It is now confirmed that Diego Armando Maradona suffered a cardiac arrest today and has died aged 60.
Argentine newspapers Clarin and Ole claim the World Cup winner suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest on Wednesday morning local time in the town of Tigre.
He had only turned 60 on October 30 and was released from hospital a couple of weeks ago following brain surgery.
Widely considered to be perhaps the greatest football player who ever lived, Maradona reached the peak of his career in Serie A with Napoli from 1984-91.
He also played for Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Sevilla and Newell’s Old Boys before retiring back at Boca in 1997.
El Pibe de Oro then became a coach, including of the Argentina squad from 2008-10, most recently at Gimnasia La Plata.
His life and career were alwa overshadowed by addictions and recently his doctor had said he was relying on both medication and alcohol.
melaniaup: Football legend Diego Maradona, one of the greatest players of all time, has died at the age of 60.
The former Argentina attacking midfielder and manager suffered a heart attack at his Buenos Aires home.
He had successful surgery on a brain blood clot earlier in November and was to be treated for alcohol dependency.
Maradona dies aged 60 - tributes and reaction Obituary - Argentina's flawed football icon An extraordinary life in pictures In a statement on social media, the Argentine Football Association expressed "its deepest sorrow for the death of our legend", adding: "You will always be in our hearts."
Declaring three days of national mourning, Alberto Fernandez, the president of Argentina, said: "You took us to the top of the world. You made us immensely happy. You were the greatest of them all.
"Thank you for having existed, Diego. We're going to miss you all our lives."
[quote author=iwaeda post=95595999]The federal government and the electricity distribution companies (Discos) have come under heavy attack by electricity consumers in the country over the newly-launched National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP).
The consumers accused the federal government and the Discos of being insincere and playing with their intelligence by announcing that they were giving them free prepaid electricity meters, and turned around to say that the method of collecting the cost of the meters back from them would be communicated to them later.
The government had said it was going to roll out six million meters across the entire Discos’ networks under the NMMP to expeditiously bridge the wide metering gap in the country, starting with the deployment of one million within the next two months for the first phase.
Last Friday, four Discos namely: Ikeja Electric (IE), Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC), Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) and Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company (KAEDCO), commenced the implementation of the scheme in their respective franchise areas.
Notifying customers about the said meters, the Discos had told them that the meters were free, adding that the customers would apply, surveyed and metered same day without upfront payment, and that the mode of recouping the cost of the meter
adenigga: The Federal Road Safety Corps on Friday ordered all its officers to ‘immediately resume’ operational activities in all formations of the Corps across the country.
The Corps had earlier suspended all enforcement activities as a result of the unrest that trailed the #EndSARS protests in the country.
Some offices of the Corps were also torched by rampaging hoodlums who hijacked the protests against police brutality to terrorise Nigerians including road users.
But in a statement on Friday, FRSC Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, ordered all the officers of the Corps to return to their duty posts.
The statement titled, ‘Go Back To The Roads, Corps Marshal Orders Personnel, Mourns The Victims Of Enugu Crash,’ was signed by the Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem. According to the statement, Oyeyemi instructed all Commanding Officers to “keep the roads safe, enforce maximum compliance to road traffic regulations and safety guides as well as forestall incidences of crashes and fatalities on the highways.”
He said the Corps was not dispirited by the attacks on some of its properties by hoodlums, adding that “the Corps is still deeply committed to the full realisation of its corporate mandate” which includes keeping the roads safe at all times.
Oyeyemi assured the personnel that everything humanly possible would be done to safeguard lives and properties.
The FRSC boss also mourned the 21 victims who lost their lives in an auto crash in Enugu State on Wednesday.
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Fake news.... civil service is not a private firm where you wake and sack an employee without him facing disciplinary panel.He has not been sacked yet.Ask your yourself, how many bad SARS officers have been sacked even with #SARS protests.
fubsy: If this dangerous trend of looting (may I call it open theft) is not nipped in the bud, it may grow into a monster that may take more efforts to defeat (if at all defeated).
Some protesters cum hoodlums have just looted a tractor here.it's getting really bad!