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Lamasta:
We know una drawerpool fans dem

Wizmj4real:
Manu fan
Sorry sir after una preseason make una win champions league oh

Overrated team

diplomat058:
Lol you're a probably a loserpool fan. Man city are here to smash the title yet again, not to entertain your insatiable fantasies

siofra:
Yeah. Even God is a woman.

HARRYPORTTERJNR:
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Two demonstrations were held in a town on Italy's Adriatic coast on Saturday, August 6, to demand justice for Nigerian street vendor, Alika Ogorchukwu, who was beaten to death by a man in an attack that attracted global headlines.

Ogorchukwu was killed by Filippo Ferlazzo on the streets of Civitanova Marche city located in the Province of Macerata, Marche Region of Italy, after he allegedy complimented Ferlazzo's partner's beauty.

Organizers of one of the marches in Civitanova Marche, by Nigerians living in Macerata province, said they did not want the search for justice to be clouded by accusations of racism that they feel cannot be proven.

That demonstration was led by the victim Ogorchukwu's widow, Charity Oriakhi, and two of his brothers.

The second march, along same route an hour later, was led by black Italians from all over Italy who demanded that the authorities do a U-turn and recognise the role they believe race played in the July 29 killing.

Filippo Ferlazzo, is known to have psychiatric problems and investigators seem to have ruled out a racially motivated murder.

The 32-year-old is said to have attacked Alika Ogorchukwu following an altercation. According to police, Ferlazzo first struck the street vendor after pursuing the Nigerian 200 metres down a shopping street lined with high-end boutiques.

The attacker strangled the victim in full view of several people who filmed the event. Ferlazzo remains in prison because he is considered to be dangerous.

Civitanova Marche's inhabitants have largely accepted the official version of events, attributing the Nigerian man's death to an insistent street-seller unfortunately clashing with a man who has a court-documented history of mental illness.

Some campaign groups are seeking to register a civil claim in the case because they believe the attack was racially motivated. But the victim's widow has not backed this accusation, saying she had never experienced racism before the tragic attack.

Charity Oriakhi told AP that she and her husband had always felt welcome in Italy and that he never recounted negative interactions when he was out selling. In fact, she said, he often came home with gifts from Italians for the couple's eight-year-old son.

The pair met in Tuscany about a decade ago, shortly after Ogorchukwu’s arrival in Italy, and later resettled in the Marche region.

There are fears that the case will loom large in the approaching election campaign in Italy and could further poison it. City officials have expressed concerns that the killing was being politicised ahead of the early vote to choose a new parliament on September 25.

The marches were relatively small, but the international impact of the killing has brought the issue of racism back to centre stage.

It also brings into focus the very different positions between the centre-right and centre-left camps on the issue of immigration.

"The word racism cannot be minimised because it exists," said Daniel Amanze, who arrived in Italy from Nigeria as a student 40 years ago.

He said he saw racism becoming more "obvious" in recent years as some politicians scapegoat immigrants to cover "for their poor administration

LordMangekyo:
I will never forgive britain for what they did to Roman Abramovic and Chelsea!

Everton 3-0 Chelsea. Correct score

The sad reality now is that we are now a shadow of our former self. We are now at the level of brighton, Leicester, fulham and Manure

Richy4:
I know.. I was shocked how u casually said defeating a whole Liverpool was Just

Angelfrost:
Reminds me of Leeds first game against Liverpool...!

Lamasta:
Na draw game

Richy4:
Did u say JUST because of 2:1?

Lamasta:
We at Fulham have a statement to make

Hespee93:
A dey come back make I enter twitter

Lamasta:
We are Fulham Fergie001 victory is for us

Timmi:
Mr Fira09, go and read the newspaper report again, at no time did the Governor asked FG to “sack” civil servants. It seems you went to a night school where reading and comprehension was not thought or you just failed and dropped out of school.

A Cameroonian woman’s three children mended up dead after she attempted to take the life of her husband through food poisoning.

It was gathered that the woman wanted to kill her husband, so she prepared a meal for him and reportedly added a poisonous substance to it.

Unfortunately, their three children got to the food before the husband; they ate the poisoned food and died a few moments later.

The woman, [who was not at home when the children ate the poisoned food, returned home to find the lifeless bodies of her three children.

It was gathered that she was shocked to see her dead children, so she decided to take the poison too. Neighbours intervened and took her to the hospital where she is now receiving treatment.

According to a source who is familiar with the situation, the woman planned to murder her husband, Akabum Watson, who is a legal practitioner, because he complained about her extravagant lifestyle.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has departed Nigeria for Nairobi on Friday to monitor the elections in Kenya.

The ex-leader is leading a team of observers to the country’s general elections that will be held on August 9.

Jonathan is the Head of the Electoral Observation Mission of the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA).

His spokesman, lIkechukwu Eze said the EISA team comprises 21 short-term observers drawn from Civil Society Organisations.

The delegation comprises election management bodies and representatives of the academia from across Africa.

Eze noted that observers will be deployed in all the regions and specifically in ten counties in Kenya.

They will observe the final stages of the political parties’ campaigns, Election Day procedures and results from the aggregation processes.

Their assessment of the electoral process will be guided by the principles set out in the 2007 African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance.

“It will also be guided by the 2002 OAU/AU Declaration of the Principles Governing Democratic Elections in Africa, among others”, the statement added.

The EISA Electoral Observation Mission would issue a preliminary statement on its findings at a news conference on August 11.

In a bid to prevent the nation from imminent economic collapse, the Nigerian governors have advised the federal government to retire all federal civil servants who are older than 50 years.

The governors also want the government to raise taxes across boars as well as levy anyone earning N30,000 and above monthly.

The governors made the proposal at a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in July, an online publication, PREMIUM TIMES exclusively gathered from sources privy to details of the meeting.

The proposal also urged the government to begin implementation of the updated Stephen Oronsaye Report, which suggested merger and shutdown of agencies and parastatals with duplicated or contested functions as a way to address bureaucratic inefficiency and reduce the cost of governance.

Officials familiar with details of the meeting, who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES, explained that the governors were concerned about the deteriorating state of the economy and a proposal to restore fiscal discipline was presented to the federal government.

The federal civil service employs just about 89,000 people but will spend about N4.1 trillion on personnel costs this year, from its N17 trillion budget for the entire country. It is not clear how many workers are above 50 years of age, or how much goes to them.

The suggestion comes as indications emerge that the nation may be teetering towards the cliff of economic collapse.

The online publication had reported that Nigeria’s external reserves amount to only $15 billion, well below the $36 billion balance on the gross external reserves claimed by the bank. With the nation spending N5.9 trillion on imports in the first quarter of the year, reserves of $15 billion would barely cover four months of import.

Last week, details emerged that the balance in Nigeria’s Excess Crude Account had depleted significantly from $35.37m to $376,655, leaving the nation with no buffers to stabilize the economy and its currency. Yet another indication emerged recently that the nation was broke as debt service surpassed revenue.

According to details of the 2022 fiscal performance report for January through April, Nigeria’s total revenue stood at N1.63 trillion while debt servicing stood at N1.94 trillion, showing a variance of over N300 billion.

As part of measures to restore fiscal discipline, the governors advised the federal government to reduce expenditure immediately by eliminating petrol subsidy and NNPC-funded projects, cap the Social Investment Programme (SIP) and National Poverty Reduction with Growth Strategy (NPRGS) budgets to N200 billion, eliminate extra-constitutional deductions from FAAC, and reduce SWV items for SDG and NASS Constituency projects.

The governors, according to the sources, also asked the government to reduce duplications (e.g. empowerment programmes) and waste, reduce 1% granted to NASENI to 0.2%, amend the Act in 2022 Finance Bill, reduce personnel costs of federal government MDAs, and expedite privatization of non-performing assets like the NDPHC power plants.

Similarly, the governors urged that the 2023 – 2025 MTEF should reflect the suggestions and government’s commitment to restore fiscal discipline while the planned 22% increase in salaries in 2023 be reconsidered. They added that the fiscal deficit should be reduced to no more than 2% of GDP in 2023 – 2025.

Foreign Exchange and Reserves

To conserve foreign exchange and grow the reserves, the governors suggested that foreign trips by MDAs, including budgetary-independent agencies such as FIRS, NPA, NIMASA and NCC, be put on hold for at least one year.

They also urged the Ministry of Foreign Affairs not to issue requests for Visas to foreign embassies for federal government officials and their families, unless express approval is granted by the presidency.

The governors further suggested the movement from State Income Taxation to Consumption Taxation, adding that with the introduction of 3% Federal Income Tax, state-level PIT should be abolished.

Similarly, they suggested that state Sales Taxes (flat rate of 10%) should be enacted for the 36 States and FCT, VAT levels increased to 10% with a timeline to raise it to between 15% and 20%, as well as re-introduction and passage of VAT into the Exclusive List. It was not clear whether all governors agreed with the position on VAT being moved to the exclusive list.

To improve tax revenues, they suggested that the federal government should introduce a flat 3% Federal Personal Income Tax on all Nigerians earning more than N30,000 per month, adding that persons earning less than N30,000 per month whether employed or not, including farmers and traders, should pay a monthly FPIT of N100.

Similarly, telecoms firms and NIMC should collaborate to ensure deduction of this from phone credit of individuals and linking to NIN and BVN.

The governors also suggested centralization of the collection of all federal oil and non-oil taxes in one agency, the FIRS, while Customs, NPA, and others assess and issue demands.

They suggested that the Federal Government improve crude oil and gas production, resolve lingering issues of ownership of gas in PSCs (eg Nnwa-Doro, OML 129) to help position Nigeria to take advantage of the gas needs in Europe, and provide incentives to expedite development of vandalism-resistant deep offshore fields like Bonga SW (Shell), Preweoi (Total), Zabazaba (ENI) and Owowo (Exxon).

The governors equally advised the government to encourage (and pre-finance, if necessary) Dangote Refinery to early completion to reduce massive future outflows of foreign exchange.

Angelfrost:
Sorry Chief!

That response was meant for Fergie001 and Kyase.

Angelfrost:
Are we still hating on Gunners in a new season?!!

Save the hate sir... They will still beat United to the point that the poor elite coach will start looking like Ole Promax!

fergie001:
I have to support my team at all times.


Yeye Palace!

fergie001:
Let's do this, Palace.

cococandy:
no woman over 20 will give you time of day anyway. Only losers go for children because they are naive enough to no see through your BS and the fact that you are a loser

Residents have uncovered a kidnappers’ den opposite The Nigeria Police Force Headquarters in the Central Business District, Abuja.

The den is located inside thick bush off the expressway.

Security agents were said to have invaded the hideout and arrested one of the suspected kidnappers.

A video taken at the scene has been shared online.

In it, a man is heard recounting how he was attacked when his car broke down near the spot sometime ago.