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NBC suspends DAAR communications license of operation

June 6, 2019
TVCN

The National Broadcasting Commission has suspended the operating license of DAAR Communications PLC .

Director General of the Commission Isa’aq Modibbo disclosed this at a briefing in Abuja.

The NBC boss says the decision was taken because of the company’s persistent violations of the NBC’s broadcasting Code, despite several warnings from the commission

He adds that this decision is not taken on any form of partisan consideration and the suspension stands until further notice

dfrost:

naptu2:
Look at these two pictures and imagine my shock.

The guy on the left in the first picture is Chuck Blazer (the guy on the right is former FIFA president Joao Havelange). This is the way that I remember Chuck Blazer.


He was the president of the United States Soccer Federation and he, Bill Clinton and Al Gore did a lot of publicity for the 1994 World Cup in the USA.

(I also remember him because of his name - Blazer. A new version of the Chevrolet Blazer was released into the Nigerian market c1994).

He was still in the news after the World Cup. This was because one of the conditions that FIFA gave the US before awarding the World Cup to them was that they would start a proper league. So he was in the news, trying to promote the MLS.

Then it was as if he disappeared from the planet.


He reappeared c2011 and the second picture shows how he looked when he reappeared.

USA '94 was so succesful that he was given a seat on the FIFA executive committe. He was also in the executive committee of CONCACAF.

Some CONCACAF executives were accused of corruption in 2011 and he sacked them because of the publicity around the case. They then accused him of corruption and this got the attention of the FBI.

The FBI investigated him and found corrupt practices in the way he ran the US Soccer Federation and in his activities with CONCACAF and FIFA. They secretly arrested him and got him to wear a wire and spy on other FIFA executives in exchange for a lighter sentence.

Chuck Blazer died in 2017.

dfrost:
Hi naptu2, on your pictures about Chuck Blazer, what on earth did the guy do to himself?

From 1994 - c2011, just 17 years and he blew up like a ballon? What?

tactius:
Exactly...

And there is Michel Platini....who has court cases pending, has been convicted....and even has a lifetime ban from football.

How about several high ranking FIFA officals who were caught up in the US corruption investigation a few years ago? Several of them were white...including the US football official whose crime kicked off the investigation.

tactius:
YES...when would they arrest that man??

(Probably never..that wily old fox has covered his tracks well)

[Exclusive] Football: Ahmad Ahmad, President of CAF, arrested in Paris

June 06, 2019 at 12:50 pm
By Jeune Afrique
Updated June 06, 2019 at 1:02 pm

According to our information, the president of the African Football Confederation (CAF) Ahmad Ahmad was arrested on Thursday morning at a hotel in Paris, where he was staying to attend the FIFA Congress.

Ahmad Ahmad was arrested on Thursday morning around 8:30 am at the Berri Hotel in Paris, to be heard by the services of the Central Office for the fight against corruption and financial and fiscal offenses (Oclif), Jeune Afrique learned. . According to our information, this arrest would be linked to the contract unilaterally broken by CAF with the German equipment manufacturer Puma to engage with the company Technical Steel, based in La Seyne-sur-Mer.

A signing of a contract which, according to the former secretary general of the continental forum Amr Fahmy, was favored by the proximity between Ahmad Ahmad and one of the leaders of the French company, whose additional cost would reach 830 000 dollars (739 000 euros). "All decisions were made collegially" and "transparent," defended mid-April the boss of African football.

The arrest comes as Ahmad Ahmad was in Paris to attend the FIFA Congress, which resulted in the re-election of President Gianni Infantino.

Wednesday night, CAF made the decision to replay the final return of the African Champions League , after the controversial interruption of the match for a problem related to video assistance to arbitration. A lively controversy ensued, Tunisians Esperance Sports Tunis, declared winners but de facto de facto fourth title in their history, having announced their intention to apply to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

More information coming soon ...

wasi9ice:
If the team that was declared winner and handed trophy and medals should go to court of competent jurisdiction, they may win.

Pablonkor:
Everything balls back to the lack of footballing spirit in Africa

ladiesreject:
Africa something must always de different.

Why play a final home and away in the first place?
It should be once!

Mtcheew

Abeg

Pablonkor:
African Football ehnn

I still don't understand why a final should be played twice(As in Home and Away)

Imagine the UEFA Champions League final being played Home and Away

Shaprara:
What’s the point of holding a decision on the CAF champions league final in far away Paris,France. What happened with all the hotels in Africa.

Bluffly:
Why would CAF meet in Paris to determine a decision concerning an African game. Wash

Odetokun3:
CAF Issues being settled in France, Europe.

Our African leaders.

God will judge you all

lexy2014:
For African matter

kunkelhanspeter:
I guess nowhere is safe in Africa for the meeting

naptu2:
It was held in Paris because FIFA delegates (including CAF Executive Committee members) are in Paris for the FIFA Congress ahead of the Women's World Cup.

They just re-elected Infantino as president of FIFA.

JubrinElSudan:
For the fact that the heated meeting happened in PARIS, is enough reason for the people that haven't given up on the continent to do so

Caf Champions League: Esperance ordered to return medals and face Wydad Casablanca again

14 minutes ago. African

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Wyad players protested to the referee, insisting VAR be used

Esperance have been ordered to return the African Champions League trophy and to replay the second leg of the final.

The Tunisian side led 1-0 in Saturday's second leg but Moroccan opponents Wydad Casablanca left the pitch after an equaliser they scored was disallowed.

Wydad wanted the video assistant referee to check if the goal should stand but the system was not working.

The Confederation of African Football (Caf) said the second leg will be replayed at a neutral venue.

The 1-1 draw from the first leg in Morocco stands.

The replay will be after the Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt, which ends on 19 July.

Caf said Esperance players must return their winners' medals as well as the trophy.

Play in the second leg was halted after Wydad thought they had equalised on 59 minutes through Walid El Karti's header. It was disallowed for an infringement.

The VAR system was visible on the side of the pitch but the players had not been told it was not in use because of a malfunction.

The referee eventually awarded the victory to three-time champions Esperance after a 95-minute delay.

Wydad's president said the club was "the victim of a scandal" and Caf subsequently called an Executive Committee meeting where the decision to replay the game was made.

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The players were not informed that the video assistant referee system (VAR) was not working

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Esperance were initially awarded victory - but will now have to replay the second leg