could not play short passes on the ground, or it would get stuck in the mud. We’d have to play it long, and battle for the second balls.

“That was a surprise for her, she wasn’t used to hearing that, but she took the first three shots of that game. She was the one who realised immediately what was needed, took responsibility, and very quickly took on whatever you told her. She read everything very well, even at that age.”

Putellas’ leadership skills were evident from a young age and Avila selected her as captain of her age group despite her small stature. She had an insatiable desire to learn and wasn’t afraid to ask questions.

“When I gave a talk in the dressing room, she was not looking at the floor. She looked directly in my eyes,” says Avila.

“She was completely attentive to what you were explaining, very motivated in that aspect. Often when you are giving these talks there are people who are distracted, or thinking of something else, but she was always focused on whoever was talking.”


Losada and Putellas (Photo: Getty)
Putellas is not the only Spanish player who started at Sabadell and went on to play for the top European clubs.

Former Barcelona and Arsenal players Vicky Losada, now at Manchester City, and Marta Corredera, a Real Madrid forward, played with Putellas in the same team from the age of 12.

“She was very quiet but you could see from day one that she was really talented,” says Losada.

“She just always wanted to be the best, working hard, the things that people don’t see. She observes but she’s very focused. She loves to watch football, thinks about football, her life is 100 per cent dedicated.”

“She’s always very careful with the details. I’m so happy for her because her winning the Ballon d’Or has made a massive impact in Spain.

“Especially for Barca, our progression from being an average team growing up together to winning the Champions League last year. It makes (you) feel more proud of it.”

Putellas spent a season at Barcelona’s youth academy before moving to Espanyol where she stayed for four years.

Aged 17, she joined Levante and moved to Valencia, the first time she had been away from home. Again, despite being the youngest player, she played every game that year and was their top goalscorer even as a midfielder.

Her family, in particular her father Jaume, made the three-hour trip from Barcelona to Levante, down the coast of Spain, every Sunday to watch her play.

There was still much to improve and her tenacity ten years ago was evident. When the coach at Levante, Antonio Contreras, told Putellas she was over-reliant on her left foot, after training she practised shooting with her weaker side against Sandra Panos (Barcelona’s goalkeeper), and never wanted to lose. The hard work paid off to such an extent that when she moved to Barcelona the next summer, then-coach Xavi Llorens couldn’t tell which was her dominant side.

“She reminds me of Sergio Busquets and Andres Iniesta,” says Contreras. “She is very intelligent on the pitch, technically good but now she’s more tactical.

“One day before a game, we had a team meeting in the hotel. I opened the window and I saw an advertisement for the channel GolTV with Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. I said to the players, ‘Alexia will be with Cristiano and Messi, I promise you.’

He speaks fondly not only of Putellas’ potential but as a person too. When she returned to Valencia to face Levante as a Barcelona player, to his surprise, she asked her former coach if she could eat with his family and meet his newborn son Alejandro.

“She is gold in every way,” he says. “I remember I had to speak to different players’ fathers about playing time or other issues but Jaume was in the stadium, always smiling.

“You can see his resemblance in Alexia, calm and focused. Jaume was more like Alexia and Eli, her mother, is more like Alba.

“Jaume was always together with Alexia. I think he was the most important person in football for her.”

Putellas’ father’s health gradually started to deteriorate and he was very ill with heart problems for a year. His daughter told her father: “I’m going to study medicine to be a doctor and I will help you.”

One day Contreras received a call.

“Her mother, Eli, told me, ‘Antonio, we have a problem. Jaume is in hospital, the doctor told us it’s a difficult situation.’”

He died soon after.

In one of the most difficult moments of her life, Putellas continued to play football, remaining her calm and focused self. Just over a month later, she captained Spain at the Under-19 European Championships, taking them all the way to the final — a match in which Chelsea captain Magdalena Eriksson also played.

The family are a very tight-knit group, brought closer by Jaume’s death. Those who know her best say Putellas, at times a very closed person, doesn’t talk about her dad much.



He was the one who had dedicated himself to her football career ever since she was a young girl, picking her up from school, dropping her off at training, watching her matches, proudly posting videos and photos of her success online. Esteban recalls one school trip to Girona when Putellas’ father and grandfather came to pick Putellas up at 2am — the same night of the Champions League final which they watched — to take her to a national training camp.

“Her mother spoke to me,” recalls Contreras. “She told me another club has offered Alessia a contract. “Which club?”, Contreras asked. “When she said it’s Barcelona, I said, ‘OK, she has to go.”

“I want to dedicate it to someone who has been and will always be very special to me,” Putellas said upon receiving the Ballon d’Or trophy.

“… and for whom I do everything. I hope you are very proud of your daughter. Wherever you are, this is for you dad.”

Putellas has had a huge influence on girls’ football on a local and global scale.

Three weeks after Kylian Mbappe presented her with the Ballon d’Or, she visited the school where she had spent 13 years.

Some girls were crying. “You are real,” they said, almost incredulously.


The Nike posters that appear in every class at Putellas’ old school
Every class from nursery to secondary school has a signed Nike poster, Putellas front and centre with the caption: “Don’t change your dream, change the world”, stuck to the wall while a plaque in her name was also erected outside the gymnasium.

There are more girls playing football on the same playground that Putellas first set foot on. When they score, they turn to their teachers and shout: “I’m the future Alexia!

“If you see Alexia, you think everything is possible. If she can do it, I can do it.”

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The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand has continued to witness momentous moments that will be etched in history.

One such moment is the Super Falcons 3-2 win against co-hosts Australia on Thursday at the Brisbane Stadium.

The prowess of Uchenna Kanu, Osinachi Ohale (Player of the Match), Rasheedat Ajibade, and Toni Payne birthed the now notable moment of Oshoala taking off her jersey to celebrate netting the third goal that brought Nigeria victory in the match.

But Oshoala is not the first female footballer in world football to take off her jersey to celebrate a goal. Here are Five Female Footballers Who Removed Their Jerseys To Celebrate ......



Brandi Chastain

Now retired American football player and two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup champion, Chastain became a hot topic in 1999 following how she chose to celebrate netting the winning penalty in the final of the Women’s World Cup.

Chastain, who had months before missed a penalty kick in a game against China, clinched the World Cup title for the US in a penalty shootout against China, i
Shirtless celebration: Fans beg father to forgive Oshoala
Asisat Oshoal
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Giacinti, in a game against Inter Millan in 2021, netted four goals and celebrated by removing her shirt which took many aback. She however later addressed her fans stating that her reaction to the win was not planned.

Sam Kerr

Sam Kerr
Reminiscent of Brandi Chastain’s iconic goal celebration at the 1999 Women’s World Cup, Chelsea star Kerr, ripped off her jersey to celebrate netting an injury-time goal against Aston Villa in the 2022 Women’s Super League.

Chloe Kelly

Although met with a yellow card for removing her shirt to celebrate a winning goal at the 2022 Euro Championship Finals against Germany, Kelly made it to the list of women who have celebrated wins in this iconic way.

Asisat Oshoala

Asisat Oshoala
Sparking a massive social media conversation, Oshoala had many talking when she removed her shirt to celebrate the winning goal against Australia at the ongoing FIFA Women’s World Cup Competition.

Oshoala, a Muslim, who came in as a substitute in the 63rd minute of the game, netted the team’s third goal in the 72nd minute of the game played at the Brisbane Stadium. She celebrated by ripping off her jersey, also showing her sports bra in the process, a move that has since been etched in the hearts of many.


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