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AC Milan are edging closer to appointing a new head coach, with Rúben Amorim reportedly prepared to accept all conditions discussed with the club as negotiations enter their final stages.

The Portuguese manager is understood to be fully on board with Milan’s sporting project and is now awaiting the final approval from the club before any official announcement can be made.

As reported by Fabrizio Romano on X on Sunday, Amorim has informed Milan of his willingness to move forward under the terms presented during recent talks.

The 41-year-old sees the opportunity to manage the Italian giants as an attractive next step in his coaching career and is eager to take charge at San Siro.

Milan have been assessing several candidates in recent weeks as they look to identify the right figure to lead the team into a new era.

While discussions have progressed positively, the final decision now rests with Milan’s leadership.

Club officials are expected to make a definitive call in the coming days, with Amorim remaining on standby for the green light.

“Rúben Amorim, ready to accept all conditions discussed with AC Milan to become the new manager.

“He wants the job and waiting for final green light from Milan,” Romano’s post read.

Freed Victim Claims Kwara Traditional Ruler Died In Bandits Captivity Despite ₦21million Ransom Payment

A Kwara resident recently released by bandits has claimed that the traditional ruler of Olayinka community in Ifelodun Local Government Area has reportedly died in captivity despite the payment of a substantial ransom by his community.

According to the source, the monarch was abducted approximately one month ago by suspected kidnappers who later opened negotiations with members of the community.

The kidnappers reportedly demanded and received a ransom package consisting of ₦21 million in cash, two new motorcycles, and one jerrycan of petrol as conditions for the ruler's release.

"The traditional ruler of Olayinka in Ifelodun Local Government Area was killed by his abductors despite the ransom payment made by the community," the source told SaharaReporters.

According to information relayed by the victim who was recently freed by the kidnappers in Sagbe, Kwara State, the monarch had already died while in captivity.

The source said the revelation came as a shock to members of the Olayinka community, who had hoped that the ransom payment would secure the monarch's freedom.

"The kidnappers collected ₦21 million, two new motorcycles and a jerrycan of petrol from the community. Despite all efforts made to secure his release, a person who was recently released by the abductors in Sagbe disclosed that the monarch had died in captivity," the source said.

The development has reportedly thrown the Olayinka community into mourning, with residents devastated that the ransom payment failed to secure the monarch's return alive.

As of the time of filing this report, security agencies in Kwara State had yet to issue an official statement regarding the coordinated attacks on the reported death of the traditional ruler.

However, residents have continued to call on authorities to intensify security operations across the area amid growing concerns over the worsening insecurity in parts of the state.

BREAKING!!!!!!!!!

A 23-year-old girl—barely an adult, still full of dreams—was kidnapped by bandits. They demanded 50 million naira. Her family begged, pleaded, and cried for mercy. The bandits refused to reduce a single kobo.

For two weeks, her father fought like a lion. He borrowed, sold, and bled dry to raise every kobo. Finally, he had the 50 million. He called them, desperate to hear his daughter’s voice one more time before paying.

She came on the phone.

And instead of begging to be saved, she told her father: “Don’t pay. I will kill myself if they release me.” She was woefully failed by the system but extremely BRAVE

Because for fourteen days—fourteen unthinkable, merciless days—those monsters had been raping her. Over and over. Daily. Hourly. Destroying her soul while she was still alive.

When the bandits heard what she said, they put a bullet in her head. Then they sent her family the video and pictures of her final moment.

That girl didn’t die. She was murdered—after being tortured in ways no human being should ever suffer.

This is not about politics anymore. This is about our humanity. This is about mothers who will never hold their daughters again. Fathers who gather ransom only to receive a corpse. Young girls who go to sleep terrified that tonight might be their turn.

Me: May it never be well with any city boy and girl who turns their eyes away from this. May peace never find the heart that excuses evil for power.
May every tear shed by this famiy rise as a fire against those who enable this madness in government.

🇳🇬 HOW THE REGIONS VOTED: MKO ABIOLA vs BASHIR TOFA — 1993 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION


🟠 NORTH CENTRAL
MKO Abiola (SDP) — 1,315,743 (56.08%)
Bashir Tofa (NRC) — 1,031,387 (43.92%)
Winner — MKO Abiola
Total Votes — 2,347,130

⚫ NORTH EAST
MKO Abiola (SDP) — 847,484 (47.18%)
Bashir Tofa (NRC) — 948,821 (52.82%)
Winner — Bashir Tofa
Total Votes — 1,796,305

🔴 NORTH WEST
MKO Abiola (SDP) — 1,036,991 (42.73%)
Bashir Tofa (NRC) — 1,389,640 (57.27%)
Winner — Bashir Tofa
Total Votes — 2,426,631

🟢 SOUTH EAST
MKO Abiola (SDP) — 739,748 (48.34%)
Bashir Tofa (NRC) — 790,371 (51.66%)
Winner — Bashir Tofa
Total Votes — 1,530,119

🟤 SOUTH SOUTH
MKO Abiola (SDP) — 1,307,352 (51.24%)
Bashir Tofa (NRC) — 1,242,340 (48.76%)
Winner — MKO Abiola
Total Votes — 2,549,692

🟣 SOUTH WEST
MKO Abiola (SDP) — 3,093,991 (84.94%)
Bashir Tofa (NRC) — 549,528 (15.06%)
Winner — MKO Abiola
Total Votes — 3,643,519

🇳🇬 NATIONAL RESULT
MKO Abiola (SDP) — 8,341,309 (58.36%)
Bashir Tofa (NRC) — 5,952,087 (41.64%)
Winner — MKO Abiola
Total Votes — 14,293,396

Vacora:
Migration is a historical fact. Take your pathetic and weak argument elsewhere. You guys are like the kid with lice on the playground, no one wants to play with you

Rayjay45:
Our North African reps nko?

Goo0dHardDick:
So nobody get live link to watch the match here?

seppuku:
That African boy for mexico wan show them.

MyAmericandream:
Goal to my Hispanic brothers. SA don’t know how to play shiiiii, they only know how to be xenophobic

Senior Putin general blown up in car bombing in Moscow after bungling son ‘posted his number plate on social media’

A SENIOR Russian general was blown up after the war chief’s bungling son reportedly exposed his whereabouts by posting a picture of his dad’s car registration on social media.

The car, thought to contain Lieutenant General Damir Davydov, was firebombed in Moscow on Tuesday, killing the 57-year-old Vladimir Putin crony instantly.

War boss Davydov was reportedly pulled from the flaming wreckage of a BMW X3 before being pronounced dead at the site of the huge explosion.

His identity has not yet been officially confirmed.

Davydov was thought not to own a BMW, but a social media post, reportedly from the general’s son Rafael, shows the war chief’s son posing next to that exact car.

It seems to match the vehicle in the video of the dramatic explosion.

The social media post may have betrayed the general’s location to those who wanted him dead.

Reports suggest that assassins targeting Davydov used the car numberplate, clearly visible in his son’s social media post, to track him down.

Initial reports said the dead war chief was 62, but Davydov is thought to be 57.

He headed up the Kremlin’s defence ministry’s missile and artillery wing.

Davydov supplied deadly weapons to the flailing Russian forces on the front lines.

The huge explosion rocked the Moscow suburb of Balashikha on Tuesday morning reportedly had the power equivalent of up to 500 grams of TNT.

Dramatic video showed the vehicle bursting into flames from its boot and back seats, before rolling into a parked car.

Another car bomb was reportedly found and destroyed in south-west Moscow by Russian authorities.

An investigation has been launched into the suspected assassination.

Ukrainian authorities have yet to comment on the attack.

The blast was less than a mile from where Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik was killed in a car bombing last year.

The top Putin war chief, 59, was taken out by a remote-controlled car bomb as he walked towards a Volkswagen near Moscow.

The embarrassing security slip-up comes as paranoid Putin moved his daughters into his fortress palace, fearing assassination attempts.

Maria Vorontsova, 41, and Katerina Tikhonova, 39, are hunkering down in Mad Vlad’s highly guarded forest palace complex with their dictator dad.

The Valdai complex on the Black Sea is guarded by dozens of air defence systems, making it one of the most secure locations in Russia.

The ageing tyrant also ordered urgent checks on Russia‘s complex web of surveillance cameras, fearing it could be hacked by his enemies and betray his movements.

A friend kept his 2m Naira with me for a long time before he died. He wanted to use it as a down payment for a land.

About 11 months later, his wife came to me. She needed help and requested for any amount as support as she wanted to start up a business.

I told her to come another day. And then, transferred to her 3m Naira.

She refused to be calmed as she was overwhelmed.

Then I told her, your husband gave me 2m Naira to keep. 750k is the interested generated for over 24 months in investment. 250k is from me.

I felt a lot of joy handing that money to her.

The interest? God whose orchestrated plan is mysterious, made me invest the money not knowing what the future holds. So, I was doing it for my friend’s wife and kids.

AbuAeesha:
Those Hunters never provoked anybody.they were ambushed and killed.
They weren't bandits.
And that wasn't the first time they were going to that axis for hunting...

The United Nations faces a severe liquidity crisis, with Secretary-General António Guterres warning of a “race to bankruptcy” by mid-August.

The United Nations is going broke as the U.S. and China withhold payments to the institution in a jostle for control.

Washington has failed to pay billions of dollars owed to the international body and exited dozens of its programs and agencies, including the World Health Organization, to combat what President Trump describes as wasteful spending and bad policymaking. The U.S. is more than $4 billion in arrears to the U.N.

China has compounded the U.N.’s liquidity crisis by slow-walking its own payments, even as Beijing declares itself the organization’s leading defender and, in a jab at the U.S., the “de facto No. 1 financial contributor.” Beijing still owes the U.N. $455 million even after injecting almost $850 million this week into the organization during a visit by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

The U.N. relies on U.S. and Chinese money for 42% of its basic funding.

Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that the U.N. is in a “race to bankruptcy” and cited a “very real prospect of the financial collapse of our organization.” On the current trajectory, the U.N. says it will be out of cash by mid-August—just when the process of picking a successor to Guterres shifts into high gear.

China says it will honor its financial obligations. The U.S. says it is conditioning future financial support on deeper savings, with more job cuts, less business-class travel and greater use of machine translators.

“What we are working toward is not a rejection of multilateralism, but putting clarity and results over inefficiency and hollow words,” a senior State Department official, Michael G. DeSombre, told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday.

The U.N. has complained about funding problems in the past, but this time it is taking unprecedented actions to deal with the shortfall.

Starved of cash, the U.N. has made historically large spending cuts and embarked on an efficiency drive. It has closed offices and eliminated a record 3,000 secretariat posts. It has shortened interpreter hours, powered down escalators and ignored loose cladding on its 75-year-old headquarters in New York.

The U.N. has accelerated troop drawdowns in African hot spots such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo to conserve cash and slashed peacekeeping expenditures. It has also delayed reimbursements to Nepal, Bangladesh and other poor nations that supply troops for “blue-helmet” operations.

How insolvency would play out for the world’s leading international forum is unclear. But staff around the world would go unpaid, halting food and security programs.

The U.N. can’t borrow money and its leadership has limited power to restructure operations or fire employees, whose salaries account for 70% of expenses. The U.N.’s 193 member states determine staffing and mandates, and have been more inclined to add initiatives than cut the organization’s roughly 40,000 programs.

When the U.N. comptroller tried to save $700,000 by closing one of the headquarters’ secure entrances, diplomats revolted at the inconvenience of a crisis largely manufactured in Washington; the gate reopened two days later.

The U.N.’s sprawl includes the New York-based secretariat and 15 specialized agencies such as the World Health Organization, the International Civil Aviation Organization and the International Telecommunication Union, which respectively coordinate responses to diseases like Ebola, ensure aircraft fly safely and standardize how phone networks interconnect. It also manages over 50,000 peacekeepers in conflict zones.

The funding deficit hits the U.N. as it is saddled with ever more governance challenges, from artificial intelligence and biosecurity to ocean mining and outer space. The countries with the most influence are delaying funding, the U.S. and China, both permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, where most nations get rotating seats but no veto.

U.N. finances are byzantine. The organization runs different budgets for its regular operations and its more costly peacekeeping endeavors, while the specialized agencies handle their own money and bureaucracies.

Assessments are based on the size of member economies, with U.S. contributions capped at 22% of the regular budget. China’s economic growth over the past decade has rocketed it into second place, to just above 20% from around 5%.

Unusual rules undermine the U.N.’s financial position: Funds unspent at year-end get credited back to member states based on what nations owe—whether or not they contributed.

Chronically late payments limit the time for the U.N. to allocate the funds; one year, China didn’t pay until Dec. 27. Credits are building up because of unspent money: $299 million for 2026, or over 9% of the budget, and an expected $400 million next year.

“We are trapped in a Kafkaesque cycle; expected to give back cash that does not exist,” the secretary-general wrote to members this year urging them to adjust the policy.

In line with its large cutbacks in foreign assistance, including the closing of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Trump administration has overhauled how it will provide “voluntary” assistance at the U.N.

At the U.N., the Trump administration has begun to channel aid money through a single department established to manage emergencies, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, earmarking $3.8 billion so far.

The U.S. remains the largest underwriter of humanitarian funding, but its allocation is down from more than $10 billion or more annually in recent years. The new strategy also puts stipulations on how and where the funds can be used, and raises questions about future direct U.S. support to specialized U.N. bodies such as the United Nations Children’s Fund.

“Individual U.N. agencies will need to adapt, shrink or die,” the State Department said in December when it announced the approach.

While U.S. support for U.N. work is a positive, the amounts remain unclear, said Jordie Hannum, senior director of U.S.-U.N. relations at the United Nations Foundation, which advocates for the body.

Contributions to humanitarian activities don’t address the U.S. arrears to the U.N.: some $2.037 billion owed for the regular budget plus $2.247 billion for peacekeeping.

U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz has pledged a “substantial” U.N. budgetary payment but has conditioned the money on deeper cuts. A problem looms: Under U.N. rules, members lose voting rights in the General Assembly once their arrears top two years of assessed dues, a situation the U.S. could face as early as 2027.

Other traditional donors are likewise cutting funding to U.N. humanitarian programs that combat hunger and disease, driven by austerity efforts in the U.K. and Germany and rightward political shifts in Sweden and the Netherlands. Like the Trump administration, Argentina has exited agencies like the WHO.

“The U.S. is the epitome of the trend, but it’s not unique to the U.S.,” said Thibault Camelli, a former French diplomat now at New York University and an authority on U.N. budgeting.

China’s pressure on U.N. finances is more subtle, including through a body that controls the U.N. purse—the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions.

At the U.N., Beijing’s diplomats often speak through a coalition of nations called the Group of 77, such as in May when it opposed a motion to reduce the pay of peacekeepers, many of whom are Chinese. A study published this year by a nongovernmental organization tracked how Beijing harnessed the G77 to lobby the budgetary committee in concert with Moscow to reduce spending on human rights. China provides minimal funding to U.N. humanitarian programs.

Historically, China paid its dues in the first several months of each year, but in 2022 began withholding final contributions until much later for what U.N. analysts view as leverage to promote political priorities.

“The U.S. isn’t paying its dues and over the past few years, China has been gaming the payment system,” said Hannum.

A driver and passenger who filmed themselves at speeds of over 130mph (209kmh) in a 30mph zone have been jailed over the death of a man they crashed into.

Uways Hussain and Usmon Mahmood filmed themselves inhaling nitrous oxide from a balloon, running red lights and weaving through traffic before hitting 50-year-old Sylvester Abayomi, who was on his way to work.

Hussain was jailed for 11 years and eight months for causing death by dangerous driving, while Mahmood was jailed for 12 years and nine months for aiding and abetting causing death by dangerous driving.

Greater Manchester Police said the crash on Manchester's Kingsway was "one of the worst disregards of speeding" officers had seen.

Sentencing at the city's crown court earlier, Judge Nicholas Dean said the collision on 9 March was "wholly unnecessary and entirely avoidable".

"It was a sustained, deliberate and escalating course of highly dangerous conduct over a prolonged period," he said. "It was terrifying."

The victim's partner Denise Doyle described him as "the most caring soul and gentle person you could ever meet".

"Sylvester was simply on his way to work," she said. "An ordinary hard-working man. He should have returned home to me safely that day. Because of your actions he never did."

Addressing the defendants, she added: "You left Sylv to die alone. You did not show him even a shred of compassion or humanity."

Abayomi drove on to Kingsway on a green light before he was fatally struck at around 04:36 GMT by the VW Golf GTI driven by 20-year-old Hussain, of Marley Road, Manchester.

The car, which was owned by 23-year-old Mahmood, of Buller Road, Manchester, had run a red light and was travelling at 139mph (223.7kmh) in the seconds before impact.

Following the crash, Hussain's Apple watch automatically called 999 after detecting he had been in a collision.

Unaware of the call, the pair were recorded talking about calling an Uber to leave the scene and reporting the car as stolen.

Judge Dean described the transcript of the call as "chilling".

"It doesn't reveal shock or concern for the victim," he said.

Rachel Shenton, prosecuting, said the pair left the scene and ran from officers when they were tracked down, before being arrested.

Sylvester Abayomi's partner Denise Doyle said he was the "love of my life"

Det Sgt Thomas Johnson said the case was "one of the most extreme cases of dangerous driving we have encountered" and that Hussain and Mahmood's actions had "tragically resulted in the loss of Sylvester's life".

"Our thoughts remain with his family and friends at this incredibly difficult time," he said.

"No sentence can ever truly compensate for the loss of a life, but the actions of Hussain and Mahmood show a complete disregard for the safety of others.

"We hope this outcome offers some measure of justice to Sylvester's loved ones. We urge the public to challenge dangerous driving behaviour and report concerns to police."

Hussain admitted causing death by dangerous driving, causing death by driving whilst uninsured, and failing to provide a specimen.

He indicated a guilty plea at magistrates' court - earlier in the legal process than Mahmood did.

Mahmood later admitted aiding and abetting causing death by dangerous driving and aiding and abetting causing death by driving whilst uninsured.

Hussain, who had a previous conviction for drug-driving, was a law student who worked full-time at an airport, Neil Ronan, defending said.

Clare Ashcroft, defending Mahmood, said he had been about to start an apprenticeship with Network Rail.

She added: "He is starting to understand the impact of his behaviour. In my submission he is remorseful."

GMP said the sentences were believed to be among the highest for a death by dangerous driving offence involving a single fatality.

The force also said it was "one of the first times nationally where a passenger has been convicted for aiding and abetting causing death by dangerous driving".

mightyleks:
With your faith as little as that of a mustard seed this mountain will be moved. Your prayer is answered and resurrection is sure.

Congratulations

Dijita:
I am sorry to hear this. Please accept my condolences. May the good God give you the fortitude to bear the loss. May God give you and your family the strength to stand with each other. May you father's soul rest in peace. Amen